AWED energy & Environmental Newsletter 3/2/20

 

Energy & Environmental Newsletter - 3/2/20

AWED Friends:   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. 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 Note 1: We recommend reading the Newsletter on your computer, not your phone, as some documents (e.g. PDFs) are much easier to read on a large computer screen… We’ve tried to use common fonts, etc. to minimize display issues. 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. Note 4: Our intention is to put some balance into what most people see from the mainstream media about energy, environmental and education issues… If you want to know our perspective on current events, please read the Big Picture New Year/New Decade commentary. 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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