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Three brief overviews about the US elections, so far:

  1. Due likely to God’s intercession, Republicans did FAR better than the media and  pollsters were projecting,
  2. Since the US voting public did not sufficiently cooperate with the plans of the Left, there appears to be a significant amount of shenanigans to keep the President from being reelected, and
  3. It’s now mostly in the hands of lawyers and judges.

If you’ve witnessed election fraud or manipulation, fill out this report

If you’ve witnessed election fraud or manipulation, call these numbers

We have one objective regarding the 2020 US election:

that every legal vote, and only legal votes, are counted.

Here is a cross-section of sample articles that explain some of the details of what is going on:

US National Elections (General):

Statement from the President

The Fight is Now

9 Constructive Things to do Regarding the Election

A Nation Counting on Integrity

A Prayer for the United States

Call in the Quants

Updated: Election Day!

The Ascendancy Of The Basket Cases — 2020 Edition

True The Vote Organization

US National Elections (Politics):

The Horrors That Await if They Get Away With Stealing the Election

Dennis Prager video: The Election – A Divided Nation

The Triumph and Tragedy of Trump

Taking a Closer Look at ‘Fact-Free Journalism’

America is at a tipping point!

Scholars and Writers for Trump

There are myriad reasons why I voted for Donald Trump

A Plea to My Evangelical Friends Supporting Biden

Senior ABC News Reporter Reveals Bosses Spikes Important News

The Fall of the House of Pelosi

Harris accused of promoting Marxism with video on ‘equality vs. equity’

Short video: Do You Understand the Electoral College?

US National Elections — Likely Corruption (General):

Trump’s legal team responds after race is called for Biden

Fractional Magick

Intelligence Expert Claims 2020 Election was a ‘Sophisticated Sting Operation’

How the most important election in our lifetime was rigged

Democrats are to Blame for Post-Election Hanky-Panky

Video: Sidney Powell re Voter Fraud

And you thought elections were decided by The People?

Votes Changed in Pre-Election Counting Connected to Hammer and Scorecard?

Short video: Steve Bannon “Trump Won the Election”

Short video: Voter Fraud Exposed — Computer Program Hacking

Video: Election Fraud Is a ‘Time-Honored Tradition’ in Dem Cities

Did a Computer Glitch Switch 2.3 million Trump Votes to Biden?

US National Elections — Likely Corruption (State Specific):

America or “Banana Republic”?

USA 2020: Looks like a coup, smells like a coup…

Why Does Biden Have Many More Votes Than Democrat Senators In Swing States?

Two Statistical Curiosities that Allowed Biden to Pull Ahead in PA

Stealing Pennsylvania

Yes, Democrats Are Trying to Steal the Election In Michigan, Wisc, and PA

Wisconsin Voter Irregularity = Likely Fraud

Massive Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

Five Milwaukee wards report 89% turnout in 2020 presidential vote

‘Vertical’ Vote Counts In Michigan, Wisconsin

Math Proves Trump Won

Dems collude with CIA to launch operation that alters voting results in swing states

As we’ve recommended before, please continue to pray about this election, as God can fix anything.

Thank you for your interest in, and support of, the principles of America.

PS — We are currently examining the Pennsylvania voting result for statistical anomalies (and have found considerable evidence for that (e.g. see here).

Additionally, the President’s team needs attorneys willing to help with Pennsylvania lawsuits (and likely other key swing states: AZ, WI, MI, GA, NV). If you’d like to assist with either of those actions, or how someone who would, please let me know.

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ALERT: Fascist Anarchists’ group ‘Shut Down D.C.’ targets American Patriots

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Fascism

“a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control”

Never in my lifetime have I seen the kinds of hate and violence in American cities that I see today. These even outdo the violent anti-Vietnam War protests that swept our nation in in 1960s.

Groups like BLM, Antifa and now Shut Down D.C. are openly revolting in an attempt to overthrown our governments at every level. We are seeing, in primarily Democrat controlled enclaves such as Portland, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Atlanta, Detroit, Baltimore and many others, violence and destruction the likes of which I have never seen before.

Now this hate and destruction is coming to the “Deep State” located in our nation’s capital.

The ShutDownDC website states:

ShutDownDC uses strategic direct action [riots and violence] to advance [social] justice and hold [Republican] officials accountable. We’re a growing movement and we’re getting ready for an uprising [revolution]. Now’s the time to get involved so we’re ready to hit the streets [riot and destroy]. [Emphasis added]

ShutDownDC is specifically targeting Republican members of Congress:

ShutDownDC is part of the Green New Deal movement. They are the Green Shirts of the Democrat power grab to control American industry via climate regulation and intimidation.

In a 2019 Washington Post column Hannah Natanson titled ‘Shut Down D.C.’: What you need to know about the protests that are creating gridlock in Washington wrote:

A broad coalition of climate activists called “Shut Down D.C.” is blocking streets throughout the nation’s capital during the Monday morning commute to draw attention to climate change.

The protest is timed to coincide with the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York, at which climate activists and leaders, including 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, are slated to speak. It follows a strike across six continents Friday and a youth conference at the United Nations on Saturday.

The traffic shutdown is meant to send a particular message to D.C.’s powerful political elite, according to Liz Butler, an organizer for Shut Down D.C. and vice president of organizing and strategic allegiances for Friends of the Earth Action.

Read more.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Friends:

Although I’ve said it before, it bears repeating: As citizens, there is likely no more important political matter in our lifetime, than the current US national election!

Abraham Lincoln prophetically warned us that there would be serious threats to America: 1) from major external enemies [e.g. China and Russia], and 2) from divisive internal forces — which he stated were more likely to succeed than #1!

For the rest of the explanation about this special Newsletter, see here.

For US Citizens —

Short video: The Best is Yet to Come

Short video: Life Too Boring 2020

Short video: New Democrat Campaign “Ad”

Energy and Environmental News By Topic

COVID-19

NIH Limiting Early COVID-19 Treatment, a Death Sentence for Many

The COVID Coup

What Trump Has Done to Change Health Care and Help Battle COVID-19

US National Elections

Rasmussen: Trump Approval Among Likely Black Voters Jumps to 46%

Trump Crushes Record for Largest GDP Increase in US History

Last Round-up at the Wokester Corral

The Gaslight Election

Editorial: The Boston Herald endorses Trump

Video: The Town Hall You Never Saw — Trump with Eric Bolling

If Trump Wins, There Must Be a Reckoning for the Destructive Left

China’s Plan to “Revise World Order.” If Biden Wins, They’ll take over the Globe

2020 Presidential Voter Guide

Trump Administration Accomplishments

Other US Politics and Related

Amy Coney Barrett sworn in as Supreme Court justice at White House

Short video: Eric Liu on the Meaning of Patriotism

Short video: The True Meaning of Patriotism

How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World

What are the facts behind Climate Change & the Green New Deal?

Religion Related

Short video: Patriotism vs Nationalism

Four Christian Voting Myths

Christians 2020: Between a Rock and a Polling Place?

