Ed Note: This (re)post from two-and-a-half years ago is reproduced below (verbatim) given its continuing relevance to the climate debate today.
A recent piece in Climatewire by Scott Walderman, “‘Doomerism’: Why scientists disagree with Biden on 1.5 C,” begins:
Damned. Lost. Done. President Joe Biden keeps saying the world as we know it will be gone if global temperatures rise beyond 1.5 degrees.
Which led Michael Mann (a leading climate scientist/activist) to complain that Biden’s pitch was “misleading and unhelpful.” Mann continued:
It indeed feeds doomerism since there’s a very real possibility that we will fail to limit warming below 1.5 C. If we miss that exit ramp, we don’t continue headlong down the fossil fuel highway. We get off at the earliest possible exit.
“Doomerism” Everywhere?…
Continue ReadingThis 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):
*** NY State’s energy policies absurd, costly (this applies to many other states)
Empire Center Warns of Sharp Increase in New York Electricity Prices
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Offshore wind turbines steal each other’s wind: yields greatly overestimated
*** Scotland’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Wasting Three Quarters of its Energy
Dominion loses early court battle on CVOW
A speculation on military risk with offshore wind — AI submarines
Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Why Fossil Fuels Remain Essential to America’s Economic Engine in 2026
Trump’s first year back in office sees major oil and gas permit surge
Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** The Dirty Truth About Lithium Ion Batteries
Cyclotech’s Revolutionary Blackbird eVTOL
Misellaneousc Energy News:
*** Energy wisdom is lacking among public officials
*** Activist Groups Sabotaging American Energy Oppose America Itself
*** Attacking global electricity poverty
*** What is Technology
A Tribute to Robert Bryce: More Than Three Decades of Energy Humanism
Supreme Court Weighs Big Case Involving Major American Energy Companies
The essential guide to Micron’s chip project in Upstate NY: the largest private development project in NYS history
Affordability Crisis: Gavin Newsom and the California Energy Disaster
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** UN to Censor All Criticism of the Climate Agenda as Whistleblower Exposes it as a Total Scam
*** New Yorkers Organize Big-Time to Fight Back Against Empire State Climate Insanity and for Safe and Reliable Energy
*** President Trump And The Doomsday Glacier
*** Twenty Years Later, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Has Been Thoroughly Debunked
3 Cheers For CO₂!…
“… the outcome of doing nothing to combat climate change [is] simply horrific. That is why I find your phrase – We are winning the debate intellectual and politically for good reasons – somewhat alarming.” (- Martin Palmer, below)
All I have wanted in the climate policy arena is open debate. And on social media, LinkedIn has provided that to me. I now have nearly 13,000 followers who seem to enjoy my posts and ‘counterpunches’ against the omnipresent alarmists and apologists for wind, solar, and battery industrialization.
From time to time, I repost exchanges I have with the other side for the historical record. The future will be interested in what is to us the present. To this end, here is an exchange with an adversary, Martin Palmer, self-described as
… Continue ReadingPassionate about the Climate Threat of human extinction.