Energy and Environmental Newsletter - 2/17/20

Category: Energy Issues, renamed to Media Balance Energy Issues, renamed to Media Balance
Published: 17 February 2020 17 February 2020

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My votes for the most outstanding articles this cycle are:
Plymouth (MA) Board of Health Declares Turbines a Nuisance
Renewable Energy Fairy Tales
US Green Agenda: Nationalize Energy
How the Left is Trying to Kill America
About the slow-mo revolution by the Left
Archive: Is Ideology Becoming America's Official Religion?
Deceptive Economic Rhetoric At Davos Could Bring Disaster
DIRE WARNING: The EU’s new Taxonomy Regulation
A Climate Blacklist That Works to Make Skeptics Unhirable
The Left’s Doomsday Stories
Climate Not About Controlling The Weather, It’s About Controlling You!
Extinction Rebellion Cofounder Wants To ‘Sabotage’ Civilization
The Left’s Solution to Climate Change: Human Extinction
Foundational Principles of Biblical Earth Stewardship
An autopsy of the climate policy debate’s corpse
Here’s How to Get Out of the Trap Humans Have Put Themselves In
Harsh medicine to fix America’s universities
Chinese: Happy Subjects No More

Greed Energy Economics —
Deceptive Economic Rhetoric At Davos Could Bring Disaster
Central banks change global monetary policy to embrace “climate change”
Attack of the carbon counters as business world reduced to tallying emissions
The Bloomberg Family Foundation and the Future of American Energy
Trump’s Environmental Review Reforms Vital for U.S. Economy
Renewable Power Theatre of the Absurd
Wind Energy Feeding at the Government Subsidy Trough for 28 Years!
Wind Giants in Germany Are Not So Keen on Market Rates After All

Wind Energy Health & Ecosystem Impacts—
Plymouth (MA) Board of Health Declares Turbines a Nuisance
Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills
Waste Problems for Wind and Solar
Turbines Killing Millions of America’s Bats: Endangered Species Under Threat
Federal Government Moves to Relax Rules Against Killing Birds?
Anglers oppose Lake Erie wind turbine project
Hawaii’s Push For Renewable Energy Could Stall Over Public Opposition
Whales Deafened By Offshore Wind Turbine Noise Die Stranded Onshore

Solar Energy —
Much-touted Crescent Dunes solar plant goes bust
Major contractor dramatically quits Australian solar sector

Nuclear Energy —
Fungi that eats radiation found inside Chernobyl nuclear reactor
Raising the Next Generation of Nuclear: A Road Map for Deployment
Bringing SMRs to the Pacific Northwest
New US DOE Nuclear Project funding
Archive: Stop Letting Ridiculous Fears Of Nuclear Power Kill The Planet

Natural Gas Energy —
Gas Switching Reforming: making Hydrogen to balance variable Wind, Solar
New Mexico Gov credits gas as main driver for state’s budget surplus
Fake News Is Endemic In Environmentalism
CO2, The Big Picture No One on the Fractivist Fringe Can Apparently See

Energy Misc —
Renewable Energy Fairy Tales
US Green Agenda: Nationalize Energy
Europe's Green Deal: Same Hysteria, Same Destruction
DIRE WARNING: The EU’s new Taxonomy Regulation
Green Deal Law To Make EU’s ‘Tectonic’ Energy Shift Irreversible
Japan Races to Build New Coal-Burning Power Plants
U.S. coal plants pinched between economic pressures and inefficient cycling
Alternative Energy Can't Replace Hydrocarbons
Short video: RGGI Reality
Onshore wind low hanging fruit has already been picked

Manmade Global Warming - Some Deceptions —
A Climate Blacklist That Works to Make Skeptics Unhirable
The Left’s Doomsday Stories
Climate Not About Controlling The Weather, It’s About Controlling You!
Climate doomsayers keep putting sell-by dates on their credibility
“Ethically misguided & downright dangerous” NOT to Censor Climate Deniers
A Challenge to Evangelical Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe
Study: Economic Impact of Energy Use Change Caused by Global Warming
Luke-warming: The climate campaign’s cottage industry

Manmade Global Warming - Misc —
Excellent Short Video: Real Climate Science
Superior short video: Hide The Decline
Thesis: Climate Change and Marxism
Extinction Rebellion Cofounder Wants To ‘Sabotage’ Civilization
The Left’s Solution to Climate Change: Human Extinction
Foundational Principles of Biblical Earth Stewardship
An autopsy of the climate policy debate’s corpse
Fight climate extremists before they upend society
440 scientific papers last year disputed climate alarmism
Saturation is the Demise of Global Warming CO2 Fakery
Climate Bills Supported by Some House Republicans are Bad Policy
Americans Just Don’t Believe in the ‘Climate Change’ Fairy
Unlike in Europe, the US approach to climate change is actually working

Education Related —
Here’s How to Get Out of the Trap Humans Have Put Themselves In
Harsh medicine to fix America’s universities
Christian Colleges Are Worth the Investment
The Myth of the Entrepreneurial University
Rising CO2 levels may hinder cognitive function

Other US Politics and Related —
How the Left is Trying to Kill America
About the slow-mo revolution by the Left
Archive: On Destroying America
Archive: The Civil War is Here
Officials warn of growing Chinese threats
President Trump’s State of the Union Address (written)
Short video: The Market Will Set You Free
Short video: Immigration in the US
Short video: The New Way Forward Act

Science and Misc Matters —
Archive: Is Ideology Becoming America's Official Religion?
Chinese: Happy Subjects No More
Coronavirus Death Smog: Is China Burning Thousands of Infected Bodies?
John Hopkins Tracking Information for Worldwide Coronavirus
The Urgent Need for a United States Space Force
Report: Russian satellites tailing advanced US spy satellite
Archive: Sustainable Development — The Evil Facing America
Short Video: What is really happening in Sweden, Greta?
Africa locust invasion may become ‘most devastating plague’ in memory

John Droz, jr.
physicist & citizen advocate

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