The Verdict’s In: Cap and Trade Will Not Work » The Foundry

Lost jobs. Lost income. Lost economic activity. Nothing to show for it. The evidence is incontrovertible. Let’s hope the jury listens.

The Reference Frame: Halloween party physics: fun with dry ice

"Global warming" has been increasingly replaced by "climate change" and all the scientific details are being continuously replaced as the old eco-fads are dying. The only true constant of the green movement is not science but their desire to transform or cripple the human civilization which is at the true core of the movement.

A possible means of escape from the horrors of carbon dioxide emission constraints by Richard Courtney | Climate Realists

I repeat that AGW does not pose a global crisis but the policy of attempted global climate control does. And not merely because it is a tool to give children nightmares. The policy threatens constraint of the use of fossil fuels and that constraint would kill millions - probably billions - of people. The use of fossil fuels has done more to benefit human kind than anything else since the invention of agriculture. Most of us would not be here if it were not for the use of fossil fuels because all human activity is enabled by energy supply and limited by material science. Energy supply enables the growing of crops, the making of tools and their use to mine for minerals, and to build, and to provide goods, and to provide services.

Obama Among the (Costly) Solar Panels Again - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Apparently, the White House communications staff thinks that reprising President Jimmy Carter's fantastic solar power photo ops from 1977 is a really nifty way to signal to the public just how forward thinking President Barack Obama is.
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The 25 megawatt DeSoto facility cost $150 million. Scaling it up to 1,000 megawatts would cost $6 billion. But coal power plants operate 90 percent of the time snd solar only 30 percent, so in order to get the equivalent amount of electricity out of solar plant would mean tripling the capital cost for a total of about $18 billion. In other words, building a solar power plant costs between 4- and 6-times more than conventional, or even carbon capture, power. Even worse, a scaled up DeSoto-style plant costs 18-times more than a natural gas plant.