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Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
China has slashed
clean energy funding by 39%, leading a global decline
China switches $1B in
‘green’ finance to coal projects in first half of the year
The Misanthropic
Bankers Behind the Green New Deal
How Elon Musk Fooled
Investors, Bilked Taxpayers, etc.
General Electric
shares tank following accusation of ‘bigger fraud than Enron’
NY Offshore Wind bids
rigged for unions
Wind Turbines Can Cause
Sickness, Say Public Health Officials
Wind Turbines and
Adverse Health Effects: A Cardiologist’s View
Duke Energy study
points finger at solar for increased pollution
The Environmental
Disaster of Solar Energy
The Dark Side of
China’s Solar Boom
Explaining Wind
Turbine Lethality
Utility Studies delay
both Wind and Solar Projects in the US Northeast
Renewable Energy Hits
the Wall
Why Wind and Solar
Aren’t Enough
Big Wind’s Big
Headwinds
Wind Project is
Trespassing
Physics Professor:
Turbines could compromise radar signals
Short Video: The Green Real Deal
China and India Will
Watch the West Destroy Itself
The Latest Travesty in
“Consensus” Enforcement
Re-evaluating the
manufacture of the climate consensus
Dr Roy Spencer: How the Media Help to
Destroy Rational Climate Debate
Superior Video: Global Warming — Fact or Fiction
Dr.…
Editor Note: This post completes a three-part series with Part I on Biofuels and Solar and Part II on Wind Turbines.
“The world cannot afford to let delusion, dishonesty, ideology, or deliberate deception drive public policies that will determine our future jobs, prosperity, living standards, and civilization. What Salt Lake City’s UN conference discussed has nothing to do with real sustainability, resource conservation or recycling.”
“UN-supported policies are unjust, inhumane, eco-imperialist and lethal…. [T]he climate change-sustainability agenda that is being advanced by UN and other activists and bureaucrats is eco-fascist, totalitarian and racist.”
Yet another educational exercise for UN conference attendees would be to calculate the land, energy and raw materials required to manufacture and install the batteries necessary to make renewable energy dispatchable. In the process, they would need to add in the raw material requirements for batteries required to replace all the world’s cars, trucks and buses with electric vehicles – and recharge them every few hours.…
Editor Note: This post is part of the three-part series with Part I yesterday on Biofuels and Solar and Part III tomorrow on The Big Picture.
“Environmentalists are focused on banning plastic straws! Their inability to differentiate between imaginary, wildly inflated ecological problems and not the here-and-now issues of renewable energies is what the UN powers should address–but will not.”
Mandated, subsidized wind energy requires millions of acres for turbines and ultra-long transmission lines, plus billions of tons of concrete, steel, copper, rare earth metals and fiberglass. The turbines produce intermittent, unreliable electricity that (absent subsidies) costs much more than coal or gas-fueled electricity – and must be backed by fossil fuel generators that must go from standby to full-power many times a day, very inefficiently, every time the wind stops blowing.…