“Droz continues to be a man to watch…. Whatever the motive, Droz has built a far-reaching alliance to help his cause.”

– Sierra Club, “Clean Energy Under Siege: Following the Money Trail Behind the Attack on Renewable Energy” (2012).

In a 20-page want-to-be exposé, “Clean Energy Under Siege,” the Sierra Club has a section titled “John Droz: Anti-Wind Crusader.” Yes, it is six years later, but John Droz Jr. is still a man to watch!

The paper’s whole argument rests on what must be (but is not) debated: that Droz is prima facie wrong and must be getting well paid for his mischief. A PR hack, in other words.

But reading the very words of the critics with a different view–Droz is a spirited American speaking truth to wind power–defangs the argument entirely.…

“Obviously, climate/energy is not an intellectual issue for Amy Westervelt. But it is for Droz and Martis, two hearty volunteers speaking truth to power. She should personally sit down with both and understand their passion and logic. If so, maybe Westervelt could turn DRILLED into MACHINED to focus on industrial wind and solar arrays on the landscape and in the coastal waters.”

In a new article in the climate alarmist web site Drilled, Amy Westervelt claims to have made a big finding, along with a colleague:

Over the past month or so, thanks in large part to the work of reporter Michael Thomas, the Internet has rediscovered an effort that’s been underfoot for more than a decade: the coal-funded attack on clean energy. In a few viral Twitter threads, Thomas has focused on the work of two longtime anti-renewables campaigners, John Droz and Kevon Martis, who have spent the past 15 years or so fighting renewable energy projects at the local level (and convincing and training others to do the same).

In business and in government, lesson after lesson has been learned against trusting the ‘smartest guys in the room.’

Remember Enron, where doubters were told by CEO Jeff Skilling that they just didn’t ‘get it’? … the alarmist climate scientists who have long stated that the science is settled…. the Obama Administration energy decision-makers who know which technologies are ‘environmentally sustainable’ and are ‘commercially promising’?

F. A. Hayek warned against the ‘pretense of knowledge” where an intellectual elite via government coercion plans for the rest of us. Economist/educator Russell Roberts (Mercatus Center, George Mason University) explained what Hayek meant in a Wall Street Journal piece, “Is the Dismal Science Really a Science?”

If economics is a science, it is more like biology than physics. Biologists try to understand the relationships in a complex system.

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?…