Leading Coal Company Will Lay Off 1,200 Workers – Blames Obama EPA Regulations | The Gateway Pundit

[Obama 2008] “So if someone wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them.”

Articles: Climate Realism

[Fred Singer] Even with the Kyoto Protocol due to expire at the end of this year, Obama persists in giving highest priority to climate change policy if re-elected. Does the U.S. really want to lead the world in committing economic suicide? It pays to look at the rapidly disappearing scientific rationale for trying to mitigate a putative future global warming.Finally, it should be obvious, perhaps, but needs to be stated explicitly that if a warmer climate produces positive net benefits rather than damages, then, in principle, one cannot even conduct a cost-benefit analysis.  Nor should one try to mitigate emissions of CO2 in any way; our current policies are simply misguided.

- Bishop Hill blog - Missing the point?

There is lots of excitement among greens this morning over an article by Mark Lynas, which purports to show that wind farms do not increase carbon emissions.
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I haven't had a chance to go through this thoroughly, but at first glance the article appears to be entirely risible. The wind-sceptic argument is that efficiency losses in gas-fired generators offset (perhaps more than offset) any emissions savings from wind. So to show that wind power replaces gas-fired generation on a one-to-one basis is completely irrelevant seems to miss the point - it is a statement of the patently obvious, since supply (we hope) has to meet demand.

The question that needs to be addressed is that of the efficiency of the gas-fired generation that is still operating.

Or am I missing something in Lynas's argument?

Climate change already harming the global economy - environment - 26 September 2012 - New Scientist

"It has been assumed that a hotter living and working environment is nothing to worry about," says Tord Kjellström of Umeå University in Sweden. "But the 5 billion people living in the hot parts of this planet are already constrained by heat."

Question: If warmth is bad, why do so many people choose to live where it's warm?