There was a time when true environmentalists strove to protect wild things.  Now the greenshirts have become enemies of the environment by pushing green energy and demonizing the building blocks of life – carbon and carbon dioxide. Wind turbines and their cobweb of connecting roads and transmission lines have destroyed native trees and grasses, scarred and uglified wild hilltops, and littered continental shelves with maritime and aerial obstacles.  They create wind and rain shadows and decimate resident and migratory birds and bats. Green energy in California. Industrial-scale solar is no better, stealing sunlight from every plant that tries to live in the shadow of the panels.  Solar-thermal arrays have the additional trick of roasting any birds, bats, or insects that fly through their focused rays of heat. These green energy toys produce piddling amounts of unreliable weather-dependent energy at great economic and environmental cost. Greens also...(Read Full Post)