“One thing … which is going awry generally – is the money being wasted on electric cars for which there is no market. Or rather, which there’s no money to be made from the making.”

– Eric Peters, Eric Peters Autos, July 25, 2019

There are nearly always multiple realities that impinge on economic events in the mixed economy. The recent report that Nissan Motors may go out of business by 2020 due to a sudden deterioration of its razor thin 1% to 2% annual profit margin is attributed to:

• Alleged financial misconduct of Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn; 
• Continuing technical problems with Nissan’s shiftless transmissions,
• Nissan’s problems with partner and co-owner Renault’s declining sales due to US steel tariffs;
• The structural alliance between Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi;
• A substantial, sudden drop off in US sales;
• Republican-spearheaded federal tax reform, not cited by the media, which reduced tax refunds on wealthier households beginning in 2019 due to limits on deductions for property taxes, state and local taxes and sales taxes resulting in lower car sales.

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Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

• Climate trillions frittered in the wind
• Study: The Social Cost of Carbon and Carbon Taxes
• Wind Farm Back-of-the-Envelope Economic Analysis
• The Confusions of the ‘Conservative’ Carbon Tax
• Inconvenient Energy Realities
• Infrasound noise guidelines: Antiquated and irrelevant for protecting populations
• Archive: Big Wind’s Dirty Little Secret — Radioactive Waste
• Study: The Impact of Wind Energy on Wildlife and the Environment
• Study: Green Killing Machines, the impact of renewable energy on wildlife and nature
• Fact-Check: Fearmongers Over Nevada’s Yucca Mountain
• Tucker Carlson TV segment: the Green New Deal is a Power Play
• 100% Renewable Is 100% Unachievable, Even If You’re An Optimist
• Sustainability and Global Warming Give Birth to Renewable Energy
• Prepare for green blackouts: That’s what’s in store for New York
• Balloon Tests to Simulate Turbine Height
• Battery Storage—An Infinitesimal Part of Electrical Power
• Excellent short video: Climate Apartheid?

“It seems as if the [New Mexico State University] alarmists are both unaware of the climate history of the region and are unable (unwilling?) to do a literature search, even though this is now trivial, using an internet connection and internet search.”

“Not a single climate forecast I’ve examined here had the slightest hint of cold, wet winters to come nor the record-setting snowfall and rainfall which has deluged most of the country the past year. Those claiming to be experts in climate, citing CO2 as a driver and computer models as worthwhile tools, ignored at their peril the twin roles of climate cycles and the power of the chaotic natural weather fluctuations.”

Las Cruces is home to New Mexico’s Land Grant school, New Mexico State University. While ostensibly home of The Educated, some climate pronouncements by faculty have proven to be terribly wrong.…

“ICCC-13 will serve as a roadmap for further Trump administration efforts regarding climate science and policy, as well as highlight the voluminous scientific evidence that humans are not creating a climate crisis.”

– James Taylor, Conference organizer, 13th International Conference on Climate Change, Washington, DC: July 25, 2019.

Climate conferences by the Heartland Institute once could be dismissed by the alarmist mainstream as fringe affairs. But with President’s Trump withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, as well as the US-led boom in oil and natural gas production, the Obama-era “keep it in the ground” philosophy is in full retreat.

Political problems aside, climate alarmism is in intellectual trouble, as dire forecast after forecast proves exaggerated, and false scares come and go. And those romantic energy transformation predictions? The reality of dilute, intermittent energies is little energy and growing grass roots complaints.…