Monday, February 16, 2009

Those coal “death trains” have in fact saved millions of lives this winter, Mr Hansen « An Honest Climate Debate
This from the same man who flies half way across the globe in a carbon emitting aircraft to defend those who vandalise coal power plants. The hypocrisy is astounding.

Dr Hansen, if you believe what you preach I challenge you to stop using electricity, stop driving your car, stop flying etc.

And most importantly thank goodness for coal, for the northern hemisphere is experiencing one of its coldest winters in memory. How many millions of lives would have been lost in this exceptionally cold winter without the heating from coal-generated electricity?
Australian Climate Madness: Hysterical alarmism from Chris Field
Hilarious - "thrusting the machinery of climate change" - you couldn't make this stuff up if you tried! And at the bottom of it all is our friend Chris Field.
Energy experts to visit every home to help them go green - Telegraph
Launching a consultation on the scheme, Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said teams of energy advisers would go around "house by house, street by street" to advise people how to improve their homes.

Loans would then be made available to pay for the new technologies, that can cost thousands of pounds.

It is not yet decided how the massive programme will be funded but it is expected a large amount of money will come from a levy on energy companies that will ultimately be passed onto consumers. An innovative "pay as you save" scheme will link any loan for home improvements to the house rather than the person so that when a family move the repayment passes to the next owner. This would mean people are more willing to invest in expensive technologies like a wood chip boiler.

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