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My votes for the most outstanding articles this cycle are:
Live graphic showing all Coronavirus cases, worldwide
The Real Western Civilization Emergency
Short powerful video: Paul Harvey’s Warning to America
It’s Time the Right Got Its Act Together
More Deadly Than Coronavirus: Green Ideology
Report: The Greatly Exaggerated Threat of Man-made Warming
Study: Green New Deal would cost $75K per household in first year
Sorry Virtue Signalers, a Carbon Tax Would Have No Impact on Climate

Natural Gas Is Crushing Wind and Solar Power
Trump vs. Democrats on Higher Education
The Philosophical Force Driving the Fight to Rewrite History
What Is Socialism?
Socialism Always Fails
If Sanders Is So Progressive, Why Is The Green New Deal So Regressive?
Environmentalism Today Is Infected with Urban Smugness

Greed Energy Economics —
Study: Green New Deal would cost $75K per household in first year
Sorry Virtue Signalers, a Carbon Tax Would Have No Impact on Climate
Wind Developers Receive Unexpected Benefit in Latest PTC Extension
Eminent domain is not for sale in Missouri
Failed Auction Illustrates 'Dramatic' Struggle Of German Wind Power
Four Key Nations Refuse to Pay for $1 T Euro Plan to Fight Climate Change

Renewable Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences —
14± million trees felled in Scotland for wind development, 2000–2019
Why Some Families Near Wind Facilities Contemplate Vacating Their Homes

Solar Energy —
The Misguided Green Virtue-Signaling of Solar Panel Mandates
Surprising Disadvantages of Using Solar Energy
Super-Size Solar Farms Are Taking Over the World
Federal Data Confirms Minnesota Solar Panels Don’t Work Well in Winter

Nuclear Energy —
Don’t like CO2? Advanced nuclear power is the answer
Recycled Nuclear Waste Will Power a New Reactor
Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech
TerraPower and GE Hitachi proposal to build a new nuclear reactor
What if Germany wasn’t shutting down Nuclear?
Former execs sued by SEC for ‘fraud’ over failed SC nuclear project

Natural Gas Energy —
Natural Gas Is Crushing Wind and Solar Power
The Obvious Reality Of More U.S. Oil And Natural Gas
Fracking has reduced carbon emissions
Don't believe the hype: US carbon emissions are actually dropping
NYT Ad: Open Letter to 2020 Presidential Candidates
What the frack? 5 things you should know

NYS Energy —
Good News: FERC critics cry bailout by another name
Cuomo wants more state control of solar, wind energy permits
N.Y.'s plan to fast-track renewables could get 'ugly'
NYSERDA Must Reveal Secret Study, Judge Rules
NYSERDA Plan Could Add $200/Month Each in Electric and Gas Costs
CLCPA Goals Set by Climate Change Zealots Might Force Its Repeal

Energy Misc —
Report: Onshore wind faces slowdown without a ‘game changer’
Why the U.S. faces a steep path to a CO2-free grid
Fossil Fuels Advocacy Alarms Environmental Alarmists
The looming German capacity crunch
Conflict between FAA and State Law regarding Siting Turbines
The looming collision between electric vehicles and green energy
Racial preferences in Virginia energy law are unconstitutional
New Book: A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations

Manmade Global Warming - Some Deceptions —
Report: The Greatly Exaggerated Threat of Man-made Warming
More Deadly Than Coronavirus: Green Ideology
Excellent video: Greta Thunberg Incorporated: The Exposé
“Hottest” January? More Globaloney Bloviating from NOAA and the Media
Top Scientist: UN “Climate Finance” Is Subsidy for Kleptocracy

Manmade Global Warming - Misc —
The Real Western Civilization Emergency
House Republicans Roll Out their Climate Change Bills
Video: Climate Change Mass Indoctrination, Corruption of Science 2020
Dr. Curry: Plausible scenarios for climate change: 2020-2050
Study: Empirical evidence of declining global vulnerability to climate hazards
“RepublicEN” astroturf group attacks character of Princeton physicist
Prominent physicist and climate change skeptic Freeman Dyson dies at 96

Education Related —
Trump vs. Democrats on Higher Education
The Philosophical Force Driving the Fight to Rewrite History
To prepare future climate strikers, we need to rewrite the history books
Short video: Why the West Won
Easy grades make for hard landings

US Politics and Socialism —
What Is Socialism?
Socialism Always Fails
Video: The History of Socialism in the US
If Sanders Is So Progressive, Why Is The Green New Deal So Regressive?
Bernie Sanders's Rise is Like Death Knocking on America's Door
Communist Citizen Body County To Date = $150+ Million
How the rise of environmental politics threatens traditional allegiances, etc.
'Socialism is a total disaster': Nikki Haley knocks 'naive' Bernie Sanders

US Politics and Health Care —
Live graphic showing all Coronavirus cases, worldwide
China Coronavirus: Confucism vs Communism
Coronavirus Seems Far Less Deadly Than Flu, But Some Keep Promoting Panic
Over China, Cornavirus coincides with plummet in nitrogen dioxide
The Death of Born Alive
The Dangers in Nationalizing Health Care

Other US Politics and Related —
Short powerful video: Paul Harvey’s Warning to America
It’s Time the Right Got Its Act Together
How Democrats use multiculturalism and immigration to destroy America
Short Video: Is Voter Fraud Real?
Trump Takes Aim at Bureaucratic Bullying

Science and Misc Matters —
Environmentalism Today Is Infected with Urban Smugness
Causes and consequences of the climate science boom
Europe’s Anti-Science Plague Descends On Africa
The Radical Greens’ Role In Africa’s Locusts Crisis
Local Newspapers Are Dying Because They Don’t Represent America
We’ll miss newspapers, but we need journalism more than ever
Censoring Peer Review Using Political Correctness
Report: Peer Review is Just Brass Plating — not a Gold Standard
Conference Videos: Fixing Science - Practical Solutions for the Irreproducibility Crisis

John Droz, jr.
physicist & citizen advocate

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