Wind Energy
The wind industry promotes itself as better for the environment than traditional energy sources such as coal and natural gas. But there are many issues associated with Wind. 1. Modern wind turbines depend on rare earth minerals mined primarily from China. Mining one ton of rare earth minerals produces about one ton of radioactive waste, according to the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security. Thus, the US wind industry may well have created more radioactive waste last year than our entire nuclear industry produced in spent fuel. 2. The government plays a large role in energy markets, through subsidies and regulation. Wind projects are unsustainable without government subsidies. On a kilowatt hour (kwh) basis, offshore wind power is estimated to cost 22.15 cents per kwh, while onshore wind is 8.66 cents per kwh, and natural gas combined cycle is only 6.56 per kwh. 3. Energy officials are worried about the potential of power grid collapse due to the use of renewable energy, says the Los Angeles Times, because renewable energy is more unpredictable than traditional forms of energy. 4. Five Million trees have been cut down since 2007 in order to build wind turbines to help Scotland meet its energy goals, says the Daily Caller. 5. Even the thump, thump, thump of wind turbines in Cape Cod are making people sick.
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Apocalypse Never!

8/31/20
from CFACT,
8/20/20:
Climate alarmists are convinced they can somehow ride the Black Lives Matter wave to victory. Let's be real. The real agenda of the Green Left isn't about saving humanity. And, its not about racial justice. The real agenda of the Green Left is to advance socialism and destroy free enterprise - in America and around the world. The future of our country is in danger. Our freedom is threatened as never before. Author Michael Shellenberger's new book, Apocalypse Never" Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All is a national best seller. The left labels him a "climate denier" or "corporate shill". He is neither. He is a 30 year environmental activist. In a recent open letter published in Forbes, Shellenberger said "I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the past 30 years". Here is what he says in the book:
  • Humans are not causing a "sixth mass extinction".
  • The Amazon is not "the lungs of the world".
  • Climate Change is not making natural disasters worse. The buildup of wood fuel and more houses near forests, not climate change, explains why there are more, and more dangerous, fires in Australia and California.
  • Nevertheless, fires overall have declined 25% around the world since 2003.
  • The amount of land we use for meat - human kinds biggest use of land- has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska.
  • Carbon emissions have been declining in rich nations for decades and peaked in Britain, Germany and France in the mid-seventies.
  • We produce 25% more food than we need and good surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets warmer.
  • Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change.
Even in Michael Moore's new movie, Planet of the Humans, he reveals that not only are industrial wind farms, solar farms, biomass and biofuels wrecking natural environments, but they are also themselves the product of fossil fuels and as sustained by them! More From CFACT:


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