Ed note: The current debate regarding the 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding can be enriched by a historical review of climate alarmism and its critics. This repost on fair reporting on the climate issue, a rarity for the New York Times, is relevant in this regard.
“The skeptics contend that forecasts of global warming are flawed and overstated and that the future might even hold no significant warming at all. Some say that if the warming is modest, as they believe likely, it could bring benefits like longer growing seasons in temperate zones, more rain in dry areas and an enrichment of crops and plant life.”
…”’The expense [of climate policy] is patently obvious,’ said one of the most outspoken skeptics, Patrick Michaels, a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and a former president of the American Meteorological Society.
This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.
Greed Energy Economics:
*** Why Are Green Activists Suddenly Outraged at the Billions Wasted Paying Wind Projects to Switch Off When it’s Too Windy?
Unreliables (General):
*** How to end the “100% renewable” fraud
*** The transition to renewables is a globalist suicide pact for the rest of us!
Breaking Down How Energy Prices Will End Up Affecting the Midterm Elections
Public Should Receive Earlier Notification of Solar or Wind Projects
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** All Republicans Must Stop The Wind Scam
*** Court filings claim Revolution Wind developers didn’t answer Fed questions
UK Offshore Wind Project receives $2.5+ Billion (US) in just Six Years
Wind Energy — Other:
*** Wind Turbine Radar Interference
Upstate NY Wind Project demolition
Nuclear Energy:
*** Introducing SMR Intelligence US
OKLO SMR
Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** AlexAI on why European electricity is so expensive, “energy efficiency,” and the limitations of batteries
*** Alex Epstein: Talking points roundup: rising electricity prices, the National Academies’ climate “report,” China’s new coal plants, and more
60 Hours: Berlin Suffers Longest Power Cut Since WW2 after Ultra-Leftist Sabotage
It makes more sense to produce hydrogen with nuclear, not renewables
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** The Consensed and the Realist
*** Teaching Children about Climate Misinformation Caused by Averaging
Media’s Psyop Against Climate Scientists
Three Climate Lawsuits in Montana
Trump to UN: Climate change ‘the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world’
Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** The National Academies’ perversion of science
Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
*** GAO submits Comments on EPA Reconsideration of 2009 “Endangerment Finding”
Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered
Geoengineering?…
“I’ve yet to meet a blue-collar worker at a cleantech conference, nor have I met one at cleantech dinner tables. The industry needs to ditch its self-righteous virtue signaling and stop relying on handouts.” (- a Cleantech veteran, below)
“Is this really the climate movement’s next chapter?” asked Stephen Lacey, cofounder and executive editor of Latitude Media, a publication “covering the new frontiers of the energy transition.”
…If so, it will end in nothing more than further alienating voters. The progressive approach to climate mobilization has largely failed to build durable coalitions and policies. The election of Trump clearly showed that kitchen table issues matter most. We are in an extraordinary moment where people are struggling to pay their energy bills — and this is the answer? I agree with Michael Liebreich that we need a deep, pragmatic climate reset.