“[I am] worried that events like this could harm the cause to which I (and so many) have devoted my life. From a communications standpoint, the protest seemed like an even bigger mess than the soup-splattered painting.” – Michael Mann (below)
The activist climate fringe finds their cause in trouble. Their termite cause is losing to consumers who want the best energies in terms of price and reliability; losing with taxpayers who are on the hook for ‘energy transition’ bribes; losing with the public that is tired of the rhetoric, exaggeration, and now targeted inconvenience. And, losing with nature as energy sprawl accelerates with industrial wind, solar, and batteries.
Yet the anti-modern-living Deep Ecologists myopically target carbon dioxide (CO2), the green greenhouse gas, the gas of life. Turning to civil disobedience only inflames the public against a selfish fringe.…
Continue Reading“The climate movement is dealing with a host of problems of its own making. The anti-CO2 crusade will have fewer and fewer defenders as reality continues to strike back.”
The Climate Industrial Complex wants to tax, regulate, and subsidize, not debate (“report, block, don’t engage,” says Michael Mann). But Climate Week NYC, hosted by Climate Group, allowed (a precious few) alternative voices to alarmism and forced energy transformation at its more than 600 advertised events and activities.
The hard core was upset. “Fossil Fuel Presence at Climate Week NYC Spotlights Dissonance in Clean Energy Transition,” complained Inside Climate News. “Blah, Blah, Blah,” wrote Liza Featherstone in TNR. She noted:
… Continue Reading… instead of being an urgent call to action, it is now the closest thing the climate movement has to a trade show, a week of fancy lunches and private drinks and flashy presentations announcing new investment funds, new green pledges from businesses and states, and thought leaders taking the opportunity to show their climate bona fides.
Ed. Note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.
Greed Energy Economics:
*** Renewables Price check
*** The Catastrophic Costs of Government-Dictated Green Energy (Epstein)
*** 12 myths that government-dictated green energy is cheaper than fossil fuels
Unreliables (General):
*** Tally Of US Wind & Solar Rejections Hits 735
*** Why There Will Never Be a Zero Emissions Electricity System Powered Mainly by Wind and Sun
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Glass fibers – the rest of the story?????
*** Oregon’s offshore lease sale canceled as bidders back out, governor raises concerns
Maine’s massive “floating wind” folly — my report
BP to sell its US onshore wind business
ACK For Whales Asks Supreme Court to Hear Appeal
Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
Industrial Wind Turbines Show up at the Party — Almost Always, after Everyone Has Left
Nuclear Energy:
*** It’s time to follow the Navy’s 50-year Safety Record of Nuclear Power Generation
*** Construction Permit issued for Molten Salt Reactor in Texas
Nuclear Now?…