Energy and Environmental Newsletter - 020320

Category: Energy Issues, renamed to Media Balance Energy Issues, renamed to Media Balance
Published: 03 February 2020 03 February 2020

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My votes for the most outstanding articles this cycle are:
Short video: President Trump’s remarks at Davos
FERC Orders PJM to Expand Minimum Offer Price Rule
Wind power in France: a lie and a swindle?
Iowa cardiologist shares health concerns over wind turbines
Top Solar Execs Plead Guilty to Participating in a Billion $ Ponzi Scheme
Study: Solar can be a net energy loser
Nuclear Waste Recycled into Diamond Batteries with “Near Infinite Power”
The Unexpected Consequences Of Germany's Anti-Nuclear Push
Gov Cuomo would like to accelerate the race to the bottom
Notes From Meeting at Rockefeller Mansion Shed Light on Climate Politics
A New Road to Serfdom
The ‘Global Citizen’ Fraud
Top Scientist Describes “Global Warming” as Pseudo-Science
Robust Scientific Evidence that Clouds (not CO2) Control Earth’s Climate
Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change is ethically misguided and dangerous

Greed Energy Economics —

FERC Orders PJM to Expand Minimum Offer Price Rule
Another perspective on the important FERC ruling
Intermittent & Unreliable Wind & Solar the Greatest Subsidy Scam in History
The Evolution of Electricity Rates
Mnuchin: Greta should study economics
Archive: The Disastrous Economics of 100% Renewables
Rockefeller Fund Behind “Climate Polluters” Lawsuits, etc.

Wind Energy Health & Ecosystem Impacts—
Wind power in France: a lie and a swindle?
The Left’s Opposition to Mining Threatens Its Green Dream
Iowa cardiologist shares health concerns over wind turbines
Archive Study: People near turbines report having a lower quality of life
Watch 30 seconds of this video re wind turbine blade toxicity

Solar Energy —
Top Solar Execs Plead Guilty to Participating in a Billion $ Ponzi Scheme
Study: Solar can be a net energy loser
The Solar Company Making a Profit on Poor Africans
U.S. continues to dump funds into an electrical sinkhole

Nuclear Energy —
Nuclear Waste Recycled into Diamond Batteries with “Near Infinite Power”
The Unexpected Consequences Of Germany's Anti-Nuclear Push
Germany’s overdose of renewable energy
Worried About Cutting CO2 Emissions? Then Nuclear is the Only Solution
Don’t like CO2? Advanced nuclear power is the answer
Russian Scientists Reveal Plans for Fusion-Fission Reactor

Natural Gas Energy —
Epstein Video: Fossil Fuels are Not Mankind's Enemy
CO2 Emissions Expected to Decline Yet Again. Thank Natural Gas.
Energy Paradoxes Put Europe In a Precarious Position
Note to U.S. Politicians – oil and gas is an International industry
Yale Says Fracking Causes Sexually-Transmitted Infections

Energy Misc —
Gov Cuomo would like to accelerate the race to the bottom
Cuomo Proposes Radical Reshaping of Siting Process for Renewable Projects
The Six Energy Paradoxes that slow the sector’s progress
Short Video: BERNing Down America
Imagine A World Without Oil
Economist says Governor is wrong about offshore wind job claims
IEA expects coal consumption to rise through next five years
US House Draft of Climate Change Bill

Manmade Global Warming - Some Deceptions —
Top Scientist Describes “Global Warming” as Pseudo-Science
Global warming goals impossible, Nobel laureate tells Swiss paper
Earth’s Climate History: What the Doomsayers Don’t Want Voters to Know
CLINTEL Manifesto blasts climate scaremongering
Worst case emissions climate scenario 'exceedingly unlikely'
Was 2019 a Hot Year, or Was There Just Lots of Hot Talk?
Archive: The Two-Degree Delusion

Manmade Global Warming - Misc —
Notes From Meeting at Rockefeller Mansion Shed Light on Climate Politics Robust Scientific Evidence that Clouds (not CO2) Control Earth’s Climate
Another Of The "Stupidest Litigation" Contenders Dies -- But Just Barely
The Taming and Shaming of RCP8.5 – Climate Scientists Carry On As Usual
Climate Serfdom Is No Future, It’s the Road to Destruction
The Physician and ‘Climate Change’
2019 Global Temperatures: Down and Up
Report: CO2 Reduction is a Mass Murder Policy
Why we should be wary of blaming 'overpopulation' for the climate crisis
Climate Policies Harm Minorities

Education Related —
Californians Turn a Cold Shoulder on Bill Requiring Climate Education
Social Justice Revisionism Comes for Washington and Lee
The Intellectual and Moral Decline in Academic Research

President Trump’s Impeachment —
After Trump, Whom Will They Impeach Next?
The 10 biggest lies in President Trump's impeachment trial
Three Lessons of Impeachment
Impeachment, the End of an Era, and the Conservative Challenge
Democrats’ impeachment case: all words, no point

Other US Politics and Related —
Short video: President Trump’s remarks at Davos
Ignore the Fake Climate Debate
Greenpeace included with neo-Nazis on UK counter-terror list
Sanders staffer calls for left-wing violence while living lavish lifestyle
Short Video: How to End White Privilege
What’s in Republicans’ new climate-change push
Former CIA Officer On What The ‘Deep State’ Looks Like: Part 1 and Part 2
Report: China cracks down on Christian religious funerals
Time-lapse video shows massive turnout for the 2020 March for Life. (Did you see that in the news?)

Science and Misc Matters —
Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change is ethically misguided and dangerous
A New Road to Serfdom
Rule From Afar By the UN
The ‘Global Citizen’ Fraud
‘Cancel Culture’ Comes to Science
When Science Is Literally under Attack: Ad Hominem Attacks
The Mess That Is Science Publishing
The top 10 FAKE SCIENCE stories of 2019

John Droz, jr.
physicist & citizen advocate

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