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Trump Deflates Paris: Nod to James Hansen, Rebuke to John Holdren

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 2, 2017

“Praise goes to Donald Trump. He waited, listened, and decided. American First. Consumers First. Taxpayers First. Global climate and energy planners and an intellectual elite last.”

The good news is that the Paris climate agreement, weak and aspirational to begin with, will increasingly go the way of the Kyoto Protocol. President Trump did a big favor for the US and the world by pulling out.

Progressives, weep not. Remember what the father of the climate alarm, James Hansen, said about the heralded 2015 agreement:

“[The Paris agreement] is a fraud really, a fake. It’s just bullshit for them to say: ‘We’ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.’ It’s just worthless words. There is no action, just promises. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.”

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Dear Elliott Negin: How About the Intellectual Debate? (Simmons/IER hit piece: big bark, little bite)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 1, 2017

“When The Washington Post reported earlier this month that President Trump appointed Daniel Simmons to run the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the paper called him a ‘conservative scholar.’ Conservative scholar? ‘Fossil fuel industry propagandist’ would have been more accurate.”

– Elliott Negin (Senior Writer, Union of Concerned Scientists). “Can Trump’s Koch-Funded Appointees STall Clean Energy Momentum?” May 19, 2017.

“Elliott Negin can earn his paycheck by impugning the motives of his opponents and trotting out superficial arguments for political energies instead of market-chosen ones. But he is fooling himself and propping up the Washington, DC Big Environmentalist shared narrative about benign, affordable renewable energy.”

Meet Daniel Simmons, the current acting assistant secretary for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

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The Political Power of the Scandinavian Wind Industry (time to reveal and revolt)

By Sherri Lange -- May 31, 2017

“In my opinion, good journalism always has to be on the side of the weak, keeping a critical eye on all powers that be and any power – political, economical, military, industrial and religious. Good journalism is obliged to react to any repression of humans. And the way the wind industry works is – in my opinion – pure repression and abuse of democratic values.”

“The wind industry is very aggressive, and because of its poor performance, and environmental and human health impacts, it obviously does not belong anywhere. Together, world wide, we must work to educate each other about the mechanics of the wind industry; how it exploits, how it abuses power at the highest levels.  This is the substance of my new book.”

–  Peter Skeel Hjorth (interview below)

In 2014, Dr Henrik Moeller, a leading world expert on low-frequency sound, was sacked after 38 years at Aalborg University in Denmark.…

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California Renewables Dream’n

By -- May 30, 2017
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Memorial Day: Celebrate the Open Road (gasoline & diesel plentiful, affordable, reliable, sustainable)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 26, 2017
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Schleede from 2000: ‘The Backdoor Btu Tax”

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 25, 2017
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Remembering Glenn Schleede

By John Jennrich -- May 24, 2017
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Glenn Schleede: Some Tributes (A long energy career that history will judge sustainable)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 23, 2017
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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: May 22, 2017

By -- May 22, 2017
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(Short) Response to Dolan on Hayek and a Carbon Tax

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 19, 2017
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