300 Million Without Electricity In India After Restoration Of Power Grid | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Government officials also stated that the widespread power outage had in no way compromised their ability to provide adequate sanitation to 31 percent of India's citizens

Opening Statement of Senator James M. Inhofe

I must say it feels like we're back to the good old days. It may be hard to believe, but it was in February of 2009, during the height of the global warming alarmist movement, that this committee last held a hearing on global warming science. Back then we heard promises from the Obama administration of a clean energy revolution with green jobs propped up by billions in taxpayer dollars to companies like Solyndra.

What came of all those promises? The global warming movement has completely collapsed and cap-and-trade is dead and gone.

I suspect a look back over the past three years will be a little painful for my friends on the other side. In 2009 with a Democratic President, and overwhelming Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate, global warming alarmists were on top of the world - they thought they would finally reach their goal of an international agreement that would eliminate fossil fuels. Yet the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill didn't happen.

Of course, what drove the collapse of the global warming movement was that the science of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was finally exposed. For years I had warned that the United Nations was a political body, not a scientific body - and finally the mainstream media took notice

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India's power struggle | Global development | guardian.co.uk

The power sector operates as if economic principles don't matter. India primarily depends on coal for its energy needs. It has vast coal reserves, but its extraction rate is inefficient. State-owned Coal India, which controls 80% of production, is required to sell coal to industry at a hugely subsidised rate, considerably below market price, making production uneconomic....Electricity is vital. It doesn't just keep the plasma TVs working, or the air conditioning humming – it means students in rural India can study at night, medicines and vaccinations don't spoil due to a lack of refrigeration, and food in cold storage doesn't rot.