America’s Teenagers Are Losing Their Religion

Video: A Pastor’s Rebuke of Christian Quietism

PS — Please pass this onto all US citizens on your contacts lists.

PPS — Please pray that US citizens do some critical thinking about this election…

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Science Nazis Demand Obedience To Their Political Agenda

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We’ve seen this before.

Whether the issue is “Climate Change” or ways of dealing with COVID-19 the Radical Left ridicules anyone who would dare to question their positions on critical issues.  They accuse those who question them or their claims of not believing in science.

Consider the Yahoo News report that AOL posted on October 26, 2020, Bill Gates slams Trump’s COVID-19 adviser as  ‘pseudo-expert’ who’s ‘off-the-rails’ which began with this excerpt:

In a new interview, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates sharply criticized the Trump administration for muzzling experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) while instead listening to White House COVID-19 adviser Dr. Scott Atlas, whom Gates calls a “pseudo-expert” who’s “off-the-rails.”

Atlas, a member of the administration’s coronavirus task force who formerly appeared as a commentator for Fox News, reportedly opposes an expansion of COVID testing and earlier this month posted a tweet falsely downplaying the effectiveness of masks. Twitter later removed the post from Atlas, a Stanford University professor with a medical degree from the University of Chicago School of Medicine.

“We now have a pseudo-expert advising the president,” Gates, the former Microsoft (MSFT) CEO and a leading backer of global public health initiatives, told Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer in an interview that aired on Monday as part of the the news organization’s All Markets Summit.

After the interview, taped on Oct. 15, Gates confirmed that he had made the comments in reference to Atlas, who has opposed lockdowns and co-authored an op-ed in The Hill called “The COVID-19 shutdowns will cost Americans millions of years of lives.”

This article is important for a number of reasons.  First of all, Gates demonstrated colossal chutzpah to insult a medical doctor who graduated from a highly respected medical school and serves as a professor at Stanford University, while Gates, himself, never attended any medical school.

In fact, Gates has no degree of any kind!

What then, could possibly qualify Gates to pass judgement on the credibility of a medical doctor especially one with the clear credentials of Dr. Scott Atlas even as he castigated President Trump for challenging the contradictory and morphing advice of Dr. Fauci.

The AOL/Yahoo article stated that Twitter had removed what they claimed was a tweet posted by Dr. Atlas that they claim falsely downplayed the effectiveness of masks.

It is more than a bit disturbing that Twitter censored Dr. Atlas and, in so doing, prevented the general public from benefitting from his perspectives.  This should alarm everyone.

About 20 years ago I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.  The surgeon who examined me and told me of my situation was the chief of urology at a major New York Hospital and chaired the department of urology at a major medical school.

However, while he told me that he believed that he could save my life, he urged me to seek out at least one additional opinion so that I would be confident that I was making the proper decision.

I did seek out that second opinion and my medical insurance policy covered that second opinion, because this notion of seeking additional opinions is considered the standard way for people to make certain that they are making proper life and death decisions.

Needless to say, my surgeon saved my life- this a good thing because I have not aggravated my quota yet!

Where science and the Radical Left are concerned, however, not blindly following what their anointed experts proclaim, is an act of heresy.

This flies in the face of commonsense and threatens the First Amendment and all of our freedoms.

In doing a bit of research I found a similar situation that existed in a different country many years ago.

That country was Germany as the Third Reich began taking control of Germany and its population, Jews came under vicious attack.  No less a scientist that Albert Einstein was attacked for his work.  Scientific America on February 13, 2015 published an important article about the lunacy that transpired at that time, How 2 Pro-Nazi Nobelists Attacked Einstein’s “Jewish Science” [Excerpt].

The article discussed the mass book burnings carried out on college campuses, not unlike the way that Antifa operates today.  Books authored by Albert Einstein were incinerated.  Here is an important paragraph from this article:

It would be absurd, of course, to suppose that most of the book-burners had given these questions a moment’s thought. The simple fact was that Einstein was a prominent Jew, and his thoughts therefore fit for the bonfire. But Einstein’s theory was attacked on racial grounds. This assault came not by asinine ideologues in the party whose knowledge of science extended no further than a belief in fairy tales about “cosmic ice,” nor from individuals on the scientific fringe seeking official approval and support. It was orchestrated by two Nobel laureates in physics, who devised a full-blown thesis (it can’t be dignified by calling it a theory) on how stereotypical racial features are exhibited in scientific thinking. They were Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark, and they wanted to become the new Führers of German physics.

Einstein’s Theories of Relativity and his concept of Space-Time were mocked and ridiculed by two Nazi Nobel laureates.

Of course nearly all of Einstein’s brilliant theories have been validated in recent years by scientists and physicists who now have the technological tools to conduct appropriate experiments.

Understandably fearing for his life,  Einstein fled Nazi Germany and came to America where, ironically, he helped America defeat Fascism in Germany and Japan and, in so doing, safeguarded freedom for people across the globe.

Today the Radical Left demands obedience to theories about climate change that support their demands for the “New Green Deal” even as some scientists question the validity of the notion that human actions have climatological consequences that must be stopped at all costs.

They seek nothing short of a fundamental transformation in the way that we live and work and these demands can only be justified by claiming that catastrophic climate change can only be averted if we adopt draconian changes.

Science has always been about challenges beliefs and devising experiments to seek the truth.

To cite an interesting example of how highly respected scientists may come to diametrically opposed conclusions consider a pair of articles that ran on the same website (Space.com) on two consecutive days.

On October 19, 2020, that website posted, What’s Happening with Betelgeuse? Astronomers Propose a Specialized Telescope to Watch the Star Every Night.

The very next day, October 20, the website published, Wow, Betelgeuse Might Be 25% Closer than Previously Believed.

The physicists who wrote the first article postulated that because Betelgeuse is so huge and pulsating, it is likely to explode within our lifetimes.  They estimated that that star is 700 light-years from earth.  This is why they proposed the construction of a special telescope to keep an astronomical eye on that star.

However, if the physicists who published the second article are right, Betelgeuse is 548 light years away.  This would mean that the star is not nearly as large or bright as the other physicists believe.  This would mean that Betelgeuse is not likely to become a super nova any time soon- at least not for another 100,000 years by their estimates.

This may not seem important to us on our beleaguered planet, but the lessons to be learned is very important.

Experts can and do disagree.  The process of questioning is behind all of our achievements. Scientists who serve a political agenda are the scientists who must not be trusted.

Science is supposed to be the tireless search for universal truths and must be unencumbered by political agendas.

Scientists who yield to the political elite betray their professions and should be ignored as the science-fascists that they are.

Voltaire sagely observed that you could determine the intelligence of a person by considering the questions that they ask, the same questions that today will earn you scorn and ridicule by the Radical Left.

