[MCN] Northwestern Energy versus Green New Deal

[Lance Olsen]

Excerpt : …  in many ways the campaign against the Green New Deal, is just a rehash of an old one. 

For example, just four years after The Wall Street Journal article, and several years before the rise of the Green New Deal, Grist was already reporting that rooftop solar panels <https://grist.org/climate-energy/solar-panels-could-destroy-u-s-utilities-according-to-u-s-utilities> could compete against the coal-burning utilities, with utility execs openly admitting the risk to their business. So a war against solar began at once, and the attacks were quick and fierce. These attacks, predating the Green New Deal, were early warnings of the broader attacks we see now on the Green New Deal itself. 

The attacks on renewables haven’t stopped, and the same old reasons remain the same old reasons. As of February 19, 2019, the Energy and Policy Institute reported on direct attacks being led by the “coal and gas industries that fear competition from the booming renewable energy industry. <https://www.energyandpolicy.org/attacks-renewable-energy>" 
In a way, then, nothing has changed. It’s still the same old big, energetic, even fierce campaign to defend a fossil fuel economy from competition in the form of cleaner economy such as solar and wind. 


https://mountainjournal.org/green-new-deal-faces-uphill-fight-in-wyoming-and-montana-coal-country <https://mountainjournal.org/green-new-deal-faces-uphill-fight-in-wyoming-and-montana-coal-country>

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A study led by Susan Solomon found that the CO2 we add to the atmosphere every day remains there for centuries, 
“so that atmospheric temperatures do not drop significantly for at least 1,000 years.”

<<https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/106/6/1704.full.pdf>> 

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"What would happen to the climate if we were to stop emitting carbon dioxide today, right now? Would we return to the climate of our elders?

"The simple answer is no.”

https://theconversation.com/if-we-stopped-emitting-greenhouse-gases-right-now-would-we-stop-climate-change-78882




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