Germany’s so-called wind and solar ‘transition’ – the ‘Energiewende’ was in strife before Vlad Putin invaded Ukraine; post invasion, it’s a diabolical mess. German households and businesses are already suffering Europe’s highest power prices; since Putin’s Ukrainian adventure began, German power prices have rocketed, further still, recently hitting a record 40 US cents per kWh.

In September 2018, when Donald Trump warned Germany’s delegation to the UN General Assembly that Germany would soon become totally dependent on Russian energy if it didn’t immediately change course, those delegates laughed like know-it-all school children.  Well, the joke’s on them, now.

Experience has a great way of displacing ignorance, albeit with a costly pricetag.

And with Putin delivering Germany’s energy wonks a very valuable lesson about the lunacy of attempting to run on sunshine and breezes, it appears that their arrogance is making way for new-found humility.

Greg McLean takes a look at what’s next…

Noise Pollution Hurts Animals. Here’s How to Turn The Volume Down

23rd August 2022

by Fay Clark & Jacob Dunn, The Conversation

Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/noise-pollution-hurts-animals-heres-how-to-turn-the-volume-down

(Catherine MacBride/Moment/Getty Images)

From construction projects to busy roads, airplanes, and railways, human noise is everywhere. It is an invisible cause of stress, posingserious risks to human health and wellbeing. However, noise also harms animals living in close contact with humans, in homes, farms, and zoos.

Noise is a distracting, scary, or physically painful sound. The impacts of noise upon humans range from mild irritation to learning and memory problems, permanent hearing damage, and heart disease.

Abnormally loud noise, such as at music concerts or construction sites, iscontrolled to protect human hearing. But noise is not regulated for other animals.

In ourrecent paper, we found a greater awareness and more understanding is needed into how noise harms pets, farm, and…

Wind Farm Living has collated a series “Educating the Lawyers” and suggest this information may be freely used as needed, e.g. in a letter box drop.

~ DeFrock

Lesson 10: Without Raw Data the Noise Report is a Lie

Updated 20th June 2022

By WFL

By Jarrett Stepman ~

Of all the institutions that have become radicalized in the last couple of years, the realm of medicine is perhaps the most disturbing.

What will our society look like when you can’t trust the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or even your doctor?

Dr. Anthony Fauci, pictured May 17 during a Senate subcommittee hearing, became a hated figure on the right in part because of what he represented—the arrogant, corrupt, and often incompetent bureaucratic managerial class that believes it has a right to make decisions for our society. (Photo: Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)

Dr. Anthony Fauci announced Monday that he will step down in December from his position at the National Institutes of Health, ending a tenure in public health policy that stretches back to the late 1960s.

It’s a notable moment. Fauci’s long-term obscurity–followed by short-lived, media-driven stardom and then intense polarization–is illustrative of larger…

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~

A funny thing happened on the way to the Senate. It is all about the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which really should be named the Inflation Act. Only Democrats can believe that raising taxes reduces inflation.

The Democrats writing the IRA decided that since tax credit subsidies do a good job of promoting renewables and electric vehicles, they should do more. They should promote things like union wages, mining and manufacturing, which have nothing to do with climate.

Think of it as social engineering squared. In the vernacular this is called “mission creep”. A program designed to do one thing tries to do something very different, often unsuccessfully.

In the process the tax credit rules have become very complex. The funny thing is that these complexities may actually stifle the growth of renewables and EVs.

Let’s just look at renewables and wages. The IRA…

Thanks to the hidden and crippling cost of subsidised wind and solar, households and businesses are being hit with staggering bills, with prices at levels unimaginable, until recently.

Double digit annual percentage increases are now the norm.

As we reported yesterday, Brits are already suffering power prices more than double what they were 12 months ago, with prices set to double again before their next winter is over. Germans are watching their power prices spiral out of control; with state-controlled rationing sets of institutionalised across the country.

Hopelessly intermittent wind and solar sit at the heart of this economy wrecking chaos. Notwithstanding the efforts of renewable energy rent-seekers to pretend otherwise.

Politicos and the MSM continue to blame everything else under the sun, Vlad Putin, included.

Energy users can only despair, with logic and reason banished from energy policy, long ago. Engineers don’t get a look in. Instead, the realm…

By Fred Lucas ~

The Internal Revenue Service will establish a centralized office to implement elements of the tax and spending bill that President Joe Biden signed last week, including almost 87,000 new IRS agents, the agency’s chief says.

Democrats’ bill, which passed the Senate and House without a single Republican vote, provides $80 billion to the Internal Revenue Service, largely to pay for the 87,000 new agents through 2031.

“We have a unique, once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the IRS,” says Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig, pictured testifying April 7 before the Senate Finance Committee. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

In an email message Friday to all IRS employees, a copy of which was obtained by The Daily Signal, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig wrote: “This is a historic time for the IRS, and we are working to move quickly to begin work on the Inflation Reduction Act signed into law earlier…