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Let's look at the 82 canceled, abandoned, or sidetracked proposals. Collectively, they amount to 51,016 MW of generating capacity [PDF] that [allegedly] can now be replaced with climate friendly technologies such as conservation retrofits, solar thermal plants, or wind generators.

Red Maryland: Well, That Didn't Take Long

Well, it didn’t take long for the Sun to publish its first inane, jingoistic editorial of 2009. The editorial board weighed in on what it sees as Barack Obama’s top priority for his first year: stopping climate change.

2008 was a bad year for alarmism. As more and more research unraveled their so-called “consensus”, and more scientists join the ranks of skeptics, the more shrill alarmists became. They doubled down on the old debunked arguments, and found new ad hominem slurs to hurl at those who disagree with them. The latest tripe from the Sun is more of the same...

Global warming? Yes? No? Oh No! - Orange Punch - OCRegister.com

...Fascinating, no? Even though it’s posted by an apparent true believer, it is an interesting picture of how the divide is shaping up on this predicted catastrophe: Is it even worse than catastrophe, or no sweat at all? How about that for polarized views drifting farther and farther apart by the moment?
Is this faux scare really a faux scare, requiring us to do nothing at all, or is it real and too late to do anything reasonable about it?
With those increasingly divergent options, you can bet the odds are that government will do something - and something terribly expensive and annoyingly intrusive and do it in a big hurry. Just wait ’til Al Gore and company hear about the suggestion to deflect sunlight with a fleet of mirrors between the Earth and the Sun. That shouldn’t cost much.