Coal-producing states that supply nearly half of the nation’s electricity are feeling squeezed as efforts to combat global warming outpace technology needed to make the nation’s most abundant fossil fuel burn more cleanly.
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A national advertising campaign contrasting Al Gore's "energy-consuming lifestyle" with the need for energy in developing countries was launched by a conservative think tank Tuesday despite charges from global warming activists that the new effort merely recycles old attacks on the former vice president.
The global-warming skeptics at the Competitive Enterprise Institute launched a national ad today targeting — who else? — former Vice President Al Gore.
The $30,000 buy is small as far as national-ad campaigns go, but it will run on cable over the next two weeks in Boston, Phoenix, Orlando, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C.
The Christian denomination that was so ostracized (or admired, depending on your perspective) for resisting liberal modern-day pleas to conform to contemporary culture has finally caved in on so-called "climate change."
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More evidence from the International Conference on Climate change last month which produced the Manhattan Declaration (see post below) of the way in which scientists who are sceptical about man-made global warming find their work is suppressed.
Previous estimates, including those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, say the region that includes China will see a 2.5 to 5 percent annual increase in CO2 emissions, the largest contributor to atmospheric greenhouse gases, between 2004 and 2010. The new UC analysis puts that annual growth rate for China to at least 11 percent for the same time period.
CEI has said it again and again: cap and trade is a lobbyist’s dream. No matter how many times a presidential candidate refers to cap and trade as “market based,” it still requires central planning of the economy, because emissions—and therefore energy use—must be rationed. That means big government. But bureaucratic complexity is a lobbyist’s best friend, because it provides myriad nooks and cranny’s into which they can stuff special favors for their special clients.
As reported by E&E News, the games have already begun,
“A brewing debate among electric utility companies over the best approach for curbing climate change has burst into public view.
Companies with substantial baseload generation from nuclear power and natural gas, such as Florida Power & Light and California giant Pacific Gas & Electric, want to sway Congress toward establishing an auction as the primary method for distributing credits in a new U.S. carbon market.
But utilities carrying significant coal capacity, such as American Electric Power Corp. and Duke Energy Corp., are pressing lawmakers to go with what they know. That means following the example of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and setting up a new climate law that includes free credits given to industry based on historic emission levels.”
A scary European Union report is doing the rounds here in Brussels. The seven page summary of all the main alarmist climate change scenarios is well timed.
EVERY CLOUD could have a silver lining in the fight against global warming and the brighter, the better.
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