Category Archives: Energy

Democrats Think Supreme Court’s EPA Power Plant Rules Hold Could Help Them Win Back Seats

They do, they really do (The Hill) The Supreme Court’s halting of the Obama administration’s chief climate rule is a new spark in the race for the Senate. Democrats and greens, who have long hoped to make climate change a flashpoint in November’s elections, say the court’s 5-4 stay order putting a hold on the […]

Supreme Court Puts Temporary Block On Obama’s Power Plant Regulations

Yet another Obama initiative put in place with his pen, an attempt to do an end run around the duly elected law making branch, knocked out by the court system (Fox News) A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday abruptly halted President Obama’s controversial new power plant regulations, dealing a blow to the administration’s sweeping plan […]

Paris Deal Could Cost New Zealanders $100 A Year

You don’t say (Stuff) Kiwi households will pay about $100 extra a year as part of New Zealand efforts to meet an ambitious new climate change target, Prime Minister John Key says. (Snip) Treasury advice was that each New Zealand household would pay an extra $1350 over 15 years, or just under $100 a year, […]

People Who Use Vast Amounts Of Fossil Fuels Say Fossil Fuels Are Coming To An End

Warmists are so cute when they’re in Hysterical Mode This is the end of fossil fuels For Selina Leem, an 18-year-old from a tiny part of the Marshall Islands in the middle of the Pacific, the adoption of Saturday’s “Paris Agreement” on climate change wasn’t about wonky diplomacy. It was about the survival of her […]

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 […]

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