Alan Caruba:
President Obama, supported by the Environmental Protection Agency, is seeking to deprive America of the use of its enormous reserves of coal in coal-fired plants that produce the electricity on which the economy and all life in America depends.
This isn’t just a “war on coal”, it is a war on America and one free market think tank, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) has been joined by six major unions to ensure that the EPA’s proposed energy proposal, Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule does not become a regulation that they call “nothing less than industrial sabotage by regulatory means.”
The EPA’s current regulations have resulted in the shut down over more than 150 coal-fired plants over the course of Obama’s first term and his second represents a threat to everyone living in America. We are living through one of the harshest winters in recent years and the 17-year-old cooling cycle which the entire Earth is experiencing promises to last decades.
Commenting on the proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants, Bonner R.Cohen, PhD, a CFACT Senior Policy Analyst laid out the reasons why MATS has no basis whatever in science.
Any regulation seeking to limit the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere deliberately and deceptively ignores facts that anyone can understand. Bonner spelled out the basic scientific facts, but it is essential to keep in mind that CO2 is essential to all life on Earth, providing the “food” that all vegetation depends.
“Current concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are 400 parts per million (ppm). Human activities in all their forms account for 4% of that total. The United States is responsible for 3% of that 4%, all the rest of the CO2 in the atmosphere (96% of the total) comes from purely natural causes, such as volcanoes, undersea venting, animal fluctuation, etc.,” said Cohen.
“The total U.S. contribution to atmospheric CO2 is one tenth of 1% or 00.1%. This 0.01% includes the CO2 that is emitted every time one of the approximately 315 million Americans opens his or her mouth to speak, cry, or engage in any verbal activity.” There are seven billion people on Earth contributing CO2 just by exhaling.
“The contribution of coal-fired plants to the U.S., much less global CO2 emissions, is so miniscule that it cannot be measured with any degree of accuracy. And the contribution of those entities targeted by the EPA to the Earth’s climate also cannot be measured. Thus the EPA has absolutely no way of saying how its proposed regulations will affect the climate.”
The EPA is moving toward imposing these baseless regulations despite the fact that China and India have been building coal-fired plants to provide their nations with the energy to expand and compete in the global marketplace. China’s CO2 emission increased by 167% between 1999 and 2009, while the U.S., the second largest emitter of carbon dioxide, emitted 17% over the same 10-year period.
According to an analysis by Climate Central, from 2005-2009, China added coal-fired electricity capacity that is equivalent to the entire U.S. fleet. From 2010-2013, it added half the coal generation of the entire U.S. again. Powered by cheap and abundant coal, China’s economy has lifted 600 million people out of abject poverty and into the middle class over the last two decades.
Carbon dioxide, however, is vital for all life Earth despite decades of lies about it by environmentalists falsely claiming it warms the Earth. It is the food that all vegetation requires in the same way all animal life requires oxygen.
“For EPA to impose carbon-pollution standards that by design will make the introduction of new coal-fired power plants all but impossible is to adapt a policy that by design will drive up the cost of electricity by limiting America’s sources of power,” said Cohen. “The EPA is engaging in a complete fabrication, one that will put an end to an industry that supplies the U.S. with 37% of its electricity.” When Obama took office in 2009, coal-fired plants were providing nearly 50% of U.S. electrical energy.
@Greg: Except that Los Angeles still has days like that and it’s not because they don’t have more rules than any other city in the World.
that’s why they immigrate here in AMERICA,
THE PRIME MINISTER IN CANADA WILL BEGIN TO RESTRAIN THEM TO COME,
AND BUY THE TREASURED LAND, BUILD AND START A COMMUNITY OF THEIR OWN,
GREG
FROM GOOGLE THE ARSENIC IN LOCAL PRODUCT IS VERY SMALL,
NOT ENOUGH TO ALARM,
BUT IF IT COME FROM OTHER COUNTRIES YOU MIGHT HAVE MORE OF IN RICE,AND
APPLE JUICE, CHICKEN COOK ALREADY KENTUCKY STYLE, RICE MILK,
I SAY ALREADY PROCESS FOOD MUST HAVE A BIT, MORE THAN THE FOOD COOKED AT HOME,
The problem with all of the alternative energy options (with the exception of nuclear power,) is that the science is simply not up to the level required to rely on them as dependable and reliable. Most of the alternative sources are still in their technological early stages of development. With more research and development some of them might eventually turn out to be viable. The biggest hurdle is that battery technology is not anywhere near where it needs to be.
What we basically have going in energy production and politics is comparable to; Dreamers in desperate desire of utilizing warp drives, worm holes and hyperspace for space travel, telling us that we have to get rid of all those polluting chemical rockets now! while warp technology is still in the theoretical stage.
There has been a recent breakthrough: The lasers fuelling hopes of unlimited, clean nuclear energy
This is very promising! But that doesn’t mean we are ready right now to replace our power infrastructure with fusion reactors.
Ditto
the problem also is for sure , how to trash those componants, battery and all the jazz,
nucleor reactor would never decay into a rusted pile, You cannot add more trash of that dangerous kind,
in backyards anymore because you have acquired the knowledge of the danger they represent and used
have become a question mark on how the hell we will discard them when they are obsolete,
you cannot, they are like the SUN, alive for ever ?, ALTHOUGH IT WAS SAID THAT THE SUN IS DYING
AND ALREADY EMBARK ON THE SLOPE DOWN,
MY QUESTION IS: ARE WE SPEEDING UP THAT SLOPE BY TAKING FROM THE SUN, WHAT EVER ENERGY WE WANT TO USE ON EARTH ?
@ilovebeeswarzone:
The Sun throws out that energy regardless of whether we do anything with it or not. The Earth only receives a small percentage of the solar radiation. The Sun will eventually burn out in about 5.41 billion years and nothing man does will have any affect on that.
Ditto
thank’s FOR THE INFO,
then I will try to think of something else, FOR YOU TO AGREE,
BYE