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Welcome to our latest Energy & Environmental Newsletter… (For all 2020 Newsletters, go here. To review the current issue’s highlights, see below.)…

For US Citizens 

Two short humorous political videos:

Biden’s ad about Trump never coming back

Biden 2020 — Bad Lip Reading

— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —

Upcoming US National Elections

Defining Factors in Upcoming Election

The 2020 election is about the People vs. the Establishment

Facing Up to the China Threat

China has bought and paid for Joe Biden

What Haven’t We Seen from the Hunter Biden Hard Drive?

The Biden Crime Family Saga!

The Biden Crime Family Comes Undone

Video: Rudy Giuliani’s Evidence re the Bidens

Short video: Righteous Anger 2020

The Second Debate Transcript’

The Electoral Litigation Snarls of 2020

US Politics and Socialism

China is backing the left’s revolution, seeking our downfall and subjugation

US Senate Seeking Censorship Stories

White Penitence Is Shaking Up the American ‘Wokeplace’

The War on Freedom and Self-Reliance

Greens Oppose What Works And Promote What Doesn’t

Police Use of Deadly Force Is Not About Racism

Short video: They Say Scandinavia But They Mean Venezuela

The Left’s Little Red Book on Forming a New Green Republic

Other US Politics and Related

The Year of Disguises

Patriotism is dropping like a rock (on one side of the aisle)

If you’ve witnessed election fraud or manipulation, fill out this report

Who Do You Trust? The Polls or Your Lying Eyes?

Kavanaugh Battle Taught GOP to Stop Getting Played by Dem’s Dirty Tricks

Videos show closed-door sessions of leading conservative activists

Who betrayed Navy SEAL Team 6?

Stories of Us: Gina Florio

US Civil Servants are now “at will” employees

COVID-19: Therapies

16 HCQ positive studies of early treatment: NONE were negative

Study: Human coronaviruses ‘inactivated’ by mouthwash, oral rinses

COVID-19: Masks

CDC Study: Overwhelming Majority Of COVID Patients Wore Masks

Neurologist On Masks: Oxygen Deprivation Causes Permanent Damage

34 Studies about the ineffectiveness of face masks

COVID-19: Prevention

34,000+ Health Experts Sign Declaration Against COVID-19 Lockdowns

Dr. Fauci’s 15 Wrong Predictions and Contradictions

The COVID-19 Experts Were Wrong, Now They Need Scapegoats

Light that Kills COVID-19 Virus without Harming People

COVID-19: Models and Data

WHO warns against COVID-19 lockdowns due to economic damage

5 Charts That Show Sweden’s Strategy Worked, and Lockdowns Failed

Majority Are Already Immune Against COVID-19

Dr. Bostom: COVID-19 Death Distortion Rate

COVID-19: Misc

The Covidian Cult

Resilient US Economy Has Overcome the COVID-19 Recession

After the COVID Lockdown comes the big one: The Carbon Lockdown

COVID-19 and the Importance of Quiet

Reviewing 1,000+ COVID Innovations

An Historical Perspective of COVID-19

Greed Energy Economics

Wind Subsidies and Predatory Pricing in Texas (part 1 & part 2)

Negative prices: solar facilities had to pay to produce in September

NY County opts out of green-energy tax exemption

Renewable Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences

Turbine Feathering Requirement Removed from Icebreaker Project

Video: Solar facility bird incineration (USGS)

Wind Turbine fires ‘underreported over fears of reputational damage’

Wind Energy

Washington State blows away wind fantasies

Study Confirms Trump Is Right – ‘Clean’ Energy Isn’t Clean Or Green

National Grid Warns Lack Of Wind Could Plunge Britain Into Darkness

How is Britain’s most efficient wind project doing?

Grid Congestion Forcing Cancellation of Solar and Wind Projects

Solar Energy

75 Megawatt Solar = $7.5 Million to Decommission

The Rooftop Solar Scam and How to Get Rid of It

Why promote Rooftop Solar when the Grid is so much cheaper?

Solar: A Whopping 2% of Global Electricity

Nuclear Energy

Free webinar: The Future of Nuclear Energy

New Molten Salt Reactor Is Cheaper To Run, Consumes Nuclear Waste

US Nuclear: change the laws that constrain foreign and domestic investment

Fueling the world’s future with Thorium Energy – A Panel Discussion

Poland Strikes $18 Billion Nuclear Power Deal With U.S.

Fossil Fuel Energy

Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Clears Hurdle To Doubling Capacity

Combined-Cycle Gas Generators are the Electric Work Horses

Biden’s Clean Grid Would Choke Gas, Even Without Fracking Ban

One page graphic: Life Without Oil

Ohio gas-fired plant partially shifting to hydrogen in 2021

Misc Energy

The Great Energy Non-Transition

Carbon Free Energy Doesn’t Exist, Joe. Come on Man!

The Biden Energy Plan Is Like California’s—But Worse

The Green New Deal is Awful, but Unlikely

The West Intends Energy Suicide: Will It Succeed?

Excellent short film: Religion of Green

The Looming Electric Vehicle Disaster

Wisdom of hydrogen called into question

New Book: Shorting the Grid

Manmade Global Warming: Some Deceptions

Study: How Dangerous (or uncommon) is a Temp Rise of 2°C

Climate: Fake News and False Alarms Fuel the Frenzy

New Alarming UN Climate Report Contradicts Its Own Data

UN twists climate facts to suit its own agenda

The UN and a Staggering Rise in Dishonesty

To Save the Climate, Give Up the Demand for Constant Electricity

Apocalypse? NO!

Short video: 4-Quadrant Model

Unwanted Truths  (select English)

The Biden Family Green New Deal

China’s Empty Climate Change Talk

Manmade Global Warming: Misc

No one told the President

Peter Foster: How Dare You!

New excellent short book: Climate Miracle

Climate Justice is Just More Special Interest Politics

The Scientific Method at Work: The Carbon Cycle Revisited

Electric vehicles help China more than address climate change

A major loss: Professor Nils-Axel Mörner, 1938-2020

Experts Can’t See Anything Unusual About Current Climate

Religion

Vatican under fire for deal with the Chinese Communist Party

We shouldn’t have to sue Gov. Cuomo to reopen our churches

Short video: Actor Jon Voight “Don’t Allow a Lie”

Pope Supports Gay Marriage

Education Related

Without Facilities, Students Get Lower-Quality Education

How I Ran Afoul of Campus Cancel Culture

Free Speech Is Dying As Governments Clamp Down

Science and Misc Matters

Science Crisis And The Breakdown Of Trust

How Does Science Really Work?

Science is now just another wing of politics

World Economics: Enter the Coronavirus

Here Are Solutions for Pre-Existing Health Conditions

Video: Theranos – Silicon Valley’s Greatest Disaster

The Marangoni Effect can be used to obtain freshwater from the sea

Walmart an Opioid Villain?

Chess’s cheating crisis: ‘paranoia has become the culture’

Note 1: It’s recommended to read the Newsletter on your computer, not your phone, as some documents (e.g. PDFs) are much easier to read on a large computer screen…  Common fonts, etc. have been used to minimize display issues.

