“Back to Lindsey Gulden, the self-described Data/Climate Scientist. She would/could not provide a time series example to back up any part of her claim of ‘global climate to go off the rails’ … ‘more extreme events’. I asked her repeatedly for data, and she could only sign-off with ‘I made no such claim‘.”

On LinkedIn, Saul Humphrey stated: 2023 was the hottest year on record and 2024 is threatening to be hotter still.  Humphrey then quotes from an article in The Independent, “Do the People Care About the Climate Crisis? These Voters Say Yes – but Polls Do Not” (April 19, 2024):

In the US 🇺🇸 wildfires destroyed more than 1.7 million acres in the first three months of 2024, already half of last year’s total, and forecasters expect an unprecedented number of Atlantic hurricanes.

Ed. Note: 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. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.

Unreliables (General):
*** Replacing coal with wind and solar requires massive storage
The grim cost of firming up solar and wind
Texas Gets a Spring Energy Scare

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Offshore Wind and Whales – A collection of articles from fisherynation.com
*** Major NY Offshore Wind Project Cancelled
*** Dominion’s pile driving boat violates the Marine Mammal Protection Act
Tilting at Windmills
Wind Energy off California Coats Faces Fisher Lawsuit and Marine Sanctuary Issues

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)

Nuclear Energy:
*** German officials said to have manipulated documents to support nuclear power phase out
*** Short video: History of the LNT Model and a Path Forward

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Epstein: Reflections on Earth Day, including a discussion with Rick Perry
*** Mandatory Emissions To Achieve Net-Zero Is A Fool’s Game
200 Ways President Biden and the Dems Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas
New Biden Climate Rules Could Shutter Remaining American Coal Plants

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** Expert: EV push is ‘one of the biggest energy policy blunders we’ve ever made’
Biden’s EV mandate: a dictatorial attack on the American driver and the US grid
The EV Bubble Bursts
Coming Soon: Mandatory EVs
Ford lost $1.3 billion in a quarter, a loss of $132,000 on every EV sold
Tesla in turmoil

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** EPA rule against power plants – bad for energy reliability and prices, bad for rule of law

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Short video: CO2 and Mortality
*** How Three Alarmist Billionaires Bankrolled The Fake Climate Catastrophe
*** Antarctica Is Colder, Icier Today Than at Any Time in 5,000 Years
Study: Reliable Physics Demand Revision of the IPCC Global Warming Potentials
Saving Climate from the Greens
A Realist Climate Agenda
Report: Global hurricane activity not getting worse
Global Warming Inhibits Hurricane Activity
Climate Change And The Law: The Absurdity Escalates

Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
*** Climate Change Is Normal and Natural, and Can’t Be Controlled
Will More CO2 Warm the Atmosphere?…

“Previous energy transitions adopted energy sources of greater density and efficiency than those they replaced. Those advantages became a natural incentive for their adoption. In the current ‘transition’, the process is reversed unless we are prepared to countenance the mass use of nuclear technology.” – Nick Cater, below

The political “energy transition” has predictably violated comparative energy physics and thus consumer preferences–and best industry practices. A re-look at the failing, impossible “energy transition” was penned by Nick Cater, senior fellow at Menzies Research Centre in Australia. [1] His analysis deserves wide attention, as does his other work at the energy-centric Reality Bites.

As the First Fleet vessels, propelled by wind and muscle, made their way to Australia, the last energy transition was making headway in Europe and the United States.…

This post excerpts energy and climate material from today’s Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** The True Cost of Wind and Solar
*** Wind/Solar/Alt-Energy Subsidies To Cost Federal Taxpayers $425 Billion Between Now And 2033 Short PragerU video: Why Are Utilities So Expensive?

Unreliables Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
*** 350± Studies: Effects of infrasound and low-frequency noise on mammals
Archived Study: Effects of low-frequency noise from wind turbines on heart rate variability in healthy individuals
Study: Impairment of the Endothelium and Disorder of Microcirculation in Humans and Animals Exposed to Infrasound due to Irregular Mechano-Transduction

Unreliables (General):
*** Backlash against wind and solar projects is real, it’s global and it’s growing
*** How Green Energy Makes Us Vulnerable to Cyberattack
Sample Report: CA Wind and Solar Curtailment April 09, 2024
Chart: Which US states generate the most solar and wind energy?…