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Energy and Environmental Review: July 18, 2022

By -- July 18, 2022

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.

Renewables (General):
*** Paved with good Intentions
*** Energy Crises In Germany and Texas Are Exposing The Folly of Renewable Energy
*** Mining Industry Warns Energy Transition Isn’t Sustainable
*** Germany went all in on green energy. Now its economy is on brink of collapse
Wind and Solar Cannot Solve High Power Prices, and Inflation
Wind, Solar And Pipelines All Fail Germany

Wind Energy:
*** Texas Wind Power Failing When State Needs It Most
*** Texas wind power is failing amid a scorching US heat wave
*** New York must balance climate mandates with declining reserve margins to ensure reliability: ISO
*** Kansas State Senator’s Testimony about industrial wind energy
Opponents question science, motivations of putting wind turbines in Lake Erie
Offshore Wind Turbine Threat to Whales is Next Big Argument
GE Shelves Wind Turbine Blade Plant as Renewable Energy Has Been a Tough Go

Solar Energy:
*** Unprecedented IEA report: There’s a huge problem for the clean energy shift and it comes from China
*** LA Times report warns about ‘environmental danger’ in solar transition
It’s Not Working

Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear Power Gets New Push in U.S.,

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Climate Alarmism Not (Manchin feels the breeze of energy freedom)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- July 15, 2022

“I was talking about inflation before it was even thought about. And now I’m more concerned than ever before.” – Joe Manchin III)

“I can’t make that decision basically on taxes of any type and also on the energy and climate because it takes the taxes to pay for the investment in the clean technology that I’m in favor of. But I’m not going to do something and overreach that causes more problems.” – Joe Manchin III

The climate crusade is fueled by deficit spending both in removing wind and solar and EVs from the tax code and by limitless spending by the U.S. Department of Energy. So it was extremely positive when Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV), head of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, renounced his support for the climate provisions of Build Back Better legislation under debate.…

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Climate “Disinformation” Everywhere! (winning against alarmism)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- July 14, 2022

“Thematically, the [denier and skeptic] messaging we observed usually presented the summit as one (or more) of the following: pointless, a failure, hypocritical, harmful to the economy, the product of an ‘eco-fascist’ agenda orchestrated by climate activists and elites.”

– “Deny, Deceive, Delay: Documenting and Responding to Climate Disinformation at DOP 26 and Beyond: p. 78.

At some point, the climate alarmists are going to have to wonder if the universe of “climate denial” and “climate skepticism” is growing so large that the real outliers are themselves.

Consider that Anthony Watts’s WUWT is the world’s leading climate website, for starters. At this site, hundreds of climate followers, many with advanced degrees and other expertise, are providing timely, important peer review missing from even the august climate journals. (Ditto for Judith Curry’s influential site, Climate Etc.)…

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IEA’s Fatih Birol: More Oil Now!

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- July 13, 2022
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Texas’s Wounded Grid (yes, it’s windpower again)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- July 12, 2022
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Andrew Dessler Cancels Economists from the Climate Debate

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- July 11, 2022
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West Virgina v. EPA: Enthroning or Dethroning a Regulatory Czar?

By Richard W. Fulmer -- July 8, 2022
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The Department of Energy’s Intent to Eliminate Non-condensing Furnaces

By -- July 7, 2022
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Letter to U.S. Department of Energy from AFPM, API

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- July 6, 2022
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Energy and Environmental Review: July 5, 2022

By -- July 5, 2022
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