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Energy and Environmental Review: December 5, 2022

By -- December 5, 2022

Ed. 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:
*** Germany Sets Windfall Tax at 90% for Clean Power Generators
UK Power Prices Skyrocket As Wind Generation Collapses

Renewable Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
*** Updated Study: Wind Turbine Syndrome: The Impact of Wind Farms on Suicide
*** Northern long-eared bat reclassified as endangered (Note: This could be good news for wind warriors: a new tool in their arsenal!)
Archive Study: Effects of low-frequency noise from wind turbines on heart rate variability in healthy individuals

Renewables (General):
*** Report: Lack of energy storage makes renewables-only grids a pipe dream
*** Electricity Generation with 100% Renewables is a Fantasy
Grand Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Already Doomed to Total Failure
Why Wind and Solar Owners Love Energy Storage
COP Climate Cult Can’t Deal With Europe’s Monumental Wind & Solar Failure
Europe to U.S.:

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‘Train Your Brain’ on Climate Change? (debate, don’t assume)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 2, 2022

“Dr. Duhaime is invited to liberate her brain to question the premises of climate alarmism and forced energy transformation. Listen to recent climate debates involving Steven Koonin. Read Alex Epstein’s Fossil Future. Sponsor a Harvard University discussion/debate with both. ‘Train Your Brain’ the right way.”

It is a grand intellectual ruse. Part of it is magical thinking: that wind, solar, and batteries can substitute for mineral energies and thus “save the planet.” The other part is the “everyone knows” shared narrative: catastrophic climate change is occurring because of man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

In the New York Times’s “Climate Forward,” Somini Sengupta recently interviewed neurologist Ann-Christine Duhaime based on her new book, “Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis” (Harvard University Press). The question she sets out to answer (per Climate Forward) is: “Why we mortal humans cannot grasp and act on the climate emergency.”…

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Energy Sense: Tucker Carlson (winter heating costs in the news)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 1, 2022

“Given how central, very obviously central, energy is to everything that matters in America, it’s hard to believe that the Biden administration would intentionally make energy much more expensive….”

David Blackmon recently promoted Tucker Carlson’s post-Thanksgiving day monologue on energy with the admonition: “It should be required viewing or reading for every American citizen.” Correct.

Carlson’s monologue is reprinted below, followed by a short segment on Fox Business.

Now that we are [back from Thanksgiving], an obvious observation: All prosperity in this country depends ultimately on energy. Our consumer economy runs on it. 

It takes energy to make things and bring them to your house. Our tech economy runs on energy too, a lot of it. How do you think they keep their server farms running? Energy is pretty much, in fact, the key to everything that Americans do for a living.…

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Leave Shell Alone: Oil and Gas for the Masses!

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 30, 2022
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‘Old School Climate Denial is Back’ (Droz, Martis: take a bow)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 29, 2022
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‘Greenhushing’ Joins Greenwashing (woke firms in legal peril?)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 28, 2022
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Thanksgiving 2022

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 24, 2022
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Climategate: Never Forget (13th anniversary)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 22, 2022
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Energy and Environmental Review: November 21, 2022

By -- November 21, 2022
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In and Out of LinkedIn Jail (but the climate, energy debate must go on)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 17, 2022
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