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Wind Power Propagandist Clipped by Employer

By Sherri Lange -- December 18, 2014

“IBM Corporate Officer (Brand Manager, Communications) Carrie Bendzsa, after numerous discussions with Lange of NA-PAW, wrote to NA-PAW, thanking the organization for bringing this matter to their attention, asserting that none of ‘these postings or comments were IBM endorsed actions’.”

Mike Barnard’s wind wings clipped by employer: Told to stop writing on wind power, resign fellowship from Energy and Policy Institute, and delete his blog: Barnard on Wind

Mike Barnard last month was taken to task by researcher Jackie Rovensky of AU and NA-PAW (North American Platform Against Wind Power) for a long-standing series of malicious attacks on trusted and respected professionals worldwide, who have variously documented and researched the now widely recognized devastating effects of industrial wind on human health.

This action by IBM is easily understood.…

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Wake Up Australia! Green De-industrialization Threat Remains

By Viv Forbes -- December 17, 2014

“The war on carbon energy, the carbon tax, the renewable energy targets, escalating electricity costs, and the voices in Parliament calling for Emissions Trading Schemes have all unnerved our big users of carbon fuels and electricity. Smelting and refining have become threatened industries in Australia.”

Progress on Climate Policy has been made in Australia with the repeal of the carbon tax, closure of the Climate Commission, and increasing skepticism about climate alarmism and related energy-market interventions. President Obama, beholden to radical U.S. greens, even took a shot at Australia’s climate pivot during his trip to the country last month, generating negative reactions from many Australians.

Nonetheless, ‘green’ policy in Australia has caused a good deal of industrial damage and business uncertainty that must be reversed with a full government commitment to climate realism and rational energy policy.…

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December 13, 1989: The NYT Got It Right on Global Warming

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 16, 2014

“The skeptics contend that forecasts of global warming are flawed and overstated and that the future might even hold no significant warming at all. Some say that if the warming is modest, as they believe likely, it could bring benefits like longer growing seasons in temperate zones, more rain in dry areas and an enrichment of crops and plant life.”

”’The expense [of climate policy] is patently obvious,’ said one of the most outspoken skeptics, Patrick Michaels, a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and a former president of the American Meteorological Society. ‘If the policy is going to be that expensive, the science should be much less murky than it is now,’ he said.”

James Hansen’s climate alarm back in 1988 attracted mainstream scientific caution and dissent, believe it or not.…

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AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: December 15, 2014

By -- December 15, 2014
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Dead Eagle Data: Buffet/Berkshire/PacifiCorp Don’t Want You to Know (Part 2)

By Jim Wiegand -- December 12, 2014
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Dead Eagle Data: Buffet/Berkshire/PacifiCorp Don’t Want You to Know (Part 1)

By Jim Wiegand -- December 11, 2014
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“Contradictions, Bias Undermine Credibility of the Health Canada Wind Turbine Noise Study” (An Open Letter)

By Mark Davis and Keith Stelling -- December 10, 2014
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The Public Utility Regulatory Formula–and Its Alternative

By Jim Clarkson -- December 9, 2014
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“Doubling Down on Climate Alarmism” (an editorial gets read)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 8, 2014
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Holiday Bummer! Neo-Malthusianism (consumption, climate-free conversation decried)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 4, 2014
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