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By John Droz, Jr. -- February 10, 2014 No CommentsThe Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy & environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science. It’s all spelled out at WiseEnergy.org, which is a wealth of energy and environmental resources.
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every 3 weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and environmental matters. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
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Greed Energy Economics:
London School of Economics: Property Values do Decline
23 Texas wind project lessors sue over noise, nuisance and property value
Noise, property values factor in wind forum discussion
Renewable Energy Goals Must Be Balanced with Economic Realities
CAP counts ‘indirect jobs’ in green energy, ignores them for oil and gas
Germany to charge renewable energy facilities for their own use of electricity
Germany’s energy revolution on verge of collapse
Europe Starts To Run, Not Walk, Away From Green Economics
DOE: Making it easier to use taxpayer funds
Governor LePage is right – wind farm subsidies are poor use of government funding
High Renewable Energy Costs Damage Vermont’s Economy
Some wind projects double-dipping on US tax benefits
Be Leery of Investing in Failing Green Solutions
Duke Energy to seek reduction in payments to NC homes with solar panels
Another solar manufacturer goes under
Loss Of Production Tax Credits Brings Big Wind Chill
Fighting wind PTC expiration with Senator Wyden
Continue ReadingFlat Temperatures, Still More Ills
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 5, 2014 6 Comments“When the history of the global warming scare comes to be written, a chapter should be devoted to the way the message had to be altered to keep the show on the road. Global warming became climate change so as to be able to take the blame for cold spells and wet seasons as well as hot days. Then, to keep its options open, the movement began to talk about ‘extreme weather’.”
– Matt Ridley, “Nobody Even Calls the Weather Average,” July 9, 2013.
Last summer, global warming was blamed for firefighter deaths, more thunderstorms, and poor lobster catches.
Last fall and so far this winter, the list has grown to include:
- Trillions of dollars of storm-surge flooding
- Bigger snowfalls
- Future Winter Olympics cancellations
- Drying Great Lakes
- Increased severe U.S.
Cooling Trends in Climate Model Credibility
By Eric Dennis -- November 12, 2013 7 Comments“Given the current state of climate science, I don’t see evidence that these and other complex interacting factors stand a reasonable chance of being predicted, beyond what is possible through a basic understanding of historical variability.”
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released its first major global warming manifesto since 2007. Once again, the IPCC makes dramatic predictions of future warming and catastrophic consequences due to manmade carbon dioxide emissions. Typically, these predictions are reported as proven “findings” that have the same status as the readings of a thermometer.
But predictions are fundamentally different from measurements, and the more complex the system, the more difficult the prediction. The climate is a complicated combination of atmospheric, land, and ocean systems whose dynamics must be pieced together on scales from the size of a single cloud to wind streams spanning continents.…
Continue ReadingHalloween Thoughts from Obama’s Science Advisor
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 31, 2013 6 Comments“Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the [twentieth] century.”
Doom and gloom—and falsity—hallmarks the long career of John P. Holdren, neo-Malthusian and now President Obama’s initial and still science advisor.
What else has the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy said? And can we assume that he still holds and trumpets these views to Obama?
It’s Halloween, a good time to refresh memories of the man who just might be the scariest presidential advisor in U.S. history!
Read—but don’t be frightened. The sky-is-falling gloom of Holdren, his mentor Paul Ehrlich, and others is in intellectual and empirical trouble. From Julian Simon to Bjorn Lomborg to Indur Goklany to Matt Ridley, the technological optimists have the upper hand in a debate that continues to be one-sided.…
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