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The UN’s Climate of Futility - Patrick J. Michaels - Planet Gore on National Review Online

For all its new internationalist intentions, even the many environmental radicals in the Obama administration will recognize the perils of a policy that would lead to another round of de-industrialization in the U.S. while paying competitors to bury our economy. And they have one escape hatch: the U.S. Senate.

Absent some extreme climatic change, there is no way that the Senate is going to go along with the House or with Obama on the issue of drastic cuts in emissions. Consequently, negotiators in Bonn will say that everything that the U.S. does is contingent upon what the Senate will do.

The smartest policy for the new “internationalist” administration would be to support the massive emissions reductions proposed in the House legislation, and to delay consideration by the Senate until after the Copenhagen meeting, where it is sure to die. Obama can burnish his international environmental credentials, please those within his own administration, and avoid further destruction of the economy.

Zim to increase load shedding | The Zimbabwe Telegraph

With the country at the beginning of the winter season that always experiences an increase in the demand of power due to the cold weather, Zimbabweans are headed for the worst winter in the history of the country.

On Monday, all residential areas in Bulawayo did not have electricity, a development that also affected the city’s hospitals.

Already, residents of Bulawayo have lost property to criminals who take advantage of the dark nights to rob them of their belongings.

2007: Zimbabwe turns to energy conservation

April 10, 2007

The country of Zimbabwe which has come under intense pressure and financial restrictions in the past years has been having a hard time paying for the 35 percent of energy which had to be imported. Currently the demand for electricity was at 1,700 mW per day. Currently there are plans to decrease power consumption by as much as 15 percent which would translate into a savings of more then 200 mW. This would be equivalent to shutting down two medium scale power plants.

Measures such as switching from to new fluorescent light bulbs, unplugging appliances, as well as adjusting life styles to times of the day when blackouts are less frequent have been proposed to help the country save energy. Industry has been hit hard as the parts and funds to maintain and repair power generation equipment have been hard to come by in the past years. Industry in the past has accounted for the lions share of demand for power in Zimbabwe.