Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

If you want people to think your goal isn't climate but rather making (& keeping) nations poor, then attacking France & Brazil, which get 86% & 79% of their power from zero-carbon sources, is a great strategy

PS: 26% of Brazilians (55M people) live in poverty you can't imagine

https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1176181310898884608

Attacking nuclear as "extremely dangerous" reinforces the sense that what you want isn't lower emissions but "de-growth"

Why? Because nuclear

- is how France & your country, Sweden, get 86% & 90% of their power from zero-carbon sources

- is THE SAFEST way to make electricity

French President @EmmanuelMacron is right: Your "Very radical positions [are] likely to antagonize our societies"

Indeed, they already have

But then, perhaps that was the goal all along?

europe1.fr/international/…

@EmmanuelMacron Around the world, those seeking to shut down nuclear plants & replace them with nat gas & a few "renewables" are @Greenpeace @billmckibben @NaomiAKlein et al. while those people defending nuclear are the climate scientists for whom you claim to speak:

environmentalprogress.org/sign-the-letter

@EmmanuelMacron @Greenpeace @billmckibben @NaomiAKlein Since 2016, the global pro-nuclear movement & my NGO have prevented emissions from rising the equivalent of adding 24M cars to the road

How? By standing up to your allies

So spare us the hypocritical moralizing & fake denunciations of "climate deniers" & stop attacking nuclear

@EmmanuelMacron @Greenpeace @billmckibben @NaomiAKlein If you really cared about climate change then you would stop attacking nuclear & instead participate in the @nuclear_pride coalition to Stand Up for Nuclear in one of 32 (!) cities around the world on October 20:

standupfornuclear.org

@EmmanuelMacron @Greenpeace @billmckibben @NaomiAKlein @Nuclear_Pride I couldn't care less whether you go back to school or not but you should get educated about why only nuclear can radically decarbonize energy supplies...

forbes.com/sites/michaels…

You should study the science of nuclear & energy to learn why nuclear and only nuclear — not unreliable renewables — can replace fossil fuels, and why it is the safest way to make electricity:

environmentalprogress.org/the-complete-c…

You should study the example of Vermont where the anti-nuclear advocacy of @billmckibben & @BernieSanders led directly to a spike in carbon emissions — and why renewables proved grossly inadequate:

forbes.com/sites/michaels…

@billmckibben @BernieSanders You should study the history of renewable energy advocacy's creepy, dark, Romantic, and anti-modern roots in Germany, which everyday proves why renewables can't power modern civilization

forbes.com/sites/michaels…

@billmckibben @BernieSanders forbes.com/sites/michaels…

@billmckibben @BernieSanders If you are going to moralize and lecture the world about climate change then you have a moral duty to learn the basics of energy and the environment starting with the basic physics of why low energy-density fuels MUST have larger environmental impacts

quillette.com/2019/02/27/why…

@billmckibben @BernieSanders If you are going to condemn fossil fuels as "evil" then you should contemplate why it is that oil and gas companies are spending millions to promote the unreliable renewables that you, too, are promoting:

forbes.com/sites/michaels…

@billmckibben @BernieSanders “Natural gas is the perfect partner for renewables,” say airport ads run by Norwegian oil and gas giant @StatoilBRK

“See why #natgas is a natural partner for renewable power sources,” tweets @ShellEnergyHome

"Committed to solar energy," say @TOTALOIL1 ads

If you're going to moralize against species extinction along with your allies @ExtinctionR then consider how wind turbines are killing endangered species around the world & may be contributing to the insect die-off in Germany and elsewhere:

forbes.com/sites/michaels…

There's still time for you to learn about about energy, economic development, & the environment. But time is short. Your attacks on nuclear, France & Brazil, and your promotion of unreliable renewables, are rapidly undermining the ostensible goals of your crusade.

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Renewable electricity in India *declined* 27% in August despite *increase* in industrial wind turbines

Why? Because unreliable wind is wreaking havoc on electric grid

“They are not able to do proper integration of renewables," said renewables developer

livemint.com/market/mark-to…

Email I just received from a high school student who watched one of my TED talks:

"I interned with the Sierra Club this past summer found that, as I learned more about the issue of climate change, nuclear power seemed like the way to go."

#TruthBatsLast

Friends! I will be giving a free lecture in London this Monday at 6:30 pm. Please come!

King's College London, Waterloo Campus

Details:

facebook.com/events/5056338…

Great news: a growing majority of Swedes disagree with @GretaThunberg & support nuclear power

"With opinion shifting, Moderate Party is seeing an opening to halt closure of older reactors & build new ones"

Plus mentions @Nuclear_Pride rally in Stockholm

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…