Energy & Environmental Newsletter: February 3, 2020

By John Droz, Jr. -- February 3, 2020

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy, environmental and education policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every two± weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
FERC Orders PJM to Expand Minimum Offer Price Rule
Another perspective on the important FERC ruling
Intermittent & Unreliable Wind & Solar The Greatest Subsidy Scam In History
The Evolution of Electricity Rates
Wind power in France: a lie and a swindle?
The Left’s Opposition to Mining Threatens Its Green Dream
Iowa cardiologist shares health concerns over wind turbines
Top Solar Executives Plead Guilty to Participating in a Billion Dollar Ponzi Scheme
Study: Solar can be a net energy loser
The Solar Company Making a Profit on Poor Africans
Nuclear Waste Recycled into Diamond Batteries with “Near Infinite Power”
The Unexpected Consequences Of Germany’s Anti-Nuclear Push
Germany’s overdose of renewable energy
Worried About Cutting CO2 Emissions? Then Nuclear is the Only Solution
Epstein Video: Fossil Fuels are Not Mankind’s Enemy
CO2 Emissions Expected to Decline Yet Again. Thank Natural Gas.
Energy Paradoxes Put Europe In a Precarious Position
Gov Cuomo would like to accelerate the race to the bottom
The Six Energy Paradoxes that slow the sector’s progress
Short Video: BERNing Down America
Short video: President Trump’s remarks at Davos
Ignore the Fake Climate Debate
Greenpeace included with neo-Nazis on UK counter-terror list
Sanders staffer calls for extreme left-wing violence while living lavish lifestyle
Top Scientist Describes “Global Warming” as Pseudo-Science
Global warming goals impossible, Nobel laureate tells Swiss paper
Earth’s Climate History: What the Doomsayers Don’t Want Voters to Know
Another Of The “Stupidest Litigation” Contenders Dies — But Just Barely
The Taming and Shaming of RCP8.5 – Climate Scientists Carry On As Usual
Climate Serfdom Is No Future, It’s the Road to Destruction
2019 Global Temperatures: Down and Up
Robust Scientific Evidence that Clouds (not CO2) Control Earth’s Climate
Report: CO2 Reduction is a Mass Murder Policy
Why we should be wary of blaming ‘overpopulation’ for the climate crisis
Climate Policies Harm Minorities
Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change is ethically misguided and dangerous

Greed Energy Economics:
FERC Orders PJM to Expand Minimum Offer Price Rule
Another perspective on the important FERC ruling
Intermittent & Unreliable Wind & Solar The Greatest Subsidy Scam In History
The Evolution of Electricity Rates
Mnuchin: Greta should study economics
Archive: The Disastrous Economics of 100% Renewables
Rockefeller Fund Behind “Climate Polluters” Lawsuits, etc.
Electric utilities: pathway to a costs and pricing revolution

Renewable Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
Wind power in France: a lie and a swindle?
The Left’s Opposition to Mining Threatens Its Green Dream
Iowa cardiologist shares health concerns over wind turbines
Archive Study: People near wind turbines report having a lower quality of life
Wind Turbines at Deer Lake (NY) may drain the lake
Years later, Vermont wind project’s impact on bear habitat in question

Solar Energy:
Top Solar Executives Plead Guilty to Participating in a Billion Dollar Ponzi Scheme
Study: Solar can be a net energy loser
The Solar Company Making a Profit on Poor Africans
U.S. continues to dump funds into an electrical sinkhole
The Grid Is At Capacity For Solar Power In Parts Of Oregon

Nuclear Energy:
Nuclear Waste Recycled into Diamond Batteries with “Near Infinite Power”
The Unexpected Consequences Of Germany’s Anti-Nuclear Push
Germany’s overdose of renewable energy
Worried About Cutting CO2 Emissions? Then Nuclear is the Only Solution
Don’t like CO2? Advanced nuclear power is the answer
Russian Scientists Reveal Plans for Fusion-Fission Reactor

Natural Gas Energy:
Epstein Video: Fossil Fuels are Not Mankind’s Enemy
CO2 Emissions Expected to Decline Yet Again. Thank Natural Gas.
Energy Paradoxes Put Europe In a Precarious Position
Note to U.S. Politicians – oil and gas is an International industry
Yale Says Fracking Causes Sexually-Transmitted Infections
Students Demand Divestment From Fossil Fuels: Professor Offers To Turn Off Gas Heating
What If Fracking Were Banned, As Some Irresponsibly Propose?

