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:
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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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
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.
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
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
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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.”
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
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