Tag Archives: climate change

LG&E, KU to switch to natural gas? Not if the Kentucky Coal Association can help it.

April 25, 2011 – 9:08 am

According to an article in The Courier-Journal, the answer is “don’t hold your breath.” Three Kentucky coal-fired plants operated by the PPL-owned utilities are slated to convert to natural gas within five years, including LG&E’s Cane Run Road plant, which currently spews over 4.5 million pounds of climate-change-causing, human life-imparing chemicals into the atmosphere annually. [...]

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NASA: 2010 hottest year ever

July 14, 2010 – 2:10 pm

Even though it will probably snow this winter, NASA says you should stop burning your garbage: We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade, despite large year-to-year fluctuations associated with the El Nino-La Nina cycle of tropical ocean temperature. Record high global temperature during the period with instrumental data was [...]

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Copenhagen Heats Up (For All The Wrong Reasons)

December 16, 2009 – 2:57 pm

Yesterday’s news that over 200 protesters were arrested, gassed and summarily denied access to the all-powerful international climate quorum has raised a stink worse than a bovine methane-blast over the city of Copenhagen, Denmark, threatening to further disrupt the already deadlocked agenda. Here’s an excerpt from a Democracy Now! interview with Joshua Kahn Russell, a peace activist [...]

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Crazy Kentucky Weather Strikes Again

December 10, 2009 – 10:35 am

Brrrrr!… That is the sound you have made at least five times this morning now that the dueling pressure systems have slugged it out in the Midwest and temperatures across the Bluegrass have fallen to well digger’s ass-levels. Yesterday’s freak weather event also resulted in 60 mph winds, flash flooding (in other parts of the [...]

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Rand Paul: Coal > Environment

December 9, 2009 – 3:51 pm

…Or so it would appear, given Dr. Paul’s opposition to recent Environmental Protection Agency findings that run counter to his support for the coal industry. You see, carbon dioxide and methane are by-products of this whole coal-burning business, and it just so happens that the EPA has deemed them “a danger to the environment and [...]

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Wetter, Hotter American Summer

August 28, 2009 – 10:57 am

A new report released by The Nature Conservancy predicts that over the next 100 years, Kentucky’s average temperature is expected to rise 8.8 degrees, precipitation will increase by as much as 4.3 feet of rain per year, and we’re all going to DIE. This is all because of green house gases, by the way, which [...]

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