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“Happy Earth Day” (Julian Simon’s 25th anniversary essay speaks to us on the 50th)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 22, 2020

[It] is very frustrating that after 25 years of the anti-pessimists being proven entirely right, and the doomsayers being proven entirely wrong, their credibility and influence waxes ever greater. That’s the bad news. The good news is that there is every scientific reason to be joyful about the trends in the condition of the Earth, and hopeful for humanity’s future, even if we are falsely told the outlook is grim. So Happy Earth Day.” (- Julian Simon, 1995)

April 22 [1995] marks the 25th anniversary of Earth Day. Now as then its message is spiritually uplifting. But all reasonable persons who look at the statistical evidence now available must agree that Earth Day’s scientific premises are entirely wrong.

During the first great Earth Week in 1970 there was panic. The public’s outlook for the planet was unrelievedly gloomy.…

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Bryce’s “A Question of Power”

By -- April 21, 2020

Roughly 3.3 billion people—about 45 percent of all the people on the planet—live in places where per-capita electricity consumption is less than 1,000 kilowatt-hours per year, or less than the amount used by my refrigerator.

By 2017, more than 6,600 coal-fired power plants, with a combined capacity of about 2,000 gigawatts, were operating around the globe…. Not only that, coal’s share of global electricity production has remained nearly constant, at about 40 percent, since the mid-1980s. Why is this? For the simple reason that coal is cheap and widely available.

Americans are currently facing significant uncertainty over how the drop in oil prices, the COVID-19 virus, and governments’ response to both will harm the economy and their long-term prosperity.

However, the harm caused by governments that limit access to affordable and reliable electricity is well understood.…

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: April 20, 2020

By -- April 20, 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:

Richard Weaver, the Coronavirus, and the Strenuous Life

On Computer Models, Socialism, And Other Garbage

A pandemic is the wrong time to shut down NYC’s top source of electricity

Even Facing a Pandemic, NYS Remains in the Grip of the Green Movement

Green New Deal goes viral, and fails

Climate Models and COVID-19 Models

Modeling COVID-19 and the Lies of Multiculturalism

Have We Won?

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Trump’s New CAFE Rule: Better than Obama, Still Too Much

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 16, 2020
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‘Eco-fascism’ Troubles Climate Alarmists

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 14, 2020
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Climate Intelligence Foundation to Poynter Institute: Debate Climate Science, Don’t Insult

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 13, 2020
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Greenwashing vs. Shareholder Wealth: E&E Legal Wants to Know!

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 9, 2020
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Agro-Ecology Financiers: Promoting Poverty, Malnutrition, and Death (Part 2) 

By -- April 8, 2020
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Agro-Ecology Financiers: Promoting Poverty, Malnutrition, and Death (Part 1)

By -- April 7, 2020
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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: April 6, 2020

By -- April 6, 2020
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