SCOTUS appointments matter-----Climate Alarmism versus Energy Reality

Climate Alarmism versus Energy Reality
It’s past time to take a closer look at the climate zealots’ science. 
The Supreme Court’s stay of the EPA’s sweeping Clean Power Plan (CPP) is one of several developments undermining the efforts of President Obama and his fellow climate zealots.
The Obama administration expected the CPP to seal the U.N.’s first universal climate agreement, but now that the president’s grand plan has been put on hold until final judicial review on the merits, its fate will likely not be known until late 2017 at the earliest. 
Furthermore, the prospects for upholding the power plan are not that strong.
As a legal condition of imposing the stay, the Supreme Court had to conclude that the EPA’s plan would likely be overruled in the Court’s final review. 
Last December in Paris the climate agreement was declared a fait accompli, with representatives of around 190 countries expected to sign it on Earth Day (April 22) at the U.N.’s headquarters in New York.
...Stern last week warned the presidential candidates that they would be well advised to stop sowing seeds of doubt about the CPP.
In Brussels, Stern reassured EU officials that the Court’s freeze on the CPP would not weaken the EPA’s resolve on pledged carbon cuts or delay the signing of the agreement in April.
However, the European Union has good reason to worry about the viability of the Paris deal if the United States’ contribution is uncertain. 
After ambitious green efforts over the last ten years, many EU member countries have substantial economic concerns about expanded carbon dictates.
As a result of the carbon policies they already have in place, Germany, Britain, and Spain have experienced soaring electricity rates, energy poverty, unsustainable subsidies, and industrial flight — all while failing to achieve meaningful carbon reductions.
The incoherence of the policies spawned by the U.N.’s earlier Kyoto climate accord is increasingly undeniable.
Germany is subsidizing the construction of coal-fired power plants as necessary backups to renewables, and Britain is burning wood imported from the United States to generate electricity on a massive scale. 
Renamed “biomass” and declared “carbon neutral,” wood is no less polluting than coal. 
Headlines in the Daily Mail excoriate the retrofit of Britain’s largest coal plant to burn wood as a “forest-destroying symbol of the shameful absurdity of European energy policies.” 
...Another debilitating factor for the climate crusade is the fact that plans are being made to build 2,400 new coal plants in China, India, Japan, and other Asian nations.
And regardless of ever shriller claims that the science behind global warming is absolutely settled, mounting evidence invalidates the modeled predictions of the IPCC — the official scientific anchor of the crusade.
For decades, the IPCC models have failed to accurately forecast temperature as observed by the most sophisticated technology: NASA’s remote sensing satellites and balloons..."