{"id":290147,"date":"2023-12-06T19:45:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=290147"},"modified":"2023-12-06T19:45:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T18:45:58","slug":"climate-czar-john-kerry-deserves-a-lump-of-coal-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=290147","title":{"rendered":"Climate Czar John Kerry Deserves A Lump Of Coal For Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Climate czar John Kerry, who must have nightmares of everyone\u2019s carbon footprint but his own, dreams of outlawing coal-fired power plants across the world. Doing so is \u201chow you can do something for health,\u201d he said from the United Nations 28th global warming cocktail party in oil-rich Abu Dhabi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avoiding blackouts and holding down electricity prices are also good for health, but health is not what the warming activists are interested in. Issues & Insights<\/a><\/strong> has the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After declaring that \u201c\u200b\u200bthere shouldn\u2019t be any more coal power plants permitted anywhere in the world,\u201d the White House\u2019s climate hector in chief admitted \u201cthe reality is that we\u2019re not doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How dare India, with a growing population of 1.43 billion, displease the imperious Kerry by asking \u201c\u200b\u200bprivate firms to ramp up investments in new coal-fired power plants to meet a dramatic rise in electricity demand and bridge nearly 30 gigawatts of additional requirement by 2030.\u201d How dare the Chinese unleash \u201ca massive coal power expansion<\/a>\u201d to meet its needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s as if they want to get a small taste of the sweet life Kerry has enjoyed for all of his now nearly 80 years on Earth, the advantages that come only when cheap and plentiful electricity is available at the flip of a switch. He won\u2019t stand for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither will others of his despicable ilk. The administration that Kerry represents has committed the country to halt new coal plant construction while killing off existing plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe will be working to accelerate unabated coal phase-out across the world, building stronger economies and more resilient communities,\u201d Kerry said in a statement crafted with nothing at all in mind but a blind, dead-end agenda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe first step is to stop making the problem worse: stop building new unabated coal power plants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And replace them with what? Solar and wind power? As we<\/a> and others<\/a> have argued so many times before, the renewables transition is a fantasy, certainly on the timetables policymakers and bureaucrats have forced on the rest of us, and likely well beyond those.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re fully aware of the drawbacks of burning coal to produce energy. It\u2019s far from a perfect energy source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But unlike solar and wind, which for the climatistas are effectively the only acceptable alternatives to coal and natural gas, it is 1) economical, and it 2) produces energy when it\u2019s dark, when it\u2019s cloudy, and when the wind isn\u2019t blowing, both of which are necessary components of prosperity. These are important points either lost on, or ignored by, climate activists, who are willing, and in many cases eager, to curb prosperity and condemn the West to a pre-modern existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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