Fact check: False!

US carbon emissions have been declining, including under Trump, thanks mainly to the fracking revolution.

It had nothing to do with our allies.
In the U.S., the share of electricity coming from coal declined from 45% to 25% between 2010 and 2019 not because of "our allies" but because natural gas become cheap due to the natural gas fracking revolution
In fact, the carbon intensity of energy — the amount of carbon emissions per unit of energy — has been declining for *150 years*

It has nothing to do with "our allies."
There was a 20% *decline* in methane, a greenhouse gas, despite a 40% *increase* in natural gas production

"Our allies" had nothing to do with it.
All slides and graphs can be found here:

environmentalprogress.org/apocalypse-nev…
To learn more, please consider buying my critically-acclaimed and best-selling new book, Apocalypse Never!

amazon.com/Apocalypse-Nev…
P.S. If Biden and Democrats really care about climate change, they will fight for a Green *Nuclear* Deal and not give $2 trillion in ratepayer/taxpayer wealth to bankers and China for unreliable solar panels

Contrast the ecological nightmare of solar...

To the unifying, optimistic, pro-human and pro-environment vision of a Green *Nuclear* Deal

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21 Nov
Nuclear waste is the best kind of waste. All of it ever produced can fit on a single football field. It never hurts anyone & never will. It will be recycled in future reactors

Nice to see stridently anti-nuclear @SenatorReid acknowledge that it is safe where it is!
By contrast, solar produces 200-300x more waste than nuclear plants

And all of these solar panels will go to the landfill since it’s not economical to recycle them:
Read 5 tweets
16 Nov
Everything they say about renewables is wrong. They

- worsen poverty & inequality

- send our wealth to China

- destroy the environment

If Biden cared about jobs, national security & climate change he would fight for a Green Nuclear Deal!

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Friends!

I am happy to report exciting news!

- We have promoted Zion Lights @ziontree to Europe Director of Environmental Progress!

- We are proud to help @Madi_Czerwinski launch her Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal!

environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2020/…
Zion joined EP in June to campaign for the construction of two new full-sized reactors at Sizewell in Britain.

Her work shifted the narrative around nuclear in the UK and made the case to lawmakers in the country’s leading newspapers.
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30 Oct
Massive pro-nuclear victory!!

BBC reports that the British government will give the green light to build two new reactors at Sizewell!

This is a huge victory for Environmental Progress & in particular @ziontree our Europe Director

Please share!

bbc.com/news/business-…
@ziontree I met Zion last year when she was spokesperson for radical UK climate group, Extinction Rebellion

When it became clear Sizewell was the most important nuclear project in the world, I reached out to her, and ended up hiring her, a story I describe here.

@ziontree Zion campaigned relentlessly for Sizewell, writing articles for Britain's largest newspapers, participating, appearing in public debates, and organizing a pro-nuclear swim protest in front of Sizewell to underscore the safety of nuclear

telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/0…
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24 Oct
Solar farms require 300-400x more land than a nuclear or natural gas plant and produce 200-300 times more waste than nuclear plants
For a more in-depth look at why power density determines environmental impact, please consider reading my best-selling and critically-acclaimed new book

amazon.com/Apocalypse-Nev…
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11 Oct
Remember that “apocalyptic” fire in northern California that forced people to flee their homes & was supposedly “caused” by climate change?

Not only was it perfectly natural, the Park Service now says it was just what the forest & spotted owls needed

sfchronicle.com/california-wil…
Quick! Somebody alert Facebook’s censors @ClimateFdbk to slap a warning label on that San Francisco Chronicle story for being “misleading” because it failed to mention that climate change has doomed our forests to the apocalypse!!!
@JohnStossel
All of this will come as a shock to East Coast journalists who are too scared to go camping but were absolutely certain climate change had burned down 2,000 year old redwood trees
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30 Sep
Under Obama-Biden, “$15B went to energy efficiency, which turned out to be a massive waste of money. 2x as much money was spent weatherizing homes as was saved. The episode disproved the myth that efficiency investments always “pay for themselves.”

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
“Determined to learn nothing from history, Green New Dealers are now proposing to spend taxpayer dollars weatherizing every building in America.”
FWIW, this is not a left-right issue. Even @MotherJones reports, “the upfront cost of efficiency upgrades came to about $5,000 per house, on average. But their central estimate of the benefits only amounted to about $2,400 per household.”

motherjones.com/kevin-drum/201…
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