Energy and Environmental Newsletter 082420

Category: Energy Issues, renamed to Media Balance Energy Issues, renamed to Media Balance
Published: 24 August 2020 24 August 2020

[Editor's Note: We could NOT link everything. We recommend you go to the online version, because there are many more articles highlighted that we did not link.]

Welcome to our latest Energy & Environmental Newsletter... (For all 2020 Newsletters, go here.) To review the current issue's highlights, see below (and page 62)…

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Two upbeat specials:
Short video: Dogs pray before eating
Short video: A Millennial Job Interview

— This Newsletter's Articles, by Topic —
(My votes for the most outstanding articles are linked in this column)

COVID-19: Therapies —
Questions for Dr. Fauci
13 HCQ studies of early treatment: ALL were positive
How Democrats' Trump Derangement Syndrome is literally killing people
Well-Respected Researcher: Consider Triple Therapy for COVID-19
Doctor: HCQ works in high-risk patients, and saying otherwise is dangerous
The Treatment That Could Crush COVID-19
Trump announces emergency authorization of plasma COVID-19 treatment

COVID-19: Prevention —
COVID Immune Responses Explained
'AeroNabs' Promise Powerful, Inhalable Protection Against COVID-19
RNA vaccines: a novel technology to prevent and treat disease
Vaccine Not an Elixir for COVID-19
A Third Of Americans Unwilling To Get COVID-19 Vaccine
Russia's Health Ministry approves world's first COVID-19 vaccine

COVID-19: Models and Data —
CDC data: To date 2020 has the lowest weekly death rate in a decade
Report: Lasting immunity seen after mild COVID-19 infection
Dying to Go to School  

COVID-19: Misc —
Executive Orders Addressing COVID-19 Explained
Study: A Deadly Coronavirus Was Inevitable. Why Was No One Ready?
Sweden: No Lockdowns, Low Deaths & Minimal Economic Damage
Short video: People Have No Idea What's Coming!
Report: A Synthesis of Discovery about COVID-19 in the US

Greed Energy Economics —
The Wind PTC FAQ
Time For Wind Industry to Fly The Nest
Wind, solar sectors no longer need subsidies
Democrats Drop Demand To End Fossil Fuel Subsidies From Party Platform
Bernie scolds Musk for taking subsidies Sanders made possible
Labor Unions Reject RGGI
Massachusetts 7 Years of Green Energy Disaster Was Greed

Renewable Energy Health and Eco-system Consequences —
The staggering human costs of "renewable" energy
Chemours to stop remaining GenX chemical pollution
Renewable energy corps fight endangered species status for Joshua trees
Australians win historic legal battle against turbines 'too close to homes'

Wind Energy —
Wind generation falls over 40% in July: blames low wind speed
So Many Problems – So Many Simple and Effective Solutions
China Dominates the Rare Earths Supply Chain
Chinese-owned Texas wind project threatens power grid and military base

Nuclear Energy —
The inconvenient truth: We need nuclear
Nuclear to Replace Wind and Solar
Don't let China steal the global nuclear-power industry
The Power Hungry Podcast on SMRs

Natural Gas Energy —
Alex Epstein: Fracking talking Points to Joe Biden
Trump vs Biden: Deep Split Over Future Of US Shale Gas
Harris: There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking
Harris's Fracking Record Scares Big Oil But Attracts the Left
Q&A with Penn State scientist whose work led to the shale gas boom
The Trump-Admin Reforms Obama's Misguided Methane-Emissions Rule
Energy independence boosted as ANWR cleared for clean, safe drilling
China To Expand Its Influence In The Middle East With Major Oil Deal
Fossil Fuel Myths Used to Hinder Pipeline Development

Misc Energy —
Biden's Climate Plan Would Put Us On The Road To Serfdom
John Stossel: The world needs more juice
China is the Enemy and Renewables Mean Dependency on China
New Book: Just Green Electricity
Enough legal games — we need to unleash American energy
Clean coal: the commonsense answer to Africa's energy crisis
In CAISO Emergency Break Glass
Carbon Madness as Joe Biden Buys into Spending Trillions
Report: DOE Clean Coal & Carbon Mgmt Office, Strategic Vision 2020-2024
Inside the Baltic energy rift
President Trump Most Free Market Oriented Energy Leader History

California —
What Is The Cause Of The Recent Power Blackouts In California?
Democrats Promise to Bring California-Style Blackouts to Everyone
California Governor: Time to 'Sober Up' About Green-Energy's Limitations
Green California has the nation's worst power grid
Study Calls for Ban on Gas Appliances, Misleads Californians
Short video: California Scapegoating
Why California's Climate Policies Are Causing Electricity Blackouts

Manmade Global Warming: Some Deceptions —
Biden's Climate Plan Would Put Us On The Road To Serfdom
How Climate Alarmism Hijacked Environmentalism
Global Warmists Go Disney
Why CO2 Can't Warm the Planet
Short Video: Climate Fraud
Emergent constraints on TCR and ECS from historical warming in models
Green New Deal disruption and destruction
Cascading fallacies in climate risk assessment

Manmade Global Warming: Misc —
COVID and Climate Policy Following the Same Playbook
Amid COVID-19, Americans Don't Care About Climate Change Anymore
'Believing the science' on climate change doesn't mean any policy goes
Club of Rome: Planetary Emergency Plan
Large Increase In Sunshine Hours Likely Behind Warming
Cold-weather accounts for almost all temperature-related deaths
Exact climate data from the past
Surprising pulses of ancient warming found in Antarctic ice samples

US Politics and Socialism —
Short video: The Plan is to Create Unending Misery
Yes, This is a Revolution
Archive: The Civil War is Here
Harris is to the Left of Sanders
Tucker Carlson: Media go all-in on mailbox conspiracy
Progressives Continue to Downplay Their Movement's Racist Past
BLM Artwork
AOC speaks at DNC on social issues
Short video: We are the victims of the greatest crime in history

Other US Politics and Related —
The Eight Stages of the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Executive Orders Addressing COVID-19 Explained
What is George Will's Problem?
The Spies Who Hijacked America
I'm a Black Republican, running for office, and here's why
Media Ignores Pro-Trump Boat Parade Phenomenon Sweeping the Nation
Corrupt FBI Attorney Who Falsified Documents, Pleads Guilty
Unpacking the Bannon Indictment
American soldiers leave Germany -- and suddenly Germany is upset

Religion —
Franklin Graham: Only God Can Save Us From Socialists & Communists
'Creation Care' Means Controlling People, Not the Environment
Video: If We Don't Fight, No One Will
Christian activist in Hong Kong arrested under national security law
Nevada Governor Fines Church For Holding Service In Opened Casino

Education Related —
Short video: It's Time to Grow Up
College Reform: Build Lifeboats to Escape the Sinking Ship
Colleges: 'The Public Be Damned'
Libraries Are Indoctrinating Kids To Think All White People Are Racists
Parents Win against Politicians, Media, and Unions on School Openings

Science and Misc Matters —
The Lazy Man's Way to Avoid Grappling with an Argument
Computer Modeling – Flying Blind By Dead Reckoning
Dr. Curry: Cancel culture discussion thread II
Videos of the recent worthwhile DDP meeting talks
A mad rush for the exits as NYC goes down the tubes
NYC is Dead Forever — and Here's Why
NASA Is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field
Breakthrough technology purifies water using the power of sunlight
Is Indigenous "elder wisdom" Equivalent to the Western Scientific Method?

John Droz, jr.
physicist & citizen advocate

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