Thread by @shellenberger

I have been censored by @Facebook for telling the truth about climate change and species extinction

I have formally requested an investigation by CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Please share this to indicate your support for scientific integrity and free speech

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@Facebook An organization calling itself @ClimateFeedback is misrepresenting the science examining climate change’s impact, or lack thereof, on natural disasters, and other major questions, including species extinction.

My article said, “Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction.” My claim is true.

All major scientific bodies, including the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) agree

On May 4, 2020, I asked directly Josef Settle, the co-chair of IPBES, “Is it scientifically accurate to say humans are causing a sixth great extinction?”

His answer was, “It’s not; we don’t say that..o you have to look at the evidence”

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However, Climate Feedback *falsely repeats the myth that we are in a sixth great extinction.*

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Second, the evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible that the deaths from natural disasters have declined 90% in 100 years and over 80% in the last 40 years. Nobody denies this.

Similarly, nobody denies that the economic cost of natural disasters generally and weather disasters specifically have remained flat when the data is normalized to account for much higher levels of wealth.

Similarly, nobody denies that the economic cost of natural disasters generally and weather disasters specifically have remained flat when the data is normalized to account for much higher levels of wealth.

A peer-reviewed review of the science finds that there is “little evidence to support claims that any part of the overall increase in global economic losses documented on climate time scales can be attributed to human-caused changes in climate, reinforcing conclusions of IPCC ”

Climate Feedback is not the first organization to misrepresent the science on species extinctions or disasters. In Apocalypse Never, I describe the history of such misinformation.

amazon.com/Apocalypse-Nev…

These issues are important.

Climate change disasters are not killing more people or making disasters more expensive, and yet many people have been misled to believe that is the case.

In January, one out of five British children surveyed told pollsters they were having nightmares about climate change.

And climate alarmism is being used by the international development banks to justify diverting funding from cheap and reliable energy sources for poor nations to expensive and unreliable ones.

Climate Feedback got it wrong, and thus Facebook got it wrong.

Many people only get their news from Facebook, which exercises extraordinary market power, and power over how people decide what is true and false.

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@Facebook Want to check out the data for yourself?

Check out these amazing data visualizations of Apocalypse Never!

They cover: climate, extinction, meat, fire, nuclear, renewables, and much more!

They were created by my brilliant colleague, @Madi_Czerwinski

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I had a great talk with @AlexpiersonAMP about why climate change isn't making disasters worse, why I wrote Apocalypse Never, and why renewables can't power a high-energy civilization!

You can hear our interview here — please share!

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- Facebook's censoring the truth

- Climate change can't be making disasters worse b/c deaths declined 90%

- Activists misled people into confusing *disasters* with *weather events*

- Please share my chat with @nickgillespie to fight media censorship!

- 90+% decline in deaths from natural disasters

- All increased cost of disasters is due to more economic development, e.g. Miami in 1925 vs 2017

- Once costs are normalized for increased wealth, there is *no increase in the cost of natural disasters*

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Climate change is NOT increasing the cost of natural disasters, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Anyone who claims otherwise — including Facebook's fact-checkers — is misrepresenting the scientific consensus

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Why do activist journalists, climate activists, and activist scientists misrepresent the science?

So they can use every natural disaster as a "news hook" to increase the salience of climate change – & mislead people into thinking disasters are worsening

It's not clear to what extent journalists are deliberately misleading the public into thinking disasters are worsening

In this interview, one of them appears both confused AND unconcerned about the conflation of disasters & weather events

Here are key passages from our conversation

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I will be on Fox News TONIGHT at 8:40 pm to discuss

- the threat posed by Facebook censorship

- why most everything people believe about the environment is wrong

- my best-selling new book, Apocalypse Never

Please share this to get the word out and defend freedom of speech!

8:40 pm EASTERN! 🙏🏻

Thank you everyone for your kind messages about my appearance on Fox tonight!

If you’re interested in learning more, please consider reading Apocalypse Never, now a best-seller, and buying copies for friends and loved ones

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For telling the truth about climate change I am being smeared as a racist & censored by @Facebook

Thank you @nypost for your courage in giving me a full-page to expose climate activists' war on the poor

Please stand up for science & freedom & retweet!

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“If it were acknowledged that hurricane damage owed to failed flood-control or that forest fires were due to the buildup of wood fuel after decades of fire suppression, alarmists would be deprived the news hooks they need to scare people, raise money & advocate climate policies”

“Elites have used alarmism to control food and energy policies.
They have successfully redirected funding from the World Bank and similar institutions away from economic development and toward charitable endeavors, such as solar panels for villagers, which can’t power growth.”

“Readers will discover that, far from being a defense of white supremacy, ‘Apocalypse Never’ exposes ­European and North American environmentalists for promoting discriminatory anti-development policies toward poor African, Asian and Latin-American ­nations.”

Independent expert reviews evidence & concludes FB censor

- Promoted pseudoscientific claims (eg "sixth extinction," climate disasters)

- Used biased scientists w/ conflicts-of-interest

- Misrepresented opinions as facts

Please RT to get the word out!

The main scientific body that studies extinction, @IPBES, says unequivocally that humans are *not* causing a "sixth mass extinction"

But instead of relying on IPBES, Facebook's censor @ClimateFdbk picked "sixth extinction" promoter Gerardo Ceballos to attack me

@IPBES @ClimateFdbk Ceballos has a clear conflict-of-interest. His entire career depends on promoting the "sixth extinction" myth. And yet @ClimateFdbk made *no mention* of his conflict of interest

But that's not all. Can you guess who was the co-author of Ceballos's "sixth extinction paper? Why none other than the world's most famous Malthusian scientist, Paul Ehrlich, who I criticize at great length in Apocalypse Never!

My claim that climate change is *not* making natural disasters worse is supported by the fact that a) deaths from natural disasters are declining and b) the UN IPCC itself admits that there is no evidence that climate change is increasing the cost of disasters

Might deaths have declined even more — all else being equal — had the planet not warmed? Maybe, but we'll never know, and the claim is speculation *not* science. And all else isn't equal. Cheap energy allowed rising development, preparedness, and resilience to disasters.

How then did the @ClimateFdbk scientists get away with claiming that climate change is making natural disasters worse? By dishonestly misleading readers. Witness how they conflate *disasters* with *extreme weather events*

@ClimateFdbk Here he does the exact same thing again. Read closely: "First up, natural disasters. My argument was that there is clear evidence that climate change is increasing a range of extreme events..."

Note how he changes the subject without acknowledging it. Uncool and manipulative.

Independent environment expert @RonaldBailey reviews the evidence and concludes, “Shellenberger and the Climate Feedback respondents sometimes seem to be talking past one another. But Shellenbeger, on balance, seems more right than are his critics”

reason.com/2020/08/01/the…

SMH

Bravo to @JohnStossel for suing Facebook for defaming him for his scientifically accurate reporting on climate change

If the courts won’t act then Congress must end its protection of Facebook’s monopoly

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Facebook has also censored and defamed @BjornLomborg for accurately reporting on heat and cold deaths

For an overview of the scientific case against alarmism, please visit our updated web page:

environmentalprogress.org/the-case-again…

This merited violating my withdrawal from Twitter. Now I’m back to self-imposed exile until Oct 4!