“Now, climate warriors have arrayed their forces against manmade ‘chemical’ nitrogen fertilizers. The convenient collateral damage in this campaign is the natural gas required to produce this essential plant nutrient.”
Throughout modern history science-based increases in food production and the wealth it generates have brought astonishing reductions in population growth rates. Then came climate alarmism and forced energy transformation.
The farmers toil as many Americans relax and take summer vacations. The agricultural sector today represents only 1.3 percent of our population compared to 30 percent a century ago, producing record harvests through brains, sweat, and science (and CO2 enrichment and longer growing seasons). Yet many of them feel uneasy about the climate-change exaggerators who have them in the government’s crosshairs.
A New Front
It is not only beef from cattle, a methane issue.…
Continue ReadingEd. note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.
Renewables (General):
*** In Texas, a Clean-Energy Pioneer, the Tide Turns Against Renewables
*** Alternative Energy Projects Are Bankrupting The Energy Grid
*** Fallacies About Nuclear, Wind, and Solar
Big Wind’s US Renewable Rejection Database tally hits 523
Proposed NY legislative action to stop the “transition” until a fossil fuel replacement is identified
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Offshore wind may not reduce CO2 emissions
Cape Cod to Rhode Island Tourists Expect A Summer Of Whales Washing Up
Cape May County Fights Back Against Offshore Wind Project
Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
*** The True Cost of Energy Generated From Wind Turbines
Solar Energy:
Hidden Impact of Solar Projects: Residents and Wildlife Affected, Aquifers Threatened
How solar projects took over the California desert: ‘An oasis has become a dead sea’
Nuclear Energy:
*** Why Small Modular Reactors Herald a Nuclear Energy Renaissance
*** Electricity Prices Plunge By 75% As Finland Opens New Nuclear Power Plant
Virginia’s not the only place exploring small modular nuclear reactors
WTF Happened to Nuclear Energy?…
June 4, 1971, message to Congress by President Nixon, “A Program to Insure an Adequate Supply of Clean Energy in the Future.” Nixon would later identify this as “the first message on energy policies ever submitted by an American President.”[1]
[1]Office of the President, Executive Energy Documents (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1978), p. 14.
Summarized Alice Buck:
… Continue ReadingPresident Richard Nixon presented his original plan for an energy agency in his first energy message to Congress in June 1971. Citing the “brownouts” which had occurred in recent months, the natural gas shortages, increasing fuel prices, and the lack of an integrated national energy policy, the President proposed that all major energy programs be consolidated in a new Department of Natural Resources. Two years later, in June 1973, he again urged Congress to take action on his energy legislation.