“Anti-mineral-energy Big Green has been hoisted by its own petard.”

“Solar and wind cannot replace fossil fuels. They are intermittent and always need to be backed up with non-renewable sources. In the case of solar and wind factories, the process of building, maintaining, and rapid replacement is overwhelmingly irresponsible, destructive, and short sighted.”

Ronald Reagan said back in 1964:

… anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we’re denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we’re always “against” things — we’re never “for” anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”

Would you like to see a documentary chronicling “what isn’t so”? Check out the multi-million-view U-Tube sensation, Planet of the Humans by “equal opportunity offender” Michael Moore (with producer Jeff Gibbs).…

Oil “worthless”? Under this standard, the commercial airline and cruise industries are worthless, as are the people who can’t effectively work from home.

Normalcy is not the future the anti-oil Houston Chronicle wants to see, an extreme editorial position that combines Green New Deal advocacy with Trump Derangement Syndrome in an election year.

On Sunday April 26, the Editorial Board of the Houston Chronicle published “Remember the People Behind Industry; Put Those Working in Oil and Gas First, Above Free Market Ideology.” The lead Sunday op-ed was meant to soften up the entrepreneurs, politicians, and citizens of the oil capital of the nation and world.

The op-ed was bad, even offensive, penned by a monolithic editorial board (no conservatives or libertarians allowed) that is beholden to climate alarmism and government-forced energy transformation.…

Big wind does not have a COVID problem. It has a mismanagement problem.

[Chuck] Grassley is promoting the American Wind Energy Association’s bogus claim that COVID slowed the industry causing projects to delay into 2021. He is now asking the IRS to extend the four-year window by another year to allow MWs that started construction in 2016 to spill into 2021 and still earn 100% PTC.

– Lisa Linowes (below)

The Texas Business Coalition recently published an interview with the intrepid critic of government-enabled industrial wind power, Lisa Linowes. The TBC’s article, “Wind Energy Researcher: Don’t Extend Deadline for Wind Projects” (April 26. 2020), explains what Big Wind is after now under the guise of Pandemic policy.

The article follows in its entirety.

Six U.S. senators, citing the COVID-19 pandemic, have asked for “safe harbor” deadline extensions to assist renewable energy developers to meet construction deadlines and qualify for tax credits.…

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Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

• China’s coronavirus actions are just one of many threats it poses
• We Can’t Entrust US Interests to UN
• Modeling Catastrophe in a Climate of Fear
• Model Madness – Parallels Between Failed Climate and Coronavirus Models
• Study: Systemic Misuse of Scenarios in Climate Research and Assessment
• The Scientific Case for Vacating the EPA’s Endangerment Finding
• US CO2 Emissions Have Declined More Than Anywhere Else
• Video/Report: Climate Curious
• Earth Day at 50: Progress, Not Politics, Cleaned Up America
• US Strategy to Restore Nuclear Energy Leadership
• Study: Abandoning the Concept of Renewable Energy
• Study: Federal Energy Subsidies and Support from 2010 to 2019
• Video: Candace Owens Interviews Alex Epstein

New & Noteworthy re COVID-19:
Latest version: A Summary of Suggestions and Commentary on COVID-19
The drugs and treatments that could stop COVID-19
Report: Pseudo-Science behind the Assault on Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ)
The Wuhan Virus Pandemic has Exposed the American Ruling Class
A Protest From France
Congress Creates a Coronavirus Mess
Pandemic Science, Media Panic, and Political Response
Briggs Coronavirus Update XI — Robbing The Cemeteries To Pad Death Totals
The Farce and Diabolical Agenda of a “Universal Lockdown”
Ryan Kemper: The Case For Ending Lockdown
The Paranoid Style in Covid-19 America
Intel details how China deceived the world re COVID-19
The Facts That Prove That Almost Everyone Is Wrong About COVID-19
The data is in — stop the panic and end the total isolation

New York State and COVID-19:
Coronavirus “hero” Cuomo helped create New York’s disaster
With Legislature idle, Cuomo changed 262 laws in 55 days
Cuomo’s Coronavirus Executive Orders
7 Steps to Recovery & Renewal for NYS

Greed Energy Economics:
Report: “Clean energy” is all about creating unproductive jobs
Study: Federal Energy Subsidies and Support from 2010 to 2019
Doubling Down on Failure
Wind Power: Subsidy after Subsidy As the Infant Never Grows Up
What Engie’s tax equity deal tells us about financing renewables
Fortress Vermont, a Multi-Billion Boondoggle Foisted on the Public
The economics of industrial wind and solar in Iowa

Renewable Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
Wind turbine noise affects dream sleep and perceived sleep restoration
Bald eagle killed by wind turbine at Ohio wind project
Hopefulness Despite 2.9 Billion Lost Birds
Archive: Industrial Wind Energy’s Inconvenient Radioactivity
Judge rules against wind developer regarding noise

Nuclear Energy:
Indian Point closure during pandemic is wrong, says climate group
US Strategy to Restore Nuclear Energy Leadership
Fusion Energy Gets Ready to Shine—Finally

Natural Gas Energy:
Water Scarcity Lessens As Natural Gas Plants Proliferate
Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Banned by NY As Gas Need Grows
Hydrogen Technology May Turn Gas Green and Fractivists Red with Rage

Offshore Wind Energy:
The Fight Over Wind Power in Lake Erie
NYSERDA Holding Off on Nation’s Largest Offshore Wind Solicitation
Vineyard Wind’s Timeline Slips as Government Further Delays Permits

Miscellaneous Energy News:
Study: Abandoning the Concept of Renewable Energy
Video: Candace Owens Interviews Alex Epstein
China Fires Up Coal Power Plant Construction
Here’s What Negative Oil Prices Really Mean
It’s All Over For Europe’s Green Deal As Merkel’s MEPs Say ‘It’s No Longer Viable’
End the Ethanol Mandate
US energy production exceeded consumption for the first time in 62 years
Book Review: Meeting the Terawatt Challenge
Electricity Is More Than Power; It’s A Fundamental Human Right
Uncovering the Oil Industry’s Radioactive Secret

Planet of the Humans Movie:
Excellent full length Michael Moore movie: Planet of the Humans
Michael Moore Documentary Reveals Massive Ecological Impacts Of Renewables
“Planet Of The Humans” Skewers Renewables, Delivers Same Old Anti-Humanism
Michael Moore stumbles upon the truth about so-called ‘green’ energy
Moore Rolls Out Movie Destroying A Common Enviro Left Narrative
Moore-backed Doc Tackles ‘False Promises’ of Green Energy
Michael Moore Is Now the Green New Deal’s Worst Enemy
Left-Wing Activists Are Trying to Cancel Michael Moore
Professor Can’t Muzzle Moore Movie; Must Pay Defendants’ Legal Fees
Alex Epstein: The five things Planet of the Humans gets (mostly) right
Short video: Michael Moore Goes Nuclear On Green Energy
Michael Moore pulls the chain on renewable energy
Guardian: Contrarian eco-doc from the Michael Moore stable
Moore Movie Acknowledges Green Energy Is Tommyrot
Green Brownshirts Strike at Michael Moore

Earth Day at 50:
Earth Day at 50: Progress, Not Politics, Cleaned Up America
Earth Day 2020: The Exhaustion of the Climate Left
Earth Day Is Time to Reflect on How Much Enviros Have Gotten Wrong
Half a century later: who got it wrong and who got it right?…