Ed. note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete MBN for this post can be found here.
Greed Energy Economics:
*** It’s time for transparency of the embedded costs of going “green”
*** The Coming Green-Energy Inflation
*** EPA used COVID-19 relief funds for grants promoting green infrastructure
Renewable energy prices soar as Ukraine war is the ‘last straw’ for the sector
North American renewable energy prices skyrocket nearly 30% in one year, threatening corporate and federal net zero ambitions
Report: The Cost of Green Levies
Renewable Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
We Are Massacring Birds to Slow Climate Change. It’s Got to Stop
Green Energy’s Hidden Eagle Slaughter
Spain’s Wind Industry Slaughters Thousands of Endangered Birds With Impunity
Blood on the blades!…
“What many environmentalists seem incapable of understanding is that resources are created. After all, crude oil is just sludge until you get it out of the ground and figure out how to use it as an energy source.”
“This Earth Day, we should all give two green thumbs up for human freedom and innovation.”
There is a certain fringe of the environmentalist movement whose members have almost nothing good to say about their fellow men and women. If not for humans, they sometimes explicitly argue, the Earth would be a wonderful place. The lion might not lie down with the lamb, but at least “nature” would be allowed to run its course unobstructed by humankind—which in their reckoning is somehow not a part of nature.
Admittedly, humans have a particular nature that sets them apart from the rest of the fauna on this planet.…
Continue ReadingDr. Craig Idso, Chairman of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, invites readers to join him in a new series of articles discussing the many ways in which rising atmospheric carbon dioxide benefits humanity and nature. His introductory post is here.
“Based on the numerous experiments listed there, I can tell you that, typically, a 300-ppm increase in the air’s CO2 content … will raise the productivity of most herbaceous plants by about one-third, which stimulation is generally manifested by an increase in the number of branches and tillers, more and thicker leaves, more extensive root systems, and more flowers and fruit.”
Perhaps the most well-known and significant biological benefit of Earth’s rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration is enhanced plant production.…
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