Demand: ‘Al Gore and Rolling Stone Need to Issue a Public Apology for Journalistic Fraud’
…Ohio Gov. John Kasich Signs Nation’s First Renewable Energy Freeze: ‘It’s official—Ohio is the nation’s first state to roll back renewable energy standards’
http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/13/ohio-gov-john-kasich-renewable-energy-freeze/…
THE IDEAL CLIMATE CITIZEN? NORTH Korea – UK Guardian: ‘North Korea: An Unlikely Champion in the Fight Against Climate Change’
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/05/the-ideal-climate-citizen-north-korea.php…
Obama Preparing Executive Orders To Push Green Energy
http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/09/obama-preparing-executive-orders-to-push-green-energy/…
Obama Continues to Push Unilateral Action to Fight Climate Change: ‘Obama’s strategy of using executive authority to move his climate and energy agenda in the face of obstruction from Congress’
Federal report: California solar plant a ‘Death Star incinerating anything that flies’ – 300,000 mirrors reaching temps of 800 degrees F
The Ivanpah solar thermal power plant in the Southern California desert supplies enough carbon-free electricity to power 140,000 homes. For birds, bats and butterflies, though, the futuristic project is the Death Star, incinerating anything that flies through a “solar flux” field that generates temperatures of 800 degree Fahrenheit when 300,000 mirrors focus the sun on a water-filled boilers that sit on top three 459-foot towers.
“It appears Ivanpah may act as a ‘mega-trap,’ attracting insects which in turn attract insect-eating birds, which are incapacitated by solar-flux injury, thus attracting predators and creating an entire food chain vulnerable to injury and death,” concluded scientists with the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in areport that investigated 233 bird deaths representing 71 species at three Southern California solar power plants.…
LA Times: U.S. electricity prices may be going up for good – ‘As coal-fired plants are shut down, nuclear power is reduced and consumers switch to renewable energy’
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-power-prices-20140426,0,6329274.story…
James Lovelock concedes: ‘A lot of investment in green technology has been a giant scam, if well intentioned’
http://www.nature.com/news/james-lovelock-reflects-on-gaia-s-legacy-1.15017?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews…
CO2 emissions have increased since 2011 despite Germany’s $140 billion green energy plan
…Bjorn Lomborg: ‘The rich world generates just 0.8% of its energy from solar and wind, far from meeting even minimal demand’
Yet most Westerners still want to focus on putting up more inefficient solar panels in the developing world. But this infatuation inflicts a real cost. A recent analysis from the Centre for Global Development shows that $10 billion invested in such renewables would help lift 20 million people in Africa out of poverty. It sounds impressive, until you learn that if this sum was spent on gas electrification it would lift 90 million people out of poverty. So in choosing to spend that $10 billion on renewables, we deliberately end up choosing to leave more than 70 million people in darkness and poverty.
In the West, we take our supply of electricity for granted. After a century, we’ve forgotten that plentiful, affordable and dependable energy is the lifeblood of modern civilisation and prosperity. Discussions about saving the world seldom acknowledge the 1.3 billion people living without any electricity whatsoever. Their problems seem otherworldly to us — and we neglect the fact that the same sort of access to cheap electricity would substantially improve their lives. When it comes to helping the world’s poor, a topic like climate change seems to interest the West far more than such mundane matters as helping them power their houses.…