AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: June 22, 2015

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy &environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science.

It’s all spelled out at WiseEnergy.org, which is a wealth of energy and environmental resources.

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every 3 weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and environmental matters. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

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Some very good articles in this issue are:

The Poor Need Affordable Energy

Study: Globally Coal Growing Faster than any other Energy Source

The Difficulties Of Powering The Modern World With Renewables

Lessons from Europe: Recipe for a high-cost energy system

Is the European Renewable Energy Bubble About To Burst?

Bonn U.N. talks seek to trim unwieldy climate change plan

Consensus on climate change causes a myth

Global Warming: The Theory that Predicts Nothing and Explains Everything

(There is an additional section about the NOAA’s data adjustments: like this.)

(Also a whole section regarding the Pope’s climate document: like this.)

Greed Energy Economics:

The Poor Need Affordable Energy

Lessons from Europe: Recipe for a high-cost energy system

Japan: Solar and wind power generation are too unstable and costly

New GB Minister promises to cut subsidies to on-shore wind

Rising green energy levies ‘risk public backlash’

The Cost of Dispatchable Wind Power

Proponents of Wind Energy Tax Credit Overstate Their Case

Green Tyranny with John Stossel

Misleading report fails to hide N.C. renewable mandate costs

Nuclear Decommissioning Information

High-Tech Solar Projects Fail to Deliver

Turbine Health Matters:

Mass Superior Court Rules Falmouth Wind Turbines Illegal

Turbine Wildlife Matters:

Bats at greatest risk from turbines in Illinois

Miscellaneous Energy News:

Study: Globally Coal Growing Faster than any other Energy Source

The Difficulties Of Powering The Modern World With Renewables

UK’s Major Announcements Regarding Wind Energy

Is the European Renewable Energy Bubble About To Burst?

Excellent Collection of Wind Energy videos

Estimating Storage Requirements At High Levels of Wind Penetration

EPA Fracking Study: Drilling Wins

Gov Walker: Let’s Gut the EPA

New local NY group fighting a wind project now up to 900 members

California’s Mega-Drought: Nuclear Power To The Rescue

Tony Abbott wishes government never implemented Renewable Energy Target

Green groups’ deceptive con game in NC

Global Wind Day

To win in US, Republican candidates must be strong on energy

Solar Device Industrial Infrastructure

Manmade Global Warming Articles:

Bonn U.N. talks seek to trim unwieldy climate change plan

Consensus on climate change causes a myth

Global Warming: The Theory that Predicts Nothing and Explains Everything

Greenland More Proof There’s No Global Warming

False Claims Reveal Hidden Opportunities

Four Known Ways CO2 Cools the Earth’s Climate

House Committee Drops Funding for State Department Climate Programs

Where is all the CO2 Going?

I’m a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me

Emails Reveal Deception from Harvard and SU re EPA Study

Time for Sachs to Get Sacked

Two Controversial Professors

Video: Truth About Climate Change – British MP Exposes Government Sophistry

NOAA and Data Adjustments:

IBD: NOAA Scientists Can’t Find The Heat, So They Start A Fire

NOAA Wrongfully Applies “Master Algorithm” To Whitewash Temperature History

Reports on the Death of AGW Pause are Greatly Exaggerated

The Pause Still Exists in Pristine US Temperature Data

Has NOAA ‘busted’ the pause in global warming?

The Pope and Manmade Global Warming Articles:

Pope Ponders Paganism

Climate and the Church: It’s Back to Galileo

The ironies of Pope Francis’s climate-change cure

Mixing Up the Sciences of Heaven and Earth

The Pope, the Saint and the Climate

The Pontiff Buys a Bridge

Richard Tol: The Pope on Climate

Pope Francis’ Vow of Poverty — for All

Pope’s Encyclical on Climate Change Ignores Science

The Church Of Climatism

Speaker at Vatican Climate Change Rollout: Earth Overpopulated by 6 Billion

The Pope’s Green Theology

Less than Half of US Catholics Believe in AGW

Video: Lord Nigel – The Pope’s Position is Junk Science…

Short video: The Pope and an Energy Poverty

Our proposed national energy slogan is “All of the Sensible” (in contrast to the absurd “All of the Above”). Once legislators have grasped that concept, the foolishness of the “leveling the playing field” idea also becomes apparent. (Should the 18-wheeler trucks and golf cart playing field be leveled?) Additionally we should be using the term “unreliables” when speaking of renewables. Please pass these on. [US citizens should make sure to get up-to-speed with what is on our PTCFacts.Info pages, as the PTC is still a political issue.]

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