AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: August 3, 2015

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

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

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Some of the most informative articles in this issue are:

Iberdrola Tops List of US Corporate Welfare Hogs

Let’s cut these regressive wind and solar taxes

Levelized Cost Of Electricity: Renewable Energy’s Ticking Time Bomb?

Be VERY Concerned: Carbon Fee Proposal & REMI Report

Researchers prove ‘turbine phenomenon’ is real

Our Nuclear Energy Options — An Overview

There are 2,100 new coal plants being planned worldwide

The Unsettling, Anti-Science Certitude on Global Warming

The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time — Part VI

Less than half of climate scientists agree with the IPCC “95%” certainty

The Inconvenient Truth About Climate Policy

Spectacularly Poor Climate Science At NASA

Archive: How Environmentalism Turned to the Dark Side

Greed Energy Economics:

Iberdrola Tops List of US Corporate Welfare Hogs

Let’s cut these regressive wind and solar taxes

Levelized Cost Of Electricity: Renewable Energy’s Ticking Time Bomb?

UK Green energy subsidies facing the axe

Be VERY Concerned: Carbon Fee Proposal & REMI Report

Britain moves to slash renewable subsidy costs

UK Facing Multi Billion $ Black Hole Due to Wind Energy

More APEX Liens Against Local Property Owners

NextEra Won’t Drop Its SLAPP Lawsuit against Esther Wrightman

Developer contributes $1 million on $40 million solar project

New Study Details New Definition of “Going Green”

Sen Grassley again succeeds in including the PTC in a bill

An Open Letter to Sen Hatch re the PTC

Turbines Should Have Higher Property Taxes

Turbine Health Matters:

Farmers paid to host turbines complain of “unbearable” noise

Researchers prove ‘turbine phenomenon’ is real

Living near a wind turbine could harm emotional wellbeing

New research suggests wind turbines excite brains – and not in a good way

Wind Turbines: Can We Hear Inaudible Sounds?

Fuel Poverty: The Deadly Side of Renewable Energy

Los Angeles Legislators Ban Commercial Wind Turbines

Turbine Environmental Matters:

Scotland’s Wind Projects Cause Water Pollution

Miscellaneous Energy News:

Intermittent Grid Storage

Why wind and solar power are such a challenge for energy grids

Wind farms use fossil fuels for construction and operation

60 Minutes’ episode on Rare Earth Elements

More accurate story about a major NC wind project

Excellent article about NC citizens fighting for a protective wind ordinance

There are 2,100 new coal plants being planned worldwide

Our Nuclear Energy Options — An Overview

The benefits of Nuclear LFTR (short video)

White Paper archive: Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors

Wind Lobby Scrambles To Hide Alleged Influence Of Foreign Companies

The Environmentalist Case Against 100% Renewable Energy Plans

Wind energy is a whopping ONE PER CENT of EU energy!

Wind Energy No-show Causes CO2 Spike

Green Energy Steals from the Biosphere

Wind Project Radar Objections in France

SMART Meters Used as Law Enforcement Tools

The EPA’s Clean Power Overreach

EPA Should Retreat from Rulemakings Amid Cozy Ties With Activist Groups

McCarthy’s EPA ‘moral’ programs not the solution to pollution

President to order even steeper cuts for power plants

Manmade Global Warming Articles:

The Unsettling, Anti-Science Certitude on Global Warming

The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time — Part VI

Less than half of climate scientists agree with the IPCC “95%” certainty

The Inconvenient Truth About Climate Policy

Spectacularly Poor Climate Science At NASA

Archive: How Environmentalism Turned to the Dark Side

Climate Change Alarmists Appear Immunized Against Reality

New Science Contradicts Alarmists’ Predictions of Global Warming Doom

Sea Level (Global Measurements) — Summary

Peer Review: Definitive Truth or Suboptimal Standard? Four Views

The $1.5 Trillion Climate Change Industry

The Pope and Manmade Global Warming:

The Papal Encyclical: A Christian Response

Pope Francis Has A Problem

Cardinal Pell Criticizes the Pope’s Climate Statement

An errant environmental encyclical

A Libertarian View of Pope Francis’ Laudato Si

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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