Energy & Environmental Newsletter: July 29, 2019

By John Droz, Jr. -- July 29, 2019

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental 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 three 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:

• Climate trillions frittered in the wind
• Study: The Social Cost of Carbon and Carbon Taxes
• Wind Farm Back-of-the-Envelope Economic Analysis
• The Confusions of the ‘Conservative’ Carbon Tax
• Inconvenient Energy Realities
• Infrasound noise guidelines: Antiquated and irrelevant for protecting populations
• Archive: Big Wind’s Dirty Little Secret — Radioactive Waste
• Study: The Impact of Wind Energy on Wildlife and the Environment
• Study: Green Killing Machines, the impact of renewable energy on wildlife and nature
• Fact-Check: Fearmongers Over Nevada’s Yucca Mountain
• Tucker Carlson TV segment: the Green New Deal is a Power Play
• 100% Renewable Is 100% Unachievable, Even If You’re An Optimist
• Sustainability and Global Warming Give Birth to Renewable Energy
• Prepare for green blackouts: That’s what’s in store for New York
• Balloon Tests to Simulate Turbine Height
• Battery Storage—An Infinitesimal Part of Electrical Power
• Excellent short video: Climate Apartheid?
• Study: Human CO2 Emissions have little Effect on Atmospheric CO2
• Study: No Experimental Evidence for Significant Man-made Climate Change
• Big Government Is Not the Answer to Climate Change
• How climate change got labeled a ‘crisis’
• Things Keep Getting Worse For The Fake “Science” Of Human-Caused Global Warming
• What Is The Biggest Holocaust? Green Fascism Reborn!
• Short video: We Should Fire Fraudulent Data Presenters
• Liberal Professor Warns: Google Manipulating Voters ‘on a Massive Scale’

Greed Energy Economics:

• Climate trillions frittered in the wind
• Study: The Social Cost of Carbon and Carbon Taxes
• Wind Farm Back-of-the-Envelope Economic Analysis
• The Confusions of the ‘Conservative’ Carbon Tax
• Inconvenient Energy Realities
• What It Will Take for the Wind and Solar Industries to Collapse
• Wind power and reliability: 180 degrees apart
• The Case for a World Carbon Bank
• Time to say goodbye to the PTC
• Ontario to compensate wind turbine developers for cancelled contract
• South Africa: Instituted a Carbon tax — but that’s not enough!
• Lobbyists mobilize the solar industry for another ITC extension
• Clean Energy Policy Push Faces Steep Climb Ahead of 2020 Election
• Washington wind turbine fire burns more than 500 acres, threatens homes…
• Archive: Energy, EROI and quality of life
• Expiring PTC Driving Large Year-end Wind Generation Construction
• NextEra Sees Little Threat to Wind and Solar From Fading Tax Credits
• Wind Tower Trade Coalition petitions US government to impose tariffs
• Cape Cod homeowners file suit over turbines

Turbine Health Matters:

• Infrasound noise guidelines: Antiquated and irrelevant for protecting populations
• The Wind Turbine Infrasound Noise Problem
• Archive: Big Wind’s Dirty Little Secret — Radioactive Waste
• MassDEP Caught In Wind Turbine Regulatory Capture Corruption

Renewable Energy Destroying Ecosystems:

• Study: The Impact of Wind Energy on Wildlife and the Environment
• Study: Green Killing Machines, the impact of renewable energy on wildlife and nature
• ‘Avian incident’ knocks out 84% of massive California solar farm
• Wind Turbines: A Clear and Present Danger to the Environment?
• Leisure Class Environmentalists Are Too Often Just Selfish NIMBYs
• Ontario environment minister, wind companies charged for groundwater pollution

Miscellaneous Energy News:

• Fact-Check: Fearmongers Over Nevada’s Yucca Mountain
• Tucker Carlson TV segment: the Green New Deal is a Power Play
• 100% Renewable Is 100% Unachievable, Even If You’re An Optimist
• Sustainability and Global Warming Give Birth to Renewable Energy
• Prepare for green blackouts: That’s what’s in store for New York
• Battery Storage—An Infinitesimal Part of Electrical Power
• Electricity from Large Dams Does NOT Count as Renewable Energy!
• A Reality Check for Solar and Wind
• Modern Societies Require Minerals, and Mining
• NY’s Climate Law Shaping Up As A Degrowth Mass Exodus
• NY Lobbyist Coalition Launches Push For Wind Energy
• GE probes third turbine collapse at US wind farms this year
• Why Planting Flowers under Solar Panels Won’t Make Solar Work
• July 26 meeting: Thorium-Fueled Gen 4 Advanced Nuclear Briefing
• Strangled Ohio wind industry: ‘We don’t want to give up’
• Amount of Cement Used for Older Turbine Foundations
• NYC is a warning — the blackout is coming
• How Cuomo is ‘building’ blackouts for NYC
• Green Activists With Ties to China Advised Obama State Department
• An unintended consequence of the green movement is the creation of more homeless
• Blown Away By Wind Farm Capacity Versus Actual Output
• The Signals from the Power Sector Have Changed (e.g. re gas)
• Collapse Of Wind Power Threatens Germany’s Green Energy Transition
• Cuomo’s War on the Power Grid
• New 1.5GW Wind Plan Very Different from Failed Wind Catcher
• Commission rejects proposal to build controversial Indiana wind project
• Balloon Tests to Simulate Turbine Height
• Community gets glimpse of what it could expect if wind turbine project goes through
• Nuclear Fusion Could Be A Reality By 2025

