You spread misinformation to distract from your

- effort to kill source of reliable, pollution-free power to 3M people, at a time of blackouts, & replace it w/ nat gas

- cuts to fire prevention

- support for PG&E’s plan to raise rates by $365/ year

- wife’s payola from PG&E
The fire was from a ruptured natural gas pipeline, not climate change:

reuters.com/business/energ…

However, your plan to close Diablo Canyon will increase reliance on natural gas pipelines, something even anti-nuclear activists now admit

blog.ucsusa.org/mark-specht/di…
Your wife, and thus you, took hundreds of thousands of from PG&E
You cut the budgets for fire prevention, which reduced forest area treated for fire by half at a time of raging forest fires.

You distracted attention from this by spreading misinformation about climate change
Now you’re trying to help PG&E raise electricity rates by $365/year per household on average even though your corrupt anti-nuclear renewables-only agenda already resulted in California’s electricity prices rising 8x more than they did in rest of US

sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

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More from @ShellenbergerMD

1 Jul
People are blaming heat deaths, fires, & electric shortages on the climate

But their causes are bad forest management & lack of energy & A/C, not marginal changes to temps.

Here's why those who say civilization is unsustainable are making it so

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/the-real-rea…
Journalists, experts, and elected officials are today blaming heat wave deaths, forest fires, and electricity shortages in New York, California, and Texas on climate change
But the underlying cause of those events is lack of air conditioning, lack of electricity, and the failure to properly manage forests, not marginal changes to temperatures.
Read 41 tweets
28 Jun
Temps are rising but deaths are declining. Why?

Because more people die from cold than heat, and A/C:

- 5x more die of cold as heat, even in hot India

- Warming saves ~2x more people than it kills

- US halved heat deaths since 1960

@BjornLomborg

usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
All of those news stories including “explainer” stories we are seeing right now are grossly misleading because they deliberately *exclude* all of the relevant context that @BjornLomborg provided above

The media do the same on floods, forest fires, hurricanes, etc
As @AlexEpstein notes, humans took a dangerous climate and made it safe, we didn’t take a safe climate and make it dangerous

The idea that the climate was safe before humans caused climate change is an infantile fantasy & the Edenic foundation to a false, apocalyptic narrative
Read 10 tweets
25 Jun
Biden appears to have scored a major climate infrastructure victory but he didn't

In fact, he got fewer billions than Obama did in 2009, and it's a far cry from the multi-trillion Green New Deal

Why? Because of anti-nuclear Malthusian Progressives

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/the-real-rea…
Yesterday, Biden appeared to have scored a big climate policy victory in announcing a deal with Republicans to spend hundreds of billions on new infrastructure, including $73B for new solar and wind farms and $15B for electric vehicle infrastructure and electric buses.
But the total ends up being just $88B, which is less than the “clean tech” portion of the 2009 stimulus and a far cry from the trillions progressives demanded. The total for electric cars is less than 1/10th the $177B Biden requested. And there is no Clean Electricity Standard.
Read 51 tweets
25 Jun
"China is... running its solar industry using forced labor linked to an ongoing genocide. That simply can’t be tolerated or ignored. We can’t save the planet by increasing the suffering of the world’s most vulnerable people."

Bravo @joshrogin @washingtonpost
Also from @washingtonpost today

“‘Because they are all customers of Hoshine, the solar value chain is almost completely contaminated by forced labor’”

washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
As I have been reporting, it won’t be cheap or easy to relocate or replicate China’s solar industry

“The availability of cheap coal energy & labor in Xinjiang enabled Chinese polysilicon makers to dominate
solar industry, making it difficult for manufacturers to replace them”
Read 7 tweets
23 Jun
Stop using climate to distract from your failure

- You *reduced* Calif. forests treated for fire by 50% (!) btwn 2019 - 2020

- You exaggerated by 690% the acres treated with fuel breaks & prescribed burns

- Bad forest mgmt not temps is *primary* cause of high-intensity fires
A major new investigation by @NPR of Calfornia's Gov. @GavinNewsom is damning:

"An investigation from @CapRadioNews and NPR’s California Newsroom found the governor has misrepresented his accomplishments and even disinvested in wildfire prevention."

capradio.org/articles/2021/…
"California’s response faltered under Newsom. After an initial jump during his first year in office, data obtained by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom show Cal Fire’s fuel reduction output dropped by half in 2020, to levels below Gov. Jerry Brown’s final year in office."
Read 17 tweets

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