In the past when the government saw a national threat, they typically bombed other countries’ industry and infrastructure.
The global warming “national security threat” is different in that the US government is now attacking our own coal industry, rather than the countries who are actually responsible for the imagined problem.
Which Countries are Developing the Most Coal-Fired Power Stations? | efergy blog
But what about the Kyoto protocol? Both India and China have ratified it. I thought if you ratify you have to do something about it? If that is not the case, why bother?
Personally, I liked Canada’s response. They ratified it, then they agreed to a carbon cap, then they thought about it, and then they denounced it. Hey, it would have been better if they had thought about it first, but at least they thought about it.
So where is the known reserves of coal?
“While known reserves are high, actual US coal resources are much higher than current estimates.
Why? Because “reserves” represent coal that is readily evident as a result of ongoing mine operations, while “resources” include all those areas known to contain coal but have yet to be actually quantified by direct exposure due to the mining process. In-place U.S. coal resources (the entire estimated volume that is within the earth) totals 10 trillion short tons,[ii] and would last over 9000 years at today’s consumption levels. Alaska is estimated to hold more coal than the entire lower 48 states. (While the EIA’s estimate of recoverable coal reserves in Alaska is 2.8 billion short tons[iii], geological estimates by the US Geological Survey put the in-place figure at over 6 trillion short tons.[iv])
Combined, all these US coal resources may contain the energy equivalent of 35 trillion barrels of oil. While such figures are speculative and incorporate some coal resources that may not be economically viable with today’s technology, the future is full of promise. The US’s coal resources are clearly vast.”
http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/energy-overview/coal/
But of course according to the scientist called Obama it is beyond the wit of humans to use this valuable resourse as it is just too dangerous!
Of course by Presidental decree coal is not to be used – it’s too dangerous.
But as the USA has the planet’s largest amount of known reservers but it is beyond the abilities of Americans to safely use. We will have to wait until China, Japan, India, or Germany sell us the technology so that this resource can be used.
So sad that the USA is not a technological country.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Energy.html
Some day we may have to….
They are attacking the American people. That’s what fascists do.
Since the threat is a benefit, and the side-effects are more benefits, Obama is going all-out to prevent both.
Can you say, “Perverse President”?