Freezing In The Dark

Dominic Lawson in The Sunday Times:

Now, almost a generation later, we face another election in which the main parties are united in a single masochistic view: that the nation must cut its carbon emissions by 80% — this is what all but five MPs voted for in the Climate Change Act — to save not just ourselves but also the entire planet from global warming. For this to happen — to meet the terms of the act, I mean, not to “save the world” — the typical British family will have to pay thousands of pounds a year more in bills, since the cost of renewable energy is so much higher than that of oil, gas and coal.

The vast programme of wind turbines for which the bills are now coming in will not, by the way, avert the energy cut-offs declared last week by the national grid. Quite the opposite: as is often the case, the recent icy temperatures have been accompanied by negligible amounts of wind. If we had already decommissioned any of our fossil-fuel power stations and replaced them with wind power, we would now be facing a genuine civil emergency rather than merely inconvenience.

 And that, I can tell you, is absolutely true. Every day I drive past a large coal-fired generation facility. Those units (there are four of them) are all-in. As in firing at full capacity. They have been doing so since the cold snap hit.

Today it actually climbed all the way up to 20° F at my place.

But there is no wind at all.

If we were dependent solely on wind generation, we would have a civil catastrophe on our hands. There would be people dead from this cold. If the Obama administration succeeds in regulating carbon emissions through the EPA, your energy costs will be enormous during spells like this. 

Like all the rest of Obamanomics, “green” energy is a massive fraud.