Energy & Environmental Newsletter: January 6, 2020

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The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every two weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Climate alarmist banks go carbon-colonialist
Watch 30 seconds of this video re wind turbine blade toxicity
How The U.S. Navy Remains The Masters Of Modular Nuclear Reactors
The world is investing less in renewable energy
Big Green Lobbies to Steal from the Poor and Give to the Rich
Russia’s New Floating Nuclear Power Plant Begins Delivering Electricity
Mosquitoes and Climate Change (and Turbines)
The Green Road to Serfdom
The decade that blew up energy predictions
China Adding New Coal Power Plants Equivalent to Entire European Union Capacity
Short Video: What I Wasn’t Told About Climate Change (from IPA)
Short Video: The Top Climate Crisis Scam of 2019
The End of a Decade When Climate Change Alarmism Tipped Into Climate Change Hysteria
How Billionaires Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg Corrupted Climate Science
Prager Video: Should Decent People Support Trump?

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Trump + Climate = Krugman Going Crazy

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 17, 2019 3 Comments

“Do you remember the days when Bush administration officials claimed that terrorism posed an ‘existential threat’ to America, a threat in whose face normal rules no longer applied? That was hyperbole — but the existential threat from climate change is all too real…. And as I watched the deniers make their arguments [against Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade], I couldn’t help thinking that I was watching a form of treason — treason against the planet.” (Paul Krugman, New York Times, 2009)

“Republican climate denial is even scarier than Trumpism.” (Paul Krugman, New York Times, 2019)

A full decade apart, Paul Krugman is all-in with climate hyperbole and angst. Joe Romm might have thrown in the towel at Climate Progress, but Krugman is flaming in the New York Times.

Talk about riding the wrong horse.…

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: December 9, 2019

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The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Another Round of Energy Pork
With climate change Science and Economics should be paramount
Ontario saves $500± Million by dumping wind turbines
Expect the ECB to Use a “Climate Crisis” to Justify Their Next Stimulus Plan
Rolls Royce wants innovative financing for its first-of-a-kind nuclear SMRs
Short video: Gates Goes Nuclear
Bitter Cold Stops Coal, While Nuclear Power Excels
Nuclear Power isn’t Green Enough for Germany
Archive: Solar Produces 300 times more waste than Nuclear does
Why “Green” Energy is a Terrible Idea
Green Energy Studies: Consulting, or Advertising?

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Climate Conundrum: Revisiting a 2016 Discussion (when Hillary was going to win)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 3, 2019 1 Comment

“Despite mounting climate impacts and radio silence from politicians, media and other important players, the panelists were hopeful that climate change will soon earn the attention it deserves.” (World Resources Institute, 2016)

Just prior to the 2016 election (which Hillary was going to win, of course), a group of leading climate alarmists opined about why they were losing in the court of public opinion. “If Climate Change Is the Existential Crisis of Our Age, Why Isn’t it Getting More Attention?” by Sarah Parsons of World Resources Institute (October 28, 2016) is reprinted below (with yellow headings inserted). My final comment follows.

Sarah Parsons asks “What Gives” about the “existential crisis” that received very little attention in the Presidential election.

The evidence is everywhere. Drought dries up farmland from California to the Sahel.…

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: November 25, 2019

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Exchange with a Climate Alarmist at Desmog Blog (unmasking emotion, anger on the other side)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 20, 2019 4 Comments Continue Reading

Energy Progress: Trump Remarks at the New York Economic Club (November 12, 2019)

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Trump on the American Energy Revolution (9th Annual Shale Insight Conference, Pittsburgh)

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: October 28, 2019

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Institute of Economic Affairs vs. Climate Censorship

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 16, 2019 3 Comments Continue Reading