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...Consider that coal, according to the US EIA was responsible for generating 155,000 thousand megawatt-hours of energy production in November, 2008. Wind was responsible for 1,300 thousand megawatt hours. This means that the US saw about 120 times as much energy produced from coal as wind. If it takes more employees to generate 0.8% of the energy as coal produces, how can it ever be cost competitive?

Something does not add up. Someone please explain this.

Industry Proponents of Cap-and-Trade Want To Rip You Off | GlobalWarming.org

For years, CEI has been warning that industrial suppliers and users of energy only support cap-and-trade climate policies because they think they can manipulate these schemes to their benefit and to their competitors’ detriment...

Wrapping Greenland in reflective blankets - Telegraph

Jason Box, from Ohio State University, says the way to combat melting glaciers is to cover them with blankets that will reflect the sun’s rays.

Dr Box said: “We’re in the midst of a climate catastrophe and glaciers are the epicentre of that problem.

“Glaciers around the planted are decanting into the oceans at shocking rates and I want to stop that.”

Dr Box, who has conducted climate research expeditions to the Greenland ice sheet every year since 1994, has set out with a team of three others to test his idea on a real glacier in Greenland and prove the technology works.

The bulk of their cargo is 31 giant rolls of uniquely designed white polypropylene blankets. These blankets, which are used in the Alps to preserve ski hills in the summer, will cover a total surface area of 10,000 square meters and are designed to reflect sunlight and block out Greenland’s winds.