Renewable energy: – Clean.
The world is so dirty and mean.
Never mind the expense
and it doesn’t make sense.
CO2 is what makes the world green.
The White House Aug 3 announced a target of 32% reduction in CO2 emission from U.S. power plants by 2030. This is a target that no existing Coal fired power plant can meet, only natural gas fired power plants. He also proposed a 70% reduction in emissions other than CO2, which has its merits.
Obama may yet succeed in his campaign promise: “Under my plan the electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket.”
Obama wants us to have as expensive electricity as Denmark and Germany, the two countries with the most wind and solar power per capita. 
The chart tells it all. Thirty Cent/ kWh in Denmark.
Us is (was?) an outlier with cheap and abundant fossil fuel and low fuel taxes.
Australia is an outlier, They are paying for implementing a carbon tax.
The President said in his announcement that last year was the warmest on record and that fourteen of the fifteen warmest years occurred in this century.
Another way of looking at the temperature record is: Last year was still one of the 700 coldest in the last 10000 years. See fig: 
We have now had over ten years since the last major hurricane hit the U.S. mainland. A new record.
The rise of the oceans is partly because we are still recovering from the last Ice age. One point in Northern Sweden is rising as much as three feet per century. This and normal continental drift explains why many coastlines such as the Eastern Seaboard are sinking.