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Note 3: See this extensive list of reasonable books on climate change that complements the Newsletter. As a parallel effort, there is also a list of some good books related to industrial wind energy. Both topics are also extensively covered on our WiseEnergy.org website.

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Climate Depot Special Report: The Radical Plan to “Reset” your Freedom

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Climate campaigners and international bureaucrats would like to make emergency responses to COVID-19 permanent.

They call it “The Great Reset.”  CFACT calls it their latest ploy to curtail individual freedom and grab wealth and power for themselves.

Marc Morano has issued a Climate Depot Special Report that surveys the latest radical push to restructure our economy and lifestyles.

The COVID-19 lockdowns and suspension of liberties have only emboldened climate campaigners to achieve their progressive vision of having “the masses” lives planned, monitored, and  controlled for their “safety” — all in the name of “science.” The very real threat of oppressive rule by unelected experts in government is now threatening to engulf the world due to the ongoing COVID lockdowns and “phased reopenings.”

Here’s a sample from the report of what the “resetters” are saying:

  • The virus has given us an “opportunity” to pursue “equality & sustainability.” Klaus Schwab, Chairman, World Economic Forum
  • “You could just as easily replace the words climate change with COVID-19; it is truly the tale of two pandemics deferred, denied, and distorted, one with catastrophic consequences, the other with even greater risk if we don’t reverse course.” John Kerry, former Secretary of State
  • “No-one could ever imagine that we would be wearing masks so readily and that we would all be so compliant…People were prepared to accept limitations on personal choice and lifestyle – for the good of their own family and friends.” Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker, British House of Commons.

The report discusses what is being termed “scientism,” the push to expand the tactics employed by climate pressure groups.  They demand we cede our individual choices to experts “in white lab coats” who know better.  Heaven help those scientists who stray from the party line.

Marc Morano highlights a warning issued by former President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1961, who said, “We must be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite… A government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity” and “the prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever-present and is gravely to be regarded.”

America’s founding fathers put our people in charge of our “experts.”  They limited government, and empowered “we the people” to change policy through elections.  They put civilians in control of the military.  Each of us has the right to defend ourselves before juries of our peers.  Every day jurors weigh the competing opinions of experts and make the final call.

All that messy freedom is what the technocrats, who consider themselves superior to humble us, are so eager to “reset.”

CFACT’s latest report is a wake up call.

Let’s tell our would-be-masters to keep their “reset.”  We’ll keep our freedom.

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There is likely no more important matter in our lifetime, than the upcoming US national election. As such, this shorter Energy & Environmental Newsletter will focus on that one issue. (For all 2020 Newsletters, go here.)

Two short fabulous patriotic music videos:

Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock: The Stars Spangled Banner

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: America the Beautiful

For US Citizens —

The Homeowners’ Guide to Generating Electricity

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The new advances in all fields of everyday life have brought about a number of conveniences. And while people enjoy these newly established living circumstances, they are equally aware of the price that is to be paid. Not only have tech advances resulted in serious consequences for the environment, but they have also been detrimental to home budgets.

Nowadays, most of the technology runs on electricity, and with supply causing great damage to natural and limited resources, prices have gone up. In fact, statistics show that up to 31% of families in the US are concerned about paying their power bills. With such pressure to provide for the family and maintain sustainable homeowner practices, many families have ultimately turned to renewable energy.

Options for Generating Electricity

Any natural source of power – thermal, mechanical – which can be reused again and again without running the risk of “going dry”, is generally considered a renewable source. While natural gas, and even more so, oil, are considered limited riches, the sun, wind, or geothermal energy can be used continuously.

The first uses of these renewable power sources were mainly of industrial scales. Photovoltaic panels for solar air conditioning systems, water heaters, or even solar ovens, along with wind turbines for electricity generation have only recently become available for homeowners.

Nowadays, some of these stand to be the top popular and suitable choices for homeowners looking to generate electricity for their households:

Solar Panels

As mentioned, these solar panels mainly consist of photovoltaic cells using heat energy from the sun. These are normally installed on the roofs of people’s homes in order to get maximum exposure to the sun, collect its energy, and transform it into electricity.

Wind Turbines

Wind turbines are mostly found on roofs as well. They use the mechanical power of the wind to generate electricity, so this is the most sustainable and renewable source for those living in windy regions.

Hydropower Generators

These generators are mainly set next to running waters. With hydropower plants existing for quite some time now, it is one of the most familiar ways of generating electricity from renewable sources. And with tech focusing on individual homeowners’ benefits, it is only expected to be one of the top options.

©Josh Wardini. All rights reserved.

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Welcome to our latest Energy & Environmental Newsletter… (For all 2020 Newsletters, go here.)  To review the current issue’s highlights, see below (and page 80)…

For US Citizens —

Two upbeat short video specials:

Adrian and Emma-Jean: Music of the Night

Artificial Intelligence Headset

Note: Although there has been substantial volcanic activity in the White Island (NZ) area, the video in the last issue appears to be an artistic recreation of actual events.

— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —

COVID-19: Therapies

17 HCQ studies of early treatment: NONE were negative

COVID-19: Prevention

Video: The Great American Mask Rip Off

The President and the COVID-19 Mask Debate

Trump Takes Zinc. Possibly You Ought to Too

WHO Urges World Leaders to Stop Using Lockdowns to Fight COVID

COVID-19: Models and Data

Statistics: Lockdowns May Have Had Little Effect on COVID-19 Spread

The Absurdity Of Covid ‘Cases’

COVID-19: Misc

The Great Barrington Declaration

Reddit’s Censorship of The Great Barrington Declaration

Video: Lawsuit for Crimes Against Humanity

The value of talking to strangers — and nodding acquaintances

Virologist: SARS-CoV-2 is a bio-weapon and intentionally released

25 Small Business Survivors and Thrivers

Greed Energy Economics

The Real Cost of Wind and Solar

Word of Warning: Ontario’s green-energy catastrophe

Green Energy Costs More than Doubled

Inside the Dominion lobbying blitz that’s going to raise electric bills

£50 billion on wind — You might as well spend it on unicorn tears

Boris Johnson Announces 200% Rise in Electricity Prices

UK wind farce that blew £1.4billion!

Wind & Solar Energy

Gates-backed nuclear fusion: ‘We can fill the gaps left by wind and solar’

Family Receives a €225K Payout from Wind Developer for Health Problems

Study: Surprising science – There’s no such thing as clean energy

There’s No Such Thing As Clean Energy

The Shetland (UK) Tragedy

Climate Change to Make Solar Less Reliable as Clouds Increase

Fossil Fuel Energy

Mommy, where did my Tesla come from?

Give Thanks to Fossil Fuels

Misc Energy

Davos 2021 will launch its own Green New Deal — Be afraid

A New Abnormal of Rolling Blackouts Under Biden Energy Plan

Biden’s Plan to Spread California’s Green Slime Around

Energy Policy Advocates Fight Back Against Anti-Industrial Forces

Physicists Build Circuit That Generates Clean, Limitless Power

Manmade Global Warming: Some Deceptions

Archive Study: New Little Ice Age Instead of Global Warming?

