“Fossil fuel-supporting Chicken Littles have done their best to spread fear of renewable energy, warning that relying on wind, solar and storage would lead to blackouts and economic devastation.” (Tomlinson, pre-Storm Uri)
“The Republicans’ goal [with new legislation] is to keep coal plants open and burn more natural gas … [and] wreck the climate….” (Tomlinson, today)
Chris Tomlinson rides again–bashing gas/coal-based grid reliability in favor of more wind, more solar, enormous battery reliance, and government demand-side management to ration demand to (wounded) supply.
The latest is his editorial in the Houston Chronicle last week, “Lawmakers to Send Electric Bill Much Higher” (March 22, 2023). Rather than admitting that the unreliables have wounded (and will further wound) the reliables because of government intervention and planning (see here, here, and here), he fusses at fossil fuels and muckrakes (hypocritically [1]) against the rich.…
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.
Greed Energy Economics:
*** Subsidized Green Jobs Killing 6x as many Real Jobs
Renewables cost to explode as Brussels plans to curb imports of Chinese green tech
Sticker shock awaits New Yorkers’ utility bills to fund renewables
Renewables (General):
*** Communities must have a say in local energy projects
*** California is Binging on Renewables — but Emissions Aren’t Falling
*** Renewables are not Sustainable
*** New Book: The Unpopular Truth about Electricity and the Future of Energy
NY’s Build Public Renewables Act Could Cut the Power
Greens refuse to discuss recycling renewables and restoring mining locations to pristine condition
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Critically Thinking about Offshore Wind
*** As Whales Wash Up Dead, Feds Push Forward With “Green” Energy
*** Exploding the Cheap Offshore Wind Fantasy
*** ‘Take’ authorizations prove NOAA is lying about whale deaths
*** Video of NJ Hearing 3-16-23: An Examination Into Offshore Wind Industrialization
The Latest Casualties of the Climate Change Industry in Denial
As turbines rise, small-scale fishermen have the most to lose
NOAA and Green Activists Condone Whale Sacrifice By Offshore Wind Industry
8 Dolphins Died in One Day Off NJ Coast, Potentially Linked to Offshore Wind
Another Dead Whale Washes Up – This Time In Ocean City, N.J.…
“Last chance travel …. From melting glaciers to unbearable summer heat, climate change will make some holiday destinations unrecognizable.”
The mentality of the doomsday crowd is something to behold. Why would one go zombie on the coming end of modern civilization rather than soberly examine the (failed) track record of alarmism and the (non-alarming) data of weather extremes, temperature, and climate-related deaths?
I am reminded of two authors of the 1972 Club of Rome study who were so confident of doomism (here):
Dennis and Donella Meadows retreated to a New Hampshire farm after completing the book “to learn about homesteading and wait for the coming collapse.” “We definitely felt like Cassandras,” Donella Meadows added, “especially as we watched the world react to our work.”
But maybe Kenneth Boulding got it right when he said:
… Continue ReadingIs there any more single-minded, simple pleasure than viewing with alarm?