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The UN’s Coming Paris Folly: Part 1

By Roger Bezdek and Paul Driessen -- November 24, 2015

“The UN’s ‘Deep Decarbonization Pathways’ … will require a radical transformation of economic and energy systems by 2050, through massive declines in carbon intensity in all sectors. It is not about modest or incremental change [but] … major changes in every country’s energy and production systems, over both the mid-term and long-term.”

Radical Islamist terrorists just maimed and murdered hundreds of people in Paris, dozens more in Mali, still more in other nations. They promise more atrocities in the United States and around the globe.

Meanwhile some 40,000 bureaucrats, politicians, scientists, lobbyists, activists and journalists plan to enjoy five-star Parisian hotels and restaurants, while attending COP21, the twenty-first UN Climate Change Conference, from November 30 through December 11. Like President Obama, they insist that humanity faces no greater threat than climate change.…

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AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: November 23, 2015

By -- November 23, 2015

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.

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Some of the more interesting articles in this issue are:

Report: Which States Lose the Most to Wind Welfare?

3% of wind developers earnings go to the community

Wind farm noise report ‘parallels VW scandal’

Negative Health Effects of Noise from Wind Turbines: Some Background

Research into Wind Turbine Infrasound

Wind Energy: Unreliable and Expensive

Iberdrola: “five instances of international fraud and corruption

The Truth About One State’s Energy Policy (which applies to all)

Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition

Freeman Dyson on climate change, interstellar travel, fusion, and more

Study: Perspectives of Uncertainty in Climate Science

Prominent Scientists Declare Climate Claims to be “Irrational”

Climate Rationalization, Beliefs and Denialism

Climate Wars and the Damage to Science

Global Warming Despotism

French Science Society: The battle against global warming: an absurd, costly and pointless crusade

NASA Temperature Datasets “Massively Altered”

An Outbreak of Sanity (re Sea Level Rise)

Greed Energy Economics:

Report: Which States Lose the Most to Wind Welfare?

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Terrorism, not Climate Change (please, Mr. President)

By Sterling Burnett -- November 19, 2015

“The world’s leaders can’t control their borders, yet they think they can change the weather. The sheer hubris is amazing.”

President Barack Obama may have the worst understanding of the true threats to the U.S.’s other nations’ national security and domestic tranquility of any President in our country’s history.

In 2014, President Obama was proclaiming through his proxies, including Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, climate change was the most important threat facing our nation’s national security. Then in his 2015 State of the Union address Obama stated, “No challenge – no challenge – poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,” a claim he reiterated at his commencement address to the Coast Guard Academy in May, stating, “no challenge poses a greater threat to our future and future generations than a change in climate.”…

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Conversations with a Central Planner (electricity comrade needs help, a parody)

By Jim Clarkson -- November 18, 2015
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Money from Dead Eagles: Audubon Society on the Take

By Jim Wiegand -- November 17, 2015
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Time for Congress to End the Wind Production Tax Credit (again)

By Rand Stowell -- November 16, 2015
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‘Too much energy, too soon, a hazard’ (Obama’s Science Advisor living his dream)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 12, 2015
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Wind Power Destruction in New York State: ‘Clean’ Power Plan Problem

By Mary Kay Barton -- November 11, 2015
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Obama’s Keystone XL Rejection: $260 million Annually for Koch Industries?

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 10, 2015
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Charles Koch: An Entrepreneur for Liberty

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 9, 2015
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