Guest essay by Eric Worrall Exports of Australian coal from ports in the state of Queensland have surged to a new record. According to the Gladstone Observer. THE latest coal…
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What Powers The Electricity?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There is a generator-by-generator analysis of the US power supply for 2012, called “eGrid”, available here as an Excel file. I’ve aggregated the data by fuel…
More settled science consensus: the formation of coal in the Caboniferous looks to be "grounded in abiotic processes"
Researcher cites a tendency in science to ignore, rather than go after, theories believed to be false. Two Stanford geologists are disputing the decade-old explanation of the large amount of…
If the UK were to try and achieve COP21 ideas – hold on to your hats!
Guest essay by Philip Foster COP21 Paris climate conference urged that all home heating should move away from gas to be all electric. In the UK the Climate Change Act…
President Obama: 3 Year Moratorium on New Coal Mines
Guest essay by Eric Worrall President Obama has just announced a 3 year moratorium on leasing federal land for new coal mines, pending a review of the impact of coal…
Climate Divestment Rhetoric, Meet Reality
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Australian ABC has unusually printed an almost balanced article, about the future prospects of coal, in which they contrast the sharp divide between green…
Are Stringent Vehicle Emissions Standards Driving a Surge in Coal?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The pressure to conform to tightening vehicle emissions standards and fuel efficiency specifications is intense. Everyone knows about the recent Volkswagen Emissions Scandal, in which…
Asia's coal power climate joke
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Mother Jones is celebrating that China has just committed $3.1 billion to help poor countries fight climate change. Mother Jones cautiously states they don’t know…
Japan: Building coal plants is "climate finance"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Minerals Council of Australia has pushed back at coal divestment campaigns, by pointing out that Japan has joined the Asian infrastructure rush, by offering…
Claim: China has emitted 15% less CO2 than previously estimated
Guest essay by Eric Worrall China’s estimated total CO2 emissions to date may have to be revised down by 15%, according a study published in Nature, because the coal China…
Is our certain fate a coal-burning climate apocalypse? No!
From the Fabius Maximus website, By Larry Kummer Summary: The news media overflows with scary stories as we approach November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. The latest are…
A carbon accounting conundrum
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Is Australian coal still “naughty”, if the coal is burned in China? Aussie PM Tony Abbott has infuriated greens in the last few days, by…
Former UN Climate Chief: Coal is Essential
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t DailyCaller – Former UN climate chief Yvo de Boer has defended the use of climate finance to fund the construction of coal generators –…
Earth Institute: "Japan should use nuclear power"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Jeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, has stated in an interview with Ryuichi Otsuka, a news researcher for the prominent Japanese…
Newsbytes- The New Coal Boom
Cheap & Abundant Coal Biggest Challenge For UN Climate Agenda Since 1973, coal consumption has grown faster than any other form of energy. Growth in coal consumption has been critical…
Is Coal winning the energy battle?
Guest essay by Mike Jonas In an absurd article “Full extent of global coal ‘binge’ is hidden, say researchers“, the BBC’s Matt McGrath argues that instead of modelling actual and…
Too late for Oregon's coal terminal: Exporting US coal to Asia could drop emissions 21 percent
Not that weepy Bill McKibben would care anyway, he doesn’t do reality. Oregon denies permit for new coal port–huge victory for folks who have done great organizing http://t.co/0DyKUnGCE4 — Bill…
Germany's green tech forces 400x increase in power rates
The price of a stabilized green power grid is very steep, one could say it is like a “hockey stick” Story submitted by Eric Worrall (h/t John Droz) Coal and…
China 'the coal monster' fuel dominated energy use overwhelms Obama's EPA CO2 reduction schemes
Obama’s ideological war on coal unnecessary, is wasteful, costly, inept, and pure political theater. Guest essay by Larry Hamlin China’s energy consumption is climbing so rapidly that it’s energy use,…
Modern Magic – Clean Energy by Wire
Submitted by Viv Forbes, Rosewood Qld Australia A month ago an arsonist lit a bush-fire that spread into the Morwell open cut coal mine in Victoria. Residents of the nearby…
New FOIA emails show EPA in cahoots with enviro groups, giving them special access
From The Washington Free Beacon, Lachlan Markay. Press release follows. Internal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emails show extensive collaboration between top agency officials and leading environmentalist groups, including overt efforts…
Natural gas switch from coal brings power plant emissions down
From the University of Colorado at Boulder New study: US power plant emissions down Power plants that use natural gas and a new technology to squeeze more energy from the…
Despite Climate Campaigners Efforts, Germany’s New Coal Boom Reaches Record Level
From The GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser Dirty Coal Revived As Europe Speeds Green Retreat With Greenpeace successfully forcing the shutdown of nuclear power, and keeping out fracking for gas,…
EPA ‘Public Listening Session’ Turns Into Sierra Club Talking Session
Images from: National Resources Defense Council blog Guest essay by Taylor Smith Last week I attended an Environmental Protection Agency “Public Listening Session” held here in Chicago. I had only…
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