Response to MIT President: Paris Exit Scientifically Sound (Part I)

By Willie Soon and Christopher Monckton of Brenchley -- July 5, 2017 12 Comments

– by Istvan Marko, J. Scott Armstrong, William M. Briggs, Kesten Green, Hermann Harde, David R. Legates, Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, and Willie Soon

MIT president’s letter repeats standard climate alarm claims. Here are the facts (also see Part II tomorrow).

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“Fortunately, contrary to Professor Reif’s claims, the actual current scientific understanding of Earth’s climate dispels the popular delusion that any manmade global warming will be dangerous. That means adhering to the Paris agreement would be ‘a bad deal for America,’ and not only on economic and equity grounds, as President Trump stated.”

“In the last 20 years, humans have released over a third of all the CO2 produced since the beginning of the industrial period. Yet global mean surface temperature has remained essentially constant for at least 15 years – a fact that has been acknowledged by the IPCC, whose models failed to predict it.”

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: July 3, 2017

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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.

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

Superior: New EU proposals would kill solar and wind

Study: Turbine Effects on Bats Likely Worse Than Thought

Study: Solar Energy’s Dirty Little Secret

Study: Large Solar Performance Reduction Due to Dust

Study: Evaluation of a proposal for grid power with 100% wind, water, and solar

Study: A Looming Disaster in Energy Security

Wind Turbines Are NOT Clean or Green, and Provide Zero Global Energy

Storage Burden Should Fall on Wind and Solar Projects, not the Grid

Wind Power’s Future in U.S.

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: June 12, 2017

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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.

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

“Climate Change” used to Create Totalitarian State

Anatomy of a Deep State

Renounce Climate Alarmism

Can we discuss the climate without the hysteria?

CO2 Can’t Cause the Warming Alarmists Claim it Does

Lindzen: In the future, people will marvel how hysterical mankind has been

CO2 Facts vs Alternative Facts

58 New Papers Invalidate Claims Of Unprecedented Modern Global Warming

mgh, Not Greenhouse Gases, Provides a Warm Earth

Defense Communities Celebrate Texas Military-Wind Law

The Princess and the Pea

Human Health, Rights and Wind Turbine Deployment

A startling case of two schools in proximity to wind turbines

Wind company dealt blow by Indiana Supreme Court

Why There’s No Such Thing As a Free Market for Electricity

Offshore Wind Turbines Blamed For Killing Family Of Whales

The Private Benefit of Carbon and its Social Cost

Scientific Peer-Review is a Deeply Tainted System

 

Greed Energy Economics:

Why There’s No Such Thing As a Free Market for Electricity

US Paid $1B to Green Climate Fund, Top Polluters Paid $0

Civitas files for NC Utility Commission Ruling

The Carbon Tax Rebate Scam

Renewable Jobs Claims Based On Deception, False Comparisons

Crony capitalism masquerading as trade protectionism in the solar industry

Paris pact withdrawal could slow clean technology investments

 

Turbine Health Matters:

Human Health, Rights and Wind Turbine Deployment

A startling case of two schools in proximity to wind turbines

Wind company dealt blow by Indiana Supreme Court

Wind developer stonewalls efforts for independent noise tests

Significant Vermont Public Service Board Appointment

Wind Turbines are an occupational Health Hazard to Workers:

Analysis of turbine aerodynamic sound noise…”

Assessment of turbine noise effects on the general health of staff…”

Freedom from Unwarranted Experimentation

Reproducing wind farm infrasound for subjective testing

Wind Energy Study’s Public Complaint Process Was Inadequate

 

Renewable Energy Destroying Ecosystems:

Offshore wind turbines blamed after three whales die off Suffolk

Offshore Wind Turbines Blamed For Killing Family Of Whales

Crop Scientist: Solar Projects Are Stressing Agriculture Ecosystem

 

Miscellaneous Energy News:

The Private Benefit of Carbon and its Social Cost

Defense Communities Celebrate Texas Military-Wind Law

The Princess and the Pea

Scientific Peer-Review is a Deeply Tainted System

Texas officials praise military base protection bill passage

Clean and Doable Liquid Fission (LF) Energy

Wasted green power tests China’s energy leadership

Britain’s on the brink of a small-scale nuclear reactor revolution

Why Are Global Warming Alarmists Afraid Of Nuclear Power?

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To Live and Breath in Beijing

By Greg Rehmke -- June 5, 2017 1 Comment

“Wind and (on-grid) solar installations built in the wrong places or with not-yet-ready technology can actually increase emissions by raising prices and pushing poor Chinese consumers to save money burning coal at home. The funding of showcase wind and solar projects could be invested to modernize coal-fired power plants generating the lion’s share badly-needed heat and electricity.”

Foreign Correspondents as They Live and Breathe,” (New York Times, March 30, 2017) reports on the still deadly air pollution in China:

Ian Johnson, a China correspondent, took out his phone to check Air Matters, an app that measures air quality based on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality Index, which scores the air from 0 to 500. Over 300 and the air is “hazardous.”

The NYT post also says Trump Administration actions on coal power CO2 emissions will hurt efforts to reduce pollution worldwide:

Now efforts to dial back air pollution worldwide are likely to take a hit: On Tuesday, less than a week after rolling back fuel-economy standards for the auto industry, President Trump announced an executive order reversing the rest of the Obama administration’s climate plan.

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: May 22, 2017

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Abolish Private Property in Water? California Needs Markets! (Stroshane reconsidered)

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“Fraud, Fake” … James Hansen on Paris (Trump should take note)

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Grassroots Rising: Paris Agreement is America Last, Taxpayer Last, and Consumer Last

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: April 10, 2017

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RFF’s Climate Anger (intellectual pollution hazardous too)

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