The 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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Some (quite a few!) standout articles in this issue are:

NC House Passes Major Bill to Freeze its RPS

Wind Turbines are Less Effective than Assumed and CO2 Abatement Cost is Higher

Association Between Wind Turbines and Human Distress

Carbon Capture (and the hypocrisy of environmental groups)

Wind and Solar Transmission Planning

The Global Thirst for Low-Cost Electricity Continues Driving Coal Demand

Wind Energy Impact on Grid Stability and Operation

Let’s Run the Numbers: Nuclear vs Wind and Solar

Dominion: Offshore Wind is Too Expensive

Ten Reasons to Eliminate the Wind PTC

Climate Advisers Must Maintain Integrity

Earth Day: 22 Ways to Think about the Climate-Change Debate

See also two special sections this time, which include several reports on:

1) Climate data integrity, and the the accuracy of climate computer models

2) the Catholic Church and climate change…

“Far exceeding the legal authority that Congress has delegated to the EPA, this power plan would set the U.S. on an even more aggressive path to reduce CO2 than has been taken by some European countries where electric prices are two to three times higher than the average U.S. rate.”

– Kathleen Hartnett White, Texas Public Policy Foundation (May 7, 2015)

Congratulations to the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) for congratulating Texas political leaders for standing firm–and mighty tall–against climate alarmism mandated from Washington, DC. Obama might be high in the saddle right now, and the spin-science-Left might be tossing climate anger at realistic science, but the voting public isn’t buying it. Abbott, Cornyn, and Cruz are playing a winning intellectual and political hand alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.…

The 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 three weeks this newsletter is compiled to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and environmental matters.

Some standout articles in this issue, are:

An exceptional TV interview about journalistic incompetence (think AGW, Wind Energy, etc.)

Scientists Say New Study Is A ‘Death Blow’ To Global Warming Hysteria

Dr. Curry on: Draft APS Statement on Climate Change

How Colleges Are Becoming Greenhouses for Sustainability Indoctrination

Wind Turbine Leaseholders May be on the Hook for Billions

What’s the True Cost of Wind Power?…

Jerry Taylor has written a lawyer’s brief for climate alarmism and open-ended forced energy transformation via the tax code. Might he like to demolish his new ideas in a second White Paper–“The Libertarian Case Against ‘The Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax'”? It is in his head and can be put on paper–if his emotions can get out of the way.

The intellectual case for government control of greenhouse gas emissions–the all-in cause of the anti-industrial neo-Malthusians–has always been suspect, not unlike earlier man-versus-earth outcries. But climate alarm has become weaker since its heyday (1988–98) for several reasons.

First, temperature rise has slowed significantly in the last 18 years (the warming “pause” or “hiatus“). Second, sensitivity estimates have been coming down toward long-held “skeptic” levels. Third, “fat tail” extreme-warming scenarios for risk analysis are under  assault. …