Biden: “Climate change is the existential threat to humanity. Unchecked, it is going to actually bake this planet. This is not hyperbole. It’s real. And we have a moral obligation.”

Reality: This is hyperbole. It's fake. And we have a moral obligation to use more fossil fuel.
Fact: Fossil fuels' CO2 emissions have contributed to the warming of the last 170 years, but that warming has been mild and manageable—1 degree Celsius, mostly in the colder parts of the world.

Source: energytalkingpoints.com/climate-crisis/
Fact: Fossil fuels' CO2 emissions have not only contributed to mild and manageable warming, they have also caused the benefit of significant global greening. Thanks to fossil fuels the Earth is far greener than it was just 40 years ago.

Source: energytalkingpoints.com/climate-crisis/
Fact: Climate catastrophists have been claiming climate crisis for 40 years. For example, Obama science advisor John Holdren predicted in the 1980s that we’d have up to 1 billion climate deaths today.

Source: energytalkingpoints.com/climate-crisis/
Fact: After 40 years of “climate crisis” predictions by climate catastrophists, human beings are safer than ever from climate. The climate death rate has decreased by *98%* over the last century.

Source: energytalkingpoints.com/climate-crisis/
Fact: Fossil fuels have actually made climate far safer by providing low-cost power for the amazing machines that protect us against storms, protect us against extreme temperatures, and alleviate drought.

Source: energytalkingpoints.com/climate-crisis/
Fact: If America tries to rapidly eliminate fossil fuel use through the Biden Climate Plan we will not prevent a crisis, we will cause a crisis by making energy completely unreliable and unaffordable for American industry and American consumers.

Source: energytalkingpoints.com/climate-crisis/
Conclusion: If the world continues using fossil fuels to provide reliable, low-cost energy to billions of people, the result will not be a climate crisis but continued manageable warming, significant greening, and a far better life for billions of people.

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15 Sep
Many politicians and media members media have a vested interest in moving past the CA blackouts and raising as few questions as possible about their cause. But Americans have a vested interest in understanding the cause, which is also the cause of rising costs: "unreliables."
"Unreliables" is the proper term for solar and wind electricity, often misleading labeled as "renewable energy." "Renewable energy" is misleading because it usually excludes reliable, renewable large-scale hydro. And because unreliable solar and wind aren't real, reliable energy.
Wind turbines and solar panels cannot provide the reliable energy that our amazing electrical grid requires 24/7. That’s why every place in the world that uses unreliable wind energy depends 24/7 on massive amounts of reliable energy from coal, gas, hydro, or nuclear plants.
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12 Sep
Media coverage of the CA wildfires is designed to do 2 things: 1) Get us to ignore the fundamental role of "green" forest mismanagement in causing the out-of-control fires. 2) Get us to ignore the CA blackouts and the fundamental role of "green energy" policies in causing them.
California is experiencing blackouts because of "green" policies that reward or mandate unreliable electricity from solar and wind and punish or outlaw reliable electricity from nuclear, natural gas, coal, or hydro. We need to understand and apply this lesson this election.
Fact: electricity producers know how to produce enough reliable electricity for virtually any situation--certainly plenty for the heat wave CA has been experiencing this year. All you need to do is build enough reliable power plants: nuclear, natural gas, coal, or hydro.
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11 Sep
I angered many climate catastrophists with my claim "The cause of dangerous wildfires is not the one degree of global warming in the last 150 years--it is bad, 'green' forest management." But as I will explain in this thread, this is 100% true.
Gavin Newsom and other California leaders are blaming the dangerous, out-of-control wildfires in CA on climate change. But temperatures have risen 1 degree C in the last 150 years. Is it really possible that that amount of warming makes dangerous wildfires inevitable? No.
With proper forest management we can prevent anything resembling the dangerous, out-of-control wildfires we are experiencing today. And we could do so even if the CA climate were far more fire-prone than it is today. (It has actually been far more fire-prone in the past.)
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27 Aug
I disagree with @realDonaldTrump on many, many things. I did not vote for him in 2016. But on energy policy, my area of expertise, I believe he has done more good than any President in memory. Here's what I would say if I were writing his speech tonight. (THREAD)
In the last 15 years America has become the world’s leading energy producer thanks to energy freedom--allowing all sources of energy to compete and innovate. To make even more progress we need more energy freedom--not mandates of renewables or bans of fossil fuels and nuclear.
America’s future depends on America’s energy industry. Energy is the industry that powers every other industry. The lower cost and more reliable our energy is, the more competitive every American company is and the lower the cost of living is for every American.
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24 Aug
For a rational take on California forest fires I highly recommend @ShellenbergerMD's new Forbes piece. forbes.com/sites/michaels…

Here's a thread with my high-level take, which incorporates some of the great facts in Mike's piece. THREAD
1: Forest fires are a *natural* phenomenon that "artificial" modern forest management dramatically decreases. Before Europeans arrived in America an estimated 4.4 million acres in CA burned annually. That’s 16 times last year and over twice this year’s extremely high burn.
2: Visibility and air quality problems due to fires in CA used to be far worse. Here's an 1898 account: “Of the hundreds of persons who visit the Pacific slope of California every summer to see the mountains, few see more than the immediate foreground and a haze of smoke.”
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20 Aug
Why is California experiencing blackouts? In a tweet: Policies that reward or mandate unreliable electricity from solar and wind and punish or outlaw reliable electricity from nuclear, natural gas, coal, or hydro. Here's a 4 tweet breakdown. (THREAD)
1: Electricity producers know how to produce enough reliable electricity for virtually any situation--certainly plenty for the heat wave CA has been experiencing this year. All you need to do is build enough reliable power plants: nuclear, natural gas, coal, or hydro.
2: But CA, attempting a mini-mini-Green New Deal, decided to mandate that a lot of the electricity generated in the state had to come from unreliable solar and wind electricity. This meant that we would become hugely dependent on reliable power plants from other states.
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