Energy & Environmental
Newsletter - 4/20/20

Our latest Energy & Environmental Newsletter is now available... For the full version of this issue, go here… To review some of the highlights, see below.

Two upbeat specials:
Our recommended COVID-19 theme song
Some pets not practicing social distancing

My votes for the most outstanding articles this cycle are:
Richard Weaver, the Coronavirus, and the Strenuous Life
On Computer Models, Socialism, And Other Garbage
A pandemic is the wrong time to shut down NYC's top source of electricity
Even Facing a Pandemic, NYS Remains in the Grip of the Green Movement
Green New Deal goes viral, and fails
Climate Models and COVID-19 Models
Modeling COVID-19 and the Lies of Multiculturalism

Have We Won?
'Trust the Experts on Coronavirus/Climate'. Sure. Which Experts? 
The crisis exposes the hollow fantasies of Greta and Extinction Rebellion
The WHO, China, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Big Green Continues to Beguile Young Republicans
Make American Colleges Grade Again!
Is America a Roaring Giant or a Crying Baby?

Coronavirus/COVID-19 —
Latest version: A Summary of Suggestions and Commentary on COVID-19
—PLEASE CHECK BACK FREQUENTLY & PASS IT ON WIDELY!—
(Includes a short video: The Immune System: Your Body's Operating System)

Greed Energy Economics —
EU carbon market collapses
EU Urged to Put Economic Survival Ahead of Green Deal
Goodbye Renewable Energy. Hello Cheap Fossil Fuels
How much subsidy do EVs need to be competitive?
Comparison of NE, VT, Hydro-Quebec Electricity and CO2
Economic Progress in the Age of Radical Environmentalism

Solar Energy —
Solar power growth was strong before COVISD-19 — now plummeting
Archive: Wind & solar are not "intermittent"; they are unreliable, unpredictable, uncontrollable and worthless

Nuclear Energy —
Nuclear fusion: pitch for pilot power plant in U.S.
Next-Gen Nuclear Power
A pandemic is the wrong time to shut down NYC's top source of electricity
A good website trying to protect Indian Point nuclear facilities in NYS

Natural Gas and Oil Energy —
Russia Salivating To Become The World's Biggest Oil Producer
Oil-Market Central Planning: Not Just for Socialists Anymore
The strategic petroleum reserve and the fallacies of 'embargo' thinking.
Don't Cheer if Virus Ends Small, Independent Oil
How The U.S. Can Retain Its Energy Dominance

NYS Energy —
Even Facing a Pandemic, NYS Remains in the Grip of the Green Movement
The Absolute and Amazing Futility of New York Energy Policy
New NYS renewable energy siting act voted into law with some changes
NYS Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act
NYS Pitches Renewable Energy For COVID-19 Recovery
Indian Point Closure Puts Empire State Up Against A Wall of Natural Gas
Sign the petition to save Indian Point!

Energy Misc —
Green New Deal goes viral, and fails
We Must Not Let Green Extremists Exploit the Corona Crisis
FERC Denies Rehearings on PJM Capacity Orders
Will China build more Coal to stimulate the economy?
America must take steps now to sustain its energy dominance

Faulty Computer Models: COVID-19 & Climate Change —
Inaccurate Models Are Panicking Officials into Ill-Advised Lockdowns
Fauci-Birx Climate Models?
Computer Modeling: 'Uncertainty is the only certainty'
Climate Models and COVID-19 Models
America Can't Afford to Wait on Projections, Models
Modeling COVID-19 and the Lies of Multiculturalism

Manmade Global Warming: Conservatives Being Fooled —
A Critique of the House Republican Climate Policy Proposals
The 'Eco-Right' — Global Warming Fanaticism in a Conservative Wrapper
The Growing Eco-Right Presence at CPAC
Big Green Continues to Beguile Young Republicans

Manmade Global Warming: Misc —
Have We Won?
'Trust the Experts on Coronavirus/Climate'. Sure. Which Experts?
The crisis exposes the hollow fantasies of Greta and Extinction Rebellion
Study: Eastern Mediterranean summer temperatures since 730…
Equal Global Warming, 1900 to 1950 versus 1950 to 2018
Climate Change Is Important, but Calls for Philanthropy Ring Hollow
Report: The next solar cycle and why it matters for climate

Education Related —
Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: UNC BOG Enacts New Admissions Policy
A Radical Pseudo-historian Meets His Match
Make American Colleges Grade Again!
The 3% Project: The Climate Mobilization of Canadian Youth

US Politics and Socialism —
On Computer Models, Socialism, And Other Garbage
Oligarchy and Pestilence
Gavin Newsom – Stirs up Trouble, Declares CA "Nation-State"
Short video: Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?
Short video: Never let America become a socialist country

Other US Politics and Related —
Is America a Roaring Giant or a Crying Baby?
Building American Institutions during a Cultural Crisis
U.S. government gave $3.7 million grant to Wuhan virus lab
Senator Rubio Speaks on U.S. - China Relationship in Senate Floor Speech

Science and Misc Matters —
The Dangers of Isopropyl Alcohol
Richard Weaver, the Coronavirus, and the Strenuous Life
The WHO, China, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Trump Is Right about the WHO
Cardinal Pell vs Australian Media: the High Court's knock-out

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 received 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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Note 5: See this extensive list of reasonable books on climate change. As a parallel effort, we have also put together a list of some good books related to industrial wind energy.

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