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:

Wind and Solar Require Massive Subsidies

Renewable energy seeks demand, investment to survive Trump squeeze

Technical Experts: Wind Turbines Pose “Significant Danger” To Environment

Video: Wind Turbine Infrasound

Even ‘clean’ and ‘green’ energy have an environmental impact

Energy development: free market purists vs the state

The Electric Power Struggle

Two North Texas wind projects cancelled due to military concerns

Magical Wind Power: Illusions versus Reality

Ontario’s new premier must save the province

The BP 2018 Statistical Review, electricity and CO2 emissions

China’s Renewable Energy Growth Isn’t as Good as It Seems

Fearing Climate Change, Experts Say Nuclear Industry Faces Collapse

Successful passage of an important US Nuclear bill

If Nuclear Power Is So Safe, Why Are We So Afraid Of It?…

“It’s flat-earthers like Obama who refuse to acknowledge the problematic nature of contradictory data. It’s flat-earthers like Obama who cite a recent Alaskan heat wave — a freak event in one place at one time — as presumptive evidence of planetary climate change. It’s flat-earthers like Obama who cite perennial phenomena such as droughts as cosmic retribution for environmental sinfulness.”

– Charles Krauthammer, “Obama’s Global-Warming Folly.” Washington Post, July 4, 2013.

The late Charles Krauthammer was a wise voice in a public policy hothouse. His views on Obama-era climate-change policy ring true today–and demonstrate prescience.

After providing key quotations from Krauthammer, I revisit James Taylor’s rebuttal to the critical backlash generated by the Washington Post piece.

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“The economy stagnates. Syria burns. Scandals lap at his feet.…

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:

Retail Electricity Prices for sample countries

Wind Turbines Threaten Property Values in Upstate NY

Billions in U.S. solar projects shelved after Trump panel tariff

Texas Wind Power Story — Part One

Sound (and Light) Reasons to Tilt at Windmills

Judge’s ruling against Minnesota wind farm causes alarm for advocates

The Observed Impacts of Wind Turbines on Local Vegetation Growth

Essay: Wind Energy Illusions

Archive: Wind and Solar have a Secret Friend — Gas

Wind Developer ordered to buy out Minnesota homeowners

Being “Green” is Easy — Ignore the Facts

Taking aim at the real polluters: some US Environmental Groups

Newly Elected Ontario Premier’s encouraging Statement on Wind Energy

New Texas Wind Project Could Interfere with Radars

Environmentalists don’t support nuclear — as there is no money in it

How North Korea Has Weaponized Electricity

EPA Celebrates 500 Days of American Greatness

Fellows of the Royal Geological Society pushback over climate position

The Rise of Political Correctness

The Corruption of Science

Identity Politics Undermining Science

A Different War of Attrition

Americans Served Badly by a Religion that has Run Its Course

Ten Religious Reasons Against Climate Change

Steve Milloy doesn’t like ‘climate bed wetters’

Three Climate Change Questions Answered

Greed Energy Economics:

Retail Electricity Prices for sample countries

Wind Turbines Threaten Property Values in Upstate NY

Billions in U.S.…

“United States withdrawal [from the Paris accord] could become a specific excuse for countries that were hesitant to join in the first place…. The second thing is withdrawal of our financial support and technical support for other countries, particularly developing countries, for both mitigation and adaptation.”

– John Holdren, May 31, 2017

John Holdren is the proverbial gift-that-keeps-on-giving. He has toned down–but not repudiated–his past of exaggerated alarms. (Remember his worry about one billion climate-related deaths by 2020?)

In the wake of President’s Trump decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, Kiley Korth of the Center for American Progress interviewed Obama’s former science advisor. The entire interview is reprinted below in light of the new story line from ThinkProgress that Trump’s decision was really not that important! So Holdren then versus ThinkProgress now.…