Happy Holidays from MasterResource

“America the Beautiful is at her best in December when billions of tiny stringed light bulbs turn the mundane or darkness itself into magnificent beauty and celebration. Holiday lighting is a great social offering—a positive externality in the jargon of economics—given by many to all.”

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The editors and bloggers at MasterResource wish our readers an energetic holiday season. We will resume January 2, 2023.

‘Saving the Dark’ (Light pollution fanaticism)

“The number of species affected by the growing light pollution problem is large and expanding.  Oddly enough and justly we humans have in recent years been added to that list.”

“Generating the power to these lights has contributed millions of tons of CO2 to the atmosphere annually, thus contributing to global climate change, with no human benefit.”

– The Rewilding Institute (below)

The Deep Ecologists just don’t like human beings doing their own thing. Don’t eat meat. Don’t drive or fly. Don’t multiply. And … don’t violate the natural darkness.

There is even a International Dark-Sky Association formed in 2001 in the cause of promoting night sky for land-based astronomy. Enter Jason Kahn, who introduces the film Saving the Dark in this article, The Ecological & Human Need for Dark Skies.…

Climate Cures as Greenwashing

“The real ‘greenwashers’ in the climate debate are those with false solutions parading as clean, green, and scalable.”

There is growing recognition among the climate-crisis crowd that the solutions are way, way inadequate to the alleged problem. But many still see their area as the most promising and in need of more attention (i.e., government, NGO favor).

A specialist in “energy transition engineering,” Susan Krumdieck, recently wrote to the Climate Change Professionals Group:

Your government finally makes the move to declare a “Net Zero” target. So what they do is declare wind and solar the saviours! Somebody does a few calculations and quietly hands a paper to the minister showing that this won’t work as a substitution while consumption keeps growing. The minister asks; why not?

And then we get the announcements that storage is the saviour.

Shell’s “Rational Middle” Campaign: Petroganda plus Futile Appeasement

Fossil Future at ExxonMobil (no ‘net zero’ here)

“THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE GOOD FOR ENRON STOCK!!” (Enron’s Kyoto memo turns 25)

Bret Stephens’ Climate Conversion: Utterly Unconvincing

Steven Koonin: Guilty as Charged (DeSmog’s Hall of Fame)

‘Common Ground’ on ESG? Only Bad Wins

‘Train Your Brain’ on Climate Change? (debate, don’t assume)