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2013 Will Finish One Of Ten Coldest Years In US History... I could use a little warming today - -warming that did not cost an arm and a leg for turning up the thermostat or warming up the car before getting in. I saw the sun out today, but even ole sol gave us the cold shoulder. This is just miserable. |
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Electricity Price Index at All-Time High in USA... (12/25/13 headline) because....
Barack Obama’s campaign against coal
During President Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, he declared one of his energy goals was to “bankrupt” the coal industry by making electricity prices “skyrocket.” That policy statement kick-started the president’s continuing war on coal miners, their families and the millions of Americans who rely on affordable coal-fired electricity. Since his election, the president has tried at every turn to make that goal a reality — ardently supporting a cap-and-trade national energy tax and imposing onerous regulations on coal production. The president and his administration are waging a war on coal. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81047.html#ixzz2oP4d0uxK The nonpartisan U.S. Energy Information Administration has all but confirmed the president’s aggressive war on coal with a report detailing a record number of coal-fired power plants to be closed this year — largely because of burdensome regulations and other compliance costs. Worse, 175 coal-fired power plants are scheduled to be shut down from 2012 to 2016, EIA estimated, requiring 27 gigawatts of electricity — enough to power 27 million homes — to be replaced by more expensive forms of energy. The shuttering of record numbers of coal-fired power plants threatens thousands of the 555,270 direct and indirect coal-related jobs that help supply America with nearly half of its generated electricity and pay $36 billion in wages. The House Natural Resources Committee has, over the past 18 months, aggressively investigated the Obama administration’s decision to rewrite a coal production regulation known as the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule. This has been one of the most direct, yet covert, actions by the administration to destroy coal mining jobs and hurt coal production. The Obama administration discarded a rule that underwent five years of environmental review and public comment; entered into a court agreement with environmental groups to rewrite the rule in an unachievable time frame; spent millions of taxpayer dollars and hired new contractors to do the rewrite; fired the contractors when it leaked that the revision would cost 7,000 jobs; attempted to manipulate data to conceal the true economic impact; and is now hiding its final rule from the public until after the election. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81047.html#ixzz2oP4XDabK
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PAPER: Global warming activists' search for proof going cold...
If we can believe what says;
Sea ice was 20,000 cubic kilometers is the 1980's. Dropped to 6,000 last year, 30% of the1980's Rose to 9,000 this year, 45% of the 1980's. So it's still less than 50% of the 1980's. |
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Of course here, where we can stick our noses out of the door and not have to depend on "papers", we're freezing our collective arses off. |
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