“Hyperbole toward the Paris Climate Accord, joining that of the Kyoto Protocol, is over. Dense, mineral energies are the wave of the future, while dilute, intermittent, earth-defacing renewables are in trouble. Dana Nuccitelli–are you listening?”
“The Paris agreement signals that deniers have lost the climate wars,” read the Guardian headline on December 14, 2015. The subtitle to Dana Nuccitelli’s piece: “195 world nations have agreed to ignore climate science denial and cut carbon pollution as much as possible.”
This, in fact, was the same hyperbole following the Kyoto Protocol more than two decades before. “We’ve bet on the future, while others have bet on the past,” proclaimed Enron lobbyist John Palmisano from Kyoto, Japan in late 1997.
But the Paris Climate Accord would be different. “In stark contrast to the shortcomings of previous international climate negotiations,” Nuccitelli’s article begins, “the Paris COP21 talks have ended with an agreement stronger than most expected.”…
Continue Reading“Industrial wind power, a government created and enabled industry, is not only about the uneconomic. It is about controversy and division between neighbors whose country living in the wind-swept plains has never been about gargantuan machinery generating noise, flicker, and unsightliness.”
In rural communities, proposals to erect office-building-high wind turbines pit neighbor against neighbor. Some receive checks for hosting turbines on their land; the rest dread the intrusion to their senses. And all because of a slew of tax breaks and mandates to remove a free-market situation.
“Nebraska wind farm projects cause controversy and heartache,” one article in The Fence Post was titled. “With the enticement of expected high-dollar dividends and federal production tax credits,” the article explained, “some residents in Cherry County and nearby communities are struggling with daily life challenges, which they attribute to numerous turbines emerging across the landscape.”…
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Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Wind and solar weaknesses: Part 1 and Part 2
Green Electricity Delusions
Allam Cycle carbon capture gas plants: 11% more efficient, all CO2 captured
Covid-19 Crisis Will Only Intensify Global Dominance Of Fossil Fuels
Planet Of The Humans Documentary Removed From YouTube
Why Economic Slowdown Won’t Show Up in the Atmospheric CO2 Record
Climate change and a pandemic of lies
Study: State of the Climate – 2019
‘Nature Rights’ Advances to World Economic Forum
Greed Energy Economics:
Mexico Pulls The Plug On Renewables
Trump admin slaps solar, wind operators with retroactive rent bills
Turbine power plunges when tax credits go away
Short video: How bad are solar and wind?…