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 three 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.
Some simply amazing articles this time, are:
Dr. Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit
College Professor Turns Whistleblower on Global Warming
Carmen Krogh’s Turbine Health Studies Synopsis
Wind Energy Chronology: A Timeline
New Study finds major error in climate models
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Greed Energy Economics:
Stop dumping billions into unreliable wind power
What Do We Have To Show for Gov’t Wind Power Subsidies?…
Continue Reading“To my knowledge, not a single person predicted that lower energy prices would result in the elimination of fossil fuel subsidies in the developing world. Yet it happened.”
William Goldman is best known as the screenwriter behind the films the Princess Bride and Marathon Man. He is also the author of a profound quote about business: Nobody knows anything.
Goldman was talking about the movie business. A studio might spend $100 million dollars on a picture, bring on the biggest starts, promote it relentlessly, and it could still flop. Or it might be a hit! How can you tell whether a movie will succeed or fail? Nobody knows.
Goldman’s insight isn’t just true about movies. When it comes to energy, it is often also the case that ‘nobody knows anything’.…
Continue Reading“With the exception of EPA’s Dr. Allan Carlin, I have never encountered a published view of a federal employee questioning that catastrophic climate change is caused by carbon dioxide. The penalties from this conflict are too severe of loss of pay increases, promotions, or dismissal.”
In the past few weeks, statements of scientists challenging the hypothesis that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels is causing catastrophic global warming are being criticized on ad hominem grounds. The charge is that there exists an inherent conflict-of-interest, owingto their sources of income, specifically income from fossil-fuel companies or pro-fossil-fuel organizations otherwise.
The starting point (it was surely orchestrated) was the attack on Dr. Willie Soon by the February 21, 2015 New York Times article, “Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher,” by Justin Gillis and John Schwartz.…
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