Radical environmentalists are still spinning their wheels trying to solve global warming (a problem that is nonexistent) with so-called solutions that produce less power and destroy the environment in the process.  Ironic, since they are environmentalists and their goal is to protect the environment.

All the bad green ideas begin in Europe and work their here and the next push (after solar and wind power) to come from Europe is Biomass.

Via the ASI blog:

It is really quite marvellous how all of these various things we’re supposed to be doing to save the planet are exactly the things we used to do which damaged the planet so badly. As Matt Ridley points out when talking about what we’re supposed to do to keep warm when we can’t burn coal or oil:

To replace coal, the government projects that by 2020 Britain will be generating electricity from burning up to 60m tonnes of biomass, mainly wood, about five times the timber harvest that Britain could conceivably produce.

Now “five times the harvest we could possibly produce” means that we would be over using that resouce. Denuding these islands of trees in fact. Which is what we actually did do all those centuries ago and what impelled us to go and conquer a quarter of the world in order to gain resources (no, really, we did things like go to war against Denmark so that we could have access to the Baltic timber to replace what we’d burnt) and also to start digging up coal in the first place.

Because there was no wood left, see?

Boneheads.