Miscellaneous–Offshore Wind

• Lake Erie Wind Project Shows Green Political Correctness Is A Disease
• Developer: We won’t pursue wind farm in waters off Hamptons
• Cuomo’s incredible wind-power pander
• Offshore Wind Fiascos Illustrate the Absurdity of Climate Change Policies
• Proposed New England Offshore Wind Facility Suffers Major Defeat
• BOEM Finding of Adverse Effect for the Vineyard Wind Project Plan
• Vineyard Wind project lands in rough waters
• NY Gov Cuomo tilts with windmills
• GE Establishing New Offshore Wind Factory, R&D Center In China
• NY County Legislature opposes wind turbines on Lake Erie
• Report: Who’s the Patsy? Offshore wind’s high-stakes poker game

US Energy Policy and Presidential Politics:

• U.S. Energy Is Hotspot In Trump’s Economy
• Dems’ Energy Ideas Confused, Disastrous
• AOC & Sanders seek a do-over for the Green New Deal
• Green New Deal position by US Democrat candidates (so far all support)
• Nuclear energy position by US Democrat candidates (mixed)
• Natural gas position by US Democrat candidates (so far all oppose fracking)
• Gillibrand’s Climate Plan

Manmade Global Warming Articles:

• Excellent short video: Climate Apartheid?
• Study: Human CO2 Emissions have little Effect on Atmospheric CO2
• Study: No Experimental Evidence for Significant Man-made Climate Change
• Big Government Is Not the Answer to Climate Change
• How climate change got labeled a ‘crisis’
• Things Keep Getting Worse For The Fake “Science” Of Human-Caused Global Warming
• What Is The Biggest Holocaust? Green Fascism Reborn!
• Short video: We Should Fire Fraudulent Data Presenters
• Failure of the Big Con
• Archive Study: Climate Change Computer Models are Unreliable
• Studies: Cloud Climatology — how little we know
• Scientists Find “Man-made Climate Change Doesn’t Exist In Practice”
• Archive: Debunking the 97% Consensus Claim
• CEI Files Complaint Re NASA’s Claim of 97% Climate Scientist Agreement on Global Warming
• The ‘Carbon Emissions’ Deception: No, Carbon Dioxide Is Not a Pollutant
• Socialists’ Weapon of Choice: Climate Alarmism
• The Y2K scare ended 1/1/00, but the climate emergency will fester forever
• 90 Scientists: Global Warming is a Total Hoax
• Methane emissions: don’t blame cows and camels, blame the oceans
• AOC Gets Smacked By Meteorologist Over ‘Climate Crisis’ Claims
• The Battle of New Orleans: Climate-Change Edition
• Cosmic rays seeded clouds during the last geomagnetic reversal
• Journalism’s Contribution to the Rise of Climate Alarm
• An American climate scientists is an evangelical Christian, on a mission to convert skeptics
• No Evidence That Climate Change Causes Weather Extremes: (3) Hurricanes
• Video: Extreme Fraud At The Union Of Concerned Scientists
• Going Green worldwide will be a greater challenge than going to the Moon
• Climate Expert: NASA GISS Surface Station Temperature Trends Based On Sheer Guess Work, Made-Up Data
• NASA: Cold Weather to Grip World as Solar Minimum to Deepen
• Climate Politics: A Mugs Game
• The Global Warming Show – how’s it going to end?”
• Study: Urban Heat Island Effect Caused 50% Of Warming In China
• Apocalyptic Sea-Level Rise—Just a Thing of the Past?
• Climate “call to action” — Never have U.S. doctors been so foolish
• Stop building a spaceship to Mars and just plant some damn trees
• Videoof Heartland’s recent 13^thICC Conference
• Local governments should steer clear of climate dogma
• Statement for the House Committee on Natural Resources, re ‘When Science Gets Trumped’

Science, Education, Politics, and Misc Related Articles:

• US EPA: Air Pollution Trends Show Cleaner Air, Growing Economy
• White House discusses real environmental solutions, media loses their minds
• The Guardian Spreads Anti-Americanism
• A Survivor of China’s Forced Labor Camp Urges Americans to Reject Socialism
• Democratic Socialism Newspeak
• Government is a great servant — but horrid master
• YouTube ad policy bans keyword ‘Christian’ as unacceptable content
• The Diversity Distortion
• Capitalism as Seen by the Left
• Justice Thomas’ Solution for Fake News and Other Libels
• Nineteen Eighty-Four at 70: What Orwell Got Right
• Civic leader warns of possible skyrocketing US flood insurance rates
• Study: Radiation levels in Marshall Islands still exceed Fukushima, Chernobyl
• Abigail Disney’s Stunt Against Capitalism
• To Err Is Human: Lessons From Malpractice Suits
• 3 reasons so many people are getting the hell out of the Northeast
• Democracy and progress are facing extinction
• Treat Extinction Rebellion as an extremist anarchist group
• ‘Bad science’: Australian studies found to be unreliable, compromised
• Are Universities Increasingly Liars and Con Artists?
• Law School Teaching Going Off on Ideological Tangents
• Never Have US Health Professionals Been So Misguided
• Why the precautionary principle is bad policy
• Liberal Professor Warns: Google Manipulating Voters ‘on a Massive Scale’

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