A proposal for the federal government to financially guarantee the construction and operation of new dispatchable power generation, which could include clean coal-fired plants, is expected to be taken to the cabinet with the backing of the Prime Minister. —The Australian, 14 July 2018
China’s demand for the fossil fuel for electricity generation has surpassed expectations. The commodities sector has been hit by escalating trade tensions between Washington and Beijing, but coal is bucking that trend as China’s demand for the fossil fuel remains high. —CNBC, 12 July 2018
Germany, Russia + Putin, Trump, natural gas, and pipeline fiasco at the NATO summit has got all of us thinking. For decades now, the Russian bear has continually been sinking its mighty energy claws into Europe and Germany. Despite long promising to “get off Russian energy,” Gazprom sales to Europe hit an all-time record last year, and Europe is still the largest buyer of Russian oil. —Jude Clemente, Forbes 15 July 2018
The change at the top of the Environmental Protection Agency won’t mean a dramatic shift in policy. If anything, President Donald Trump’s EPA could become even more effective at undoing Obama-era environmental policies under its new boss. —Bloomberg, 10 July 2018
Should environmentalists fear the prospect of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice? Most left-of-center environmentalists are convinced that the answer is yes, on the grounds that Judge Kavanaugh has consistently sought to rein in federal regulatory agencies that by his lights appear to be going beyond their legislative mandates. —Reihan Salam, National Review, 12 July 2018
The failure of the atmosphere to warm in accordance with alarmist predictions is making it harder and harder to come up with a bona fide story that can scare you. In a post a few days ago, I noted that “the whole climate issue seems to have mostly disappeared from the news lately.” Commenter niceguyeddie responded by giving me a link to the Washington Post (eddie called it “the ‘other’ Pravda”), and an article of July 5 by a guy named Jason Samenow headlined “Red-hot planet: All-time heat records have been set all over the world during the past week.” —Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian, 12 July 2018
Russia and China have been stable for awhile now. Western democracies are being whip lashed by elections. Obama/Trump. No wonder Putin wants to infiltrate democracy, it’s erratic.
The Fragile Earth and Delicate Balance of Nature is the biggist hoaxes ever produced by the Greens they need to Get A Life