Britain’s Lessons From The Winter of 2008-2009 « Watts Up With That?

[Steven Goddard] The UK has been experiencing the coldest winter in several decades, and hopefully policymakers have learned a few basic lessons from this. Here is my wish list, which seem painfully obvious.

1. Britain can’t rely on global warming to stay warm in the winter.
2. Britain can’t rely on solar power to stay warm in the winter. There just isn’t enough sun (which is why it is cold in the winter.)
3. Britain can’t rely on wind power to stay warm in the winter. During the coldest weather the winds were calm (which is one reason why the air temperatures were so low.)
4. Britain can’t rely on Russian natural gas to stay warm. The gas supply was cut off for weeks due to politics.

The only large scale energy supplies the UK can rely on in the near future are coal, oil and a small amount of nuclear. So next time you see a “coal train of life“ remember to wave at the driver. And I hate those ugly, motionless windmills popping up all over the countryside.

Obama takes fossil-fueled trip to Denver

And this bill has much that can be called bad — from $300 million for electric carts, a favor to North Dakota Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan, in whose state the carts will be made, to $8 billion for high-speed rail, a tidbit that boosts Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's dream of a Las Vegas-Los Angeles rail link.

That explains why Obama traveled to Denver on Tuesday for what even the Associated Press called "an unusual ceremony" to sign the legislation into law: He wanted to escape the heated discussion about the bill's bogus stimulus provisions, and focus instead on its more-popular but no-less-bogus green energy elements.

The Global Warming Heretic: Propaganda technique #21744: The misleading appeal to authority

"Scientists say"? How many? Of what field? What are their qualifications? The article only mentions two (technically qualifying for the plural form of the word "scientist"), but the lede is written as if this is the -- wait for it -- consensus opinion.