Even AEP knows global warming is real!

In late October, in "Coal-fired plants not in utility plans; company expects sharp dip in use as fuel," the Associated Press reported:

"The countrys largest coal-burning utility does not plan to build more conventional coal-fired power plants because its leaders expect industry coal use to be sharply curtailed, a top American Electric Power executive said.

"The industry is likely to face more pressure to reduce atmospheric emissions from burning carbon-based fuels, said Dale Heydlauff, a senior vice president of Columbus, Ohio-based AEP. Many scientists blame carbon dioxide from burning oil and coal for contributing to a "greenhouse" or warming effect on global climates.

"AEP leadership has no intention of building another pulverized coal plant... The risk exposure is just too great," he said during Tuesdays meeting of the West Virginia Conference on the Environment in Charleston."