Winter to blast in early | UK News

BRITAIN is braced for winter to roar in with a vengeance this weekend.

A blast of cold air from Iceland is expected to send temperatures plummeting as low as -5C.

[Warmist Tom Bowman:  It's a "mistake" for you to drive your car today; it's evidently not a "mistake" for his wife to take a completely unnecessary fossil-fueled trip to Talkeetna, Alaska]

My wife called from Talkeetna, Alaska, about a week ahead of schedule. She was on an expedition to climb Denali
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This is a good description of humanity’s response to climate risks. Sure, I can drive my car today and leave extra lights on all over the house. I can run the air conditioner instead of opening windows. As a society, we can kick the climate can down the road for the next President and Congress to deal with.

Heck, you can’t even tell that these things are mistakes. But these misjudgments have been piling up for decades. In aggregate they are overwhelming the climate system.

[Warmist Tom Bowman:  Politicians who don't fear CO2 are just like sailors who drink their fill of salt water]

Meanwhile, the captain and mate continued down a psychological spiral until, one day, they decided to die. To the horror of the others, they stuck their heads into the sea and drank their fill. Salt and dehydration mixed to brew delusions...
This is a true story about a sailing adventure gone wrong, but Gonzales could just as easily have been writing about climate change.

In the climate version, our sailboat is still afloat, but our leaders are behaving just as the captain and mate did.

EPA, Sierra Club Force Expensive Power Plant Settlement in Wisconsin | Heartlander Magazine

Dairyland Power Cooperative of Wisconsin reached a joint settlement agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Sierra Club over alleged clean-air violations. The power provider will be required to install $150 million in emissions controls, invest more in solar power, and reduce its use of affordable coal power. The settlement will directly cost the average Dairyland Power customer $250 and will drive up future electricity prices.
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“While the EPA is busy punishing commercially competitive sources of energy, the Department of Energy under President Obama has been acting like the world’s worst venture capital fund—picking winners and losers, but mostly losers, by spending recklessly on uncompetitive alternatives,” [Paul] Ryan added.