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.

Unreliables: Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
The Feds are hiding the eagle death data
Court orders temporary shutdown of wind project (due to bird deaths)

Unreliables (General):
Report: clean energy group admits that going green may mean power grid chaos
Land-Use Conflicts Are Derailing Albany’s Alt-Energy Fantasies

Wind Energy — Offshore:
Will Trump stand by as mega-offshore wind projects resume construction?
Offshore Wind Developers Risk Trouble With Trump

Solar Energy:
The Solar Fund Standoff: Following the Money at Latest Target for Funding Cuts

Nuclear Energy:
Demand in US electricity elevates risk of wind/solar & highlights need for nuclear
The advantages and challenges of nuclear-powered data centers

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Ten Environmentalist Myths
*** Trump Takes Aim at the Heart of the Climate Industrial Complex
Over 30 items here: Evidence that the climate scam is collapsing
Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline
Book: Climate and Energy Lies: Expensive, Dangerous & Destructive

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** Mann’s DC Trick
|*** Capping Carbon Admissions: The Biden Administration is Accused of Burying Conflicting Climate Change Report

Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
US Supreme Court Declines Appeal in Youth-Led Climate Change Case
Trump’s Climate Policy Shift Could Save American Farmers from Disaster
US Military Exits Climate Change After a Decade of Waste
New NASA Chief Will Wind Down Climate Alarm Shop…

“Military climate policies under the Biden Administration, even if fully implemented, would not have had a measurable effect on global temperatures. But they would continue to waste hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money. Secretary Hegseth will put these funds to better use to strengthen the US military.”

The United States military has pursued an increasing number of programs to try to fight climate change for more than a decade. The Air Force, Army, and Navy each developed programs to use alternative energy and to reduce hydrocarbon-based fuels, with aggressive carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions reduction plans. But under the Trump Administration, climate change mitigation will no longer be an objective.

Earlier this month, the new Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote “The Dept of Defense does not do climate change crap.…

“Trump’s executive order bomb, followed by Congressional action to limit funds from the IRA and IIJA, promise to gut, or profoundly reshape, the U.S. green energy movement. January 2025 may begin a long decline for green energy and a return to sensible energy policy.”

President Trump has long been a supporter of traditional, consumer-driven energy. During his campaign, he spoke negatively about electric vehicles, wind, and other renewable energy sources. But in his first day in office, the new president began a historic shift in US energy policy, away from “green” energy and back to hydrocarbon energy.

On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed five wide-ranging executive orders that radically change United States energy and climate policy. These actions restore efforts to promote coal, natural gas, oil, hydropower, nuclear, and biofuels, while curtailing support for wind and electric vehicles.…

“As a result of hail and other weather damage, insurance premiums for solar facilities are skyrocketing, in some cases up by as much as 400%. In addition, policy coverage is being capped at as little as $10-15 million, requiring system developers to obtain multiple policies to try to cover their projects.”

Wind and solar have been growing as a share of US electrical power generation over the last two decades. State and federal mandates and subsidies have driven the expansion of renewables because of their inherently dilute and intermittent nature. But it’s clear that renewable electricity sources have a third strike: they are fragile and prone to weather damage and destruction.

Twenty-three states now mandate Net Zero electricity by as early as 2035. Their aim is to replace coal- and gas-fired power plants with wind and solar generators.…