This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** How the House cut off new solar and wind subsidies in the “Big Beautiful Bill”
Leading Florida power provider blasts solar/wind subsidies

Unreliables (General):
*** Short good video: America in the Dark
*** The Physics Behind the Spanish Blackout
Reliance on ‘Renewables’ Makes Widespread Blackout Nightmare More Likely
Global Tally of Alternative-Energy Rejections Passes 1,000
15 Hidden Hazards of Green Energy that Get Ignored

Wind Energy — Offshore:
Showdown looms for Empire Wind (NY Offshore)
Ruling that could doom its Irish Sea wind projects

Wind Energy — Other:
*** New Study: “The presented research rejects the typically held view that wind power is a sustainable energy source.”…

“… model-observation discrepancies can arise from three causes: the observations could be wrong (unrealized biases etc.), the models are wrong (which can encompass errors in forcings as well as physics), or the comparison could be inappropriate…. [I]t may well be that these discrepancies will resolve themselves in the course of ‘normal’ model development … Or not….” – Gavin Schmidt, Real Science, May 31, 2025.

One of the most enduring themes of the popular discussion of a man-made warming globe has been sea level rise as a result of the melting of ice from the planet’s two frigid poles.

Former Vice President Al Gore’s 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth” featured images of icebergs calving off the Antarctic continent. He proclaimed that if the world proceeded to warm at its current rate, worldwide sea levels would rise “20 feet.”…

This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** Epstein: Why the proposed “phaseout” of IRA subsidies is unacceptable
*** Victory for energy freedom: the House (finally) limits IRA subsidies
*** New report: The true affordability of net zero
The truth about power bill increases

Unreliables (General):
*** The Achilles Heel of Wind and Solar
Economic prosperity demands continuous and uninterruptible electricity
Wasting Away in Wind-and-Solarville

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Allies Sue Federal Agencies Over Unlawful Authorization of Empire Wind Project
Letitia James has ‘no leg to stand on’ in lawsuit against Trump offshore wind order, experts say
Rest in Peace, Nils Stolpe, Fisheries Guru
After nearly four decades, Jerry Schill bows out of N.C.…

“There’s a time and a place to platform climate deniers, and it’s never and nowhere.” (- Benjamin Leffel, professor, University of Nevada Las Vegas, below)

It began with this post from UNLV’s climate alarmist/activist Benjamin Leffel. previously profiled at MasterResource.

Fun bringing together some of the top minds on China and climate change during my visit to Berkeley, my friends Nan Zhou, Jingjing Zhang (Berkeley Lab), Weila Gong (California-China Climate Institute ) and Kaihui Song (Energy and Resources Group | University of California, Berkeley). Looking forward to further brainstorming new research on climate solutions!

I responded: “Any skeptics of climate alarm in the group? Should there be?”

Leffel: No to both, because unlike yourself, they’re credentialed researchers and do not take money from big oil.…