Please note, this article is a short excerpt, with references to tables and the Appendix, from this much longer article. Much additional information is provided in the longer article. Please, also read the longer article.…

COMMENTARY: The Sierra Club says states should leave the organized energy markets if their decisions and recent orders by federal regulators undermine efforts to encourage clean resources and hurt consumers. (Utility Dive)  

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 5, 2020

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

China’s coronavirus actions are just one of many threats it poses

We Can’t Entrust US Interests to UN

Modeling Catastrophe in a Climate of Fear

Model Madness – Parallels Between Failed Climate and Coronavirus Models

Study: Systemic Misuse of Scenarios in Climate Research and Assessment

The Scientific Case for Vacating the EPA’s Endangerment Finding

US CO2 Emissions Have Declined More Than Anywhere…

I wrote this about four years ago and just reread it. I think it is more relevant now than before.

This Battle Over Climate Change Is Deeper Than We Think.

We are at the Crossroads.

The recent decision by our President is the right one. There is no…

Review of Planet of the Humans

Richard Heinberg  (Post Carbon Institute)

April 27, 2020

A few days ago, Emily Atkin posted a…

Last week, anti-hydrocarbon activist and documentary maker Josh Fox — along with Stanford professor Mark Jacobson, Penn State climatologist Michael Mann, and several others — succeeded in briefly getting Michael Moore’s new documentary, Planet of the Humans, taken off of a website owned by a group called Films for Action. 

Fox’s censorship effort was cheered by Eric Holthaus, a meteorologist and journalist who tweeted “cheers to @joshfoxfilm and everyone who worked hard and…

Chapman and Kurt outlined EDP Renewables North America as developing, constructing, owning and operating wind farms and solar parks throughout North America. 

EDPR is ranked fourth in the United States in installed wind capacity and produces enough energy to power approximately 2 million homes. 

EDPR is trying to develop a wind farm in…

Pro-logging interests use “Burning Wood is Renewable” as a slogan, a mantra, to assure others all is benign, because it helps save the world, fight global warming, are part of the “solution”, and thus deserves to get subsidies via the Vermont Global Warming Solutions Act.

This article will show burning wood is not anywhere near renewable, if the following is accounted…

‘We have a rare and short window of opportunity to rebuild our world for the better,’ he says

The state Division of Rate Counsel is seeking to block two utilities from spending hundreds of millions of ratepayer dollars on programs to build out the infrastructure needed to electrify the transportation sector.

In separate filings with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, division director Stefanie Brand is asking the agency to mostly dismiss proposals by Public Service Electric & Gas and Atlantic City Electric to invest $364 million and $42 million to build out charging…

April 26, 2020

Anti-fossil fuel activists unsuccessfully attempted to lobby to remove Michael Moore’s documentary panning green energy over claims that it contains pro-oil industry…

Delingpole: Left-Wing Activists Are Trying to Cancel Michael Moore

Left-wing activists have turned on documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, furious that the anti-renewables documentary Planet of the Humans which he executive produced has betrayed their cause and giving an easy win to their enemy…

Weather-dependent wind and solar often supply too much or too little electricity. The “100%-RE-in-Vermont” folks want to charge the unused electricity in battery systems and discharge it, as needed, during peak demand hours. They propose a $1.2 billion down-payment on “Fortress Vermont”.

- About $900 million would be for new electricity storage systems, during the 2020 – 2025 period, and several $billions thereafter, to implement…

From AWEA: See https://www.awea.org/Awea/media/Public-Affairs/COVID-19-AWEA-Policy-Proposals-4-22-20.pdf

The COVID-19 pandemic related project delays and delivery uncertainty are having an immediate and significant impact on wind project financing and deployment now, particularly putting at risk projects slated to come online in 2020 and 2021. Without policy relief, 25 GW of…

Robert Bryce

I write about energy, power, innovation, and politics.

EXCERPTS:

Gibbs exposes the two-facedness of Bill McKibben, perhaps the most famous environmentalist in America. Gibbs shows McKibben, the founder of 350.org, extolling the use of wood to generate power, saying that the technology “can happen anywhere...and it must happen everywhere.” He later catches up with McKibben at a climate protest to ask him about the issue, but rather than address the…

Over the last 10 years, everyone from celebrity influencers including Elon Musk, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Al Gore, to major technology brands including Apple, have repeatedly claimed that renewables like solar panels and wind farms are less polluting than fossil fuels.

But a new documentary, “Planet of the Humans,” being released free to the public on YouTube today, the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, reveals that industrial wind farms, solar farms, biomass, and biofuels are wrecking…

I have not yet watched it but am nevertheless posting.

"Have we environmentalists fallen for illusions, “green” illusions, that are anything but green, because we’re scared that this is the end—and we’ve pinned all our hopes on biomass, wind turbines, and electric cars? No amount of batteries are going to save us, warns director Jeff Gibbs (lifelong…