Speak for yourself, Greta.

We in the U.S. reduced our emissions more than any other country btwn 2000-2020, mostly thanks to fracking

Meanwhile your country, Sweden, is shutting down its nuclear plants, which will raise emissions, and you won’t lift a finger to help stop it
Meanwhile, the world is either at, or very near to, peak emissions

If you actually cared about climate change you would demand that your allies around the world — starting with your German comrades — end their maniacal campaign to shut down nuclear plants
For those who would like to actually help protect the environment, rather than simply moralize about your personal behavior, or hypocritically demagogue other nations, please consider standing up for nuclear power. We need good people everywhere:

standupfornuclear.org
Including in Sweden, where @GretaThunberg refused to stand up for a plant that could have run decades longer

“Millions of homes & factories in Sweden could get hit by rising power costs after nation’s oldest nuclear reactor generates its last megawatt”

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
P.S. I *don’t* want you to panic. “To panic” means is to “engage in unthinking behaviors and actions.” I think we’ve had quite enough of that as it relates to climate change, don’t you?

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More from @ShellenbergerMD

11 Mar
The imminent, premature, & unnecessary closure of nuclear plants threatens to increase electricity prices, blackouts, and emissions, which declined more in the US than in any other nation in history, 2000-2020

My first-ever testimony before the US Senate

environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2021/…
Greenhouse gas emissions declined more in the US over the last 20 years, a remarkable achievement.

The US is the global climate leader.

The US is ahead of its United Nations emissions reductions targets

Why haven't the mainstream news media reported this?
The media also mis-reported Texas cold snap.

While all energy sources failed, they didn’t all fail equally. The capacity factors for nuclear, natural gas, coal, and wind during the cold snap were 79 percent, 55 percent, 58 percent, and 14 percent, respectively.
Read 11 tweets
5 Feb
Major new report by Dutch/Czech governments finds:

- Solar/wind require 148x - 536x more land than nuclear

- Solar/wind cost 4x more than nuclear

- 100% electricity from solar/wind would require area 1.8x larger than all of Netherlands

roadtoclimateneutrality.eu
Solar/wind require significantly more land than nuclear for inherently physical reasons

My colleagues and I have calculated that solar/wind require ~200 - 500x more land than nuclear plants using real world plants around the world

DATA:

environmentalprogress.org/power-density-…
It was only a matter of time before governments recognized the physical impossibility of transitioning (back) to renewables

It makes sense that the Dutch, with less land & more reason than Germans, would be the first to get it

@terugindepolder

telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1135312…
Read 4 tweets
27 Jan
Murderers & other prisoners in California have stolen $31 billion in unemployment benefits, making it biggest fraud scheme in history

Madoff = $18B

Cal. Labor Sec @JulieSuCA = @JoeBiden ‘s Dep. Labor Sec nominee 😬

@GavinNewsom will you claw this back?

abc7news.com/california-edd…
- 27% (!) of all claims appear to have been fraudulent

- California officials have been dribbling this out since December with initial estimates appearing to be of just $2 billion in December

abc30.com/california-edd…
Nigerians and others stole $36 billion last summer including $9B from Washington state and $2 billion from California so this has been going on for a long time

usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
Read 10 tweets
9 Jan
Twitter said it’s a “digital town square” & Facebook said “We don’t think we should be the arbiter of what’s true and what’s false”

But now they are censoring content and de-platforming users with zero transparency, due process, or appeal process

THREAD
Congress must pass legislation to regulate Internet media monopolies Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Google before the next election

Nothing less than our freedom of speech and democracy are at stake
Experts agree Twitter, Facebook, Google are natural monopolies like the electric companies

“The consumer internet is a kind of natural monopoly,” wrote a former Facebook executive “Facebook, Google increase in value when more users use them.”

hbr.org/2019/05/dont-b…
Read 16 tweets
29 Dec 20
Five hours ago Joe Biden said climate change will "threaten... literally, the existence of our planet" — if, that is, we don't take global action

That is as false as anything Twitter or Facebook have censored

And nobody in media have fact-checked it

Until now

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First, climate change does NOT threaten "the very existence of our planet"

That is ridiculous. Not even the most ridiculous apocalyptic environmentalists say that

There was once the idea that Earth could become like Venus but nobody even believes that any more
A well-known climate scientist once told me that he & colleagues had attempted to model what it would take to create a Venus atmosphere on Earth with CO2 emissions. It required dedicating more that total GDP globally to the task simply of pumping CO2 into atmosphere
Read 17 tweets
11 Dec 20
The New York Times is claiming in a long, front-page story today that recent fires killed "countless ancient redwoods" in California

The claim is false and should be immediately corrected

There is no evidence that the fire killed even a single ancient redwood tree

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As background, I love ancient redwood forests and helped save California's last significant grove of ancient redwoods in private hands between 1996 - 1999

This summer, I was the first to debunk claims that fires had killed ancient redwoods

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
“The protected trees, some 2,500 years old, were nearly wiped out by loggers in the 1800s,” claimed CBS News’ @JonVigliotti

“Now human-caused climate change has damaged or destroyed many of these ancient giants.”
Read 15 tweets

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