Radical Greenies Make Natural Gas Their Next Target

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Now that coal has been toppled from its perch as America’s biggest source of power, environmentalists are ready to move on down the fossil fuel list and tackle what they perceive as another enemy of the planet: natural gas.

Bloomberg reports:

U.S. environmentalists have vowed to go after gas-fired power plants with the same vengeance they’ve used to force the retirements of hundreds of coal facilities. Even coal miners are warning their fossil fuel kin to beware. Gas producers “will be next on the list of the industries to be destroyed,” says Robert Murray, chief executive officer of U.S. coal miner Murray Energy Corp.

This is a farce, if for no other reason than because natural gas—not environmentalist lobbying or renewables—is responsible for dethroning Old King Coal. A flood of cheap shale gas has been outcompeting coal on price, and this past year the hydrocarbon supplied 33.8 percent of America’s electricity, more than any other source. To put that in perspective, coal made up 30.4 percent of our power production, while wind and solar contributed just 5.6 and 0.9 percent, respectively.

There are several ironies here, first that greens think that somehow their targeting of coal was responsible for its recent downfall, and second that they’re eager to attack the very energy source they should be thanking for this sea change in American energy. After all, natural gas emits far fewer local pollutants and just half as much CO2 as coal, which is the primary reason why U.S. emissions fell three percent this past year.

If there’s any silver lining to this sorry example of the folly of the modern environmental movement, it’s that greens have been proven to be as ineffective as they are misguided.

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April 23, 2017 at 10:37PM

Rapid Retreat Of Glaciers In Early 20thC

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By Paul Homewood

HH Lamb – Climate, History and the Modern World – p 262

Further to yesterday’s post about glaciers, it is worth noting what HH Lamb had to say on the matter.

The above panels show how far some of Switzerland’s glaciers retreated between 1820 and 1974.

Lamb writes:

Note the rapid retreat between 1925 and 1960, when it appears to have more or less stopped. (The book was written in 1982, since when melting has of course begun again).

Note as well the global nature of the process.

The other interesting comment concerns poleward movement of the range of birds and fish during the earlier period, something which again was reversed after 1960.

We often hear claims that such recent expansion of ranges is “proof of global warming”. In fact it is simply part of a natural process that began at the end of the Little Ice Age, long before mankind made any difference.

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April 23, 2017 at 08:39PM

ABC ignores rain history

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This story from near Longford in Tasmania makes out rain for June 2016 was due to “climate change” – yet Longford data shows several years with higher June rain.

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April 23, 2017 at 07:34PM

Wales Erupts in Wild Protests Against Outrageous 800 Turbine Wind Farm

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  Nothing generates more hatred and bitter community division than a wind farm. And when what’s proposed is 800 of these things: 290 tonne, 165m tall, bat-chomping, bird slicing, blade-chucking, pyrotechnic, sonic-torture devices – speared all over the bucolic Welsh countryside it’s little wonder that locals have erupted in fury – a taste of which appears in […]

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April 23, 2017 at 07:32PM