Energy & Environmental Newsletter - 1/6/20

Category: Energy Issues, renamed to Media Balance Energy Issues, renamed to Media Balance
Published: 06 January 2020 06 January 2020

This is our first Energy & Environmental Newsletter for 2020! For the full version of this issue, please click here… To review some of the highlights, see below.

For those who took some time off over the holidays, there were two Special Editions of the Newsletter that you should check out:
1 - A full archive of all past 11± years of Newsletters, and
2 - My no-holds-barred commentary on the New Year & New Decade.

Here is a fascinating exposé about renewables — by a radical environmental (Left) group! If they get it, why don’t all Conservatives and Republicans?

My votes for the most outstanding articles this cycle are:

Short Video: What I Wasn’t Told About Climate Change (from IPA)The Green Road to Serfdom
Prager Video: Should Decent People Support Trump?
Tomorrow’s Gods: What is the future of religion?
The Religion of Climatism
How The U.S. Navy Remains The Masters Of Modular Nuclear Reactors
Short Video: The Top Climate Crisis Scam of 2019
The End of a Decade When Climate Change Alarmism Tipped Into Climate Change Hysteria
How Billionaires Steyer and Bloomberg Corrupted Climate Science

Energy Economics —
The world is investing less in renewable energy
Big Green Lobbies to Steal from the Poor and Give to the Rich
Climate alarmist banks go carbon-colonialist
Video: What the Divestment Movement Doesn't Understand
AWEA Applauds Another PTC Extension
I thought the wind industry didn't need subsidies any more?

Wind Energy Health & Ecosystem Impacts—
Watch 30 seconds of this video re wind turbine blade toxicity
Mosquitoes and Climate Change (and Turbines)
The Environmental Costs of Renewable Energy Are Staggering

Nuclear Energy —
US to lose 1.7 GW of nuclear power next year
How The U.S. Navy Remains The Masters Of Modular Nuclear Reactors
Russia's New Floating Nuclear Power Plant Begins Delivering Electricity
Abundant Energy for Everyone on Earth
TRISO Particles: The Most Robust Nuclear Fuel on Earth
Lovelock: Any Further Interference with Nuclear Power Is Likely to Be Disastrous

Energy Misc —
The Green Road to Serfdom
The decade that blew up energy predictions
China Adding New Coal Power Equal to Entire European Union Capacity
The Future of Oil, Gas, and Coal: Stranded Assets or Safe Refuge?
Renewables 'hit a wall' in saturated Upper Midwest grid
Citizens Use Civil Disobedience to Protect Their Rights (e.g. vs wind energy)

Manmade Global Warming (other) —
Short Video: What I Wasn’t Told About Climate Change (from IPA)
Short Video: The Top Climate Crisis Scam of 2019
The End of a Decade When Climate Change Alarmism Tipped Into Climate Change Hysteria
How Billionaires Steyer and Bloomberg Corrupted Climate Science
Lomborg: Your electric car and vegetarian diet are pointless virtue signaling
350 Peer-Reviewed Papers Since 2017 Subvert Climate Change Claims
It will take more than science to convince climate activists that they're wrong.
Who Is Winning The Climate Wars? (2)
We’re Getting a Clearer Picture of the Climate Future — and It’s Not as Bad as It Once Looked
2019 Science Data Refutes Climate Alarm On Every Front
TedX video: Climate Change Realities

Misc US Politics —
Prager Video: Should Decent People Support Trump?
Powerful video: Spygate One Year Later
Impeachment: Big Ego's, Bad Attitudes
Economic vs. Cultural Marxism: The Most Important Distinction
A Few things We Could Live Without in 2020
China a Big Military Threat in Key Tech Arenas
The Killing of Major General Qassem Soleimani | Initial Observations
Generation Z and its implications (note charts!)

Science and Misc Matters —
Australia: It has been hotter, fires have burnt larger areas
Archive: Green ideology, not climate change, makes bushfires worse
Tomorrow’s Gods: What is the future of religion?
The Religion of Climatism
Alex Epstein video: The most important New Year’s resolution
Why Americans Fear Trial by Jury

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: To accommodate numerous requests we got about prior articles, we’ve put together detailed archives — where you can search by year, or over the ten+ years of the Newsletter.

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