Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar's schmoozing campaign with his boss and the environmental lobby continues as he makes the just silly statement that wind power is going to replace coal fired energy plants in the United States.
The Governor of Wyoming finds these statements at best reckless when it comes to investment in his state since it is a large coal producer. It also is a big wind producer but they're apparently smart enough to realize that the verdict is slowly drifting in on wind power and its environmental impacts and problems with storage and continuous production of power.
The pseudoscientific drivel that seems to be emanating out of the environment lobby when it comes to energy production has become a torrent and is covering up valid research points for alternative energy with its cascade of moonbeams over substance.
The willful blindness of some of these alternative energy advocates for environmental consequences involved in putting up a wind towers, building and disposing of solar panels or the more recently debunked idea that we should burn food for fuel is especially interesting in an administration that discusses its commitment to science.
The reality is that it seems to be in the process of constructing a scientific community addicted to a political machine that provides it with funding.
It is a hallmark of the centralized state approach to government that science becomes its servant -- this is no exception.
For an article on Salazar's comments and the Wyoming governor's response click here.
