“The forced ‘energy transition’ is in trouble despite huge government commitments to wind, solar, batteries, and EVs. Each of the three fossil fuels is experiencing a global boom, and, as Politico reports, politicians are backing away from energy taxes in favor of the cheaper, reliable, convenient mass energies consumers demand.”

Uncompetitive energies need government, studies, and ceaseless PR. Competitive energies need free markets where consumers vote with their dollars and taxpayers are spared. Increasingly, the price verdicts of (not so) green energies are coming in, and the public is not happy.

This development is evident in a recent Politico article, Republicans are trying to snuff out climate embers around the country,” subtitled “Conservatives are aggressively targeting efforts to reduce carbon emissions across the continent.”

Co-authors Jordan Wolman, Marie French, and Zi-Ann Lum begin:

Conservatives are aggressively targeting efforts to reduce carbon emissions across the continent.

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.

Unreliables (General):
*** Replacing coal with wind and solar requires massive storage
The grim cost of firming up solar and wind
Texas Gets a Spring Energy Scare

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Offshore Wind and Whales – A collection of articles from fisherynation.com
*** Major NY Offshore Wind Project Cancelled
*** Dominion’s pile driving boat violates the Marine Mammal Protection Act
Tilting at Windmills
Wind Energy off California Coats Faces Fisher Lawsuit and Marine Sanctuary Issues

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)

Nuclear Energy:
*** German officials said to have manipulated documents to support nuclear power phase out
*** Short video: History of the LNT Model and a Path Forward

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Epstein: Reflections on Earth Day, including a discussion with Rick Perry
*** Mandatory Emissions To Achieve Net-Zero Is A Fool’s Game
200 Ways President Biden and the Dems Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas
New Biden Climate Rules Could Shutter Remaining American Coal Plants

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** Expert: EV push is ‘one of the biggest energy policy blunders we’ve ever made’
Biden’s EV mandate: a dictatorial attack on the American driver and the US grid
The EV Bubble Bursts
Coming Soon: Mandatory EVs
Ford lost $1.3 billion in a quarter, a loss of $132,000 on every EV sold
Tesla in turmoil

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** EPA rule against power plants – bad for energy reliability and prices, bad for rule of law

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Short video: CO2 and Mortality
*** How Three Alarmist Billionaires Bankrolled The Fake Climate Catastrophe
*** Antarctica Is Colder, Icier Today Than at Any Time in 5,000 Years
Study: Reliable Physics Demand Revision of the IPCC Global Warming Potentials
Saving Climate from the Greens
A Realist Climate Agenda
Report: Global hurricane activity not getting worse
Global Warming Inhibits Hurricane Activity
Climate Change And The Law: The Absurdity Escalates

Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
*** Climate Change Is Normal and Natural, and Can’t Be Controlled
Will More CO2 Warm the Atmosphere?…

“Previous energy transitions adopted energy sources of greater density and efficiency than those they replaced. Those advantages became a natural incentive for their adoption. In the current ‘transition’, the process is reversed unless we are prepared to countenance the mass use of nuclear technology.” – Nick Cater, below

The political “energy transition” has predictably violated comparative energy physics and thus consumer preferences–and best industry practices. A re-look at the failing, impossible “energy transition” was penned by Nick Cater, senior fellow at Menzies Research Centre in Australia. [1] His analysis deserves wide attention, as does his other work at the energy-centric Reality Bites.

As the First Fleet vessels, propelled by wind and muscle, made their way to Australia, the last energy transition was making headway in Europe and the United States.…

“Great work, Institute for Economic Affairs! May the honor of being on DeSmog’s hit list raise awareness of your noble mission and attract new donors.”

DeSmog’s enemies list has grown so long and distinguished that it refutes its “hit-piece” mission. Fact is, there is a vast scientifically literate middle that exposes the flawed case for climate catastrophism and forced energy transformation.

My DeSmog’s 1,000: A Badge of Honor congratulated the army of truth-seekers, while noting that many deserving individuals and groups remain. (Our Mark Krebs and Kassie Andrews are just two–all can apply.) [1]

Here are some rebuttals that mostly reprint what DeSmog has to say about its enemies as correct–and even heroic against the termite aspirations of the governmental Climate Industrial Complex.

In alphabetical order:

Robert Bryce (April 28, 2020)

John Christy (February 5, 2019)

Derrick Hollie (February 13, 2019)

Steven Koonin (December 7, 2022)

Isaac Orr (October 21, 2019)

Vaclav Smil (April 28, 2022)

and myself: Robert L.…