This is a massive election opportunity for the GOP and not just in Coal Country. This is an attack on jobs and the poor and on economic liberty.
People no longer by into the ‘global warming’ hoax and climate change is a garbage word. They do view coal as dirty, but smart PR from coal producers and energy users could undermine that and pronto.
We need to start now, though, because you have to challenge the idea that coal is belching dirty black smoke into the air. Couple that we an economic liberty message and you win.
>>They do view coal as dirty, but smart PR from coal producers and energy users could undermine that and pronto.
The Left has countered anything we say with the myth that “Clean Coal is an oxymoron” and the sheeple believe it.
I work for a utility company and we have two 300 MW clean coal units (Circulating Fluidized Bed) that only produce a fraction of the emissions that a conventional coal plant produces. Are we bragging about it? No. We shut them down as much as we can so we can brag about our natural gas units. We produce about 1 MW from solar panels and we brag about that. We produce another MW from landfill methane and we brag about that.
But our 600 MW of clean coal power is like our crazy old aunt that we hide in the attic.
People need to be taught over and over because there are misinformers on our side (and inserted into our side) to make us look anti-science and/or illiterate.
I would start with slides from Christy: http://www.globalwarming.org/2013/05/31/john-christy-climate-change-overview-in-six-slides/
The takeaway is that the warming from CO2 is not a hoax but a non-issue. The small amount of warming so far is a net benefit. Also I would note that climate models predict less storminess, not more.