“Climate alarmism cannot be understood outside of the long-standing, long-debunked Malthusian view of man as a market failure, a planetary failure. The last half-century’s litany of alarm marches on, with one failed prognostication morphing into another.”
“The Planet Doesn’t Have Time for This,” screams the headline of a recent New York Times Sunday Review. “President Trump is in charge at a crucial moment for dealing with the climate crisis,” the subtitle reads. “We may never recover.”
The article by Bill McKibben begins:
President Trump’s environmental onslaught will have immediate, dangerous effects. He has vowed to reopen coal mines and moved to keep the dirtiest power plants open for many years into the future. Dirty air, the kind you get around coal-fired power plants, kills people.
and ends:
… Continue ReadingWe can hope other world leaders will pick up some of the slack.
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Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
US Tax Subsidies For Renewables Now Far Outpaces Fossil Fuels
Wind Industry Titan Soaks Up Billions in Tax Subsidies
Oklahoma ends wind power subsidy
Solar Power: An Environmental Disaster
The Real Threat is ‘Big Environment’
53 year old coal plant generates more electricity that all wind facilities combined
DOE study on electric grid to be done by “renewable skeptic”
We must protect Texas’ military installations from encroaching wind turbines
Failed Economics Of Renewable Energy: The Facts
End of Global Warming Debate — It’s As Easy As 1-2-3
Every green initiative imposed on us by politicians has ended in disaster
Exiting the Paris Climate Agreement
Peer-Reviewed: Paris climate promises will reduce temps in 2100 by 0.05°C
Please: Sign Petition Against Paris Agreement
Real science must guide policy
Continue Reading“About $3 trillion has been spent globally on renewable energy since 2004, and the figure has now stabilized at about $300 billion for each one of the last six years.”
This post describes renewable-energy performance in the United States through 2016 as reported in annual reports of the Department of Energy (DOE).[1] The DOE lists six renewable sources: Wind, Solar, Hydro, Wood, Waste, and Geothermal. The term “solar” means the combined output of both photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar plants (CSP).
Renewable sources are usually divided into two groups: “Wind and Solar” (W&S), and “Other” (H&W&W&G). Accordingly, the following two graphs show the history of the two groups’ outputs in separate charts: W&S first and H&W&W&G second. A quick glance at both graphs reveals the upward trending lines in the first chart and the near horizontal lines in the second, with wiggles in the line for hydro output caused by differences in rainfall and irrigation demand from one year to the next.…
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