Energy and Environmental Newsletter 122319

Category: Energy Issues, renamed to Media Balance Energy Issues, renamed to Media Balance
Published: 23 December 2019 23 December 2019

This is our last Energy & Environmental Newsletter for 2019. For the full version of this issue, please click here…  To review some of the highlights, see below.

To accommodate the diversity of interesting material, the Newsletter articles are subdivided into ten (10) categories (see below).

My votes for the most outstanding articles this cycle are: 

We’ve Just Had the Best Decade in Human History. Seriously!

Science and the West: Then and Now

100 Scientific Papers: CO2 has Minuscule Effect on Climate

Video:

In 2020 Climate Science Needs To Hit The Reset Button, Part One

Madrid Climate Conference Ends in Failure

Greta Thunberg Is the Perfect Hero for an Unserious Time

Exxon Wins Against NY's Hypocritical Legal Lunacy

The Rise and Fall of CELDF

President Trump Video Clips: Nothing is More Powerful than God

Energy Economics —

It's time to hit the off switch for solar, wind power tax breaks

U.S. House spending bill holds win for wind energy, setback for solar

Subsidized Wind, Noncompetitive Wind

Tax deal in hand, US spending package grows in size

Report: Financial groups gave $745 billion for 258 new coal power plants

Wind Energy Ecosystem Impacts—

The Renewable Fuel Standard is killing the environment

Bird Conservation Groups File Federal Lawsuit over Icebreaker Wind Project

Nuclear Energy —

Nuclear Power’s Phoenix Moment in Canada and Abroad

The Tiny, Simple Nuclear Reactor That Could Change Energy

NuScale’s SMR Design Clears Phase 4 of Review Process

Energy Misc —

Alex Epstein’s Clear Thinking on Climate and Energy

Video: False to claim health & climate benefits from coal plant closures

The Fracking Decade

The Resurgent: America, Not Paris, is the Environment’s Best Champion

How Maritime Emissions Compare To Cars In Europe

The dangerous winds of trying to prevent climate change

Citizens Budget Commission Bashes Cuomo’s Energy Incompetence

Short video: America is The World Leader in Clean Air

New Jersey Doubles Down on Stupidity with Offshore Wind

Coal use to rise as growing demand for electricity in developing countries

Can NY build renewables fast enough to comply w renewable targets? No.

Global Warming and Madrid (COP25) —

Madrid Climate Conference Ends in Failure

Global Climate Income Transfer Scheme Doesn't Go Well

UN’s Climate Change Strategy is a Wealth Confiscation Game

COP 25: Climate Alarmists wage a war of words, but where’s the beef?

COP 25: Paris Accord destroyed

COP 25 Official Report

Global Warming and Greta —

Greta ‘Ignored’ By World Leaders, Admits Protests Have Achieved ‘Nothing’

Greta wins TIME Award: It’s a symptom of a sick & confused world

Greta Thunberg Is the Perfect Hero for an Unserious Time

750 Billion Reasons Why Goldman Is Rooting For Greta Thunberg's Success

Surprise! Greta reveals cameras were rolling from day one of her ‘viral’ rise

This Anti-Globalist, Pro-Family Swedish Teenager Is The Anti-Greta

Greta (and handlers): Why We Strike Again

Manmade Global Warming (other) —

100 Scientific Papers: CO2 has Minuscule Effect on Climate

Toxic climate propaganda is poisoning US public policy

In 2020 Climate Science Needs To Hit The Reset Button, Part One

Report: Climate Truth File 2020

Exxon Wins Against NY's Hypocritical Legal Lunacy

Memo to the Media: Don’t Use Bad Words!

Short video: Michael Moore and Me

How Wrong Can One Article Be?

EU states reject green finance law in setback for climate goals

“Emmas” to be annual celebration of achievement in world-leading eco-hypocrisy

Misc Education —

How Secularism Fuels Campus Outrage

Social Justice Education in America

How Medical Schools Are Polarizing Tomorrow’s Doctors

Seattle Public Schools Will Start Teaching That Math Is Oppressive

Good Book: Restoring the Promise Higher Education in America

Misc US Politics —

President Trump Video Clips: Nothing is More Powerful than God

Video: Barr Criticizes Inspector General Report On The Russia Investigation

President Trump’s Letter to Nancy Pelosi, regarding Impeachment

FISA court slams FBI over surveillance applications

Court rules that Obamacare’s individual mandate is unconstitutional

US Spending Deal Buoys Science Agency Budgets

UK election sends 'catastrophic warning' to 2020 US Dems

Science and Misc Matters —

We’ve Just Had the Best Decade in Human History. Seriously!

Science And The West: Then And Now

The Internet is 50 Years Old. Will we Survive the Next 50 Years?

Video: How Deep-fakes Undermine Truth and Threaten Democracy

Important EPA Advisory Letter on Pollution Regulations

The Rise and Fall of CELDF 

The Subconscious and Climate Change

Best wishes to all our faithful 10,000+ Newsletter readers, to have a safe, enjoyable and profitable New Year. Thank you for your support. It’s much appreciated!

John Droz, jr.

physicist & citizen advocate

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Note 2: Originally this was a monthly Newsletter. However, as pertinent material proliferated, it has been issued more frequently. As a guideline once we collect a hundred worthwhile articles, a new Newsletter will be issued on the following Monday. Recently this has resulted in a once every three weeks frequency — and occasionally once every two weeks.

Note 3: Our intention is to put some balance into what most people see from the mainstream media about energy, environmental and education issues… As always, please pass the Newsletter on to open-minded citizens, and link to it on your social media sites. If there are others who you think would benefit from being on our Energy & Environmental email list, please let me know. If at any time you'd like to be taken off this list, simply send me an email saying that.

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