The Michael Moore documentary Planet of the Humans has educated millions about the dark, dirty side of so-called green energy. Producer Jeff Gibbs makes these points about wind power, solar power, and biomass in particular (verbatim):

• … there is no “green,” “sustainable” version of growth.
•  There is no technology that does not come from a profound cost to our Mother Earth.
• The mining, smelting, manufacturing, mountain dissolving, forest clearing, pit digging, air polluting, water poisoning, human exploiting, and fossil fuel burning necessary to bring us our “green” energy are no small matter.
• No “breakthroughs” in green technology will eliminate their significant and growing impact on the living planet.
• Fairy tales of green technology saving the planet protect us from the full weight of just how bad things are and from making a real plan to save ourselves and a planet worth living on. 

“[Facebook is] a powerful way to misinform people, since these groups can’t win in the actual scientific arena, so they only can win in these media environments where they can pay to promote stuff.” (Andrew Dessler, 2020).

“All of the noise right now from the climate change denial machine, the bots & trolls, the calls for fake ‘debates’, etc. Ignore it all….Report, block. Don’t engage.” (Michael Mann, 2019)

Andrew Dessler and Michael Mann are two very emotional climate alarmists in today’s vigorous, unsettled debate. “Hide the Decline” Mann, the leading culprit of the Climategate scandal, triggered “a public-relations disaster for science” by manipulating data and techniques to reach a preordained (alarmist) result. Andy Dessler, who admits to a “very low threshold for outrage,” is the alarmist’s alarmist–a true catastrophist.…

Editor Note: This post is by two leading scholars working in the Julian Simon, Austrian School, Institutionalist School traditions. Authors of Population Bombed!, Pierre Desrochers and Joanna Szurmak are important figures at MasterResource.

Even greater creativity and market complexity can be observed in the history of the petroleum production and refining industries. Market institutions and incentives provide the framework from which a plenitude of individuals and companies make their contribution.

Black, Black Progress

Petroleum was first sought after in western Pennsylvania in the 1850s, as it proved a more economical source of kerosene (a combustible hydrocarbon used for illumination), which had previously been produced from coal, oil shale, and bitumen. Kerosene was seen as a superior and more reliable alternative to animal and vegetable oils, the best of which were derived from sperm whales.…

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Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Wind and solar weaknesses: Part 1 and Part 2
Green Electricity Delusions
Allam Cycle carbon capture gas plants: 11% more efficient, all CO2 captured
Covid-19 Crisis Will Only Intensify Global Dominance Of Fossil Fuels
Planet Of The Humans Documentary Removed From YouTube
Why Economic Slowdown Won’t Show Up in the Atmospheric CO2 Record
Climate change and a pandemic of lies
Study: State of the Climate – 2019
‘Nature Rights’ Advances to World Economic Forum

Greed Energy Economics:
Mexico Pulls The Plug On Renewables
Trump admin slaps solar, wind operators with retroactive rent bills
Turbine power plunges when tax credits go away
Short video: How bad are solar and wind?…