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Energy & Environmental Review: September 2, 2025

By -- September 2, 2025

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. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.

Unreliables (General):
*** The price of energy and the system costs of renewables
Wind turbines and solar panels ONLY generate electricity
California Blackouts Have Begun. Thank ‘Green Energy’

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Trump’s Transportation Secretary Terminates $679 Million from Offshore Wind Projects
*** Trump Admin Kills Massive RI Offshore Wind Project
S&P downgrades Orsted credit rating

Wind Energy — Other:
*** A newer Study about the adverse consequences of turbine generated infrasound

Solar Energy:
How Bill McKibben Lost the Plot
South American Cold Underscores Role of Oil and Gas

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Stossel on the Green Industrial Complex: Power, Panic, and Profits
*** The Supposed Nearly Unanimous Consensus on Climate Change Was A High Stakes Pernicious Deception
UN abandons science and hires climate change zealots who damn the facts
Lobbying Judges Is the Latest Form of Climate Lawfare, A Case of Elites Buying Favoritism from the Courts

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** Interview.

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Energy & Labor Saving Day

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 31, 2025

This national holiday weekend presents another opportunity to appreciate the labor-saving qualities of energy, the master resource. The utility of affordable, plentiful, reliable energy is not a partisan issue except to a fringe anti-industrial sect (see below).

Note how leading climate alarmists do not question the importance of energy for the masses. “A reliable and affordable supply of energy,” stated John Holdren, Obama’s two-term science advisor, “is absolutely critical to maintaining and expanding economic prosperity where such prosperity already exists and to creating it where it does not.” [1] The father of climate alarmism, James Hansen, has stated:

Let’s be clear: the frequent comparison of the fossil fuel and tobacco industries is nonsense. Fossil fuels are a valuable energy source that has done yeomen service for humankind. [2]

Energy as Bad?

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“A Promise to be Biased for Houston” (Houston Chronicle deflects its Left Progressivism)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 28, 2025

“What about Left environmental groups buying off the Houston Chronicle with grants and biased op-eds? What about business editorialist Chris Tomlinson PR’ing for wind and solar, the very energies that his wife makes the couple’s riches from?”

Evan Mintz, the new editor of opinion at the Houston Chronicle, opined on his bias last month (July 27, 2025). “As the Chronicle’s new opinion editor, I promise to be biased,” he declared.

As I step into my new role as the Houston Chronicle’s editor of opinion and community engagement, I’ve written an opening column to set the tone — and yes, it’s biased.

He continued:

We’re seeking out voices that reflect not just our city’s cultural diversity but also its rich, often-overlooked political diversity. We’ll write editorials that go deeper than daily coverage — adding insight into the politics and personalities at City Hall and Commissioners Court and into suburban politics.

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Fussing and Troubles in COP Land

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 27, 2025
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Revolution Wind Stop Order: Remember Keystone XL (Obama) and LNG Exports (Biden)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 26, 2025
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U.S. Offshore Wind: Politics Giveth, Taketh

By -- August 25, 2025
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Angry Michael Mann Isolates Himself (climate exaggeration backfires)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 21, 2025
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Solar Bankruptcies: The New Normal

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 20, 2025
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‘Big Oil’ and Early Solar: Trying and Failing

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 19, 2025
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Energy & Environmental Review: August 18, 2025

By -- August 18, 2025
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