Category Archives: Energy

Low Energy Prices Makes Warmists Very Upset

No matter that low energy prices reduce the cost of living for the middle and lower classes, that it allows them to look for better paying jobs further away from home in this weak jobs market, that it allows them to heat their homes so as not to freeze to death. The Cult of Climastrology […]

Warmist Wants Obama To Stop All Oil Production On Public Lands

What is one of the best ways to help the lower and middle class? Cheap, reliable, affordable energy. Why is the Cult of Climastrology against this? Here’s Lydia Millet in the NY Times Obama Should Let Fossil Fuels Lie PRESIDENT OBAMA’S rejection of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline last week had the ring of a […]

Warmists Totally Enthused To Deny Cheap Power To World’s Poor

When it comes to ‘climate change’, as in the tiny 1.4 degree Fahrenheit increase in global temperatures since 1850 being mostly/solely caused by Mankind’s output of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide (CO2), what Warmists call “carbon pollution”, this is a movement that is mostly ensconced within 1st World left leaning citizens, along with 2nd and […]

NY Times Editorial Board: Rejecting Keystone XL Is Also A Moral Decision Or Something

You have to love a newspaper which yammers on about morality, when they are 100% in the bag for all abortion on demand, including late term for no reason. Oh, and a paper which whines about fossil fuels yet uses vast amounts itself to distribute their paper edition using fossil fueled vehicles. And their decomposing […]

Study Finds Solar Power Causes ‘Climate Change’, Too

Well, this is a sucker punch to the groin (Washington Post) Large solar arrays could have some surprising side effects, according to a new study, including causing changes in the local climate. On a global scale, these changes will be minor compared to what would happen if humans continue to burn fossil fuel for energy instead, […]

Obama Looks To Use Poop As Energy Source

There’s a joke hiding in that headline that I’m really not sure what to do with (Washington Examiner) President Obama is turning to poop as his latest gambit to fight global warming. The White House is announcing $6 million in grants Monday to promote the use of a mix of garbage and/or animal feces to […]

UK Clean Energy Firms Go Belly Up

I wonder why (via Paul Homewood) Two clean energy firms go bust within hours ‘because of Tory U-turn on energy policy’ Two of the UK’s leading clean energy companies have gone into administration on the same day, blaming the Government’s U-turn on energy policy. Nearly 1,000 staff were laid off in Leicester yesterday as home insulation […]

The Blight Of Wind Farms

An interesting video, via NoTricksZone, highlighting the environmental destruction and scenery blight of wind farms A new video (below) has been produced by wind-energy protest group www.rtf-radmarathon.de presenting a series of before-and-after photos that drive home the profound negative impacts wind parks are having on Germany’s idyllic landscapes and natural scenery. Here’s what it looks like

Interesting Proposal: Use Wastelelands For Solar Farms

This is actually a pretty good idea, using wastelands instead of pristine wilderness. Think about turning huge swaths of dilapidated Detroit into a solar farm (Christian Science Monitor) When utility giant Exelon built its pioneering inner-city solar plant on an abandoned factory site in Chicago’s West Pullman neighborhood, there was at least one unanticipated hazard: […]

Surprise: EPA Chief Admits Obama Power Plan Will Harm Low-Income Folks

They will be hardest hit (MRC) While discussing the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, administrator Gina McCarthy admitted who would be hit the “hardest” by the federal climate regulations. “We know that low-income minority communities would be hardest hit,” McCarthy said. She prefaced her statement by saying that the cost increases to Americans as a […]

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