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.
Greed Energy Economics:
California Duck & Cover: Part 1 and Part 2
Unreliables (General):
*** MISO Obliterates Solar, Storage, and Wind Capacity Values
*** Leaders Like Mark Carney Sold the West a Renewable Energy Story. China Is Cashing In
*** The Cost of Wind and Solar Power Backup
Google Management Admits Renewables Don’t Work for Powering Data Centers
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Haunting discovery near wind turbine raises questions about fishing boat tragedy
Trump Administration Seeks Remand of COP Approval for Offshore Wind Farm Now in Final Commissioning Stage
Alliance unveils floating wind action plan
Solar Energy:
Once touted as a clean-energy blueprint, Nevada solar plant sells for cents on the dollar
Nuclear Energy:
Nuclear radiation and falling out of bed
The Anti-Nuclear Playbook Comes for Data Centers
Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Trump Announces “Massive” Greenland Oil Exploration Plans
Labour discovers Britain still needs gas
US challenges World Bank fossil fuel restrictions
Miscellaneous Energy News:
California’s Energy Crisis Could Bring the West Coast to its Knees
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** More Truth About The Climate Lies
*** UN Climate Panic Rests on False Scenario and Buried Past
*** New documents reveal stealth advocacy at the heart of America’s National Academies
Finally, a Net Zero sceptic on the BBC
Climate Lawsuits Fail Constitutional and Scientific Review
The Five Dimensions of a Simplistic Argument
Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** Super El Niño then and now: How this year’s strengthening event compares to historic extremes
Positive Response to CO2 Coalition Messages Spurs National Ad Campaign
Climate’s Past Performance Uncertain Predictor of FutureClimate Conference Stumbles Into Realities…
“Politicians seem to be struggling to deliver on voters’ affordability concerns about housing, health care and more, but natural gas is doing just fine…. No single politician can take credit for this. Maybe that’s why it has worked.”
The editorial board of the Washington Post last month gave a shout out to natural gas. Kudos to the Post for magnifying the obvious.
“Natural gas remains affordable. Here’s how” (September 22, 2026), subtitled “It wasn’t a genius plan by the government,” began:
As the Iran conflict continues to roil energy markets, sending crude oil and gasoline prices higher, there’s one bright spot for American customers: natural gas. For that, they can thank American innovation and free markets.
Continuing:
… Continue ReadingThe reason for the lower prices is not less demand; in fact, demand is expected to continue its years-long rise.
“Overall, Democrats have softened some of the rhetoric they think may have alienated voters in the Biden years — on climate and gender issues in particular….” – David Wallace-Wells, New York Times (October 14, 2026)
It’s election season. A major issue is high energy prices. “Climate change” is way down the concern list, knowing that climate mitigation (anti-fossil-fuel) policies increase prices. Thus, the green hushing continues.
Climate messaging is a mess–and in a funk (see Appendix below). The leading critic of green hushing, Joe Romm, committed suicide to escape the issue. “The problem is not denial nor this strawman description of ‘climate messaging’ that no one I know actually does— and I’ve been doing this for three decades,” he complained.
… Continue ReadingThe problems are 1) the biggest disinformation campaign in human history, 2) which is amplified by every major social media site and 3) which combined outspend the money disseminating any of the climate messaging by 20x to 100x.