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Industrial Wind Turbine Noise: A Summary

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 25, 2024

The Facebook website Wind Farm Living published this explainer on noise from industrial wind turbines. (Click on the illustration for more visual clarity)

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The Party For Socialism and Liberation (another Left choice for the U.S. election)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 24, 2024

“The climate catastrophe demonstrates the disastrous self-interest of the capitalist class. To avoid excessive warming, as well as the many severe environmental threats produced by capitalism, it is necessary to shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy.” (PSL, below)

Previous posts at MasterResource have examined the energy platforms of the Democrat Party, Green Party, and Cornel West for President. On the free-market side, summaries have been provided for the GOP Platform, American Petroleum Institute, and Heritage Foundation/Agenda 25, and America First Policy Institute (AFPI, a think tank in the Trump fold). Today’s post turns again to the interventionist/socialist view of energy and climate.

The Party For Socialism and Liberation (PSL). “For the planet to live capitalism must end,” states the website banner. The “About” section reads:

The Party for Socialism and Liberation believes that the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society.

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Climate Protest Fail (Westervelt on defense)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 23, 2024

“I haven’t seen a convincing argument yet about why the climate crisis must be named as such….”

“The climate movement has been led by people who look and think and talk the same for a very long time. If time is short, isn’t this precisely the time to try everything? To broaden out, seek fresh ideas, build a larger, stronger and more connected movement?” (- Amy Westervelt, DRILLED)

Drilled founder and editor Amy Westervelt, like other climate extremists attuned to the real world, is confused and perplexed. She wants to legalize vandalism and whatever else is necessary to wake up the world to what she sees. But reality is reality, from public opinion to CO2 science to climate-model exaggeration to the eco-sins of wind, solar, and batteries.

“Over the past two years, there’s been a sudden and severe backlash to climate protest, both legally and socially,” she recently lamented.…

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Energy Justice in Africa? Energy Exceptionalism Please

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 22, 2024
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Naturally Hot, Exaggeration Not

By Kennedy Maize -- October 21, 2024
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Wind vs. Ecology in Australia (Nick Cater reports)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 18, 2024
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Climate Anxiety Discussion Raises Alarmists’ Ire

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 17, 2024
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“Green” Energy: It’s Just a Bribe

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 16, 2024
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Risking Alaska’s Energy Exceptionalism (RPS looming)

By -- October 15, 2024
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Energy & Environmental Review: October 14, 2024

By -- October 14, 2024
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