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Biden’s Latest Power Plant Power Grab

April 26, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth ~ Almost two years after a similar rule was rejected by the Supreme Court, the Biden administration on Thursday released another final rule for regulating America’s power plants. Under the rule, coal-fired power plants and most new natural gas-fired power plants would have to eliminate 90% of their carbon emissions by 2039 […]

Climate Change Humour!

March 6, 2024 by TonyfromOz

Huh! Says it all, really!

The World Will Not Stop Burning Coal And Using Oil

December 31, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Don Ritter ~ John Kerry tilts at reality like Don Quixote tilted at windmills. While the 28th UN-related Conference of Parties (COP 28) was wrapping up in Dubai, America’s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate fumed about funding and building new coal-fired electricity generating plants. He declared himself a “militant” opponent of coal. He very personally decried […]

The Global South (And China) Say Nyet To Net Zero

November 17, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ Like the “voice crying in the wilderness,” German Finance Minister Christian Lindner this week left Green Party activists and others enamored by the green religion gnashing their teeth. “Until it is clear,” said Lindner, “that energy is available and affordable, we should end dreams of phasing out electricity from coal in 2030. Now […]

The U.S. And UK Are Getting Coal Cocked

September 13, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ Some Western nations appear to be waking up to the reality that they are being duped – that Net Zero is a fabrication of their own egos that other nations hardly take seriously. Just don’t count on the world’s two leading English-speaking nations, or the plutocrats in Paris, Geneva, and Davos, to follow […]

Rail Strike Would Aid Biden’s War On Coal

December 2, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ Remember that rail strike that President Biden saved us all from just in the nick of time – right before the November elections? It was in late September that the President announced a deal between rail companies and union negotiators that staved off a “real economic crisis.” As Biden himself explained, “The alternative was […]

King Coal-Cat Meows, I Got A Few Lives Left

November 6, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ The cat came back, they thought he was a goner. But the cat came back; he just couldn’t stay away. – Fred Penner Remember the old days (a few months ago) when Western Europe and the U.S. were telling developing nations (but not China or India) that coal is evil and must not […]

India’s Coal Proliferation Contradicts Global Climate Drama

June 13, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Vijay Raj Jayaraj ~ We have a crisis in India, and it is not with the climate. Power plants for the world’s second largest consumer of coal are running out of stock, leaving a billion people at the risk of blackouts and forcing industries to close facilities. To resolve the situation, the Indian government has authorized […]

Coal, Here Today And Tomorrow (Part 2)

February 1, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Dr. Jay Lehr and Robert Lyman ~ Much of the public, but we are guessing fewer of our readers, think that coal use around the world is declining as a result of public policies to make it so. It is in fact going in the opposite direction. Coal use in power plants around the world […]

Coal, Here Today, Here Tomorrow (Part 1)

January 18, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Dr. Jay Lehr and Robert Lyman ~ As we will most certainly convince the reader in this series of essays, we need not ever worry that coal will be eliminated as a major energy source in the US and the world. We simultaneously want to convince you that we are not talking about your grandfather’s […]

China And India Drive Coal To Record Highs

December 24, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ Reports of the death of coal are, to quote Mark Twain, “greatly exaggerated.” In fact, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reveals that coal is having its best year ever, propelled by insatiable demand from China and India. Read the IEA’s full “Coal 2021” report at CFACT.org. Here are a few eye-opening […]

Coal And Oil Continue Domination: Unexpected Demand Creates Global Energy Havoc

October 18, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Vijay Raj Jayaraj ~ Coal is no longer the king. Era of Oil is over. Our economies will be Carbon neutral. These are some of the common claims that you might have heard or read in the mainstream media. Many people truly believe that our economies are being decarbonized and getting rid of the […]

A Mad Rush For Coal As China And India Suspend Climate Correctness

October 15, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Vijay Raj Jayaraj ~ During the first week of October 2021, both India and China made desperate attempts to buy the stranded Australian coal shipments in China’s port warehouses. The coal shipments, which were originally intended to be imported into China, were left stranded at the port after China banned the import of Australian […]

Old King Coal Still Rules The Land Down Under

October 11, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ Politics makes strange bedfellows and even stranger divorces. Take the Chinese boycott of Australian coal, which began about a year ago. China is upset over Australia’s assertions that China was at fault for the COVID-19 pandemic and egregious human rights violations. [China in response accused the U.S., Australia, and NATO of human […]

Rich Nations Enjoy Coal Energy While Demanding Poor Nations Abstain

September 26, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Vijay Raj Jayaraj ~ Each year, at the United Nation Conference of Parties (COP) climate meetings, leaders from the developed world propose new energy policies to reduce fossil fuel use, which they want all nations to adopt. The only problem: developing nations are predominantly fossil fuel dependent and cannot make a transition away from […]

Clash Of The Titans: Wind Versus Coal

August 23, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Geoffrey Pohanka ~ The headlines are clear: renewable energy is on the rise as a source of electricity for America and coal power is headed for the door. President Biden has set a goal 30,000MW of offshore wind by 2030 which is the equivalent of 2,500 12MW turbines and this does not include the ever […]

Coal Fired Power Dying – Not So Fast – Part Four – SteamH, The Future For Coal Fired Power

June 13, 2021 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ Whenever it comes to a future for coal fired power, I am always drawn back to these two images shown below here, and while I have sized them to fit this page, if you click on each individual image, it will open on a new tab, and at a much larger […]

Coal Fired Power Dying – Not So Fast – Part Three – Coal Fired Power In China

June 5, 2021 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ I mentioned in the earlier Post how there was not much that I liked about the way China does things. However, it seems that they are doing something correctly when it comes to bringing electrical power to their Country. Now, some people might say that China is very secretive about what […]

Coal Fired Power Dying – Not So Fast – Part Two – Electrical Power Generation In China

May 31, 2021 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ When it comes to China, there’s not much I agree with, in fact very little I do agree with. However, one thing I do agree with is the way they are going about their electrical power generation policy. This actually is one thing that they are doing right, and as much […]

Coal Fired Power Dying – Not So Fast – Part One – Introduction

May 29, 2021 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ How often have we heard that coal fired power is going extinct, becoming obsolete, a dying enterprise, a stranded asset? Is that really true? Well, no it isn’t true at all, and it’s more complex than just saying that. We all know now that China, and to a lesser extent, India, […]

The Queensland Blackout – Tuesday 24 May 2021

May 26, 2021 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ Yesterday, here in my home State of Queensland, there was a major blackout, and media reports that perhaps half a million ‘homes and businesses’ had their power cut, and here that number is smaller for Government to say than the real number of people who were affected. I was in the […]

The Benefits That Coal Fired Power Gave Us – UPDATE May 2021

May 24, 2021 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ UPDATE – 24 May 2021 This Post was originally written back in May of 2016, five years ago. Since then, the EIA has changed the location, and the heading of both of the images shown at the original Post. The change also made the original links disappear as well. So, what […]

In The Developing World, Coal Is Still The King

March 20, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ “The Western view of the world is centered around themselves. [Believing] the rose-tinted views [expressed by Western elites] that ‘the West would like India to succeed’ is plain naiveté.” – Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India For decades, Western bankers, beholden to United Nations “sustainable development” goals, have held virtual […]

The Green Double Standard On Coal And China

February 26, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ Joe Biden said it best: “I’m not going to speak out against what [Chinese President for Life Xi Jinping] is doing in Hong Kong, what he’s doing with the Uighurs in western mountains of China and Taiwan.… Culturally, there are different norms that each country and they — their leaders — are […]