“One must wonder when the climate-damaging effects on agriculture will appear. Maybe rising agricultural production is like rising polar bear populations—the decline begins tomorrow.”

The year 2013 has been a great year for global agriculture. Record world production of rice and healthy production of wheat and corn produced strong harvests across the world. These gains were achieved despite continuing predictions that world agricultural output is headed for a decline.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports that world rice harvests for 2012/2013 were a record 469 million metric tons. Corn and wheat harvests were also strong, following record harvests for both grains during the 2011/2012 season. The USDA is now projecting world record harvests for corn, wheat, and rice for 2013/2014.

These numbers cap a 50-year trend of remarkable growth in world grain production.…

“What we ask for is a more rigorous education on energy and environmental issues. Today’s students do not learn even basic facts about the energy sources that make our civilization possible. But they are encouraged to take strong policy positions on the basis of extremely speculative predictions by individuals and institutions who falsely claim to represent the conclusions of all informed scientists.”

Dear American Universities,

You have no doubt heard the calls by certain environmentalist groups for you to publicly divest your endowments of any investments in the fossil fuel industry. We ask that you reject these calls as an attempt to silence legitimate debate about our energy and environmental future.

The leaders of the divestment movement say it is not debatable that the fossil fuel industry is “Public Enemy Number One”—that it deserves to be publicly humiliated by having America’s leading educational institutions single it out for divestment.…

Climatism, the belief that man-made greenhouse gases are destroying Earth’s climate, is on the wane. Once riding high, the ideology of man-made climate change is losing its influence in governments across the world. Climategate, the release of e-mails from the University of East Anglia, called the science of dangerous warming into question and turned the tide of global opinion.

Background

On November 19, 2009, and unidentified hacker or internal whistle-blower downloaded more than 1,000 documents and e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia University in the United Kingdom and posted them on a server in Russia. Within hours, these documents were accessed by websites around the world.

These e-mails were a subset of confidential communications between top climate scientists in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other nations over the last fifteen years.…

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:
*** DOE Secretary Chris Wright on getting rid of renewable energy subsidies

Unreliables (General):
*** The greatest oxymoron statement of all time – “Renewable Energy”

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** US Federal Judge to Allow Multi-State Lawsuit Against Offshore Wind to Proceed
Wind Opponents Sue Trump Administration to Block New York Wind Project
DOT asked to terminate illegal floating wind grant

Wind Energy — Other:
Industrial Wind Scam Returns – Is Your NY Town in the Sacrifice Zone?

Solar Energy:
Public Health Watch: Solar Panel Pollution
Sunnova Bankruptcy Signals Tough Times for Solar

Nuclear Energy:
*** Natural Resources: Advanced Nuclear Development

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Blockbuster: Mark Carney, Mr Net-Zero-Banker himself, now uses oil, gas to make Canada an Energy SuperPower
*** EPA: Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units
EPA Proposes Repeal of Biden-Harris EPA Regulations for Power Plants
The Rise and Rise of King Coal
Banks Boost Fossil Fuel Financing for The First Time since 2021
130 New Gas-Fired Power Projects Proposed in Texas

Miscellaneous Energy News :
*** Report: Power Vision 2030
*** Video: Their Agenda, Your Future
Growing the Grid…in the face of uncertainty
State Net Zero Electricity Dreams Are Collapsing
Next Generation Batteries Are Imminent

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
How NASA got climate change wrong
OPEC Secretary-General attacks Net Zero

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** The Great Climate Science Swindle Goes On
Report: A Few Notes about Climate (Cork Hayden)
Meet Téa Johansson, Teenage Climate Realist:…