New Book: How Dare You!

UK will take 700 years to reach low-carbon under current plans
Jeff Bezos and Amazon Join the Religion of Green
The Real ‘Climate Crisis’ Is At The World Economic Forum

Short Video: Climate Misinformation From Debate Moderator

Manmade Global Warming: Misc

Nothing That Works

Joe Biden and the Green New Deal

A new thermometer for studying our past climate

Report: Extinguishing the Wildfire Threat

US Politics and Socialism

Agenda: Grinding America Down

Democrats are staging revolution against America

The Left’s Little Red Book on Forming a New Green Republic

Short Video: Where Do You Want to Live — Red State or Blue State?

Living in the Left’s Upside Down World

Your Life Will Be Controlled By Rockefeller & Clinton Foundation Apps

What’s the Matter With BLM?

Dangerous Talk From Stupid People

Video: How to Defeat the Left’s Socialism in 30 Seconds

Upcoming US National Elections

Why moderates’ best bet is to vote for Trump

WAPO: How Trump has made the country better off

Policy vs. Personality: That’s Our Choice

7 Quick Takeaways on the 2020 Vice Presidential Debate

Video: Why my first vote EVER will be Republican

Report: US Presidential Economic Analysis, Battleground States 2020

Voter Fraud: The Continuing Saga

Biden opposed helping South Vietnamese refugees reach U.S. in 1970s

Ayn Rand’s Novel Warns of Socialism if Biden Prevails

VP Biden, Don’t Take Away Our Healthcare Choice

Other US Politics and Related

Short video: Never Apologize to the Mob

Short video: Celebrating Columbus

Short video: I was Wrong about the Democratic Party

Epstein, Obama, Gates, Clinton, Andrew & Ghislaine

The Aristocracy of Pull

Trump declassifies all Russia collusion, Clinton email documents

200+ conservative groups support Barrett for Supreme Court

Religion

Dr. Dobson’s Open Letter to Christians Regarding the Election

The Cult of Covidism Has Invaded the Church

No Pope Francis, the World Is Not in a Climate Emergency!

Pope Exhibits Shocking Ignorance of Economics and Logic

Oregon Professor Blames White Christians For West Coast Wildfires

Education Related

We Need to Talk About Bruce

VA School District: Teachers Enforce ‘Woke’ Revolution, or Else

Mellon Commits $250 Million To ‘Reimagine’ U.S. Monuments

Science and Misc Matters

Solzhenitsyn: Live Not By Lies

Science Is Threatened by Identity Politics

The death knell of science is being sounded by partisan scientists

Archive: The Report from Iron Mountain

Good health care needs transparency and competition

TedTalk: Mathematics and sex

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Comprehensive and Credible Information for Climate Skeptics

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The COVID pandemic and the “peaceful protests” against supposed systemic racism dominate the news in this tumultuous year. But in terms of eventual consequences for our personal liberty, national independence, and economic prosperity, “climate change” is the perennial winner. Be informed.

For several years, the Science and Environmental Policy Project has faithfully produced a weekly email “The Week That Was” (TWTW) that dissects the latest news on the topic of climate change in particular, and environmentalism in general, as it relates all aspects of society: science and academia, politics and public policy, international relations and economics.

Eminently readable and rationally argued, TWTW is an indispensable source of continuously updated information and scientific rebuttal to the constant barrage of climate alarmism coming from all quarters – media, politicians, and corporations. Its weekly email covers all current developments, and they are archived all the way back to 1997. If you read online about an alarmist claim made in the past, go to TWTW archives for that date and read the rebuttal.

If you are looking for one place to gather information that challenges environmental policies that are based on poor science, sign up here for TWTW’s weekly email newsletter. Additional worthy sources can be found in Winston84‘s “Climate Skeptics” category.

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VIDEO: CFACT interviews South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem

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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem spoke with CFACT’s Gabriella Hoffman at the annual Black Hills buffalo roundup.

The interview was part of the District of Conservation podcast, sponsored by CFACT.

WATCH:

Governor Noem has kept South Dakota wide open for business during the Covid-19 pandemic and has not ordered any businesses to close.

“For years, I’ve said I believe South Dakota can be an example to the nation,” Noem said. “And that’s really what these last six months and year have offered us: The opportunity to lead.”  The governor also stressed the need for supporters of true conservation and free market environmentalism to become proactive in these issues.  “I think that maybe us, as conservatives, just need to talk about it [conservation] more ‘cause we’re doing it every day; we just don’t tell our story very well,” the avid hunter explained.

Governor Noem never misses a chance to promote South Dakota as a destination for hunters and outdoor enthusiasts.  She recently posted a video clip to Twitter in which she said, “this is how we do soclal distancing in our state.”  She then turns, shoots, expertly drops a pheasant and says, “less covid, more hunting.”

South Dakota is expert at managing its vast natural areas to make them accessible for business, while keeping nature and wildlife thriving at the same time.

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Scapegoating “White Christians” for Climate Change

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California, Oregon, and Washington State are burning—and it’s all the fault of “white Christians.” So says a professor at Oregon State University because “white Christians” are “science-deniers” who don’t believe in catastrophic man-made global warming.

CampusReform.com reports (10/2/20) that Susan Shaw, professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies at Oregon State University claims (as do many on the left), “the intensity and scope of these fires are a result of climate change.” She notes, “many Christians, especially white Christians, have embraced denial of climate science.” (A colleague responds: “What a crock. We have ‘denied’ climate ‘science’ while she undoubtedly believes that biological sex is meaningless.”)

Meanwhile, Shaw adds, “The disturbing link between white evangelical support for Trump and disregard for climate change that disproportionately affects poor people of color around the world should probably not be all that surprising….White evangelicals continue to support Donald Trump overwhelmingly, even though the Trump administration has tried to roll back more than 100 environmental protection regulations.”

The issue of wildfires vis-à-vis climate change came up during the presidential debate last week. Are these fires caused by man-made global warming or by misguided forestry practices?

Debate moderator Chris Wallace asked President Trump about the fires, saying, “state officials there blamed the fires on climate change….what do you believe about the science of climate change and what will you do in the next four years to confront it?”

The president responded, “I want crystal clean water and air. I want beautiful clean air….As far as the fires are concerned, you need forest management. In addition to everything else, the forest floors are loaded up with trees, dead trees that are years old and they’re like tinder and leaves and everything else. You drop a cigarette in there the whole forest burns down. You’ve got to have forest management.”

This controversy is nothing new. A few years ago, I spoke with Jarrett Stepman of the Heritage Foundation on my radio show. He told me, “We used to do a lot more clearing of the forest, a lot more actual forest management, traditional practices to keep the forest under control.” But not so today. Ironically, it has been laws pushed by environmental activists that many say have made the situation worse.

