“A dispassionate observer might be forgiven for concluding that FWS’s new proposal, which never even acknowledges the rationale for its earlier 30-year rule, is still designed actually to accommodate the wind energy industry, rather than to protect eagles.”

“ABC questions whether the sacrifice of millions of our Nation’s ecologically important birds and bats justifies building any large, commercial wind energy facility in an area with high concentrations of birds and bats.”

“Individuals who kill federally protected eagles or possess their parts can be fined as much as $250,000 per bird and spend up to two years in jail. The FWS’s revised rule, however, gives the wind industry a free pass to kill thousands of eagles with little or no consequence. What’s more, the public is not going to be able to find out how many eagles are actually being killed.”

Finally, the energy literate on the Left understand that politically correct energies for electricity (wind and solar–not nuclear and hydro) are little recipe for anthropogenic greenhouse-gas mitigation. Embedded energy awaiting a payback, small scale, and intermittency/fossil-fuel fill-in leaves a very skinny contribution.

And to the extent that the climate movement is more successful at closing nuclear plants than erecting wind farms and installing solar panels, the alleged problem of climate change is worsened.

James Hansen led the charge on this very issue, and now an organization and movement is mobilizing at this very late date to save a handful of running nuclear dinosaurs from extinction.

Are the climate alarmists bluffing about their cause? Because if they really believed, they would have embraced, before now, the one major emission-free source of central-station electricity: nuclear power.…

“And if Crooked Hillary can shut down the mines, she can shut down your business too.”

“These actions have denied millions of Americans access to the energy wealth sitting under our feet. This is your treasure, and you – the American People – are entitled to share in the riches.”

“We’re going to rescind all the job-destroying Obama executive actions including the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule.”

On May 26, Donald Trump gave his first major energy speech. It advocates a rollback of the energy statism of President Obama, which would continue under Hillary Clinton (but not Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party nominee for President).

There is much to like in Trump’s agenda, and nothing better than calling the bluff of the climate alarmists who profess to want to save the climate but have a variety of other agendas at work.…

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Some of the more insightful articles in this issue are:

MIT Report: Germany Runs Up Against the Limits of Renewables

Peer Reviewed Study: much of the effort to combat global warming is actually making it worse

The Assault on Science

New Discovery May Scale Back Climate Alarm

Climate Science Obsessively Focused on Computer Modeling

Green Indoctrination at School

Serious Problems with Science Journalism

Real Science vs Catastophism [See section below on Free Speech]

Danish Government: Cost of Wind Energy is Too Expensive

The Energy Return of Solar PV

3 Ways Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) Overcome Existing Barriers to Nuclear

ERoEI for Beginners

US Energy Manifesto

Wind Project Decimates 80% of a Protected Species

Wind Energy Results in Animal Deaths and Deformities

Greed Energy Economics:

Danish Government: Cost of Wind Energy is Too Expensive

Nordic Alternative Energy Turns Stagnant

The Energy Return of Solar PV

Solar Power Investments Don’t Pay Off

IRS Over-reach on Wind Energy: Likely Illegal

Renewable Energy Destroying Ecosystems:

Wind Project Decimates 80% of a Protected Species

Wind Energy Results in Animal Deaths and Deformities

Make Comments on Proposed USF&W Raptor Rules

Fire at World’s Largest Solar Facility

Miscellaneous Energy news:

MIT Report: Germany Runs Up Against the Limits of Renewables

3 Ways Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) Overcome Existing Barriers to Nuclear

ERoEI for Beginners

US Energy Manifesto

Down Wind movie exposes wind energy deception

Oklahoma landowners register private airstrips to keep wind farms at bay

Wind turbines do not reduce pollution or the carbon footprint

Colorado Supreme Court embraces the rule of law, not fear mongering

Battle Over Fracking Causing Green Civil War

Killing US Coal Also Means Burying US Steel Industry

Energy suppliers must hang together, or they will all hang separately

Wind developer colluding with resident to influence decision

A new NC Solar & Wind Energy Bill

Two NYS Energy Agencies Receive Subpoenas in Federal Investigation

Wind & Solar Nearly Fry Germany’s Electric Grid

Letter – Energy Sense

Inexpensive way to Shield a Smart Utility Meter

Major Military Facility Expresses Concerns about Nearby Wind Development

Manmade Global Warming Articles:

Peer Reviewed Study: much of the effort to combat global warming is actually making it worse

The Assault on Science

New Discovery May Scale Back Climate Alarm

Climate Science Obsessively Focused on Computer Modeling

Green Indoctrination at School

Serious Problems with Science Journalism

Real Science vs Catastophism [See section below on Free Speech]

Latest NOAA SLR Numbers Show No Acceleration

Study: The Paris Agreement, A Critical Assessment

Is the Era of Great Famines Over?…