The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

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Some of the more interesting articles in this issue are:

Report: Which States Lose the Most to Wind Welfare?

3% of wind developers earnings go to the community

Wind farm noise report ‘parallels VW scandal’

Negative Health Effects of Noise from Wind Turbines: Some Background

Research into Wind Turbine Infrasound

Wind Energy: Unreliable and Expensive

Iberdrola: “five instances of international fraud and corruption”

The Truth About One State’s Energy Policy (which applies to all)

Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition

Freeman Dyson on climate change, interstellar travel, fusion, and more

Study: Perspectives of Uncertainty in Climate Science

Prominent Scientists Declare Climate Claims to be “Irrational”

Climate Rationalization, Beliefs and Denialism

Climate Wars and the Damage to Science

Global Warming Despotism

French Science Society: The battle against global warming: an absurd, costly and pointless crusade

NASA Temperature Datasets “Massively Altered”

An Outbreak of Sanity (re Sea Level Rise)

Greed Energy Economics:

Report: Which States Lose the Most to Wind Welfare?…

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”

― Milton Friedman

New York State Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, claims that President Obama’s so-called Clean Power Plan is making a difference here in New York State. It certainly is, but negatively so!

Rural communities in New York State, and across the country, are being ecologically compromised by politicians, such as New York’s Schneiderman and Governor Andrew Cuomo, who continue to push industrial wind energy as a fantasy-cure for the alleged problem of climate change.

Trillions of dollars have been spent on ‘renewables’ worldwide, yet carbon dioxide has not been significantly reduced, while rural America is paying the ultimate price. Our countrysides, wildlife, and Constitutional private property rights are being sacrificed on the altar of “green” energy … for no net benefit.…

“So, when you think of industrial wind turbines on a ridge line, envision an airport with a line of airplanes that are holding for take-off. The airplanes are powered by chainsaw engines that have run up their engines to full power. But, unlike planes at an airport, the turbines never take off. Now, imagine this at two o’clock in the morning.”

What do you think of when you think of an industrial wind project? Wind developers want you to think of free, green electricity. People who live near industrial wind turbines think of noise. Let’s see why.

An industrial wind project in Swanton, Vermont proposes to install seven 499-foot tall wind turbines along 6,000 feet of Rocky Ridge (elevation 323 feet). We don’t know what turbine model the developer is considering, so let’s look at the GE 2.75-120 Wind Turbine.…

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

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Some of the most informative articles in this issue are:

True Cost of Energy—Wind

Wind Energy Property Value Studies Summarized

Infrasound and Wind Turbines

Infrasound & Low Frequency Noise Can be Deadly

Favorable Court Ruling on 30-Year Eagle-Take Permits

30 Million Birds Annually Killed by Wind Turbines

Renewables drain our resources

Renewables Offer No Bang for Your Megawatt

The Energy Liberation Plan

Global Warming Alarmists Run Into Brick Wall Of Facts

Keeping it simple: the value of an irreducibly simple climate model

There are two debates about ‘climate change’

State Legislator’s Exceptional Letter on Global Warming

IPCC Sea Level Rise Projections Exaggerated

Note also there is a special section of several articles about the US EPA energy plan (like this)

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Greed Energy Economics

True Cost of Energy — Wind

Wind Energy Property Value Studies Summarized

Green Mythology and the High Price of Electricity

How Climate Policies Affect Lower-Income Residents

California “green energy” measure fails to create green jobs

Stop the Money to Kill the Climate Treaty

The Heavy Price of Renewable Energy in NC

Electricity Supply – Driven by Politics at the Customers’ Expense?…