The mind-boggling idiocy of Obama's war on coal

[ScreamingEagle]

Coal use is decreasing in the US because of cheap, abundant natural gas.

then why do our electrical bills need to "skyrocket"......? ....our electric bills should go down...

 

[Troubled_CA]

" Researchers at Columbia University's Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) have released a study concluding that closing coal-fired power plants can have a direct, positive impact on a child's brain development.

Science Daily is reporting that the study, to be released in the July 14th edition of Environmental Health Perspectives:

"... allowed researchers to track and compare the development of two groups of children born in Tongliang, a city in China's Chongqing Municipality -- one in utero while a coal-fired power plant was operating in the city and one in utero after the Chinese government had closed the plant."

he results look pretty clear:

The group of children exposed to coal-burning emisssions while still in their mother's womb had significantly lower average developmental scores and reduced motor development at age two.

In the group of children not exposed to coal-burning emissions, did not have these adverse effects; and the frequency of delayed motor developmental was significantly reduced.

"These findings have major implications for environmental health and energy policy as they demonstrate that reduction in dependence on coal for energy can have a measurable positive impact on children's development and health -- in China and elsewhere," said Frederica Perera, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, and lead author of the study.

Closing Coal-fired Power Plants Improves Cognitive Development Of Children, New Study Suggests

Unfortunately for children of CONS,
they don't give a flying fuck about anyone, if it cost them 5 cents more on their electric bill.

 

[Troubled_CA]

BUT WAIT!
is this deja vu ?

"Getting ready for a wave of coal-plant shutdowns" circa 2011.

the cons cry Wolf every so many months to keep the hysterical RIGHT foaming at the mouth.

" 08/19/2011

(JOHN GILES/ASSOCIATED PRESS) Over the next 18 months, the Environmental Protection Agency will finalize a flurry of new rules to curb pollution from coal-fired power plants. Mercury, smog, ozone, greenhouse gases, water intake, coal ash—it’s all getting regulated. And, not surprisingly, some lawmakers are grumbling."

Bla, bla, bla, right wing talking point, bla, bla, bla, right wing talking point.

Day after Day after Day.

Jobs bill, not so much.

 

[Redfish]

" Researchers at Columbia University's Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) have released a study concluding that closing coal-fired power plants can have a direct, positive impact on a child's brain development.

Science Daily is reporting that the study, to be released in the July 14th edition of Environmental Health Perspectives:

"... allowed researchers to track and compare the development of two groups of children born in Tongliang, a city in China's Chongqing Municipality -- one in utero while a coal-fired power plant was operating in the city and one in utero after the Chinese government had closed the plant."

he results look pretty clear:

The group of children exposed to coal-burning emisssions while still in their mother's womb had significantly lower average developmental scores and reduced motor development at age two.

In the group of children not exposed to coal-burning emissions, did not have these adverse effects; and the frequency of delayed motor developmental was significantly reduced.

"These findings have major implications for environmental health and energy policy as they demonstrate that reduction in dependence on coal for energy can have a measurable positive impact on children's development and health -- in China and elsewhere," said Frederica Perera, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, and lead author of the study.

Closing Coal-fired Power Plants Improves Cognitive Development Of Children, New Study Suggests

Unfortunately for children of CONS,
they don't give a flying fuck about anyone, if it cost them 5 cents more on their electric bill.

yes, folks, we have a WINNER-------the DUMB POST OF THE DAY AWARD Congratulations, dumb ass

 

[ScreamingEagle]

" Researchers at Columbia University's Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) have released a study concluding that closing coal-fired power plants can have a direct, positive impact on a child's brain development.

Science Daily is reporting that the study, to be released in the July 14th edition of Environmental Health Perspectives:

"... allowed researchers to track and compare the development of two groups of children born in Tongliang, a city in China's Chongqing Municipality -- one in utero while a coal-fired power plant was operating in the city and one in utero after the Chinese government had closed the plant."

he results look pretty clear:

The group of children exposed to coal-burning emisssions while still in their mother's womb had significantly lower average developmental scores and reduced motor development at age two.

In the group of children not exposed to coal-burning emissions, did not have these adverse effects; and the frequency of delayed motor developmental was significantly reduced.

"These findings have major implications for environmental health and energy policy as they demonstrate that reduction in dependence on coal for energy can have a measurable positive impact on children's development and health -- in China and elsewhere," said Frederica Perera, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, and lead author of the study.

Closing Coal-fired Power Plants Improves Cognitive Development Of Children, New Study Suggests

Unfortunately for children of CONS,
they don't give a flying fuck about anyone, if it cost them 5 cents more on their electric bill.

5 cents....? try an average $1,400 per year for the average family of four....

 

[Katzndogz]

As soon as obama kills off coal, he will kill of natural gas by attacking fracking. His goal is to kill off energy use.

