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17 Feb, 24 tweets, 12 min read
Let's do a thread 🧵 of conservatives falsely blaming Texas' power outages on wind turbines. To start, @DanCrenshawTX (who purely coincidentally happens to be the 3rd-highest House recipient of oil & gas money):
Montana's @RepRosendale, h/t to @karinkirk_mt:
Gov @GregAbbott_TX on @seanhannity @FoxNews, just a day after admitting that fossil gas, coal, and nuclear failures were largely to blame:
Texas agriculture commissioner Sid Miller:
facebook.com/MillerForTexas…
Of course @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews:
The reliably wrong @WSJopinion page:
wsj.com/articles/a-dee…
@laurenboebert:
Back to Montana, @SteveDaines:
Marc Morano on @foxandfriends:
Also Marc Morano on Tucker, combining two examples from earlier in this thread:
Rick Perry on, you guessed it, Tucker:
Stephen Moore on @Varneyco @FoxNews:
More @FoxNews, because, of course:
Even @CNN fell for this framing, leading with "frozen wind turbines":
cnn.com/2021/02/15/us/…
Oh, but @FoxNews isn't done yet. @HARRISFAULKNER @FaulknerFocus:
A George Bush, but the one who hasn't been (and won't be) president:
Our climate denier friends across the pond, @thegwpfcom:
@realDailyWire:
Texas senator @JohnCornyn:
Texas' junior senator @tedcruz: Image
Just when I thought we were done, @FoxBusiness won’t let the wind energy lies stop, will it, @SeanDuffyWI?
Indeed, as @mmfa notes, the Texas wind lies have been nonstop on @FoxNews & @FoxBusiness:
Of course, @IngrahamAngle, because there can't be any @FoxNews programs left out of the anti-clean energy propaganda war:
I already listed @DanCrenshawTX to start this thread, but he needs a double mention for doubling-down with arguments this mind-numbingly stupid and wrong (which I can say as a Californian whose power almost never goes out):

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3 Feb
The @POTUS Climate Crisis Executive Order last week was a BFD! In @CC_Yale today, I discuss how it was basically a mini #GreenNewDeal. Here's the article, and thread 🧵:
yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/02/bidens…
The #GreenNewDeal framework is largely a deployment of federal investments in clean technologies for lots of sectors, creating millions of jobs while cleaning up fossil fuel pollution and correcting environmental injustices. That's exactly the framework of the climate crisis EO!
On emissions reductions, the EO targets net-zero carbon from US electricity by 2035 and zero-emissions vehicles for federal, state, local fleets, including @USPS trucks. Those two sectors account for close to 60% of US carbon pollution.
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30 Nov 20
It's conservatives' favorite argument against climate solutions: "it's too expensive!"

In @CC_Yale I tried to do a definitive debunking of this myth, also available @skepticscience short URL sks.to/costs. Please read it, then this thread (1/10)
yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/11/fighti…
First, HUGE CAVEAT: we can't put a $$$ value on many climate crisis consequences like suffering, trauma, extinctions, lost biodiversity, etc., as advocates like @GretaThunberg & @sunrisemvmt remind us. Nevertheless, the economic case for climate solutions is a no-brainer (2/10)
Opponents like Trump & @NikkiHaley argue against a #GreenNewDeal by inflating its cost and ignoring its benefits. They're only doing the first half of a cost-benefit analysis, and doing it in a bad faith, bullshit way (e.g. see the thread below) (3/10)
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28 Oct 20
So, what's happening in the Arctic now is kinda crazy, but also really important to extreme weather throughout the northern hemisphere. Read my piece today on the topic, but here's a Thread:
yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/10/warmer…
First, the basics: there's a "positive feedback" (positive in the negative sense, Trump would say), like a mutually destructive relationship. Warming melts ice & snow in the Arctic, making the surface less reflective -> absorb more sunlight -> warm more -> melt more -> etc. 1/n
As a result, the Arctic is warming 3x faster than the global avg, and sea ice is disappearing fast. Half Arctic sea ice surface area and 75% of its volume disappeared in summers between 1979 and 2012.

Then 2014–2020 were the 7 hottest years on record. Guess what happened? 2/n
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1 May 20
Today @CC_Yale published my article debunking Michael Moore & Jeff Gibbs' garbage anti-clean energy film.

Fellow environmentalists, I'd like to have a word. Please read my piece and then step into my Twitter office, if you would.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/05/michae…
We've been fighting for climate action (without a lot of success) for over 30 years now. The reason we haven't won isn't that @algore or @billmckibben are secret evil villains, as Moore and Gibbs would have us believe.

It's that THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY ARE ACTUAL VILLAINS!!
Fossil fuel companies have spent billions of dollars undermining climate policy proposals, international climate negotiations, and spreading doubt about climate science among the public, even as their own scientists warned them about climate change before I was even born.
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21 Apr 20
There is soooooooo much misleading junk in this film. Most of it is focused on biomass from wood, which supplies 2% of energy in the US. And wind turbines are bad because ... they only last several decades and NIMBYs don't like them?

I yelled at the screen 3 times watching this.
The film's solution is, I guess don't use any energy because no source of energy is perfect? There's no comparison of pros and cons, no consideration of benefits at all. It only looks at the downside of every source of energy and thus basically concludes that civilization is bad.
My favorite part was when they looked at a former solar farm location in Daggett, CA, now just sand, and declared the revelation that it's become a "solar wasteland."

I pulled up Google Maps and found Daggett in the Mojave Desert. It's all sand out there!!! WTF?!
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15 Oct 19
@sarahknapton You should have dived deeper, because this article is full of inaccuracies.

1) "the warming trend is slower than most climate models have forecast."

False: skepticalscience.com/comparing-glob…
@sarahknapton 2) "In 1990 the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that temperatures would rise by 0.54F (0.3C) per decade."

False: skepticalscience.com/lessons-from-p…
@sarahknapton 3) "Yet, some scientists argue that [CO2] is not capable of producing the extreme temperature rises seen in recent decades."

You can also find "some scientists" who argue the Earth is flat. There's a 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming.
skepticalscience.com/global-warming…
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