Energy & Environmental Newsletter: July 24, 2017

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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:

Property and wind turbines: A missing point in the discussion

Tourists shun areas hit by wind turbine ‘blight’

Navy: Interference From Wind Farms Dangerous to Military Aircraft

Study: A New Methodology for Investigating Turbine Infrasound Complaints

Wind turbines damage human health says Portuguese scientist

Wind and Solar Energy Are Dead Ends

The Best of Alex Epstein (so far)

73% Of World’s Renewable Energy Is Made By Burning Wood & Dung

The Trump Doctrine on Energy

Environmental Progress: a worthwhile site on nuclear power

Agenda Behind Global Warming Alarmism

A Step Toward Scientific Integrity at the EPA

Study: Temp Adjustments Account For ‘Nearly All Of The Warming’ In Climate Data

Most of what you’ve read about Greenland is wrong

Looks Like Global Action On “Climate Change” Is Dead

Leading Climate Scientist Says Debating Scientific Theories Would Be ‘Un-American’

EPA plans to challenge climate science in series of debates

Pittsburgh, Not Paris: Explaining the Climate Hysteria

Since Russia is in the news, here are some related recent stories not in the mainstream media:

Short Video: Russians Funding US Environmental Groups

Russia’s Propaganda War on Fossil Fuels

Why the Russians Conceived the Global Warming Scam

Russia as Media Manipulator: Nothing New

The Nazi Origins of Renewable Energy (and Global Warming)

Ecofascists Needed an Enemy, So They Chose Fossil Fuels

 

Greed Energy Economics:

Property and wind turbines: A missing point in the discussion

Study: Initiative to Save American Jobs

Short Video: Russians Funding US Environmental Groups

The left’s misleading green jobs claims

Oil and Gas in the Capitals

Wind and Solar: The Special Interest Effect

The Nazi Origins of Renewable Energy (and Global Warming)

California dumps millions of dollars of unusable renewable electricity to other states

World’s First Carbon-Capture Plant: The Worst Investment In Human History

How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA

Few benefit from many govt preferential treatment, everyone pays the price

Renewmaggedon – Solar, Wind Industries Dying as Subsidies Dry Up

Maryland to Prohibit Offshore Wind closer than 24 Miles

 

Turbine Health Matters:

Wind turbines damage human health says Portuguese scientist

Study: A New Methodology for Investigating Turbine Infrasound Complaints

Wind turbine syndrome: infrasound and fury

Wind Turbine Accidents: A Data Mining Study

Wind Turbine Accidents as of June 1, 2017

 

Renewable Energy Destroying Ecosystems:

Birding groups score win against proposed turbine project

An Environmentalist perspective: Wind Energy Has Vastly Damaged Vermont

Montana doing Bird and Bat Study

 

Miscellaneous Energy News:

Wind and Solar Energy Are Dead Ends

Navy: Interference From Wind Farms Dangerous to Military Aircraft

The Best of Alex Epstein (so far)

73% Of World’s Renewable Energy Is Made By Burning Wood & Dung

The Trump Doctrine on Energy

Environmental Progress: a worthwhile site on nuclear power

Study: Utility Electric Generation ‘in crisis’ Across US

Federal Govt May Try To Pre-empt State Renewable Energy Policies

A Day in the Life of a State Utility Commissioner

Russia’s Propaganda War on Fossil Fuels

Some NY Towns Saying NO to Wind Projects

A Quick Guide to Spotting Graphics That Lie

Defeating the Trolls

NYS Has a Serious Wind Energy Problem

Court Upholds Connecticut’s Renewable Program

K-12 Teachers are “Educated” about Renewable Energy

Insanity and hypocrisy Down Under

The Nation’s Power Grid and the Broken Window Fallacy

Grid Threat as EV Demand Surge & Consumers misled on Engine Efficiency

The Senate Should Approve Pending FERC Nominees

The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Millennial Problem — and How To Solve It

Ecofascists Needed an Enemy, So They Chose Fossil Fuels

Gas Plant to be Built to Augment Renewable Energy

 

Manmade Global Warming Articles:

Agenda Behind Global Warming Alarmism

A Step Toward Scientific Integrity at the EPA

Study: Temp Adjustments Account For ‘Nearly All Of The Warming’ In Climate Data

Most of what you’ve read about Greenland is wrong

Looks Like Global Action On “Climate Change” Is Dead

Leading Climate Scientist Says Debating Scientific Theories Would Be ‘Un-American’

