When asked about Paul Ehrlich receiving the MacArthur Genius Award, Julian Simon replied: “MacArthur! I can’t even get a McDonald’s!” Added Ed Regis in a Simon profile in Wired:
This did not discourage him. Doomslaying was a thankless task, but it had to be done, like taking out the garbage: it had to be carted to the dump today even if there’d be another big pile of it tomorrow.
Enter the latest neo-Malthusian award winner, Seth Borenstein, the blatantly biased climate reporter/alarmist, who is a recipient of this year’s (2026) Hall of Fame honorees as chosen by the Society of Professional Journalists, Washington, D.C. Chapter, “honoring the best journalism produced in the District of Columbia and metropolitan Maryland and Virginia.”
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This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.
Greed Energy Economics:
*** The Iron Law Of Power Density, Revisited
*** Lack of Common Sense on Energy in the NYS Budget
California ISO: Managing the Evolving Grid
Switzerland dug a hole the size of two soccer fields to install the world’s most powerful underground battery
Offshore wind confusion: refunding a lease is not a buyout
Unreliables: Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
*** Are Wind Turbines a Risk to Human Health? (start at 55:00)
Wyoming Golden Eagles should be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act
Solar Energy:
Agriculture Secretary Denounces ‘Lawfare’ Against Arizona Rancher from ‘Radical Green Energy Scams’
Nuclear Energy:
World’s largest nuclear plant proposed for Canada on Lake Ontario shoreline
Fossil Fuel Energy:
SpaceX’s $2 Trillion Gas-Fired IPO
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** The Law of Averages
*** Fake Accounting Exaggerates Emissions Reduction Claims
*** How Corrupted Scientists Poisoned Society
What The Left’s Colorado Climate Lawsuit Is Really All About
Environmentalism Is Antithetical to Abundance
Amsterdam Ad Ban Typifies Climate Alarmism’s Farce
Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
Why Climate Models Are Quietly Changing Course…
“Following a pattern in other places like California and the UK, this solar boom has brought crime along with it. But here the trend is turbocharged by more remote expanses and entrenched organized crime….”
Solar power as grid electricity has many strikes against it, which is why outsized government favor is required.
It is dilute, requiring large infrastructure to concentrate it into useful energy. It is intermittent, with cloudy days and nights working against it. It is dispersed, creating spawl that ecologists once condemned, and transmission costly. It is unsightly and a blight to neighbors, lowering property values. It is fragile, with hailstorms and hurricanes promising wreckage.
Add to these another downside: thieving. As told by Antonia Mufarech in “Solar Thieves” [Bloomberg’s Green Daily (May 7, 2026)].…
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