Miscellaneous Energy News:
Gov Cuomo would like to accelerate the race to the bottom
Gov Cuomo Proposes Radical Reshaping of Siting Process for Renewable Projects
The Six Energy Paradoxes that slow the sector’s progress
Short Video: BERNing Down America
Imagine A World Without Oil
Economist says Governor is wrong about offshore wind job claims
IEA expects coal consumption to rise through next five years
US House Draft of Climate Change Bill
Sections of Australia are on Electricity Blackout Watch
Study: Comparing Carbon Capture to Renewable Energy
NY County Approves Stronger Local Wind Law
NY Town Sued Over Wind Law

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
Top Scientist Describes “Global Warming” as Pseudo-Science
Global warming goals impossible, Nobel laureate tells Swiss paper
Earth’s Climate History: What the Doomsayers Don’t Want Voters to Know
CLINTEL Manifesto blasts climate scaremongering
Worst case emissions climate scenario ‘exceedingly unlikely’
Was 2019 a Hot Year, or Was There Just Lots of Hot Talk?
Archive: The Two-Degree Delusion
The Thunberg Fallacies
Polar bears: The end of a climate delusion icon
The Pillars of Climate Rhetoric Are Rotten and Don’t Hold Up
The American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act: Myth vs. Fact
US Democrats Demand YouTube Censor “Climate Misinformation” Video

Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
Another Of The “Stupidest Litigation” Contenders Dies — But Just Barel
The Taming and Shaming of RCP8.5 – Climate Scientists Carry On As Usual
Climate Serfdom Is No Future, It’s the Road to Destruction
The Physician and ‘Climate Change’
2019 Global Temperatures: Down and Up
Robust Scientific Evidence that Clouds (not CO2) Control Earth’s Climate
Report: CO2 Reduction is a Mass Murder Policy
Why we should be wary of blaming ‘overpopulation’ for the climate crisis
Climate Policies Harm Minorities
CO2 Emissions – the ‘business as usual’ story is misleading
US court dismisses suit by youths over climate change
Radio Interview: Climate Controversies
Video Interview: Conversation Update with Dr. William Happer
Study: Empirical evidence of declining global vulnerability to climate-related hazards
Study: Climate sensitivity, agricultural productivity and the social cost of carbon
Study: Humans are the #1 Cause of Fires in the US
Feminist Author Calls on Germans to Stop Having Babies to Save the Planet
Boris Johnson & Climate Change
A Potpourri of Recent Developments in the Climate Wars
Clear solar vs climate correlation since 2,000 years ago: CO2 irrelevant
Climate sensitivity vs the latest energy imbalance evidence
NASA declares carbon dioxide is Greening the Earth

Education Related:
Californians Turn a Cold Shoulder on Bill Requiring Climate-Change Education
Social Justice Revisionism Comes for Washington and Lee
The Intellectual and Moral Decline in Academic Research

Other US Politics and Related:
Short video: President Trump’s remarks at Davos
Ignore the Fake Climate Debate
Greenpeace included with neo-Nazis on UK counter-terror list
Sanders staffer calls for extreme left-wing violence while living lavish lifestyle
Short Video: How to End White Privilege
What’s in Republicans’ new climate-change push
Former CIA Officer On What The ‘Deep State’ Looks Like: Part 1 and Part 2
Report: China cracks down on Christian religious funerals
See this in the news? Time-lapse video shows massive turnout for 2020 March for Life
President Trump rejects environmental ‘prophets of doom’ in Davos address
Trump At Davos: Optimism, Not Pessimism!

Science and Miscellaneous Matters:
Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change is ethically misguided and dangerous
A New Road to Serfdom
Rule From Afar By the UN
The ‘Global Citizen’ Fraud
‘Cancel Culture’ Comes to Science
When Science Is Literally under Attack: Ad Hominem Attacks
The Mess That Is Science Publishing
The top 10 FAKE SCIENCE stories of 2019
Amy Cooke gets selected to be the CEO of the John Locke Foundation
The Sun Set Off 4,000 Sea Mines During the Vietnam War
Harvard University professor lied about work for the Chinese government
NYS Charges citizens for the privilege of looking at the night sky
Where are NY State residents migrating to?