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Rooftop solar: welfare for the wealthy?

Net metering has been around since the early 1980s when solar panels were expensive and few people had them. But the dynamics changed drastically when states began passing renewable portfolio standards (RPS) that required predetermined percentages of electricity be generated from renewable sources—some even specified which sources are part the mix and how much of the resource was required. For example, in my home state of New Mexico, the Diversification Rule requires that 1.5% of the RPS must be met by “distributed generation” (read: rooftop solar). Arizona requires 30% of the RPS be derived from “distributed energy technologies” (once again, rooftop solar).

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Marita Noon

|2013-09-09T11:47:40-04:00September 9th, 2013|3 Comments

“Stop stalling on climate change” (before everyone catches onto the scam!)

Climate alarmists are trying to sucker, snooker, and stampede us into taking “immediate action” on job- and economy-strangling taxes and restrictions, before more people catch on to what’s really happening. This protection racket is one more example of passing a law, so that we can find out what’s in it. We simply cannot afford to let science continue being coopted to serve anti-hydrocarbon political agendas.

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Paul Driessen

|2013-09-03T12:04:05-04:00September 3rd, 2013|3 Comments

History shows hurricanes are natural. Hyping them is not.

NOAA assembled 11,967 tropical storm tracks from 1842 to 2012, illustrating that hurricanes are natural and always have been. Preparing for hurricanes is prudent. Hyping them to push the global warming agenda is propaganda.

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CFACT Ed

|2013-08-28T12:47:07-04:00August 28th, 2013|4 Comments

Morano on Fox News: Obama bypassing Congress on climate

Morano appeared on FNC's "Special Report" on August 16, 2013 to discuss President Obama's global warming plans. "The Obama administration is being strategically brilliant by doing this behind the scenes,” said Morano. “They’re going to achieve everything that cap and trade, and UN treaties and even a carbon tax would achieve through the invisibility of federal regulations.”

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CFACT

|2013-09-11T13:04:49-04:00August 17th, 2013|Comments Off

Obama’s global warming plan heats up debate

President Obama recently announced a sweeping plan to combat global warming by massively regulating coal power plants. CFACT senior policy analyst Paul Driessen says this would be a mistake, and here explains why.

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Craig Rucker

|2013-09-05T13:58:45-04:00August 7th, 2013|Comments Off

Senate hearing proves Obama is lying about “climate change”

Spencer pointed out: “The magnitude of global-average atmospheric warming between 1997 and 2012 is only about 50% that predicted by the climate models.… The level of warming in the most recent 15-year period is not significantly different from zero, despite this being the period of greatest greenhouse gas concentration. This is in stark contrast to claims that warming is ‘accelerating.’”

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Marita Noon

|2013-09-05T11:00:42-04:00July 22nd, 2013|1 Comment

Senate warming hearing backfires!

The warmist experts assembled by Barbara Boxer were over-matched by the experts invited to question global warming and the massive hard evidence they brought with them proving yet again that when both sides are allowed to speak, the global warming line does not hold up.

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Craig Rucker

|2013-07-20T10:55:51-04:00July 20th, 2013|2 Comments

Green energy: often a very bad “investment”

Once again, the $2.6 billion Cape Wind construction is illustrative of how the overlaps can give the developer more in taxpayer-funded benefits than the project’s actual cost. Federal incentives, including a $780 million energy investment credit, a DOE loan guarantee, and accelerated depreciation could be more than $1.3 billion—or more than 50% of the project’s cost. But, this just represents the federal package. Add in state incentives and the combined total could be $4.3 billion—exceeding the projected cost by 167%. Cape Wind claims to create only 50 permanent jobs—which would equal a staggering $86 million per job.

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Marita Noon

|2013-07-17T19:24:11-04:00July 17th, 2013|8 Comments

USDA shirking its responsibility to inspect organic food!

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits synthetic nitrogen fertilizer in organic production and encourages natural compost. But it does not test for un-composted feces. At least 140 people across eight states have now fallen ill after consuming hepatitis-A-infected certified-organic frozen berries and pomegranate seeds; 61 were still in hospitals in mid-July.

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Adam Houser

|2013-07-18T15:58:04-04:00July 17th, 2013|Comments Off

Mr. President, please read the handwriting on the wall!

The New York Times appears to have finally recognized that the feverish climate fervor behind these Green grab gambits is overheated. They reported on June 6 that, “The rise in the surface temperature of Earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And that lull in warming has occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere at a record pace.”

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Larry Bell

|2013-07-02T11:53:03-04:00July 2nd, 2013|1 Comment

Obama’s climate action plan: a millstone around America’s neck?

Current EPA regulations are already closing coal-fueled power plants at an alarming rate—which New Mexico Public Regulations Commissioner Pat Lyons calls “the real energy crisis that no one is talking about.... Progressive thought leaders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhous state: “Energy poverty causes more harm to the poor than global warming” and cheap energy “makes the poor vastly less vulnerable to climate impacts.”

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Marita Noon

|2013-07-01T20:07:59-04:00July 1st, 2013|6 Comments

Obama’s Climate Initiative: A Green Elitist Assault on Ordinary Citizens

By circumventing Congress and unleashing the vast powers of the administrative regulatory state in the name of combating “climate change,” President Obama has – yet again – revealed his determination to subject the American people to the unchecked whims of the federal bureaucracy.

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2013-06-27T17:13:17-04:00June 26th, 2013|3 Comments

Obama promises an end to cheap energy!

Shellenberger and Nordhous state: “In the name of democracy it now offers the global poor not what they want—cheap electricity—but more of what they don’t want, namely intermittent and expensive power” which “offers the poor no path to the kinds of high-energy lifestyles Western environmentalists take for granted.... In the name of democracy it now offers the global poor not what they want—cheap electricity—but more of what they don’t want, namely intermittent and expensive power” which “offers the poor no path to the kinds of high-energy lifestyles Western environmentalists take for granted.”

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Marita Noon

|2013-06-26T14:18:53-04:00June 24th, 2013|Comments Off

Sierra Club whines that clean coal costs too much?!

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity presents an even gloomier future for coal than the EIA projects. They predict that more than 280 coal-fired generating units are set to be shut down, partly due to stricter EPA regulations. And according to a report released by the National Economic Research Associates, seven new EPA regulations are expected to cost the electrical sector $16.7 billion per year, cause 887,000 job losses annually, and eliminate 69 gigawatts of coal-fired electricity.

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Larry Bell

|2013-10-17T11:48:39-04:00June 14th, 2013|3 Comments

The climate IS changing: it’s getting colder again!

European officialdom and media have more fully absorbed the implications of global cooling than their counterparts in the United States. Germany and England, where aggressive decarbonization schemes already have driven energy prices 40% to 70% higher, now consider reeling back their plans. In the U.S., global warming alarmists and some politicians dismiss the cooling as a minor pause in apocalyptic warming. The major media follow their cue and that of President Barack Obama, who recently claimed that the speed of global warming is accelerating faster than the science predicted. He might check with NOAA about the matter.

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CFACT

|2013-06-16T12:11:06-04:00June 11th, 2013|12 Comments