For a piece he wrote for the Heritage’s Daily Signal, Stepman quotes Rep. Tom McClintock (R, California): “Forty-five years ago, we began imposing laws that have made the management of our forests all but impossible….Time and again, we see vivid boundaries between the young, healthy, growing forests managed by state, local, and private landholders, and the choked, dying, or burned federal forests,”

McClintock added, “The laws of the past 45 years have not only failed to protect the forest environment—they have done immeasurable harm to our forests.” How so? These 1970s laws, such as the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act, according to the congressman, “have resulted in endlessly time-consuming and cost-prohibitive restrictions and requirements that have made the scientific management of our forests virtually impossible.”

Meanwhile, is climate change responsible for the ongoing disasters in nature in general?

Recently, I spoke with David Horowitz, the former Communist turned conservative firebrand and author of the book, Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America. When I asked him about climate change, he told me, “I’m 81 years old, so I’ve watched this for many years. Every year the Mississippi River overflows and destroys houses, livelihoods, kills people. Tornadoes sweep through Oklahoma… In Florida, there are hurricanes….Can’t do anything about it, but we’re going to control the climate of the planet?” He called climate change “a joke.”

In reference to these catastrophes in nature, Dr. E. Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, points out, “These tragedies have happened all through human history, this is not anything new. We should certainly have compassion for those who are hurt. We should respond with help to those who are hurt by those things, but it doesn’t do anybody any good to blame it on global warming. As a matter of fact, if anything, what folks want us to do to fight global warming, which is essentially to turn away from fossil fuels, is going to diminish economic growth. It will prolong poverty, and the best protection you have against any kind of weather emergency—hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, anything else—is the ability to build a solid home, to have reliable electricity, things like that.”

So, rather than causing these disasters, the Christians (white and otherwise) are helping the survivors through them. We see that all the time with the Salvation Army or Samaritan’s Purse. Meanwhile, more commonsense measures might vastly reduce fires on the West Coast, as opposed to scapegoating Christians for denying the politically correct version of “climate change.”

©Jerry Newcombe. All rights reserved.

Recent Energy and Environmental News

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Welcome to our latest Energy & Environmental Newsletter… (For all 2020 Newsletters, go here.)  To review the current issue’s highlights, see below (and page 75)…

For US Citizens —

A lighter video: Boy’s dog retrieves the baseball…

— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —

COVID-19: Therapies

19 HCQ positive studies of early treatment: NONE were negative

COVID-19: Prevention and Treatment Recommendations

Study: HCQ and the Burden of Proof

Remdesivir: Soros & Gates Partner with China on Coronavirus Drug?

COVID-19: Prevention

Michigan Supreme Court Strikes Down Gov’s Lockdown

The UN Ignores NGO’s Warnings About Mandated Vaccines

COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participants Are Reporting Serious Side-Effects

CDC: COVID-19 Vaccination Program Interim Playbook

CDC: It Published New Guidance on Risks of Airborne COVID-19 “In Error”

China Begins Unproven But Widespread Vaccination Program

Researchers hypothesize COVID-19 immunity from dengue exposure

COVID-19: Models and Data

Is the Official COVID-19 Death Toll Accurate?

The Brave New World of Coronavirus Safetyism

The Second Wave Of COVID-19 Will Be A Casedemic, Not Pandemic

COVID-19: Misc

President Trump, first lady test positive for COVID-19

Congressional Report: COVID-19 could have been prevented by China/WHO

Tucker: COVID-19 and Climate Change, and more

The Pandemic, From the Virus’s Point of View

COVID World – Resist!

Lethal Lockdowns: The WHO-CDC Global Genocide

No, I’m Not Saying this is Like Nazi Germany — just Listen

Lawsuits about state COVID-19 actions and policies

Greed Energy Economics

Wind and Solar Developers Want You To Pay Their Transmission Costs

Working families should not subsidize renewable energy

US Republican Senators Push to Eliminate Wind Tax Credit

Wind developers’ claims of providing local jobs is undermined

“Clean” Energy Push Results in Regressive Taxation

Nikola founder quits amid fraud allegations

Wind Energy: Offshore

Report: The Costs of Offshore Wind Power – Blindness and Insight

Hot Air and the Offshore Wind Industry

Offshore drilling moratorium endangers wind power too

Ocean Turbine Electric Cable Ship Eludes Public

Wind Energy: Other

Grid congestion a growing barrier for wind and solar developers

Wind Turbines Generate Mountains of Waste

Short video: Noise Monitoring a NYS Wind Project

Short video: Out of State Workers Employed on NY Wind Project

UMass Pipe Dream Wind Turbine Down

Solar Energy

Solar in NC: Raising Prices and Pollution

Solar Power Could Force New Yorkers to NYC?

Nuclear Energy

Cheaper and safer than wind or solar: Dutch on new nuclear plants

Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is ‘Very Likely to Work’

South Korean-Built Mini Nuclear Reactors Approved For US

Thorium-based reactor fuel could revive Nuclear’s fortunes

Nat Academy of Engineering Report: Nuclear Energy Revisited

The Perception of Yucca Mountain

Natural Gas Energy

Why Are Natural Gas Prices Plunging?

What a Biden-Harris Fracking Ban Would Mean

Trump to include NC in offshore drilling moratorium?

Energy: American Energy Innovation Act

The Ugly Underbelly of S.2657

American Energy Innovation Act Is Dangerous Green Virtue Signaling

Citizens must speak out against dangerous energy bill

Senate sets table laden with green pork

Democrats want to hand climate science over to the mob

Oppose US Senate Climate Bill S. 2657

Administration’s position on H.R.4447

Incomprehensible: API Statement On House Energy Bill

Over 100 Groups Oppose Democrats’ Energy Bill as Insufficient

Energy: California Prohibits Gas Vehicles

CA Gov signs order to stop sales of gasoline-powered cars

Chevrolet Releases California-Compliant Horse And Buggy

Ramifications of Gov Newsom’s ban on gas-powered vehicles

Written debate: How Green are Electric Cars

Energy: China

China Lies and Pursues Fossil Fuels as Naive Enviros Buy it

Don’t Fall for China’s ‘Net-Zero Carbon’ Trick

If China plans to go carbon neutral, why is it building so many coal plants?

Misc Energy

Fossil Fuels: The Best Way Out For The Poor

Report: Cost of Electrification — A State-by-State Analysis and Result

Short video: Baseload Power

Video: Energy, Geopolitics, And The New Map

Where the Green New Deal Was Tried, Failed and Repealed

Your life under the Green New Deal

EO: Threat from Reliance on Critical Minerals from Adversaries

The Energy and Policy Institute is a totally phony entity

No more renewable offsetting for Google

Manmade Global Warming: Some Deceptions —

Climate Change Apocalypse: “Permanently Immunized From Falsification”

Theoretical climate debate between Trump and Biden

Atlantic Hurricane Season Update

New video: Climate Hustle 2 Trailer

Weather Isn’t Climate, No Matter How Many Times You Might Think So

Manmade Global Warming: Misc.

