I'll try to remember that. :(
Posted on 03/24/2013 1:56:24 PM PDT by neverdem
An obsession with CO2 has left us dangerously short of power as coal-powered stations are forced to close
As the snow of the coldest March since 1963 continues to fall, we learn that we have barely 48 hours’ worth of stored gas left to keep us warm, and that the head of our second-largest electricity company, SSE, has warned that our generating capacity has fallen so low that we can expect power cuts to begin at any time. It seems the perfect storm is upon us.
The grotesque mishandling of Britain’s energy policy by the politicians of all parties, as they chase their childish chimeras of CO2-induced global warming and windmills, has been arguably the greatest act of political irresponsibility in our history. Three more events last week brought home again just what a mad bubble of make-believe these people are living in.
Under the EU’s Large Combustion Plants Directive, we lost two more major coal-fired power stations, Didcot A...
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So we are doomed to see Britain’s lights going out, all because the feather-headed lunatics in charge of our energy policy still believe that they’ve got to do something to save the planet from that CO2-induced global warming which this weekend has been covering much of the country up to a foot deep in snow. Meanwhile, the Indians are planning to build 455 new coal-fired power stations which will add more CO2 to the atmosphere of the planet every week than Britain emits in a year.
Thank you, David Cameron, leader of “the greenest government ever”. Thank you, Ed Miliband, father of the Climate Change Act, the most expensive suicide note in history. Between you, you seem determined to switch off our lights, lock the door and throw away the key. We owe you more than we can say.
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Here we are sitting on resources our EPA won’t allow us to use - pretty easy to imagine that some day someone stronger will want what we’ve got and we’ll just be a toothless tiger unable to defend ourselves.
You forgot that we are dealing with absolute fanatics!
Take a look see...
Much worse then that. Western governments have been actively trying to cool the planet. And the East does not want to freeze to death. They will annihilate us instead of freezing to death.
I’ve been seriously thinking of moving to panama.
However, in previous centuries people survived the cold. Even much of England didn’t have central heating until the last 50 years or so. You can survive if you know how.
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Additionally, US and European governments have been actively trying to cool the planet. We need to know every single one of the projects they have undertaken to cool the planet. My guess is that some of these could have had an influence. Much easier ways to modify temps without using CO2. And if they did manage to increase cooling, we could enter this next cold Ice Age period very quickly.
Basically the perfect storm. We actively attempted to cool the planet just before it was headed back into the cold Ice Age period. Probably one of the dumbest moves ever in the entire Universe.
Thanks neverdem.
My thermostat stays at 64F all winter. Except at night, of course, when it’s at 58F.
I'll try to remember that. :(
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LOL!
I have a sign in my office “Large carbon footprints make for happy trees.” Drives the libtards boocooo crazy. Once in a blue moon someone actually wants to engage and discuss, the truth blows their mind. Low information is very dangerous.
You might want to add this factoid to your discussion:
The first Surveyor-type satellite was launched in 1968. Every year since that date has marked a small, but measurable, increase in the percentage of the planet that was forested.
Perhaps, the Rain Forest is shrinking. But, if it is, the Taiga is going berserk.
We produce CO2, the trees appreciate it...and thence, indeed, they go forth and multiply.
Thanks for the ping!
As if we have any room to talk.
Peasant fat burns hot, and is carbon-neutral.
It's a threefer: they get a high protein diet, the fuel to cook it; and they remain warm!
Jonathan Swift was ahead of his time with his Modest Proposal!
Yes, although the coal has to be treated ('smokeless') in urban areas. Worth pointing out that there are still huge unexploited stocks of coal in Britain, which won't be going away. However, by far the most common heating fuel in Britain is gas.
yeah i hear ya, but more than 48 hours anyway...
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