Ed. note: This fortnightly Master Resource post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, published every other week by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete MBN for this post can be found here.
Of special interest in this issue is an article by the always-readable Michael Shellenberger: Why Greta’s Climate Panic Failed: here.
Greed Energy Economics:
*** How green policies are fueling the energy crisis
*** Calculating The Full Costs Of Electrifying Everything Using Only Wind, Solar And Batteries
A wind and solar electric grid? That’s a terrible idea
Families are “rationing fuel or turning off fridge freezers” due to soaring energy prices
Climate “Leadership” Will Cost New Yorkers More than $5,000 Each
Wind Energy:
*** Finally, Bloomberg Admits Renewables Mania Caused Energy Shortages
Huge wind energy project gets harpooned by new federal lawsuit
A Detailed Submission Against a Great Lakes Wind Project
Will Europe Abandon Green Energy?…
“There’s a long and sad history of efforts by industries and interest groups to reshape the discussion of climate science and undercut the overwhelming evidence that greenhouse gases produced by humans are leading us to global catastrophe.”
– John Schwartz, “How the Riot Ties In with Climate Disinformation.” New York Times, January 13, 2021.
With the election and transfer of power to Biden/Harris, it is climate alarmism galore. The Gods gave us the Pandemic, the landed US hurricanes, and the California wildfires for a reason–to win an election. And the Powers in the sky gave us the Capital riot to help cement the policy momentum of the ‘existential threat.’
Back to the Times‘ Schwartz. “For those of us who cover climate change for a living,” he states,
… Continue Readingthe blatant lies about election fraud that fed the mob [of January 6, 2021] felt very familiar.
A historical oddity is how the U.S. government and Exxon “knew” about the ‘greenhouse signal’ and perilous anthropogenic climate change when climate scientists did not. But such is the state of the debate where PR and lawsuits overwhelm a rational view of knowledge. (below)
“In my expert opinion, in the period shortly after President Carter took office in 1977,” states James Gustave Speth, “there was a growing sense of concern and indeed urgency within the federal government that fossil fuel burning was heating the planet and causing the climate to change in many ways that could be catastrophic….” [1]
“Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue,” stated an article in Scientific American. “This knowledge did not prevent the company … from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation.”…
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