There are many thousands of academics and others that do not like capitalism, industrialization, consumerism, and mineral energies. The same “consensus” thought that Peak Oil had arrived, time and again. Malthusianism is and has always been “consensus science.”
An ongoing exercise in groupthink is to believe the climate is in crisis because a scientific/political elite says so. Never mind that the Malthusians/ neo-Malthusians have been wrong with their ‘garbage-in, garbage-out’ models ever since the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) “limits to growth” model in 1972.
Enter Mark Mathis of the Clear Energy Alliance, a student of all things energy and climate and a distinguished communicator (see Appendix). Last month at an industry event (Marcellus Utica Midstream Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Mathis stated in “Breaking Through the Regulatory Wall:”
… Continue ReadingFor a scientist, for a climatologist to say, “we know that we’re the cause,” okay, “and the consequences are extreme” — well, we’ve got these giant natural factors, you know, sunspot activity, oceans, cloud formations, these are all extraordinarily complex things, okay?
“… knowledge is truly the mother of all resources.”
– Erich Zimmermann, World Resources and Industries (1951), p. 10.
The new year presents an opportunity to step back and appreciate the driver of progress in the free economy: the liberated, liberating entrepreneur. The change-makers of the market drive the creation and usage of resources, as well documented by the oil and gas extraction revolution of the last decade or more.
But a largely invisible, ongoing application in the U.S. and elsewhere deserves more attention. Instead of futile and wasteful (government) mitigation policy, the positive approach to climate policy is human ingenuity to anticipate, mitigate, or just capitalize on changing weather patterns, aka climate change.
Increasing ‘depletable’ resources is a paradigmatic example of what Julian Simon called “the ultimate resource,” human ingenuity.…
Continue ReadingThe 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 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:
Climate alarmist banks go carbon-colonialist
Watch 30 seconds of this
video re wind turbine blade
toxicity
How The U.S. Navy Remains The Masters
Of Modular Nuclear Reactors
The world is investing less in renewable
energy
Big Green Lobbies to Steal from the
Poor and Give to the Rich
Russia’s New Floating Nuclear Power
Plant Begins Delivering Electricity
Mosquitoes and Climate Change (and Turbines)
The Green Road to Serfdom
The decade that blew up energy predictions
China Adding New Coal Power Plants Equivalent
to Entire European Union Capacity
Short Video: What I Wasn’t Told About Climate Change
(from IPA)
Short Video: The Top Climate Crisis Scam of 2019
The End of a Decade When Climate Change
Alarmism Tipped Into Climate Change Hysteria
How Billionaires Tom Steyer and Michael
Bloomberg Corrupted Climate Science
Prager Video: Should Decent People Support Trump?…