Global Warming Poll

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From the NY Times of 10 May 2009:

China Emerges as a Leader in Clean Coal Technology
China’s frenetic construction of coal-fired power plants has raised worries around the world about the effect on climate change. China now uses more coal than the United States, Europe and Japan combined, making it the world’s largest emitter of gases that are warming the planet.

But largely missing in the hand-wringing is this: China has emerged in the past two years as the world’s leading builder of so-called clean coal power plants, mastering the technology and driving down the cost.

While the United States is still debating whether to build a more efficient kind of coal-fired power plant that uses extremely hot steam, China has begun building them at a rate of one a month.

Construction has stalled in the United States on a new generation of low-pollution power plants that turn coal into a gas before burning it,

Technology and research that was stifled by ... well who had science papers rewritten by White House lawyers?

How many hundreds of mistakes are being corrected? Obama has restored research in a long stifled list including coal to gas research.

Those who do today will become wealthy selling those same products to the world five and twenty years from now. Profits earned only when the product is most important. Wealth achieved when science trumps religion, political agendas, and wacko extremism.

OK, so we have lost eight years in many industries. Time to blame enemies of America so that they can no longer stifle desperately needed innovation. Change that is essential in any productive economy.

We have one fundamental problem. No viable alternative to fossil fuels exists. But then we know where the fundamental problem is. In ten gallons of gasoline, not even two gallons do productive work. China demonstrates another example of who will be wealthier ten and more years from now.

Obama destroyed another ‘stifle innovation’ agenda. Time for this nation to start acting like a leader again.