Arkansas Nuclear One turns 35 amid climate change debate  | Arkansas News

In a speech at the Clinton School of Public Service this month, Entergy Chairman and CEO Wayne Leonard said the EPA’s recent decision to classify carbon dioxide as a potential hazard was a signal to Congress to act quickly to set climate change policy before the agency does.
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Leonard said while he not happy with everything in the omnibus energy bill, he is happy to see the issue of addressing global warming on the front burner for more than business reasons.

“We’re playing Russian roulette with the planet and our economy. The difference is there’s a bullet in every chamber except one,” he said in his Dec. 9 speech at the Clinton School. “We have to answer the question of whether we’re more important than future generations. I believe with all my heart that everybody involved in this debate in their own heart knows what the answer to that question is.”

Four-fifths of Entergy’s power comes from low-carbon or no-carbon fuel. Half is nuclear generated and 30 percent by natural gas.

Die Klimazwiebel: Science Wars revisited

[Werner Krauss] Both parties take a political stance; the hardcore climatologists resemble Stalinists (sometimes you have to lie to the people in order to make them do the right thing), while the constructivists resemble social democrats (political negotiation instead of war).

G. P. Bear goes to Washington: The true story of a freedom-loving carnivore « Watts Up With That?

A 12-part serialized “docu-fable,” “G.P. Bear Goes to Washington” features real issues and real people. It stars Grandpa, a magical, media-savvy and proudly skeptical polar bear who understands his species is in far greater danger from the interventions of the federal government, Barbara Boxer, Al Gore, Leonard DiCaprio and overzealous wildlife scientists than from anthropogenic climate change.

American Thinker: Natural Gas and Capitalism to the Rescue

Marxist grandees slipped in and out Copenhagen last week thanks to the plentiful jet fuel whose combustion they claim poses grave threats to the future of mankind. While they solemnly convened to tax hydrocarbons out of existence, and roundly mocked and discredited the market system whose wealth they covet and hope to steal, we should be grateful that capitalists were at work in America to help increase our carbon footprint.
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And as much as America badly needs this energy jolt, the radical environmentalists need it even more. In order to promote their latest obsession-- the plug-in hybrid-America's electrical grid will need vast electrical capacity upgrades. Only coal and natural gas can scale up fast enough to meet the potential demand. And how they hate coal.

What a delight it's going to be to see that solar, wind and other utopian alternatives that were sucking away our attention, fall from view as a solid, practical energy future occupies our thoughts once again.

WSJ’s "Heard on the Street": Political Energy Down, Market Energy UP Post- Copenhagen (Remembering the risks of Enron’s political capitalism model) — MasterResource

Copenhagen did not fail–energy reality won.
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The Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street page is not about politics. It is about technical, business, and political realities to inform investors to make money. No spin here. And the word is in: consumer-driven energies are sustainable, not political energies that rest on shaky technology and fickle public policy. The long run looks bright for oil, gas, and coal.

American Thinker: The Global Warming Matrix

The public posting of email at the University of Anglia's Climate Research Unit -- also known by members of the irrepressible right wing conspiracy contingent as Climategate -- bear some amusing, yet somewhat disturbing similarities to the popular Sci-Fi movie The Matrix. The movie's script -- particularly that of a character named Morpheus -- yields an arresting parallel to the largely unanticipated, but still no less devastating charges of unethical conduct, fraud, manipulation and plain distortion of the facts, leveled at the rather vociferous cadre of so called scientists originally anointed to preach the gospel of Anthropogenic Global Warming.

timesofmalta.com - Nature Trust disappointed at climate summit outcome

Nature Trust urged the Maltese government and Maltese MEPs to keep up their pressure at EU level for the EU to keep up the pressure on other countries such as USA.

It felt Malta was still too far behind to actually meet the EU targets and the authorities should pull up their socks and start implementing the strategy to ensure that Malta would be the country which first raised the climate change issue at United Nations and which first reached EU targets.