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 informative articles in this issue are:

How a NC Wind Project Undermines US National Security

An Open Letter To Amazon about the NC Desert Wind project

China drastically reducing wind and solar subsidies

UK PM Cameron: “Get Rid of the Green Crap”

Video: Wind Turbines Can Cause Human Health Impacts

AWEA’s Eagle Mortality Defense: A Response

The story behind “Renewables” and “Sustainability”

“Renewable” Energy – Powerful Words Make Us Do Stupid Things

Global Warming Goes To Court

Ted Cruz on “Climate Change”

Report: Private Interest and Public Office

Settled Science is a Myth

Greed Energy Economics:

China drastically reducing wind and solar subsidies

GOP Presidential Hopefuls Call for Ending Energy Subsidies

UK PM Cameron: “Get Rid of the Green Crap”

Talk Is Cheap but Renewable Energy Is Not

Study: Wind Energy has Diminishing Returns

Wind Energy Profits Gone with the Wind

Wind Farm Investment Plunges With Power Prices in Nordic Region

Transparency lacking in state energy moves

Uncle Sam’s Solar Racket — A Cesspool Of Waste And Corruption

NC Shouldn’t Renew ‘Renewable’ Handouts

NC’s RPS cost = $3,800 per NC family

NC’s Energy Policy is “Morally Repugnant”

Turbine Health Matters:

Video: Wind Turbines Can Cause Human Health Impacts

New Research: Less Sleep Causes Higher Chance of Sickness

Web MD: Ten Things to Hate About Sleep Loss

Healthline: The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on the Body

Harvard: Consequences of Insufficient Sleep

NIH: Consequences of Sleep Loss

NHS: Why Lack of Sleep is Bad for Your Health

More deaths from relocation than from Fukushima or tsunami

Turbine Wildlife Matters:

AWEA’s Eagle Mortality Defense: A Response

Raisin Supreme Court ruling seen as lifeline for endangered species

Is wind energy development, killing the green energy movement?…

“The real ‘criminals’ are those who use climate fear-mongering to justify fraudulent science and policies that kill, by denying people access to life-saving fossil fuels.”

Contrary to global warming hype, cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather, according to a study that analyzed 74 million deaths in 384 locations across 13 countries. And contrary to climate models and predictions, recent winters have been long and cold – a far cry from climate alarmist claims that snow and skiing would soon be a thing of the past.

In Britain, many pensioners now ride buses or sit in libraries all day during the winter to stay warm, while others burn used books in stoves, as they are cheaper than coal or wood. Thousands die of hypothermia each winter, because they can no longer afford to heat their homes properly, due to soaring electricity costs under Britain’s climate and renewable energy policies.…

“The climate-crisis industry is much larger than merely the IPCC and vaguely defined government agencies. Other major players include wealthy, powerful Big Green pressure groups; wind, solar and biofuel companies that offer supposed alternatives to fossil fuels; politicians who have tied their careers, influence and campaign contributions to the global warming/climate change/extreme weather mantra; and journalists and media outlets that have also hitched their wagons to this global movement.”

Georgia Institute of Technology climate sciences professor Judith Curry has perceptively interpreted a recent analysis by economists William Butos and Thomas McQuade on how “Big Players” can distort climate research and other scientific endeavors. Their discussion, and hundreds of comments that followed, deserve careful consideration.

Big Players are institutions and officials who have the funding, influence and power to dictate who receives grants, what research gets published, whose evidence and conclusions receive wide coverage, and whether the findings and related policy proposals will be debated.…

[Editor Note: MasterResource has reviewed Alex Epstein’s The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels before, but new reviews are welcomed to better appreciate and promote one of the most important books of its genre (energy realism) since Julian Simon’s The Ultimate Resource (1981). For futher information about this review and its author, see below.]

Who would argue that producing and using fossil fuels is not only not shameful, but also positively virtuous? Alex Epstein would. And he has done so eloquently and thoroughly in his book, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.

Epstein aptly summarizes his book with its final sentence (p. 209): “Mankind’s use of fossil fuels is supremely virtuous—because human life is the standard of value, and because using fossil fuels transforms our environment to make it wonderful for human life.”…