“5 Shades of Climate Denial” (Inside Climate News gets it wrong)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 14, 2017 2 Comments

“Will Ms. Lavelle admit that global lukewarming is a valid area of scientific inquiry and conclusion; there are benefits, not only costs, to the human influence on climate; and ‘government failure’ exists alongside ‘market failure’ in the quest to ‘do something’? Adaptation to realistic scenarios, private sector as well as public, is an alternative to–and opportunity cost of–mitigation.”

The article by Marianne Lavelle, “5 Shades of Climate Denial, All on Display in the Trump White House,” a feature at Instide Climate News (June 9, 2017), deserves a second look. The good news is that a much more useful categorization that has been offered (by Richard Mueller, below) can be used to correct the unstudied, biased five categories presented in ICN.

Here are Lavelle’s five categories:

  1. “It’s Not Real”
  2. “‘It’s Not Our Fault,’ and Other Lighter Shades”
  3. “The Science Is Just Too Uncertain.
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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: June 12, 2017

By -- June 12, 2017 1 Comment

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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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: May 22, 2017

By -- May 22, 2017 1 Comment

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:

Wind turbines are not clean or green, and they provide zero global energy

Pitting Wind and Solar Against Nuclear Power

What Happens to an Economy When Forced to Use Renewable Energy?

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

By -- April 19, 2017 2 Comments

“Some argue that we should remain in the Paris Agreement to keep our ‘seat at the table.’ However, the fundamental goal of the Paris Agreement is to drive participating nations toward emissions reductions that are mathematically incompatible with economic growth.”

The alligators are still in the climate swamp. Anti-industrial environmentalists, crony capitalists, Big Science, and even bought-off conservatives and ‘libertarians’ want to keep the US in the Paris climate agreement.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute wants to even this fight by engaging the forgotten men and women, the ones that are stuck with the bill for climate-policy activism.

Myron Ebell, director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment, invites mainstream America to sign a petition to ensure that President Trump’s stands strong and keeps his campaign promise to withdraw the United States from the heavy-handed Paris climate (non)treaty.…

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: February 27, 2017

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A Great Free Market Moment: ‘Presidential Executive Order on Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda’ (February 24, 2017)

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Cornwell Alliance Petition for EPA Administrator Nominee (real environmentalism, not dogma)

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: December 12, 2016

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: October 3, 2016

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GOP Environmental Platform: Free Market Directions

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