Energy Tribune- Europe’s Other Power Crisis: Energy

Europe’s eschewing of its cheap domestic, viable and economic fossil fuels. Instead the EU’s ideological elites, driven by an irrational fear of a harmless trace gas (CO2), prefer high taxation and regulatory regimes to fund ‘green’ energy. Cocooned in the lavish splendour of Brussels and Strasbourg the political elites have no problem in seeing increasing numbers in Germany, the UK and elsewhere forced into fuel poverty to pay for their green dream. Meanwhile Europe’s vast coal and shale resources are not being developed as governments, hard-pressed by pointless and ineffective emission quotas, are locked in an idiotic foot-dragging exercise over the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) extraction process; a process central to most mining extractions for over 60 years.

Hadley-Crut graph shows temperature trending DOWN.

Deroy Murdock: Team Obama’s war on bald eagles | JunkScience.com

Rare birds are protected, except from White House-favored windmills

When bald eagles confront danger, most normal Americans would leap to preserve, protect and defend America’s national symbol. But Team Obama’s response is different: It wants to give wind-power companies long-term permits to butcher bald eagles on the altar of green energy.

Death Spiral Causes Cold Snowy Winters In The Eastern US | Real Science

More evidence that the most vocal climate scientists are completely full of shit. This year they told us that the warm winter in the Eastern US was due to global warming and missing Arctic ice. Two years ago they said the exact opposite.