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My votes for the most outstanding articles this cycle are:
Crises and the Collectivist Temptation
13 Petroleum Products Crucial to the COVID-19 Pandemic
We gambled on the wrong threat — climate change
COVID-19 and Climate Change: The Parallels
The Coronavirus Pandemic vs the Climate Emergency
Massachusetts v. EPA: After 13 years, it's time for climate policy review
Archive video: The War on Humans
Russia continues to influence America’s energy sources
Identity Politics Lied. New Yorkers Died
Dead-Of-Night COVID-19 Vote Gives Cuomo New Emergency Powers
Cuomo critics highlight years of waste, amid deepening COVID-19 crisis
A Scholar’s Lament
Soap-opera Science
Full book online: None Dare Call It Conspiracy
The Fed's Cure Risks Being Worse Than the Disease
A free nation cannot long survive if its press takes sides

Coronavirus/COVID-19 —
Latest version: A Summary of Suggestions and Commentary on COVID-19
— PLEASE PERIODICALLY CHECK BACK & PASS IT ON WIDELY! —
(Includes a new document: COVID-19: Daily Operation Tips)

Greed Energy Economics —
Grand Theft: US Taxpayers Liable for $120 B in Subsidies to Wind & Solar
Wind & Solar Lobbyists letter to Democrats for COVID-19 Handouts
Renewable Energy Advocates Decry Lack of Handouts in Stimulus Bill
Why Dems were so bent on passing wind handouts amid COVID-19 crisis
France: Far more support for turbines that for medicine and hospitals

Renewable Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences —
Noise is still bad for health
BBC finally concedes: Green energy facilities threat to wilderness areas
Migratory Bird Treaty Act reform will clarify longstanding confusion

Solar Energy —
Solar Capacity Low Where the Sun Doesn't Shine - Who Couldve Known?
California Pushes for Solar Panel Waste Policy

Natural Gas Energy —
COVID-19 Virus Being Fought with Methane Control Technology
Short video: SHALEout!
Save America’s Oil And Gas Industry
Russia continues to influence America’s energy sources

NYS Energy —
Identity Politics Lied. New Yorkers Died
Dead-Of-Night COVID-19 Vote Gives Cuomo New Emergency Powers
Cuomo critics highlight years of waste, amid deepening COVID-19 crisis
Gov Cuomo to ram industrial wind, solar plants down locals’ throats
Cuomo's COVID-19 failure – the real reason for NY's ventilator shortage
Short video: Are NY wind turbine workers “essential services”? and Part 2

Energy Misc —
Surviving the Coronavirus? Thank Fossil Fuels.
13 Petroleum Products Crucial to the COVID-19 Pandemic
To Fight The Coronavirus, The World Returns To Fossil Fuels
Letter objecting to renewable handouts in US COVID-19 economics bill
AI software improves Nuclear reactor designs, performance, safety, lifetimes
U.S. Renewable Energy Sources - Their Real and Potential Output
China’s 2019 electricity generation reviewed
Trump Administration upgrades Obama-era fuel-efficiency standards
Nevada’s Renewable Energy Delusion
Let’s Quarantine Some Fake Corona and Energy News
Developer of Hawaii wind project withdraws its bid (after 4+ years)

Manmade Global Warming: Some Deceptions —
COVID-19 and Climate Change: The Parallels
The Coronavirus Pandemic vs the Climate Emergency
Archive video: The War on Humans
NASA and NOAA’s Latest Climate Warning Is a Result of Purposefully Flawed Data
Video: The Superbowl Of Data Tampering
Bandwagon Of Doom Washed Away By Tidal Wave Of Data

Manmade Global Warming: Misc —
Massachusetts v. EPA: After 13 years, it's time for climate policy review
We gambled on the wrong threat — climate change
COVID-19 And Climate Change: Asia’s Policy Choices In The Age Of 'Crisis'
People Will Be In No Mood To Stay In Panic Mode After COVID-19 Scare
Is the COVID-19 Economic Downturn Affecting Atmospheric CO2? Not Yet
The Earth’s Temperature (going down!)
Russia Pledges To Increase CO2 Emissions By 2030
Ocean Temperature Changes and Sea Level Changes

Education Related —
A Scholar’s Lament
Soap-opera Science
Higher Education Will Never Be the Same—And That's Not All Bad
A Conversation with the Chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill
How Tulsa University Was Turned into Toxic University

US Politics and Socialism —
Crises and the Collectivist Temptation
Full book online: None Dare Call It Conspiracy
Biden vs Sanders on the Green New Deal
Will coronavirus launch the second wave of socialism?

Other US Politics and Related —
The Fed's Cure Risks Being Worse Than the Disease
A free nation cannot long survive if its press takes sides
Response To COVID-19 Reflects Trump's Plan To Reform Health Care
Short video: What Was Revolutionary About the American Revolution?
Short video: Conservatives Are the Real Environmentalists

John Droz, jr.
physicist & citizen advocate

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