“We are old climate veterans who have tried to do our part, in every way we know how, to keep our fossil-fuel addicted civilization from driving off a cliff. Are we tired? Sure. Discouraged? Absolutely. Pissed off? Yep. Sad? Call it broken-hearted.”
– Kathleen Dean Moore and SueEllen Campbell, Why We Won’t Quite the Climate Fight, Earth Island Journal, January 28, 2019.
“The admittedly ‘tired … discouraged … pissed off … broken-hearted’ deep ecologists can either live in gloom and despair or check their premises to entertain happiness…. Don’t quit–study. Consider Julian Simon’s The Ultimate Resource 2 for starters. And live joyfully.” (below)
It is a fossil-fuel world for as far as the eye can see. Abundant, affordable, and reliable, mineral energies are the ones that consumers voluntarily purchase.…
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Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Bill Gates about the foolishness of renewables
Short Anti-wind video by Ohio citizens
Study: The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid
Evolution of Electricity Rates
New Huge Study: Wind Turbines Devalue nearby Homes
Abstracts for upcoming 8th International Meeting on Wind Turbine Noise
PhD Letter re Turbine Health Impacts
German citizen anti-wind effort results in installations slump
Electoral Platitudes = Energy Trauma for Citizens
Goodbye to a misguided war on coal
Hot Day in Australia results in massive blackouts
Study: Grid Scale Electricity Storage Can’t Save Renewables
The 10 Most Insane Requirements Of The Green New Deal
The Green New Deal is a leftist politician’s worst enemy
Green New Deal: The Devil Is in the Details
Green New Deal: Looks Like A Dem Parody Bill
The Green New Deal is a Prescription for Poverty
Greenhouse-warming theory does not appear to even be physically possible
Physicist: Don’t fall for the argument about ‘settled science’
Revised: Deficiencies In the IPCC’s SR15 Special Report
Why the Left Loves and Hates Science
Greed Energy Economics:
Bill Gates about the foolishness of renewables
Study: The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid
Evolution of Electricity Rates
New Huge Study: Wind Turbines Devalue nearby Homes
The Three Major Problems with a Carbon Tax
Study: Tax Abatements and the Texas Wind Industry
Short video: Texas town has $30M burden after going “100% renewable”
Green Energy Being Abandoned As Economics Go Red
The foolishness of Canadians paying a Carbon Tax
The Myth of the Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax
Carbon Taxes Aren’t Working Any More
Wyoming takes its yearly look at raising a tax on wind energy
PG&E may shed $40± billion worth of renewable contracts
Could PTC rush jeopardize U.S.…
Continue ReadingThe [Houston] conference excitedly states that “momentum for a national carbon dividend is growing.” In fact there is momentum against a carbon tax to enable a “dividend.” As Justin Gillis wrote in the New York Times : “Efforts to sell Republicans on the idea that [a CO2 price] is the most market-friendly approach to the emissions problem have failed miserably, and will continue to fail.”
This Saturday at the University of Houston, a conference will be held on carbon taxes. Titled Texas Energy & Carbon Pricing: Ready to Lead, the event’s main organizer is Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL), which (in its own words)
is working with Congress in a non-partisan way to advocate for a market-based climate solution that will allow consumers and businesses alike, including those with oil/gas interests here in Texas, to use the market to identify the most cost-effective ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.…
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