Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Coal imports hit record due to chilly weather - People's Daily Online
China's coal imports surged to a monthly record of 17.34 million tons in December, up 25 percent compared with the previous month.
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China's diesel shortage, caused when power users switched to diesel generators to skirt a crackdown on coal-fired power, has eased after the government raised fuel prices last month and refiners produced a record amount of fuel and slashed exports.
South Korean Government: ‘Wear Thick Underwear’
As of January 17th, public servants in South Korea must turn off all heating devices from 11:00am to 12:00am and 5:00pm to 6:00pm. In addition, at all other times the heating cannot be set any higher than 18-degrees Celsius, or 64-degrees Fahrenheit.
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The temperature in South Korea has been so cold—earlier this month it dropped to a record low of -17.8-degrees Celsius, or -.04-degrees Fahrenheit, which by the way is cold enough to make even this former-Midwestern chap shiver—that the use of heaters rose to an all-time high.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Wondering Whether the Climate Movement Can Copy the Civil Rights Movement - Warmist Bryan Walsh - TIME.com
I was born in 1978, and if you'd stuck me in a TARDIS and dropped me in the present day, much of the world would be barely recognizable.
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If we're really taking climate change seriously—economy-changing seriously—then we do have to curb our behaviors, our appetites and our actions for the sake of future generations. We would need to curb our freedom, economically and behaviorally. And I'm skeptical that we would do that.

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