Category Archives: ENERGY & CLIMATE

Australian Court accepts that noise from wind turbines can engender nuisance complaints

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Designated2

We can only hope And where is Justice Ginsberg when we need her* –  she liked use of foreign law  And where are Lady Bird Johnson’s acolytes – you thought billboards were ugly, these damn things are ugly, wasteful, harmful … Continue reading →

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Derecho meets wind farms

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Designated2

So there we were driving back from Des Moines along I-80 on Sunday afternoon and did a casual survey of wind damage after the recent (August 10) dericho the area experienced.  Granted the most intense winds were somewhat north of … Continue reading →

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Good riddance to Mad Dogs

Posted on December 23, 2018 by Designated2

Defense Secretary Mattis summarized . . . more an “Obama General” than a Trump General Opposed, slow-walked, politically undermined, was disloyal to the Trump administration he worked for: on “climate change” on illegal immigration policy on the Iran Nuclear Agreement … Continue reading →

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Wind energy often sucks when needed most

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Designated2

I forget the exact day, I have it scribbled somewhere, which I will find and update this post with, but it was within a couple days of the late November storm that dumped a foot of snow in these parts. … Continue reading →

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No more corn crops for burning

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Designated2

The following article* gives insight into the controversy we have commented on previously as regards Senator Ted Cruz’s hold (now released) on the appointment of former Iowa Ag Secretary Bill Northey to the federal Department of Agriculture bureaucracy.  As outlined … Continue reading →

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Now you can get inoculated against the disease of anti-progressive thought!

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Designated2

“Researchers at Cambridge last year found that briefly exposing people to tactics used by fake news producers can act as a “psychological vaccine” against bogus anti-science campaigns.” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Halellulia!! We are saved! A “psychological vaccine” is apparently being developed by … Continue reading →

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TWO GENERATIONS OF ETHANOL SUBSIDIES ARE ENOUGH

Posted on November 25, 2017 by Designated2

Cruz vs Grassley feud is bigger than Northey Cruz et al say they are willing to compromise, are Grassley et al? We suppose corn-chauvinism is to be expected as is petro-chauvinism from farm and oil state Senators respectively.  But call … Continue reading →

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So now we are deplorable and perverse

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Designated2

And this after His Holiness suggested that denying the “scientific consensus” of ‘manmade climate change’, we are guilty of committing a “Deadly Sin”! Forgive us, Il Papa, for we have sinned. Pope rebukes climate deniers as ‘perverse’ in Bonn message  … Continue reading →

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All is not lost . . . yet . . . for climate scammers

Posted on September 19, 2017 by Designated2

Never mind the built-in exaggerated, faulty and made-up data More time means the accuracy of predictions becomes a convenient unprovable “truth” Algore not giving up, see pic at end Climate change not as threatening to planet as previously thought, new … Continue reading →

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Benefits of “carbon” TEN times that of the “social costs”

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Designated2

But by environmentalist standards, the only good CO2 molecule is a dead CO2 molecule never released and used by man and reabsorbed (the natural cycle). Wow, corn ethanol, once worshiped by Gaia devotees is losing it’s luster with them, But … Continue reading →

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