There is an incessant chorus from the green gospelers glorifying “renewable” energy and warning disbelievers that continued use of carbon fuels will damn the world to eternal fires of global warming. Their ire is focused on carbon dioxide, one very minor but beneficial atmospheric gas accused of causing more of everything bad: pollution and extreme weather, droughts and floods, snowstorms and hurricanes, malaria and mosquitos, icebergs and glacier retreat, heat waves and blizzards, declining polar bears and multiplying cane toads. We are told that using “renewable” energy will prevent all these disasters and produce cheap “clean” electricity.  Four points are relevant: First, carbon dioxide produced by burning coal, oil, gas, diesel, petrol, or wood is not a pollutant in the atmosphere, not the key driver of global warming or climate change, but a boon to all plants (and thus all life).  It is clean and green.  There is thus...(Read Full Post)