COVID-19 induced CO2 emission reductions are not yet detectable

India: Reject this inequitable climate proposal

La Niña Is Here: What Will It Do To Global Temperatures?

Short video: 10,000 years of temperature history

New Book: Asking the Non-Consensual Questions on Climate Change

Archive: Hayden-Denning Climate Debate

Soros/Gates-Funded Org Says World May Need ‘Climate Lockdown’

Drones Can Reforest The Planet Faster Than Humans Can

US Politics and Socialism

Then They Came for Beethoven

Excellent short video: We’re Not Meant to be Sheep

Short video: As Far As I Can See

Short video: I Love America Too Much to Stay Silent

Method in the Madness

A Book with a Kernel of Truth—and a Grain Silo of Nonsense

What happened in Virginia should scare every conservative into voting

For Socialists Who Can’t Stand Trump

I Mastered Xi Jinping Thought, and I Have the Certificate to Prove It

US Supreme Court

Short video: Trump announces his nominee for Supreme Court

Meet Amy Coney Barrett

Fill Ginsburg’s Seat Before November 3

Ginsburg: Senate should hold confirmation hearing during election year

Short video: 2020 Democrats should listen to 2016 Democrats

US Presidential Debate

1st Presidential Debate: Clear Policy Contrast Shines Through Crosstalk

Debate Conclusions

Contrary To His Debate Claim, Biden Supports the GND

Biden’s Energy Plan: Sacrificing Goats to the Sun Gods

Other US Politics and Related: Other

Why national culture matters to our future

A black deliveryman tells why he’s voting for Trump

President Trump will Stand Up to Hateful Mobs

While Good Americans Dither, Rioters Are Taking Over

Proud Boys Leader Refutes ‘White Supremacist’ Claims

How the National Popular Vote Scheme Would Cause Election Chaos

It’s past time to pull the plug on Cuomo’s dictatorial pandemic powers

Andrew Cuomo: America’s Absolute Worst Governor

Religion: The Pope

Is Judge Barrett too Catholic for Pope Francis?

The real reason for Pope Francis’s disgraceful Pompeo snub

Pope: Capitalism has failed in pandemic, needs reform

Pope: Social aggression has found unparalleled room for expansion

Religion: General

Duck-and-Cover And Burn The Heretics: The Modern-Day Cult of Corona

Christians be prepared for an onslaught of ignorance as Court debate looms

Ecology and Economics for Religious Leaders

Americans’ Right to Worship Is Being Denied by Governments

Religion on Campus: A Marketable Skill, or a Diversity & Inclusion Fight?

Education Related

Of Academic Freedom and False Alarms

How Cultural Marxism is Grinding Down America’s Public Schools

On Campus, “Freedom” is Just Another Word for Before COVID-19

NYS has highest per pupil school costs in the world

Science and Misc Matters

Short Video: Why I Left Liberalism and the Democratic Party

Who Was John Muir, Really?

Archive Study: Scientific method — Defend the integrity of physics

The Cheating Scandal That Ripped the Poker World Apart

Heartbreaker

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California’s Planned Ban on Gas-Powered Auto Sales Is Great for Elon Musk, but It Won’t Help the Environment

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced an order this week to ban the sale of new gas-powered road vehicles in the state by 2035.

CNBC reports the proposed rule would not prohibit people from driving or owning gas-powered cars, but would ban the sale of all new gasoline-powered passenger vehicles in the Golden State in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 35 percent.

The proposed rule would make California the first state to eliminate sales of such vehicles, though several European countries, including Sweden and Denmark, have made similar commitments.

There are reasons to be skeptical of such policies, however.

Proposals to eliminate gas-powered automobiles are likely to win politicians media coverage and cheers at town hall meetings (at least in some places). But the actual environmental impact of such policies remains unclear.

It’s important to remember that CO2 emissions are not just about what comes out of vehicles, but also what goes into vehicles. Electric vehicles might not emit emissions through exhaust pipes like gas-powered cars, but they expend tremendous amounts of CO2 during their production and charging cycles, and require numerous elements—such as lithium, cobalt, and manganese—that must be mined from the earth.

While conventional wisdom says electric vehicles are more environmentally friendly and an effective tool to fight climate change, research suggests electric vehicles may have environmental costs that actually exceed those of internal combustion engines when the full cycle of production is included.

Jonathan Lesser of the Manhattan Institute, for example, has published research showing that electric vehicles are worse for the environment than modern gas-powered vehicles. Using the Energy Information Administration’s long-term forecasts for the number of electric vehicles through 2050, Lesser estimated how much electricity these vehicles would require. He then broke down the effects on three key pollutants that are regulated in the US Clean Air Act: sulfur dioxide (SO2), oxides of nitrogen (NOX), and carbon dioxide (CO2).

“What I found is that widespread adoption of electric vehicles nationwide will likely increase air pollution compared with new internal combustion vehicles. You read that right: more electric cars and trucks will mean more pollution,” Lesser wrote in Politico.

The fact is, modern gas-powered vehicles are not what your grandaddy was driving. Today’s vehicles emit very little pollution, Lesser concluded, about 1% of what they did in the 1960s.

Lesser’s findings are not isolated.

The World Economic Forum has also called attention to the “dirty secrets of electric vehicles,” which includes both adverse environmental impacts and children as young as seven working in cobalt mines in places like the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where more than half of the world’s cobalt is produced.

“[R]aw materials needed for batteries are extracted at a high human and environmental toll. This includes, for example, child labour, health and safety hazards in informal work, poverty and pollution,” the World Economic Forum’s Global Battery Alliance notes. “A recycling challenge looms over the eleven million tonnes of spent lithium-ion batteries forecast to be discarded by 2030, with few systems in place to enable reuse and recycling in a circular economy for batteries.”

Recycling is not the only environmental problem facing the lithium-ion batteries used in electric cars.

The bulk of these batteries are manufactured in places such as Japan, China, and South Korea, where generation of electricity remains heavily dependent on fossil fuels, including coal, which increases the carbon footprint of electric car batteries. For this reason, Amnesty International is calling on nations to disclose the carbon footprint of electric car batteries, so their environmental impact can be accurately assessed.

While it’s difficult to gauge the environmental costs of these batteries with precision, one German study found that every Tesla battery requires between 23,000 pounds and 32,000 pounds of carbon emissions. Considering that Tesla produced 368,000 cars in 2019 alone, that’s up to 11.8 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions in just Tesla batteries in a given year.

It’s unclear if Gavin Newsom truly has three Teslas—a New Yorker journalist found three in the driveway when he went to Newsom’s home in 2018 for an interview—but if he did that would put Newsom’s carbon footprint at close to 100,000 for just the Tesla batteries.

This of course is of little concern to Newsom or Tesla founder Elon Musk, who “liked” Newsom’s announcement on Twitter that California would be “phasing out the internal combustion engine.”

