The Washington Times editorial board picks up on GORE LIED’s Al Gore/AIT Index

Tellingly, the average global temperature for each of the 366 days in 2008 was below the average for Jan. 24, 2006, the date Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" was released at the Sundance Film Festival. [Via Gore Lied]

U.S. Life Expectancy in an Era of Death Trains and Death Factories « Watts Up With That?

As the above figure shows, US life expectancy at birth increased by 30.5 years, from 47.3 years to 77.8 years, between 1900 and 2005, while coal usage more than tripled.

Should Gore's climate scam be used to deny electricity to poor South Africans?

As a developing country, South Africa doesn’t have caps on its greenhouse gas emissions like the developed countries do under the Kyoto Protocol. Huge new coal power plants are being built here and some old ones are being brought out of mothballs and recommissioned to meet the growing demand for electricity. The reason we’re continuing down the coal path is that at present it appears to be the cheapest option. And the government has carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) down on its list of climate change mitigation options.

We already have a high per capita carbon footprint in this country (about 10 tons a year) because of our reliance on coal for energy and this is despite the fact that 30 percent of South Africans don’t have access to electricity. The country needs to be able to generate clean and affordable electricity to help raise these millions of people out of poverty.

So my question is: Will “clean coal” technology ever be able to do this - and even it it can, will it be too expensive for us people of the South to afford?