Renewable Energy Not Necessarily Cleaner Than Coal | GlobalWarming.org

As it turns out, burning chicken litter waste tends to produce a high level of particulates, high levels of carbon monoxide, high levels of nitrogen oxides, and a high level of arsenic. The reason the plants produce high levels of particulates and carbon monoxide is because the wood shavings don’t burn as hot as coal and so there is often incomplete combustion. The high levels of nitrogen oxides come from the fact the chicken waste is high in ammonia and urea. In fact, chicken waste is often used as a source of nitrogen fertilizer on farms. The reason for the high levels of arsenic is that most commercial chicken feed contains Roxarsone, which is an arsenic based compound that is added to the chicken feed to prevent the birds from developing parasites.

The emissions at the Minnesota plant are apparently so problematic the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has pending legal action. So much for clean green renewable energy.

Cap and Trade: A New Disaster Waiting to Happen in 2009 - HUMAN EVENTS

Cap-and-Trade is the true socialist's dream as it addresses a non-existent problem with a massive series of new hidden taxes and a massive increase in federal government bureaucrats and police with monitoring and control powers to use against the citizens of the United States.

The American Spectator : Overcome by Heat

Climate change alarmism has moved firmly into the realms of science-fiction with a piece in the Los Angeles Times claiming that Australia is being ravaged by "drought, fires, killer heat waves, wildlife extinction and mosquito-borne illness." The headline screams: "What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia."
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The New York Times reported, not during the present climate-change furor but in 1899: "Drought in the inland districts of New South Wales is causing ruin among farmers. The rivers in the country are drying up because of the great heat." Oh, and the same story reported floods as well. Australia has always had a variable climate.

The Australian poet and Catholic priest Monsignor P.J. Hartigan ("John O'Brien") sent up the preoccupation with drought and doom-saying in the poem "Said Hanrahan," published in 1921. It is relevant enough to the present panic-mongering to be worth quoting here at some length. A group of farmers are standing about outside a church on Sunday morning, gloomily discussing the drought...