EPA plans to challenge climate science in series of debates

Pittsburgh, Not Paris: Explaining the Climate Hysteria

Big Green Radicals

Why Christians Can’t Believe in Man-Caused Global Warming

Tired of Being Wrong, Climate Alarmists Move Doomsday to Next Century

China Urges The West To Reduce Emissions—While They Burn Coal & Get Rich

Germany is hypocritical regarding climate change

Why the Russians Conceived the Global Warming Scam

Russia as Media Manipulator: Nothing New

Response to MIT President: Paris Exit Scientifically Sound (Part 1 + Part 2)

Left-wing climate report claims Trump’s policies will kill millions — facts tell a different story

Study Blows Greenhouse Gas Theory Out of the Water

The Crisis of Integrity-Deficient Scientists

How to become a climate skeptic in 5 minutes

Environment: We’re in Era of Mass Extinction — of Reason

Who’s afraid of the big bad climate monster?

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Epstein vs. Harvard Law’s Freeman: ‘The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels’ (Energy Law Journal exchange is prime time–and it’s Freeman’s turn)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 6, 2017 6 Comments

“But upon closer scrutiny, Epstein’s characterizations are often straw men; his own assertions are strikingly misleading or demonstrably wrong; and his evidence is typically weak and selective or completely beside the point.”

– Jody Freeman, “A Critical Look at The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.” 36 Energy L.J. 327 (2015).

“This response gives a proof that Freeman’s portrayal of MCFF’s method and content is a straw man, and summarizes the actual arguments of the book. It does so primarily through repeated, side-by-side comparisons of unaltered passages by Freeman purporting to describe MCFF’s viewpoint and unaltered passages from MCFF clearly stating its actual viewpoint.”

– Alex Epstein. “A Straw Man Attack on The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels” (38 Energy L.J. 79 (2017), p. 79.

It is happening for all to see in the prestigious Energy Law Journal.

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What If the World Enters a New Global Cooling Period? (while EPA fights against wood stoves in Alaska)

By -- February 22, 2017 1 Comment

“The battle over whether man-made or natural forces are the primary driving force behind global warming and climate change will likely become more contentious in the next few years. The key point is that the world’s population is at greater risk of serious harm from colder temperatures rather than warm temperatures.”

“Since the EPA’s ruling, the effort to find a solution to the wood-burning stoves remains elusive. As the editors of the local Fairbanks newspaper put it, ‘The borough faces two unpalatable alternatives: More stringent restrictions on home heating devices that could impact residents’ ability to heat their homes affordably, or choosing to stand pat and accept a host of costly economic sanctions and health effects to residents.'”

I previously commented on a New York Times column by personal health writer Jane Brody (highlighting recent studies showing that cold temperatures cause more deaths than heat spells). …

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Retire the Phony ‘Social Cost of Carbon’

By Roger Bezdek and Paul Driessen -- February 13, 2017 39 Comments

“As a first priority, the Trump Administration must review, revise, reject or even rescind the SCC, and reduce its values well below what Obama used – perhaps even to zero or negative numbers. Doing so will destroy the justification for many expensive, intrusive, punitive, useless, counterproductive regulations.”

“The benefit estimates … will remain orders of magnitude larger than any reasonable SCC estimates, which means the B-C ratios will also remain very high.”

The Obama Administration aggressively used a Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) scheme to justify federal regulations pertaining to carbon-based fuels, carbon dioxide and methane emissions, coal mine and pipeline permit denials, energy development foreign aid, and many other actions.

While “SCC” may sound esoteric or academic, it is a critical concept. Without the artificial and inflated SCC estimates, many recent energy and environmental regulations could not have been justified or promulgated.…

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: January 2, 2017

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: November 14, 2016

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Holdren for Halloween (Obama’s eight-year science advisor about to go knocking on doors)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 31, 2016 1 Comment Continue Reading

American Bird Conservancy Comments on Eagle Permits: Revisions to Regulations for Eagle Incidental Take and Take of Eagle Nests (Part I)

By Steve Holmer -- July 7, 2016 No Comments Continue Reading

Environmental Conflict Goes Nuclear (civil war erupts over CO2 reduction strategy)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 22, 2016 No Comments Continue Reading

Trump’s Energy Speech: Strong Free Market Directions

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 1, 2016 6 Comments Continue Reading