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Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Property and Wind Turbines: a Missing Point in the Discussion
Scientific Critique of Wind Project Bird & Bat Study
Military Officials Explain Concerns with Wind Turbines (w good pix)
NC & NYS Dealing with Military-Wind Energy conflicts
Scientists who question solar are silenced
Green Delusions and the Wind Bully
The Climate Alarmists’ Gross Perversion of the Word “Clean”
Climate Models Over-Estimated Warming
Moving the Goalposts in the Climate Change Debate
Climate Science Comes Up Short
The totalitarianism of the environmentalists
“Science” journals stung again
Al Gore’s Climate Sequel Misses a Few Inconvenient Facts
Simplified Explanations of the Falsified Claims of Human Caused Global Warming
NYT guilty of large screw-up on climate-change story
Expose on Bill McKibben (a key energy and environmental player)
Lindzen: On the ‘Death of Skepticism’ Concerning Climate Hysteria
Continue Reading“On the climate issue, RFF has become the intellectual arm of the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC), just as RFF board member David Hawkins (of NRDC) desires.”
Resources for the Future (RFF) was once a much more scholarly think tank than it is today. It did not assume but evaluated and debated energy economics and related environmental issues.
On climate change, in particular, RFF has gone into the tank of alarmism–and is now a full-fledged foe of the free-market-oriented energy policies underway in the Trump Administration. In fact, RFF has become the intellectual arm of the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC), just as RFF board member David Hawkins (of NRDC) desires.
Sad, sad. From its glorious beginning in the 1950s and 1960s–publishing treatises and shorter studies on resource availability–RFF went Malthusian in the 1970s, a story recounted by the late mineral economist Richard Gordon and myself elsewhere.…
Continue ReadingDenmark’s transition to a more competitive market pricing scheme has … effectively abolished village-owned wind projects while enriching mega-corporations
Denmark, the tiny European state much ballyhooed as the gold standard for wind-power deployment, has big energy goals. The Danish government set the target of sourcing half of its electricity from wind by 2020 and transitioning entirely off fossil fuel by 2050. In order to get there, Denmark needs to build a lot more wind. Last year, wind power represented 38 percent of Denmark’s total electricity consumed, down from 42 percent the year before. (Actual wind consumption by the Danish was likely below this percentage since much of Denmark’s wind power can be exported to neighboring control areas.)”
So, reaching its goals won’t be easy. According to a 3-year, $3.1 million study (DKK 20 million) by Danish Council for Strategic Research, Denmark has an “Anti-Wind problem.…
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