“Big Green consists of several ‘environmental’ organizations, including Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), each with $100+M budgets, each springing from high-minded useful beginnings, each with more high-priced lawyers than you can shake a stick at. EDF … was chief architect of the disastrous Kyoto lemon. NRDC proudly claims credit for Obama’s EPA strategy and foolishly allows it to migrate to Paris.”

“The danger is that Paris will lay a Kyoto.”

– James Hansen, “Isolation of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Part I,” November 27, 2015.

James Hansen speaks truth to power when it comes to the politics of climate change. (On the science, he has staked out an alarmist position that he cannot seem to shake, even at this late date.) In previous posts, I have noted Hansen’s recalcitrance toward cap-and-trade, whether federal, state (California), or in another country (Australia or Quebec/Ontario).…

“The UN’s ‘Deep Decarbonization Pathways’ … will require a radical transformation of economic and energy systems by 2050, through massive declines in carbon intensity in all sectors. It is not about modest or incremental change [but] … major changes in every country’s energy and production systems, over both the mid-term and long-term.”

Radical Islamist terrorists just maimed and murdered hundreds of people in Paris, dozens more in Mali, still more in other nations. They promise more atrocities in the United States and around the globe.

Meanwhile some 40,000 bureaucrats, politicians, scientists, lobbyists, activists and journalists plan to enjoy five-star Parisian hotels and restaurants, while attending COP21, the twenty-first UN Climate Change Conference, from November 30 through December 11. Like President Obama, they insist that humanity faces no greater threat than climate change.…

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.

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Some of the more interesting articles in this issue are:

Report: Which States Lose the Most to Wind Welfare?

3% of wind developers earnings go to the community

Wind farm noise report ‘parallels VW scandal’

Negative Health Effects of Noise from Wind Turbines: Some Background

Research into Wind Turbine Infrasound

Wind Energy: Unreliable and Expensive

Iberdrola: “five instances of international fraud and corruption”

The Truth About One State’s Energy Policy (which applies to all)

Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition

Freeman Dyson on climate change, interstellar travel, fusion, and more

Study: Perspectives of Uncertainty in Climate Science

Prominent Scientists Declare Climate Claims to be “Irrational”

Climate Rationalization, Beliefs and Denialism

Climate Wars and the Damage to Science

Global Warming Despotism

French Science Society: The battle against global warming: an absurd, costly and pointless crusade

NASA Temperature Datasets “Massively Altered”

An Outbreak of Sanity (re Sea Level Rise)

Greed Energy Economics:

Report: Which States Lose the Most to Wind Welfare?…

“Boris Chinrencov, I am told you speak English.”

“Dada was translator at UN in New York, long ago.”

“I’m Bore Hire, an American utility regulation consultant. I have traveled here to learn about central planning from you.”

“What do you expect to learn from old communist apparatchik like me?”

“You see, we have begun Soviet-style central planning in America for energy. We are forcing people to use certain kinds of light bulbs and appliances. We subsidize renewable power. We now have a war on carbon to get consumers to change their ways.

You were a Commissar for tractor production for thirty years. We wish to know why your central planning failed so we can make it work better in America. We don’t have complete political control of energy yet, but we are already having problems.”…