Editor Note: Earlier this summer, Pierre Desrochers received the 2017 Julian L. Simon Memorial Award at the annual dinner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. For the community of scholars, it was a great choice. “Dr. Desrochers has carried the torch for Julian Simon’s legacy for more than two decades,” noted CEI President Kent Lassman. “His defense of modern large-scale agriculture and critique of the concept of ‘food miles,’ in The Locavore’s Dilemma informs any reasoned discussion on how to improve the health and wealth of people everywhere.”
Professor Desrochers extemporaneous remarks have been revised for publication.
Thank you all and particularly to CEI for this award.
Those of us in the tradition of Julian Simon try to produce work that is based on logic and facts and come up with a compelling narrative.
“For proponents of fuel-neutral, consumer friendly, pro-taxpayer energy policy, the new administration has done an excellent job of staying focused and not trying to compromise in a game where compromise is really not possible…. The Trump Administration can only help itself by staying on message, not compromising, and playing offense in the climate science debate.”
“Compared to Rio Treaty George H. W. Bush, as well as “America is addicted to oil” George W. Bush, this Republican is following a free market energy course not seen in modern times.”
The climate-alarmist media can only report on the opposition’s effective strategy and messaging. “The nominees for the Department of Energy’s undersecretary positions are singing the same tune with their views on climate change,” reported a recent feature in ClimateWire, a news publication of Energy and Environment News.…
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Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Property and Wind Turbines: a Missing Point in the Discussion
Scientific Critique of Wind Project Bird & Bat Study
Military Officials Explain Concerns with Wind Turbines (w good pix)
NC & NYS Dealing with Military-Wind Energy conflicts
Scientists who question solar are silenced
Green Delusions and the Wind Bully
The Climate Alarmists’ Gross Perversion of the Word “Clean”
Climate Models Over-Estimated Warming
Moving the Goalposts in the Climate Change Debate
Climate Science Comes Up Short
The totalitarianism of the environmentalists
“Science” journals stung again
Al Gore’s Climate Sequel Misses a Few Inconvenient Facts
Simplified Explanations of the Falsified Claims of Human Caused Global Warming
NYT guilty of large screw-up on climate-change story
Expose on Bill McKibben (a key energy and environmental player)
Lindzen: On the ‘Death of Skepticism’ Concerning Climate Hysteria
Continue ReadingDenmark’s transition to a more competitive market pricing scheme has … effectively abolished village-owned wind projects while enriching mega-corporations
Denmark, the tiny European state much ballyhooed as the gold standard for wind-power deployment, has big energy goals. The Danish government set the target of sourcing half of its electricity from wind by 2020 and transitioning entirely off fossil fuel by 2050. In order to get there, Denmark needs to build a lot more wind. Last year, wind power represented 38 percent of Denmark’s total electricity consumed, down from 42 percent the year before. (Actual wind consumption by the Danish was likely below this percentage since much of Denmark’s wind power can be exported to neighboring control areas.)”
So, reaching its goals won’t be easy. According to a 3-year, $3.1 million study (DKK 20 million) by Danish Council for Strategic Research, Denmark has an “Anti-Wind problem.…
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