Harvey S. H. Lam is Edwin Wilsy '04 Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Princeton University. He served as chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, associate dean of Engineering School, and co-chair of Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. He is a Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He received the degree of Bachelor of Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1954, and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1958.

Harvey S. H. Lam is Edwin Wilsey '04 Professor Emeritus School of Engineering and Applied Science Princeton Univeristy, Princeton, NJ 08544

This http://www.princeton.edu/~mae/SHL/GW.html paper provides a succinct survey of the relevant facts and numbers (both engineering and economics) on the problem of global warming and energy resources of the future. It will show, using historical data and computer simulation results published by IPCC scientists, that none of the energy policy options currently being discussed in the media (improving energy use efficiency, renewable sources such as solar, wind and hydroelectric power, direct CO2 sequestration, carbon tax, etc.), either alone or together, can deal with the global warming problem in the long term (when the timescale of interest is in terms of centuries instead of decades). The option of gradually shifting from a fossil fuels-based world to a nuclear (fission) energy-based world is seldom seriously mentioned in the global warming literature. The paper argues that the nuclear option should be brought to the table as a benchmark in such discussions.