 

[deltex1]

For all intents and purposes there is nothing Obabble does that is not mind bogglingly stupid.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

As soon as obama kills off coal, he will kill of natural gas by attacking fracking. His goal is to kill off energy use.

yup...yoke America to high energy bills....even though our country is rolling rich in natural resources.....

“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad,” he added. “Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to, uh, retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”



Read more: Obama admits energy prices would ?skyrocket? under his policies | The Daily Caller

 

[Stephanie]

" Researchers at Columbia University's Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) have released a study concluding that closing coal-fired power plants can have a direct, positive impact on a child's brain development.

Science Daily is reporting that the study, to be released in the July 14th edition of Environmental Health Perspectives:

"... allowed researchers to track and compare the development of two groups of children born in Tongliang, a city in China's Chongqing Municipality -- one in utero while a coal-fired power plant was operating in the city and one in utero after the Chinese government had closed the plant."

he results look pretty clear:

The group of children exposed to coal-burning emisssions while still in their mother's womb had significantly lower average developmental scores and reduced motor development at age two.

In the group of children not exposed to coal-burning emissions, did not have these adverse effects; and the frequency of delayed motor developmental was significantly reduced.

"These findings have major implications for environmental health and energy policy as they demonstrate that reduction in dependence on coal for energy can have a measurable positive impact on children's development and health -- in China and elsewhere," said Frederica Perera, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, and lead author of the study.

Closing Coal-fired Power Plants Improves Cognitive Development Of Children, New Study Suggests

Unfortunately for children of CONS,
they don't give a flying fuck about anyone, if it cost them 5 cents more on their electric bill.

5 cents....? try an average $1,400 per year for the average family of four....

can you believe it? frikken amazing how much they care about the poor isn't it?

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Unfortunately for children of CONS,
they don't give a flying fuck about anyone, if it cost them 5 cents more on their electric bill.

5 cents....? try an average $1,400 per year for the average family of four....

can you believe it? frikken amazing how much they care about the poor isn't it?

right...they don't...

it will create more poor which means more wefare which means more taxes which means destroying the middle class which means destroying a strong America which is their intention...

 

[Antares]

I'd rather have Wind, solar, nuclear, wave, hydro and thermal. Clean air for me to breath!

Good, let's wait til it works.

 

[Rozman]

As soon as obama kills off coal, he will kill of natural gas by attacking fracking. His goal is to kill off energy use.

I heard on Mark Levin's show tonight O was giving yet another speech in Africa
promoting the production of electricity....

So why is he trying to destroy a form of production here???

 

[Stephanie]

As soon as obama kills off coal, he will kill of natural gas by attacking fracking. His goal is to kill off energy use.

I heard on Mark Levin's show tonight O was giving yet another speech in Africa
promoting the production of electricity....

So why is he trying to destroy a form of production here???

because he hates us and our country..we have to be brought down to third world conditions in order to pay for our sins

 

[Stephanie]

here the reading he likes

 

[Stephanie]

this is what he thinks of us here...we should be ashamed we have all these and he plans on punishing us for it...what a guy you people put on us as president of this country

SNIP;



Oh Brother… Obama Warns Africans If They Get Air Conditioning the “Planet Will Boil Over” (Video)

Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, July 1, 2013, 6:38 PM








What an embarrassment this president has become.
Obama told Africans on Saturday if they get air conditioning and cars
“the planet will boil over.”
obama boil over

He’s always trying to keep the black man down.
CNS News reported:


President Barack Obama said at a town hall event in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday that unless we find new way of producing energy “the planet will boil over” if people in Africa are allowed to attain air conditioning, automobiles and big houses.

“Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over — unless we find new ways of producing energy.”

Video below the fold…

all of it here

Oh Brother? Obama Warns Africans If They Get Air Conditioning the ?Planet Will Boil Over? (Video) | The Gateway Pundit

 

[kiwiman127]

Does coal have a negative effect on health?
Engulfed in a Toxic Cloud: The Effects of Coal Mining On Human Health
Engulfed in a Toxic Cloud: The Effects of Coal Mining On Human Health : Harvard College Global Health Review

Health effects of coal
Health effects of coal - SourceWatch

Coal Pollution Damages Human Health at Every Stage of Coal Life Cycle, Reports Physicians for Social Responsibility
Coal Pollution Damages Human Health at Every Stage of Coal Life Cycle, Reports Physicians... -- WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

American Lung Association Report Highlights Toxic Health Threat of Coal-fired Power Plants, Calls for EPA to Reduce Emissions and Save Lives
American Lung Association Report Highlights Toxic Health Threat of Coal-fired Power Plants, Calls for EPA to Reduce Emissions and Save Lives - American Lung Association

Does anyone have anything to counter these studies?

