Energy and Environmental Review: June 19, 2023

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Ed. note: 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. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.

Greed Energy Economics:
Social Cost of Subsidies
Green Energy Now Threatens South Korea’s Economy
Costly climate rules are turning Germans away from the Greens

Unreliables (General):
*** The hole story of the Green New Deal
*** Ramping up wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles can’t solve our energy problem
*** Models Hide the Shortcomings of Wind and Solar
*** Study: Geophysical constraints on the reliability of solar and wind power worldwide
*** Britain’s green energy disaster should be an awful warning to Americans
Limitations to Mining related to Unreliable Electricity
“Peak Green” in Western Countries: What it Means Eastern Countries

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Is the Great Fish Kill of 1976 About to be Repeated?

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Chris Tomlinson (Houston Chronicle) Confesses Conflict of Interest

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 2, 2023 3 Comments

“(Disclosure: My wife works for a private equity firm that invests in clean energy companies, and they have projects in Texas. But my interest in climate change and energy dates back 30 years, and like most spouses, my wife will tell you she has little influence over my opinions.)” – Tomlinson (below)

It is a start—but only a start. In a recent lobbyist-like editorial for the Houston Chronicle, the climate-religionist, bully-like, cut-the-beef Chris Tomlinson confessed to a conflict-of-interest. But the conflict is more than being married to a person that “works for a private equity firm that invests in clean energy companies”; his wife is a multi-millionaire rainmaker in wind and solar–the very two energies that Chris champions so completely and extensively.

His term “clean energy companies,” moreover, euphemizes the deep nature of wind and solar: government-enabled, cost-inflating, dilute, intermittent energies.…

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Energy and Environmental Review: May 22, 2023

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Ed. note: 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. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.

Greed Energy Economics:
Battle Looms Among NY Democrats Over High Cost of Green Energy Plans

Renewable Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
Three bat species at risk of becoming endangered as wind turbines take heavy toll on wildlife
New Study: Bat Mortality in Wind Facilities of Southern Europe: Temporal Patterns and Implications in the Current Context of Climate Change

Renewables (General):
*** EPA v. The Grid
*** The wind and solar power myth has finally been exposed
*** Causal Effects
*** Wind and Solar Aren’t Nearly Enough: Why Biden Is Suddenly Supporting Fossil Fuels
There Is No Green “Energy Transition”
Oxford University’s Our World in Data falls for renewables industry spin

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** The Left claims offshore wind costs are “benefits”
*** US Lawsuits filed against Offshore Wind Projects
R.I.

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“Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ Fails Test of Time” (New York Times verdict in 2007)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 17, 2023 1 Comment

“Carson used dubious statistics and anecdotes to warn of a cancer epidemic that never came to pass. She rightly noted threats to some birds, like eagles and other raptors, but she wildly imagined a mass ‘biocide.’ She warned that one of the most common American birds, the robin, was ‘on the verge of extinction’ – an especially odd claim given the large numbers of robins recorded in Audubon bird counts before her book.” (John Tierney, New York Times column, June 5, 2007)

Little remembered, the “newspaper of record,” as the New York Times was once known, frankly presented the scientific misconduct and false alarms of the iconic Rachel Carson (d. 1964) fifteen years ago. Still, Carson promoters invoke her memory today in regard to the the climate debate. Physician Hope Ferdowsian recently wrote in the Harvard Public Health:

Sixty years later, the book’s lessons are more relevant than ever….

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Energy and Environmental Review: May 8, 2023

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Headwinds for Offshore Wind (Rhode Island’s RFP a sign of trouble)

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Battery Weight: Hidden Costs of EVs versus ICEs

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Energy and Environmental Review: April 10, 2023

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Energy and Environmental Review: March 27, 2023

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Offshore Headwinds for Biden

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