“Models and the numbers they generate are not evidence. Models are our hypotheses about how the world works, and the numbers they generate are our predictions. We test the models by comparing those predictions with real-world observations.”

Catholic bishops from around the world issued an appeal to the upcoming UN climate conference in Paris for a “complete decarbonization by mid-century” of the world’s energy systems.

As Reuters reported, their “document said ‘reliable scientific evidence’ suggests global warming is the result of ‘unrestrained human activity’, current models of progress and development, and excessive reliance on fossil fuels.”

We can dispense with the bishops’ two most obvious errors quickly.

First, carbon dioxide is not toxic at any concentration. It is essential to all life, plants growing better and hence making more food for all animals, including man (the poor benefiting the most), at higher concentrations than lower, and animals needing it to regulate respiration.…

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.

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Some of the more interesting articles in this issue are:

Report: Which States Lose the Most to Wind Welfare?

3% of wind developers earnings go to the community

Wind farm noise report ‘parallels VW scandal’

Negative Health Effects of Noise from Wind Turbines: Some Background

Research into Wind Turbine Infrasound

Wind Energy: Unreliable and Expensive

Iberdrola: “five instances of international fraud and corruption”

The Truth About One State’s Energy Policy (which applies to all)

Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition

Freeman Dyson on climate change, interstellar travel, fusion, and more

Study: Perspectives of Uncertainty in Climate Science

Prominent Scientists Declare Climate Claims to be “Irrational”

Climate Rationalization, Beliefs and Denialism

Climate Wars and the Damage to Science

Global Warming Despotism

French Science Society: The battle against global warming: an absurd, costly and pointless crusade

NASA Temperature Datasets “Massively Altered”

An Outbreak of Sanity (re Sea Level Rise)

Greed Energy Economics:

Report: Which States Lose the Most to Wind Welfare?…

“Boris Chinrencov, I am told you speak English.”

“Dada was translator at UN in New York, long ago.”

“I’m Bore Hire, an American utility regulation consultant. I have traveled here to learn about central planning from you.”

“What do you expect to learn from old communist apparatchik like me?”

“You see, we have begun Soviet-style central planning in America for energy. We are forcing people to use certain kinds of light bulbs and appliances. We subsidize renewable power. We now have a war on carbon to get consumers to change their ways.

You were a Commissar for tractor production for thirty years. We wish to know why your central planning failed so we can make it work better in America. We don’t have complete political control of energy yet, but we are already having problems.”…

“Paying the Audubon Society $10,500 per MW for repowered turbines and up to $5 million for this environmental disaster also does not reduce eagle mortality. It simply persuades Audubon to keep silent about the slaughter. The truth is in the higher carcass counts and mortality numbers at Altamont.”

Altamont, the U.S. wind industry’s most controversial area, has been in the news a great deal lately. Amid the controversy, developers are seeking public support for the huge new turbines to be installed there.

One of the major selling points for these turbines is that they will reduce eagle mortality. However, carefully hidden facts say otherwise. Although Altamont, the media, and Audubon Society are reporting a substantial decline in eagle mortality, the fact is that eagle carcass counts and other body counts have increased significantly at this “green” industrial slaughterhouse.…