And there's a cost to all of this including the cost of healthcare.

Mining Coal, Mounting Costs
Energy is essential to our daily lives, and for the past century and a half we have depended on fossil fuels to produce it. But, from extraction to combustion, coal, oil and natural gas have multiple health, environmental and economic impacts that are proving costly for society. We estimate that the life cycle impacts of coal, and the waste stream generated, are costing the U.S. public a third to over one-half a trillion dollars annually.
Mining Coal, Mounting Costs: The life cycle consequences of coal | The Center for Health and the Global Environment

So there we have it. Coal's effects cost people's lives and health and it also has other costs, like lightening people's checkbook. Yet people want to continue using a product that has all these negative effects. Why? Anyone?

 

[Stephanie]

Does coal have a negative effect on health?
Engulfed in a Toxic Cloud: The Effects of Coal Mining On Human Health
Engulfed in a Toxic Cloud: The Effects of Coal Mining On Human Health : Harvard College Global Health Review

Health effects of coal
Health effects of coal - SourceWatch

Coal Pollution Damages Human Health at Every Stage of Coal Life Cycle, Reports Physicians for Social Responsibility
Coal Pollution Damages Human Health at Every Stage of Coal Life Cycle, Reports Physicians... -- WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

American Lung Association Report Highlights Toxic Health Threat of Coal-fired Power Plants, Calls for EPA to Reduce Emissions and Save Lives
American Lung Association Report Highlights Toxic Health Threat of Coal-fired Power Plants, Calls for EPA to Reduce Emissions and Save Lives - American Lung Association

Does anyone have anything to counter these studies?

And there's a cost to all of this including the cost of healthcare.

Mining Coal, Mounting Costs
Energy is essential to our daily lives, and for the past century and a half we have depended on fossil fuels to produce it. But, from extraction to combustion, coal, oil and natural gas have multiple health, environmental and economic impacts that are proving costly for society. We estimate that the life cycle impacts of coal, and the waste stream generated, are costing the U.S. public a third to over one-half a trillion dollars annually.
Mining Coal, Mounting Costs: The life cycle consequences of coal | The Center for Health and the Global Environment

So there we have it. Coal's effects cost people's lives and health and it also has other costs. like lightening people's checkbook. Yet people want to continue using a product that has all these negative effects. Why? Anyone?

for starters, we don't have anything CHEAPER at this time that won't drive people into the poor house..

 

[Stephanie]

What a guy for the people eh? you people should be ASHAMED you put this uncaring man upon us
links in article at site

SNIP:
‘War on coal’ is war on poor



By

The Washington Times

Tuesday, July 2, 2013


Democrats like President Obama and Terry McAuliffe like to portray themselves as champions of lower-income Virginians. But Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has nailed it by pointing out that their “war on coal” (as an Obama adviser has described it) is really a war on the poor (“Obama climate adviser urges ‘war on coal,’” Web, June 25).

Mr. Obama’s new rules would essentially end the use of coal in power plants and manufacturing, a goal shared by Mr. McAuliffe, who has said that as governor he wouldn’t want another coal plant built in the state. That would all but shutter many southwest Virginia communities, destroying low- and middle-income jobs not only in the coal industry but also in stores, restaurants, car dealerships and other services in those towns.


Read more: 'War on coal' is war on poor - Washington Times
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[kiwiman127]

What a guy for the people eh? you people should be ASHAMED you put this uncaring man upon us
links in article at site

SNIP:
‘War on coal’ is war on poor



By

The Washington Times

Tuesday, July 2, 2013


Democrats like President Obama and Terry McAuliffe like to portray themselves as champions of lower-income Virginians. But Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has nailed it by pointing out that their “war on coal” (as an Obama adviser has described it) is really a war on the poor (“Obama climate adviser urges ‘war on coal,’” Web, June 25).

Mr. Obama’s new rules would essentially end the use of coal in power plants and manufacturing, a goal shared by Mr. McAuliffe, who has said that as governor he wouldn’t want another coal plant built in the state. That would all but shutter many southwest Virginia communities, destroying low- and middle-income jobs not only in the coal industry but also in stores, restaurants, car dealerships and other services in those towns.


Read more: 'War on coal' is war on poor - Washington Times
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I see. You're defending the poor on this thread, where as elsewhere they are leaches and lazy.
Does the linked article deal with the healthcare aspects of these poor folks? And are they the most likely to suffer the healthcare effects of coal? (Yes.)

 

[Crackerjaxon]

Yes, let's all suffer for science. We have studies that show mining coal is harmful to the health of miners. That's reason enough to drive them into poverty.

We have studies that show stopping coal production will lower the temperature on earth .02 degrees. That's reason enough to burden working people with an additional $1400 a year they will have to find a way to pay.

Anyone who argues against these draconian measures is anti-science.