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Relevance | Date“5 Shades of Climate Denial” (Inside Climate News gets it wrong)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 14, 2017 2 Comments“Will Ms. Lavelle admit that global lukewarming is a valid area of scientific inquiry and conclusion; there are benefits, not only costs, to the human influence on climate; and ‘government failure’ exists alongside ‘market failure’ in the quest to ‘do something’? Adaptation to realistic scenarios, private sector as well as public, is an alternative to–and opportunity cost of–mitigation.”
The article by Marianne Lavelle, “5 Shades of Climate Denial, All on Display in the Trump White House,” a feature at Instide Climate News (June 9, 2017), deserves a second look. The good news is that a much more useful categorization that has been offered (by Richard Mueller, below) can be used to correct the unstudied, biased five categories presented in ICN.
Here are Lavelle’s five categories:
- “It’s Not Real”
- “‘It’s Not Our Fault,’ and Other Lighter Shades”
- “The Science Is Just Too Uncertain.
Nixon Price Controls and Exiting Paris: A Bad Analogy (enslaved vs. freed energy)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 13, 2017 1 Comment“Until last week, Richard Nixon was responsible for the two worst-conceived American energy policies. On June 1, Donald Trump’s announcement of U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords displaced all competitors as the worst presidential initiative on energy in our nation’s history.”
– Hakes, “Quitting the Paris Climate Pact in Historical Perspective” (June 6, 2017)
“Historian Hakes got it exactly backwards. President Nixon violated economic law by imposing federal pricing on energy; President Trump removed an impetus to federal pricing for carbon-dioxide (CO2). Only if Trump had stayed in Paris would the Nixon analogy come into play.”
His bio line at Real Clear Energy reads: Jay Hakes is an energy historian who has worked for three presidents on energy issues. Experience aside, Mr. Hakes made just about the worst analogy possible regarding Donald Trump’s courageous decision to withdraw the United States from the redistributionist, toothless, ill-conceived Paris climate agreement.…
Continue ReadingEnergy & Environmental Newsletter: June 12, 2017
By John Droz, Jr. -- June 12, 2017 1 CommentThe 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:
“Climate Change” used to Create Totalitarian State
Can we discuss the climate without the hysteria?
CO2 Can’t Cause the Warming Alarmists Claim it Does
Lindzen: In the future, people will marvel how hysterical mankind has been
CO2 Facts vs Alternative Facts
58 New Papers Invalidate Claims Of Unprecedented Modern Global Warming
mgh, Not Greenhouse Gases, Provides a Warm Earth
Defense Communities Celebrate Texas Military-Wind Law
Human Health, Rights and Wind Turbine Deployment
A startling case of two schools in proximity to wind turbines
Wind company dealt blow by Indiana Supreme Court
Why There’s No Such Thing As a Free Market for Electricity
Offshore Wind Turbines Blamed For Killing Family Of Whales
The Private Benefit of Carbon and its Social Cost
Scientific Peer-Review is a Deeply Tainted System
Greed Energy Economics:
Why There’s No Such Thing As a Free Market for Electricity
US Paid $1B to Green Climate Fund, Top Polluters Paid $0
Civitas files for NC Utility Commission Ruling
Renewable Jobs Claims Based On Deception, False Comparisons
Crony capitalism masquerading as trade protectionism in the solar industry
Paris pact withdrawal could slow clean technology investments
Turbine Health Matters:
Human Health, Rights and Wind Turbine Deployment
A startling case of two schools in proximity to wind turbines
Wind company dealt blow by Indiana Supreme Court
Wind developer stonewalls efforts for independent noise tests
Significant Vermont Public Service Board Appointment
Wind Turbines are an occupational Health Hazard to Workers:
“Analysis of turbine aerodynamic sound noise…”
“Assessment of turbine noise effects on the general health of staff…”
Freedom from Unwarranted Experimentation
Reproducing wind farm infrasound for subjective testing
Wind Energy Study’s Public Complaint Process Was Inadequate
Renewable Energy Destroying Ecosystems:
Offshore wind turbines blamed after three whales die off Suffolk
Offshore Wind Turbines Blamed For Killing Family Of Whales
Crop Scientist: Solar Projects Are Stressing Agriculture Ecosystem
Miscellaneous Energy News:
The Private Benefit of Carbon and its Social Cost
Defense Communities Celebrate Texas Military-Wind Law
Scientific Peer-Review is a Deeply Tainted System
Texas officials praise military base protection bill passage
Clean and Doable Liquid Fission (LF) Energy
Wasted green power tests China’s energy leadership
Britain’s on the brink of a small-scale nuclear reactor revolution
Why Are Global Warming Alarmists Afraid Of Nuclear Power?…
Continue ReadingDirect Use of Natural Gas: Unshackle Efficiency from Obama’s ‘Deep Decarbonization’ (Part II)
By Mark Krebs and Tom Tanton -- June 8, 2017 12 Comments… Continue Reading“The fundamentally anti-fossil fuel energy efficiency and renewable energy advocates ran with Obama’s Executive Order 13693, Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade, to turn ‘deep decarbonization’ theories into official public policy. The goal? Convert all consumer natural gas use to electricity by 2050.”
“In short, U.S efforts within the DDPP infrastructure are orchestrated by the United Nations through one consulting firm, reviewed by two DOE labs, and funded by Tom Steyer. How’s that for a concentration of power in opposition to a free market economy?”
“Advocacy of ‘electrify everything’ and ‘Deep Decarbonization’ are still being funded by taxpayer dollars. While we assume the Trump Administration is not fully aware of this, the fact remains: This cannot be reconciled with the President’s America First Energy Plan to “lower costs for hardworking Americans and maximize the use of American resources.”