Decision on new coal-fired plant delayed again | Environment | The Guardian

Decisions about any new coal-fired power plants in the UK have been delayed until the autumn, prompting warnings from energy companies about the growing risk that the country could run out of electricity generating capacity.

globeandmail.com: Spector Vision - President Obama disses Kyoto

As today's editorial in the Globe and Mail notes, last week President Barack Obama proposed reducing U.S. carbon emissions by 14 per cent relative to 2005 levels. Since, in 2005, U.S. emissions were about 15% above 1990 levels, he's effectively proposing to return the U.S. to its carbon footprint of that year, rather than to reduce emissions by 5%. And he's proposing to do so by 2020 - not by 2012, as it had agreed to at Kyoto.

The Chilling Effect |  NAM Nails “Self-Absorption” of Anti-Coal Crowd

One gathers from the links that the Capitol Climate Action blogger attributes the droughts to global warming. But that’s a pretty dumb unpersuasive argument to make on a snowy day in Washington at the end of an unusually cold winter.