The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Study: Wind Projects lead to an Increase in Suicides
“Green Energy” Fails Every Test
Wind is an Irrelevance to the Energy and Climate Debate
Wind Power: A Fraud Promulgated by Fools based on a Fantasy
‘Completely perverse’ wind energy subsidies are not reducing emissions
The “Clean Power Plan’s” False Health Claims
Pruitt Is Right To Withdraw Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’
GOP US Tax Bill Overhauls Energy Taxes
4.5± Miles Deep Geothermal Project in the Netherlands
Invenergy VP slanders real estate wind expert
Jacobson sues authors of peer-reviewed critical energy paper
A Deceptive New Report on Climate
The Missing Science from the Draft National Assessment on Climate Change
EPA Stops “Sue & Settle” practice with environmental groups
Letter to Pruitt re Endangerment Finding (with Scientists’ signings)
EPA Announces New Advisory Boards
Superior teaching video about Climate Change
NASA satellite spots cause of unprecedented spike in atmospheric CO2
Australian Submission on Climate Change Policies
Excellent: Interview with István Markó (re Climate Change)
The UN Admits That The Paris Climate Deal Was A Fraud
Greed Energy Economics:
‘Completely perverse’ wind energy subsidies aren’t reducing emissions
GOP Tax Bill Overhauls Energy Taxes
Invenergy VP slanders real estate wind expert
The True Cost of Wind Electricity
‘Home grown’ claims of renewable energy industry questioned
Ratepayers paying too much for electricity
The Real Cost of Offshore Wind
Wind PTC: Excessive Benefit Demands Repeal
Local Residents Shouldn’t Subsidize Wind Turbines
Jacobson sues authors of peer-reviewed critical energy paper
Turbine Health Matters:
Study: Wind Projects lead to an Increase in Suicides
The “Clean Power Plan’s” False Health Claims
Important health decision revoking a wind permit
U.S.…
Continue Reading“A major new variable to estimate the social cost of carbon [SCC] is the positive side of CO2 emissions and atmospheric concentrations, which promote plant growth and economic activity…. A negative value for the SCC creates a new, better term: SBC, or social benefit of carbon.”
“Will RFF hold an open debate with critics of Obama’s SCC in the months ahead? Or will RFF continue to circle the wagons? Scholarly integrity demands the former, while persuading its funders to be realistic toward the tiring Malthusianism of catastrophic climate change.”
Resources for the Future (RFF) has launched a project to (re)estimate, post-Obama, the social cost of carbon (SCC), defined as “an economic tool used to quantify the societal benefits of reducing —or conversely the damages of emitting—one ton of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere.”…
Continue Reading“‘I will always put the needs of our country first,’ Mr. Trump said. ‘That is why we are withdrawing from one-sided international deals,’ he added, citing the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris agreement.”
– Lisa Friedman, “New Talks on Paris Pact Are Set, and That’s Awkward for U.S..” New York Times, October 18, 2017.
” The president made a tremendously courageous decision by saying we’re going to get out of the Paris accord, put America first, and make sure that we lead with action and not words.”
– Scott Pruitt, EPA Administrator, “Trump EPA Chief Charts a New Course: An Interview with Scott Pruitt.” Daily Signal, October 20, 2017.
It is time for the realists, the cooler heads, to play offense after playing defense on climate and energy issues.…
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