As dawn broke over the Midwest this bitterly cold morning, coal was providing more than 50% of the electricity… keeping the region alive. Wind… think Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal… was providing less than 5%. Solar is not even on the chart. Coal is life.
Source: MISO
“According to the most recent results from EIA’s Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), about one in five households reported reducing or forgoing necessities such as food and medicine to pay an energy bill, and 14% reported receiving a disconnection notice for energy service. Households may also use less energy than they would prefer; 11% of households surveyed reported keeping their home at an unhealthy or unsafe temperature.” The problem will be getting worse. One reason why we formed BURN MORE COAL.
Source: Townhall.com Web
“We strongly believe that no country should have to sacrifice economic prosperity or energy security in pursuit of environmental sustainability,” said Trump adviser Wells Griffith at COP-24 . BURN MORE COAL could not have said it better.
We can’t even get past the first sentence of this New York Timesreport: “Crop yields are declining.” No, they’re not. Not only is warming and higher CO2 increasing crop yields, it’s spreading them further north.
“The price of climate” is… more food! This front-page Wall Street Journal story reports on the new corn fields in Alberta, Canada due to a warmer climate. Mild night time winter warming from an enhanced greenhouse effect is one positive aspect of CO2 from society using more fossil fuels and is an inherent part of CO2 theory going back to the 19th Century. More corn for a hungry world is good and not bad. It is a current and real benefit from CO2. But the Obama EPA endangerment finding claims there is a current negative effect. And check out data showing 5x increase in corn production worldwide since 1960 as population and fossil fuel use exploded — both of which are positive externalities from coal and fossil fuel use.
That’s what a new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports. CO2 is plant food. Global population is growing. We will need more food. Burn More Coal!
About 439 million Asians lack electricity. One-third of US coal exports go to Asia. Someone should do something. Here’s how you can.
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