By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~

The Virginia wind-versus-whales story has taken a turn for the worse. Worse for the severely endangered Right Whales that is. My research has found what may be some really bad news.

Meet Tethys. Not the real Tethys, the mythical Greek titaness of the sea, but DOE’s center for reporting research on the environmental impact of energy technology on sea life, including whales. This is the science side of DOE (where I used to work), not the Ocean Energy development side.

Tethys has some profoundly disturbing things to say about offshore wind and really loud underwater noise. Noise that could easily adversely affect the North Atlantic Right Whales.

It is all about pile driving, or in this case tower driving. The hundreds of huge offshore wind towers proposed for Virginia do not have poured concrete foundations like onshore towers do. Instead they are literally driven into…

By Clay Waters ~

With the House January 6 committee hearings over for now, New York Times’ reporter Jeremy Peters unloaded on a familiar target in Monday’s Business section — the conservative press — in “As Jan. 6 Panel’s Evidence Piled Up, Conservative Media Doubled Down.”

But first, Peters told us how to think about January 6 by citing two wholly objective outlets, CNN and MSNBC (where Peters contributes):

After the Jan. 6 committee’s final summer hearing last week, the talk on the sets of CNN and MSNBC turned to an intriguing if familiar possibility about what might result from the panel’s finding. The case for a criminal prosecution of former President Donald J. Trump, many pundits said, was not only justified but seemed more than likely given the evidence of his inaction as rioters sacked the Capitol.

If that felt like déjà vu — more predictions of Mr. Trump’s…

In the absence of massive subsidies, there would be no wind or solar ‘industries’, so-called. So, it should come as no surprise that the jobs “created” in association with those industries are an easy come, easy go, kind of affair.

The promise of thousands of jobs building wind turbines and solar panels is a renewable energy rent-seeker mantra; there are – but only in China. China itself is building nuclear power plants and hundreds more coal-fired power plants, as if its economic livelihood depends on it.

Meanwhile, in those Western countries foolish enough to attempt to run on sunshine and breezes, those few jobs that did materialise are fast disappearing, and the promise of a pot of gold at the end of the RE rainbow appears to be equally empty, as the team from Jo Nova report.

Wind Industry insider laments 15 years waiting for the bright “future that never…

By Fred Lucas ~

Two big money liberal operations, ready to spend $80 million each, are trying to determine who controls elections and how in the years ahead.

“The overall objective of the political left is to change the way you conduct overall elections,” Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, which advocates clean elections, told The Daily Signal.

“It is a very dangerous development for local election officials, who were supposed to be objective and nonpartisan,” Heritage Foundation election expert Hans von Spakovsky says. Pictured: Voters cast ballots early April 25 for the May 3 primary election at the Franklin County Board of Elections in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

One of the two liberal groups, Run for Something, is a political action committee founded by a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer. In the spring, Run for Something established its Clerk Work project with the goal…

By Clay Waters ~

Last week, The New York Times continued its ongoing breakdown over Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia for scuttling President Biden’s “climate change” agenda and dooming mankind to perdition with “Manchin Pulls Plug on Climate and Tax Talks, Shrinking Domestic Plan” courtesy of Times reporters Emily Cochrane and Lisa Friedman letting climate-change activists have emotional breakdowns in print (and using Manchin as a scapegoat for a doomed planet):

Tiernan Sittenfeld, the senior vice president for government affairs at the League of Conservation Voters, a nonprofit group, said Mr. Manchin had condemned future generations.

“There truly aren’t words, at least words that are suitable for printing in The New York Times, for how appalled and outraged we are,” she said.

The paper’s hysterical vituperation against the centrist Democratic senator continued Saturday in Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman’s “How Joe Manchin Doomed the Democrats’ Climate Plan,” insisting Manchin…

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By Thomas Gallatin ~

Leftist social policies have fueled an increase in violent crime, especially in Democrat-run cities.

By Tim Graham ~

Washington Post “Fact Checker” Glenn Kessler huffed and puffed on Tuesday about “The misplaced outrage over Hunter Biden and U.S. oil reserves bought by China.” One of the “liars” in this outrage was the Washington Free Beacon. In an editorial titled Fact Checking’s Final Frontier, they replied “We at the Washington Free Beacon love the fact-checkers. When they’re ‘fact-checking’ us, we know we must be doing something right.”

They called Kessler’s article “a master class in the left’s crusade to conflate objective truth with Democratic spin.”

Kessler didn’t find anything in the Free Beacon’s reporting that was a lie. It’s just that “simple facts” were turned “nefarious.” He didn’t like the impression they were pushing:

This is an example of how simple facts — SPR oil was sold to a subsidiary of a Chinese company and Hunter Biden once has a business relationship with that company — are…

From the team at CFACT ~

By Steve Miller:

The pathway to a green future involves taking millions of acres of pristine wilderness and turning them into fields of windmills and hot expanses of glistening panels.

The Biden Administration’s goal of supplying 40% of the nation’s energy from the sun by 2035 means covering millions of acres of forest and desert habitat with vast solar panel installations fenced off like prisons. It would require 8,800 square miles of land, or 5.6 million acres, to generate that power (leaving out small installations on buildings and the like) — about the size of Rhode Island and Massachusetts combined.

But the push to convert that land from pastoral to energy-productive is galvanizing a new environmental movement, one led by citizen groups and small non-profits rather than the monied green interests arrayed against them — ones ironically accustomed to casting the fossil fuel…