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Not In Their Minds: Denial in the Wind/Health Debate

By Sherri Lange -- February 18, 2015

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the states of facts and evidence.” (John Adams, 1770)

“Facts are stupid….(laughter) stubborn things.” (Ronald Reagan, 1988)

When President Regan, in his address to the 1988 Republican National Convention, stumbled on the word “stubborn”–referencing the famous John Adams quote above–he might as well have been talking about the chasm between the facts of acoustic investigation of wind turbine installation, as reported by the victims, and the hyperbole and spin from the industry itself.

“Wind Facts” are openly  portrayed by the industry as “stupidly obvious” things:  green, clean and free. Complainers, aka victims,  are dismissed as hyper sensitive if not hypochondriacs. Academic or government studies often portray such subjects as having a natural disposition for unhappiness and discomfort about things such as body type, with inferences of predilection for an anti-wind position and negative physical effects.…

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AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: February 17, 2015

By -- February 17, 2015

 

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy & environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science.

 It’s all spelled out at WiseEnergy.org, which is a wealth of energy and environmental resources.

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every 3 weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and environmental matters. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

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Greed Energy Economics:

EROI — A Tool To Predict The Best Energy Mix

Pretenses of Offshore Wind Economic Viability “Blown Away”

Expert testifies about property devaluation due to wind turbine proximity

Wind & Solar are 16x more expensive than gas

U.N.

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The Morality of Capitalism

By Richard Ebeling -- February 12, 2015

[Editor Note: Just in time for Global Divestment Day, Professor Richard Ebeling offers a worldview of the philosophical basis of private property and voluntary exchange–human freedom–for the public policy debate.]

In American culture there is one persistent villain portrayed as the enemy of humanity, the perpetrator of deception, and the agent for social corruption and human harm: the businessman.

Whether in news commentaries or on the movie screen, the businessman is presented as a heartless, greedy manipulator so concerned with squeezing the last possible dollar out of anything he does, that he is willing to destroy the planet, kill his competitors, poison little children, and sell his own mother “down the river” if it will serve his material and financial purposes.

The only thing that saves us from the end of the world at the hands of these criminal private enterprisers is either some righteous individual who refuses to “take it any more” or the virtuous hand of a government agent dedicated to protecting mankind from those who, clearly, care nothing for the common good of humanity.…

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Biomass: The Air Emissions Renewable (scientists want wood taken off of politically correct list)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 11, 2015
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Hartnett-White to Stanford University on Coal Divestment

By Kathleen Hartnett White -- February 10, 2015
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Cooling the Climate Models: Briggs, Legates, Monckton, Soon Go Simple

By Sterling Burnett -- February 9, 2015
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The ‘General Interest Effect’: Why the Free Market is a Hard Sell

By Roy Cordato -- February 6, 2015
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Divestment? How About Hydrocarbon Appreciation Day!

By Roger Bezdek and Paul Driessen -- February 5, 2015
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Gasoline vs. Electric Cars: Energy Usage and Cost

By Stanislav Jakuba -- February 4, 2015
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Driverless Cars: The Next Transportation Revolution

By Randal O'Toole -- February 3, 2015
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