Speaking on one contemporary energy issue-climate change-Rosner said, "Certain topics are so controversial, that it is quite difficult to find any two people who agree on that topic." He was shocked when he realized that some scientists were willing to downplay the impact of climate change because of partisan agendas. "Energy should not be a partisan issue-it's a national issue. This means that we [scientists] need to speak the truth, no matter how inconvenient."
There is a misperception that energy issues have not changed over the last 50 years, he said. "Our energy problems of today are not the same as those of the 1970s. Then the problem was an international political problem; today, it is not just politics," but reliance on cheap and easy energy options that pollute. Rosner said that now the challenge is to craft good policy in response to climate change.
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