Of course Musk likes this news. Newsom is sidelining Tesla’s competition, which stands to increase the market share of the world’s most valuable automobile company even further. This isn’t capitalism, however, it’s crony capitalism—the use of government regulations to shift the market toward a favored company or economic sector.

As the regulatory state grows, so does the phenomenon of what economists call “rent-seeking.” It involves companies diverting resources toward lobbying efforts (versus production) that seek regulatory measures designed to hamstring their economic rivals to increase their own share of the market.

Rent-seeking is, unfortunately, often an effective business strategy. But it’s not capitalism and is unlikely to improve the environment.

The law of unintended consequences, one of the proverbial building blocks of economics, shows that actions, those undertaken by people but especially those undertaken by governments, have consequences that go far beyond their desired effects.

Many people of good faith wish to help the environment by rejecting or limiting the use of gasoline. The desired effect is lower consumption of gasoline. However, there are also unintended consequences of this action.

By restricting the use of gasoline, environmentalists increase the demand for electricity. This in turn increases the price of coal, which incentives production of coal, a fossil fuel that produces more CO2 emissions than gasoline.

The great economist Claude-Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), in his seminal essay “That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen,” observed there was a tendency for humans to judge actions based on immediate effects (“a small present good”) while ignoring their long-term consequences (“a great evil to come”).

Bastiat said it was man’s inability to see the results of actions in their totality—the seen and the unseen—that resulted in mankind’s greatest depredations.

“This explains the fatally grievous condition of mankind,” Bastiat warned. “Ignorance surrounds its cradle: then its actions are determined by their first consequences, the only ones which, in its first stage, it can see.”

If we celebrate the decline in emissions from gas-powered vehicles but ignore the considerable environmental costs of electric vehicles, we fall into the trap Bastiat described 170 years ago.

COLUMN BY

Jon Miltimore

Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, the Epoch Times.

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Film ‘Climate Hustle 2’ Targets Hollywood’s Green Hypocrisy, Double Standards

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Politicians, media figures, and Hollywood elites who maintain lavish lifestyles while advocating restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions are on full display in a new documentary.

“Climate Hustle 2: Rise of the Climate Monarchy” is a sequel to the 2016 documentary film “Climate Hustle,” which questioned the premise of theories linking human activity with potentially catastrophic climate change.

“Climate Hustle 2” is not in theaters because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but was scheduled to be streamed as of  8 p.m. Thursday and available for replay through Sunday.

The new film builds on the findings of the first one while taking a deeper dive into motivations behind climate change initiatives such as the congressional resolutions called the Green New Deal and the United Nations’ Paris climate agreement, which the Trump administration has exited.

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Actor Kevin Sorbo is narrator of the new documentary. In opening scenes, Sorbo cites “an increasing number of scientists who are becoming skeptical” about “overhyped claims made about severe weather events, temperatures, rising sea levels, and even disappearing polar bears.”

Sorbo then asks some questions in arguing that science has shifted against alarmist claims.

“Why would those claiming a global warming catastrophe spread a false narrative?” he asks, adding:

What would motivate them? Why would they try to hustle you? Are they trying to control the climate, or you? …

At its core, the motivations are as old as mankind itself.  They revolve around money, power, ideology, and control. …

Stopping climate change is … about climate elites trying to convince us to accept a future where they call all the shots, plan our lives, and regulate how we should live our lives. They want to create, in essence, a climate monarchy.

“Climate Hustle 2” is a project of the Washington-based nonprofit Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, or CFACT, which describes itself as promoting “a much-needed, positive, alternative voice on issues of environment and development.”

Marc Morano, the organization’s communications director and editor of  its Climate Depot blog, provides the film’s reporting and interviews key figures on both sides of the climate debate.

Featured climate scientists and researchers include Patrick Moore, co-founder of the environmental group Greenpeace; Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Willie Soon, an astrophysicist and geoscientist based in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Robert Giegengack, a geologist who chaired the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at University of Pennsylvania; and David Legates, a climatologist and geology professor at the University of Delaware.

Morano appears in front of the Palace of Versailles, just outside Paris, to establish some major themes of the film. The palace, he says, was “designed to show the supremacy of the state and the ruling class over the common man.”

“Today, like the nobility of old, world leaders, celebrity activists, and Western environmentalists also enjoy a lavish lifestyle and have no problem with multiple homes, endless airline flights, and luxuries galore,” Morano says.

The action moves to Sicily, Italy, where celebrities such as actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Bradley Cooper, singer Katy Perry, and Prince Harry attend what E! News describes as a “billionaires’ summer party” to discuss climate change. The program’s host comments on gas-guzzling private jets and yachts used by attendees.

Conservative commentator Mark Steyn, who makes multiple appearances in “Climate Hustle 2,” weighs in on motivations he says are behind climate activism.

“Al Gore and John Kerry and the prince of Wales, they want to return us to an Age of Kings in which they fly around from one climate conference to another and the rest of us are just contained within our carbon allowance—which if we’re lucky will enable us to take a long weekend for a fishing trip somewhere once a year,” Steyn says.

Gore, the former U.S. vice president and long-time crusader for limiting carbon emissions to prevent global warming, again comes under scrutiny for the large “carbon footprint” associated with his Tennessee residence and his travel arrangements.

DiCaprio and other Hollywood celebrities who have pledged to “live a green lifestyle” also come under criticism for lifestyles that don’t square with their rhetoric. DiCaprio owns multiple homes and makes frequent use of private jets and yachts, the documentary notes. Singer-actress Barbra Streisand has flown her dogs to London to watch her perform, it adds.

Morano then discusses what science actually says about carbon dioxide.

“If these global leaders and activists really think we face a man-made climate apocalypse, why have they not changed their ways and cut back on their CO2 emissions and overall excess?” Morano asks. “Is there something they’re not telling us about the science?”

Some answers come from scientists, researchers, and academics in the documentary who set out to dismantle alarmist claims that don’t fit with rigorous scientific research.

“Carbon dioxide is the main building block of all life,” Moore, the Greenpeace co-founder, says in a “Fox & Friends” interview used in the film. “In fact, the whole climate crisis as they call it is not only fake news, it’s fake science. There is no climate crisis.”

Giegengack, the geologist, is equally dismissive.

“You don’t find strong empiric support for the idea that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are the primary drivers of atmospheric temperature and global climate, and there are so many other variables that are much more likely to have been responsible for that,” Giegengack says in the film.

Legates, the climatologist, warns that carbon rationing proposals, such as those advocated by liberals in Congress, ultimately could lead to human beings lacking the “basic necessities of life” such as “food, clothing, shelter, and security.”

Near the film’s close, Sorbo asks viewers to resist the political agenda of climate activism.

“We have the gift of freedom,” he says. “Don’t let it slip away. Don’t let them establish a climate monarchy.”

For details on viewing or purchasing “Climate Hustle” and “Climate Hustle 2,” go here.

COLUMN BY

Kevin Mooney

Kevin Mooney is an investigative reporter for The Daily Signal. Send an email to Kevin. Twitter: @KevinMooneyDC.

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