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 It’s all spelled out at WiseEnergy.org, which is a wealth of energy and environmental resources.

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every 3 weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and environmental matters. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

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Some (quite a few!) standout articles in this issue are:

NC House Passes Major Bill to Freeze its RPS

Wind Turbines are Less Effective than Assumed and CO2 Abatement Cost is Higher

Association Between Wind Turbines and Human Distress

Carbon Capture (and the hypocrisy of environmental groups)

Wind and Solar Transmission Planning

The Global Thirst for Low-Cost Electricity Continues Driving Coal Demand

Wind Energy Impact on Grid Stability and Operation

Let’s Run the Numbers: Nuclear vs Wind and Solar

Dominion: Offshore Wind is Too Expensive

Ten Reasons to Eliminate the Wind PTC

Climate Advisers Must Maintain Integrity

Earth Day: 22 Ways to Think about the Climate-Change Debate

See also two special sections this time, which include several reports on:

1) Climate data integrity, and the the accuracy of climate computer models

2) the Catholic Church and climate change…

“Far exceeding the legal authority that Congress has delegated to the EPA, this power plan would set the U.S. on an even more aggressive path to reduce CO2 than has been taken by some European countries where electric prices are two to three times higher than the average U.S. rate.”

– Kathleen Hartnett White, Texas Public Policy Foundation (May 7, 2015)

Congratulations to the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) for congratulating Texas political leaders for standing firm–and mighty tall–against climate alarmism mandated from Washington, DC. Obama might be high in the saddle right now, and the spin-science-Left might be tossing climate anger at realistic science, but the voting public isn’t buying it. Abbott, Cornyn, and Cruz are playing a winning intellectual and political hand alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.…

“Cap-and-trade is a hidden regressive tax, benefiting the select few who have managed to get themselves written into the … bill…. Think revolving door between the government and Wall Street.  Think revolving door between Congress and lobbyists.”

– James Hansen, “I Just Had a Baby, at Age 68,” (2009).

“Ontario and Quebec to sign cap-and-trade deal Monday ahead of premiers’ summit on climate change,” the headline from the National Post (Canada) read over the weekend. Yesterday, in fact, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne signed an agreement with Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard to price (regulate) carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Such joins California, which has an operating cap-and-trade program pursuant to the Western Climate Initiative.

Cap-and-trade has been lambasted by the father of climate alarmism, James Hansen, whose testimony in mid-1988 brought the issue of the enhanced greenhouse effect to a national audience.…

“Whereas the direct and indirect effects of climate change have a disproportionate impact on marginalized women such as refugee and displaced persons, sexual minorities, religious or ethnic minorities, adolescent girls, and women and girls with disabilities and those who are HIV positive …

Resolved . . . That Congress … encourage[s] the President to … integrate a gender approach in all policies and programs in the United States that are globally related to climate change….”

“Did you know that the small minority of climate change deniers among us, me included,” wrote Timothy Taylor, “are Hell bent on turning our planet into a global whorehouse?”

That’s right. Unless we climate change deniers are silenced once and for all, and mankind is forced to drastically reduce his carbon footprint, the detrimental effects of human caused global warming will soon overwhelm the entire earth and drive our women into prostitution.