AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: May 9, 2016

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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. To this 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 insightful articles in this issue are:

New US federal rule would permit thousands of eagle deaths

Archive: Prove This Wrong — Wind Makes Zero Sense

150% Renewable Energy Required to be Fossil Free

CO2 Emissions from Gas Balancing Wind Energy

Video: German Pastoral Landscapes converted to Industrial Zones

Video: Fossil Fuels: The Greenest Energy

The Nuclear Reaction

Video: What Do Scientists Say

After 10 Years, an Inconvenient Truth is Alarmingly Inaccurate

NASA: Doubling SLR by Data Tampering

US General’s Senate Testimony: Climate Change and War

Climate Crisis and Political Power

CEI Strikes Back At Unlawful Subpoena

Greed Energy Economics:

Norway to End Renewable Energy Scheme by 2021

German Wind Projects Paid $500M to Stand Idle

Archive: Prove This Wrong — Wind Makes Zero Sense

Archive: The Real Cost of Electricity

Research: State Renewable Energy Policies

Why Renewable Energy Can’t Exist Without the Government

Turbines Result in Negative 99% Return on Investment

Poster Child for Clean Energy Files for Bankruptcy

Net Metering and the Death of US Rooftop Solar

Support for Green Power Has Been Shrinking

Denmark’s Electricity Subsidies Increase by 1000%

Renewable Energy Destroying Ecosystems:

New US federal rule would permit thousands of eagle deaths

Wind Project results in Less Breeding Birds

Wind Developers Don’t Have to Make Their Bird & Bat Kills Public

Miscellaneous Energy News:

150% Renewable Energy Required to be Fossil Free

CO2 Emissions from Gas Balancing Wind Energy

Video: German Pastoral Landscapes converted to Industrial Zones

Video: Fossil Fuels: The Greenest Energy

Video: Turbines Jeopardize Ontario Airspace

David MacKay video: The Final Cut

Navy & Air Force Share Concerns Regarding Wind Energy

The Good, Bad and Ugly on Maine Energy

Education Pushback to Children Getting Energy Propaganda

Illegal Turbine Puts Speculator in Jail

Obama Targets Electric Grid for Power Grab

Small Turbines Can Outperform Conventional Wind Turbines

Local legislators excluded from wind energy technical meeting

NYS Town Likely to Pass a Restrictive Wind Law

Why Wind Turbines Have Three Blades

The Nuclear Reaction

Decarbonising Power Generation — the Nuclear Option

US operator seeks swift SMR licensing to optimize low-carbon output

Wind turbine and tornado, after a lightning strike

Wind Industry is a Threat in your Backyard

NY Gov’s Loyalty to Greens Takes Precedence over State Welfare

See Wind Turbine Infrasound, inside a home

Manmade Global Warming Articles:

Video: What Do Scientists Say

After 10 Years, an Inconvenient Truth is Alarmingly Inaccurate

NASA: Doubling SLR by Data Tampering

US General’s Senate Testimony: Climate Change and War

Climate Crisis and Political Power

CEI Strikes Back At Unlawful Subpoena

Video: Sin, Deception and the Corruption of Science

Climate Change Lobby Wants to Kill Free Speech

CEI Wins Against RICO Ringleader in FOIA Lawsuit

Scientific silencers on the left are trying to shut down climate skepticism

Shining Light on ‘Settled’ Science: There Is No ‘Climate Crisis’

The Inconvenient Truth About the Environment

Seven Enviro Predictions in 1970 That Were Wrong

Elon Musk – Crony King

The Green Unreality Show

Are These Politicians Lying or Just Stupid?

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The Morality of Market Energy (Testimony of Alex Epstein)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 13, 2016 6 Comments

Editor Note: This morning, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hear testimony about energy from a philosophical perspective. Alex Epstein is a panelist at the hearing, Examining the Role of Environmental Policies on Access to Energy and Economic Opportunity. Other speakers are Father Robert A. Sirico, President, Acton Institute; Major General (Ret.) Robert Scales, Senior Military Analyst; Michael Breen, President & CEO, Truman National Security Project; and Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II, Director, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

His opening comments as submitted follow (subtitles have been added).

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The energy industry is the industry that powers every other industry. To the extent energy is affordable, plentiful, and reliable, human beings thrive. To the extent energy is unaffordable, scarce, or unreliable, human beings suffer.

And yet in this election year, the candidates, especially the Republican candidates, have barely discussed energy.

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AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: March 7, 2016

By -- March 7, 2016 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 mainstram media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

Some of the more thought-provoking articles in this issue are:

Physician Explains Some Wind Turbine Health Impacts

Wind Infrasound Hazards Worse than Initially Thought

The laughable idea that renewable energy is or ever will be ‘least cost’

The Charade of Industrial Wind

Non-Compliant Wind Developers Are Threatened with Jail Time

Two Well-Intentioned Laws and Aims Collide

North Sea Whale Deaths.…

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Audubon Goes over the Edge (Jan/Feb 2016 issue promotes anti-science alarmism)

By Robert Endlich -- February 4, 2016 12 Comments

“Audubon’s equivocal policy on wind power ostensibly calls on wind energy developers to consider planning, siting, and operating wind farms in a manner that avoids bird carnage and supports ‘strong enforcement’ of laws protecting birds and wildlife. On the other hand, the same Audubon policy speaks about ‘species extinctions and other catastrophic effects of climate change’ and ‘pollution from fossil fuels’.”

The cover of the January-February 2016 issue of Audubon Magazine  proclaims: Arctic on the Edge: As global warming opens our most critical bird habitat, the world is closing in. In reality, it is the magazine’s writers and editors who have gone over the edge with their misleading reports on the Arctic.

This magazine is so awash in misstatements of fact and plain ignorance of history, science, and culture, that they must not go unchallenged – especially since they epitomize the false and misleading claims that have characterized far too much of the U.S.…

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Wherever Sited, Industrial Wind Is a Loser

By Mary Kay Barton -- January 19, 2016 10 Comments Continue Reading

Global Cooling: Do Not Forget (false alarm was tied to coal burning too)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 3, 2015 7 Comments Continue Reading

Wind Power Destruction in New York State: ‘Clean’ Power Plan Problem

By Mary Kay Barton -- November 11, 2015 29 Comments Continue Reading

AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: September 14, 2015

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Perverse Environmental Justice (Part II)

By -- June 11, 2015 No Comments Continue Reading

‘The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels’ Revisited (book review)

By Ari Armstrong -- March 3, 2015 No Comments Continue Reading