This fortnightly Master Resource post will excerpt energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, published every other week by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete MBN for this post can be found here.

The first story, from Minnesota, suggests what might happen if the advocates of renewables had to prove their case in a forum bound by objective evidence. (Hat tip to the Heartland Institute.)

Wind Energy:
Minnesota Court Rules Natural Gas More Environmentally-Friendly than Solar or Wind
Wind turbine makers struggle to profit from wind energy boom as costs rise
Turbine noise goes on trial
Group files lawsuit against US offshore wind project
Trump adviser involved in Offshore Vineyard Wind opposition

Nuclear Energy:
Germany Flirts With Power Crunch in Nuclear and Coal Exit
New school year, new Classroom Resources for Navigating Nuclear!…

“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).…

Editor’s note: Every few weeks at Master Resource, John Droz of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions publishes an information round-up. At his suggestion, he is substituting a collection of links relating to the coronavirus epidemic. The regular Energy & Environmental Newsletter resumes next Monday, March 23.

COVID-19 Health Information:
Live graphic showing all Coronavirus cases, worldwide
CDC Coronavirus Disease Webpage
My recommendations re COVID-19
A good general Coronavirus overview, answering common questions
Dr. Oz’s COVID-19 Survival Guide

COVID-19 and Panic:
Coronavirus Hysteria Worse Than the Disease
Panic and the Coronavirus: Is There is Better Approach?
Video: Dennis Prager — Coronavirus: Panic or Pandemic?
A warming light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel?
Coronavirus going to hit its peak and start falling sooner than you think

COVID-19 and How To’s:
How to: Distinguish COVID-19 from the Flu or a Cold
How to: Get Effective Antimicrobial Products for COVID-19
How to: Successfully self-quarantine
How to: Start Working From Home
How to: Get food delivered safely during coronavirus pandemic
How to: Prevent Loneliness in Times of Social Distancing
How to: Stay Coronavirus-free while flying
How to: Avoid Coronavirus scams
How to: Use your home computer to help scientists find a COVID-19 cure

COVID-19 and China:
The Chinese Knew What They Were Doing in Spreading the Wuhan Virus
Inside China’s high-stakes campaign to smear the US over Coronavirus
China hints at denying Americans life-saving coronavirus drugs
China reframes coronavirus narrative
Apocalyptic battle of the Viruses: H1N1 vs CORVID-19

COVID-19 and Energy/Climate Change Good News:
Climate crisis on back-burner as pandemic threat looms
Social Changes with COVID-19 are a prelude to life with less fossil fuels
Wisconsin solar installations delayed because of COVID-19; Minnesota developers worried
Coronavirus Creates Angst For Clean Energy Developers

COVID-19 and Energy/Climate Change Bad News:
How Coronavirus Makes The Case For Renewable Energy
Coronavirus Conflict: Putin to Start a War on America’s Shale Oil Industry
Green Fanatics Celebrating Coronavirus Epidemic

COVID-19 and Other Politics:
A viral takedown of Donald Trump?…

“We have done extensive polling on a carbon tax. It all sucks.”

– John Podesta (Clinton campaign manager), January 2015.

“[A carbon tax is] lethal in the general [election], so I don’t want to support one.”

– Robby Mook (Clinton campaign manager), June 2015.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign would not touch it. Neither would be Democratic Platform in 2016. “[Hillary] Clinton has no intention of being suckered into a political disaster by advocating a carbon tax,” stated Democrat consultant
Paul Bledsoe in July 2016.

If Republicans will come out for it and vote for it, that’s a different matter. But until that happens, the Democrats should have nothing to do with it, because it’s political poison.” –

So if attention-hungry, anti-Trump Republicans (such as Mitt Romney) want to make a carbon tax an issue, be careful.…