The researchers calculated that under the current climate conditions, Earth’s land could support 4.4 billion hectares of continuous tree cover. That is 1.6 billion more than the currently existing 2.8 billion hectares. Of these 1.6 billion hectares, 0.9 billion hectares fulfill the criterion of not being used by hu-mans. This means that there is currently an area of the size of the US available for tree restoration. Once mature, these new forests could store…

July 1, 2019

Disentangling the Renewable Energy Scam

By Norman Rogers

The solar energy industry is telling its pals in Congress that it is willing the lose most of its subsidies. The current subsidy for solar is 30% of the construction cost. To that subsidy, an additional 10% subsidy is available due to special fast depreciation for solar energy plants. The 30% subsidy is scheduled to ramp down to 10% by 2022 and thereafter remain at 10%. This is not a consequence of…

June 29, 2019

By Vijay Jayaraj

Wind energy is infinite, clean, a friend of climate, and the future of our energy sector. That is the green gospel we hear from renewable-obsessed environmentalists and politicians every day.

If wind energy is what they claim it is, why are the economic powerhouses of the world increasingly turning toward fossil fuels and nuclear, not toward wind? If wind is affordable and efficient, as they claim, why does it need subsidies to…

Hundreds of blue-collar workers assembled at the Oregon state capitol Thursday, protesting a climate change bill they believe would cripple their respective industries.

Farmers, loggers, ranchers and truckers rallied in Salem to protest HB2020, a cap & trade bill which they fear would cut jobs and increase fuel prices.

The bill was first challenged earlier this month by Republican lawmakers, who defied the state’s Democrat Governor Kate Brown by walking out…

"It means that on Father's Day, when I see my grandchildren next year, I'll have a lot less uncertainty about their future than I did yesterday morning," said Democratic Assemblyman Steve Englebright"

Mr. Englebright - are you aware that NY State's population is equal to 3/10th's of 1% of the world population? Are you…

Beto O'Rourke: Oil Industry Will Be Replaced by Wind Power

NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep asked if O’Rourke supports the oil industry in his state, which provides the state with incredible prosperity, according to the state’s…

Glacier National Park quietly removed a visitor center sign saying its iconic glaciers will disappear by 2020 due to climate change.

• Several winters of heavy snowfall threw off climate model projections the glaciers would all disappear by 2020, according to federal officials.
• A blogger first noticed the signage change and noted other signs warning of “impending glacier disappearance have been replaced.”

The…

Apple claiming reports are “rejected by the scientific community”

Mike Adams | Natural News - May 13, 2019

As part of the accelerating techno-dictatorship sweeping across the online world, Apple News has banned Natural News for expressing views which Apple claims are “rejected by the scientific community.”

This ban was received shortly after Natural News published a rebuttal to the junk science climate change narrative which falsely claims that…

FERC allays climate change worries to approve pipeline to move natural gas from Pennsylvania to Northeast

by John Siciliano

May 03, 2019

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission managed to allay concerns about greenhouse gas emissions to issue a long-sought permit Friday to build a pipeline to move natural gas from the shale fields of Pennsylvania to utilities in the Northeast.

The regulators issued a 3-1…

Prepare yourselves to start hearing more and more about how wind power's intermittency is no problem at all because of adoption of battery storage and advances in its technology. It seems every time the general public begins to catch on to one of wind power's numerous major problems, a new big lie is rolled out by the climate-industrial complex's propagandists to stanch the bleeding. Once the new lie makes its debut, the media will incessantly repeat it and despite its refutation by experts,…

"China has done a very good job of emphasizing the target of greening the Belt and Road," said Courtney Weatherby, a Southeast Asia analyst at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C. "But it's not clear when you look at the actual projects that China is funding that they are truly green."

4/29/19

Why Is China Placing A Global Bet On Coal?

By Steve Inskeep & Ashley Westerman

Days before the forum with its "clean and…

Unreliable nature of solar and wind makes electricity more expensive, new study finds

Michael Shellenberger, Contributor | Forbes | Apr 22, 2019 | www.forbes.com ~~

Solar panels and wind turbines are making electricity significantly more expensive, a major new study by a team of economists from the University of Chicago finds.

Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) “significantly increase average retail electricity prices, with prices…

by Maine Examiner 04/17/2019

AUGUSTA – The Maine Legislature will stop accepting citizen testimony via email as of April 22, 2019 according to a notice posted on the Legislature’s website on April 16^th.

Instead, the Legislative Information Office says all testimony will have to be submitted through a form…

The bill under consideration is L.D. 1139 and is sponsored by Rep. Norm Higgins, (I – Dover-Foxcroft). It has eight cosponsors, seven of whom are Democrats, and one Independent.

Representative Kent Ackley (I – Monmouth)

Senator Shenna Bellows of (D – Kennebec)

Representative Matthea Daughtry of (D – Brunswick)

Representative Ryan Fecteau of ( D – Biddeford)

Representative Brian Hubbell of (D – Bar Harbor)…

Bryce chastised the “scant” media coverage of the growing resistance to renewable energy projects, which is especially important given Democrats push for sweeping plans, like the Green New Deal, to significantly ramp up renewable energy use.

“By contrast, national media coverage of the growing backlash against deployment of large-scale renewable-energy projects has been scant,” Bryce said. “That lack of media coverage is particularly true when it comes to controversies about…

Word has it that the creators of Maine's expedited wind law will soon be telling us why expediting is now bad. This is a good start. Now let's get some new natural gas pipeline into Maine so we needn't buy LNG from the Russians as they've done in Boston.

- President Donald Trump signed…

This article is appropriately timed as President Trump is on the cusp of issuing executive orders aimed at making it difficult for states to block gas pipelines.

To force a transition away from natural gas, New England policymakers have blocked construction of new gas pipelines. The Constitution Pipeline, a project to bring gas from the shale fields in Pennsylvania to the pipeline network in Schoharie County, NY, is one of many examples. This pipeline…

If battery storage is foolish in Florida, how foolish might it be in New England? It's a worthwhile question because more and more, we hear the "environmentalists" proclaiming that grid-scale battery storage is here. I wonder how many of these cheer leaders know anything about electricity.

Battery Foolishness in Florida

The…

President Donald Trump is preparing to sign a series of executive orders soon that would quicken development on oil and gas pipelines in the Northeast, Axios reported Thursday night, citing sources familiar with the matter.

The orders could come within the next couple of weeks, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Wednesday during a meeting with conservative group Council for Capital Formation,…