Ed. Note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnighly 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:
*** Economic Euthanasia
*** The Crippling Economic Costs of Green Energy Subsidies
*** Mind-Bogglingly Costly Green Boondoggles Leave Carbon, Temperatures Virtually Untouched
Unreliables: Energy, Health, and Ecosystem Consequences:
*** Upstate NY resident presents wind turbine concerns to County Board of Health
Industrial Wind Turbines Are Slaughtering Millions of Birds and Bats
Unreliables (General):
*** Insiders warn shifting to green energy could disrupt power grid reliability
***Another Critical Thinker Reaches The Obvious Conclusion: Intermittent Renewables Can’t Work On Their Own
*** The Black Lie at the Heart of Net Zero Energy Fantasies
Michigan Dems Big Foot The Locals
Wind Energy — Offshore:
Great Lakes Icebreaker project on Ice: high hopes dashed
Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
7,500 wind turbines in Spain to be dismantled within five years
Solar Energy:
*** New: Solar Resistance Plan of Action
Why The Residential Solar Industry is in Danger of Imploding
Maine community approves ban on commercial solar facilities
Nuclear Energy:
*** COP 28 – Young people positive about nuclear energy
First Two SMR-300 Units Slated to be Built at Michigan’s Palisades Site
Poland’s Coal-to-Nuclear plans move forward with U.S.…
“The final COP28 text ‘calls on’ governments ‘to transition away from fossil fuels’… This is the weakest possible formulation according to UNFCCC’s own style guide (see image below). The list below is in order of strength (from strongest ‘instruct’ to weakest ‘calls’). We should not celebrate the COP28 final text as a ‘landmark deal’ ….”
– Andreas Rasche, Copenhagen Business School (below)
The “breakthrough” hyperbole of the mainstream media (in search of momentum with an issue that the public has rightfully demoted) is not going over very well with the climate religionists on the ground.
Al Gore Hype
Al Gore himself, unable to wave the white flag, spins failure into hope:
… Continue ReadingThe decision at COP28 to finally recognize that the climate crisis is, at its heart, a fossil fuel crisis is an important milestone.
“The whole thing is a misdirect. Were any of you serious, it would have been a zoom meeting. All of the stopping climate change proposals are bullshit because they require rounds of GLOBAL CONSUMPTION. Forcing everyone to buy a new stove, water heater, HVAC system and car all at once is not decarbonization, it’s a disaster for the planet. This is all industry driven to force consumption.”
– Steven Lamb, Institute for Sound Public Policy (below)
They had it coming. James Hansen, no less, called the 2015 Paris Agreement “a fraud really, a fake.” And fossil fuels almost a decade later are that much more embedded.
But will the disillusioned true believers want to check their premises and change course?
“The only person who can truly persuade you is yourself,” Milton and Rose Friedman once wrote [Free to Choose (1979), p.…
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