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3 Aug, 10 tweets, 4 min read
Thank you, Calif. GOP gubernatorial front-runner Mr. @larryelder for your tweet!

Would you please endorse the continued operation of Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, which provides 9% of our electricity, and is needed to keep the lights on?
Keeping Diablo Canyon operating is the right thing to do for ratepayers, taxpayers and the environment.

It is endorsed by Republicans and Democrats, climate skeptics and climate alarmists, including leading climate scientists

environmentalprogress.org/california-gov…
Keeping Diablo Canyon operating is also politically popular

A plurality of voters *opposes* closing Diablo Canyon, according to a Google poll conducted in February
P.S. @GavinNewsom it’s not too late for you to announce that, in light of the state’s energy crisis, that you are reconsidering your efforts to close Diablo Canyon. Remember, it was Gray Davis’s obeisance to @NRDC @SierraClub that got him in trouble. Don’t make the same mistake!
“The backlash against antinuclear policies is growing. Increasingly, scientists and conservationists in the United States are speaking out in defense of nuclear”

nytimes.com/2016/06/30/opi…
ted.com/talks/michael_…
For the last five years I have said that we would save Diablo Canyon, even though I wasn’t sure how.

I’m more convinced than ever.

Even many progressives believe we need to.

Nothing like blackouts, and recalls, to concentrate the mind

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28 Jul
In face of rising drug deaths and violence, and the failure of local & state elected officials to act, a new California coalition of parents of victims, recovering addicts & neighborhood activists is asking the sheriff of Los Angeles to take wider action

californiapeacecoalition.org/news/coalition…
California Peace Coalition is a movement of families and concerned citizens fighting to end the drug death crisis, protect our children, and save our cities through a practical and proven agenda

We will formally launch Noon, Monday, Aug 16 in Sacramento

californiapeacecoalition.org
We have come together because our leaders have failed at state, federal, and county levels

One of the few people to act is @LACoSheriff Alex Villanueva

And so we are asking him to widen his actions to cover the whole of LA and to work with other sheriffs and policymakers
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27 Jul
As prominent progressives deny any or significant crime increase in California, and any relationship between the addiction epidemic & homelessness, the state’s progressive fmr Sen. @BarbaraBoxer has been assaulted — one month after Gov @GavinNewsom was — randomly
Progressives have been insisting that any perception of crime by people in California is all in our heads.
And yet crime is up. The king of crime, homicide, is up. Retail theft is up. People have stopped reporting crimes to police bc there’s nothing the police can do because stealing $950 of stuff is effectively legal, and the DA was elected on a platform of not enforcing shoplifting
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22 Jul
The cost of natural disasters has been going down since 1990

The world’s leading expert on this is @RogerPielkeJr who testified before the Senate on this 2 days ago

@SenatorTester asked the expert from the Union of Concerned Scientists to counter him & of course she couldn’t
That @SenatorTester & so many people are shocked by what should be commonplace knowledge shows the degree to which activists, scientists, & journalists have brainwashed everyone into thinking the exact opposite of the truth
For decades, Roger has explained that the rising cost of disasters is a consequence of more wealth in harm's way.
He shows people pictures of Miami Beach from 1925 and today. When you factor in rising wealth, which is called "normalizing" the data, there is no trend.
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21 Jul
Year of Flood in China : Death Toll

1954: 30,000
1911: 100,000
1935: 145,000
1887: 1,000,000
1931: 2,000,000

Source: Angus Gunn, Encyclopedia of Disasters, 2007
But weren't past floods due to poverty whereas today's floods are due to excess rainfall?

No. "Whilst the roots of the 1931 flood lay in pattern of environmental history, the proximate cause of the disaster was extremely high levels of precipitation."

disasterhistory.org/central-china-…
Does that mean climate change isn't playing a role in China's floods? No. But its role has to be considered in context of urbanization, better infrastructure, and declining deaths and damages

thelancet.com/journals/lanpl…
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20 Jul
If climate change is worsening disasters, high-intensity fires, & mass extinction (ie 75% species) then why

- are disaster deaths at their lowest in 120 years?

- do high-intensity fires become low-intensity ones in well-managed forests?

- are 73% of species *not* threatened?
I have been accused of being wrong about disasters, fires, and extinctions, and of course I might be: I have been wrong before. More than once. And I am human.

But when I have been shown to be wrong, I have not only admitted it, I have explained why & how I was wrong, in detail.
I was wrong about nuclear energy. I thought we didn't need it. I thought the waste was a huge problem. I thought many died from nuclear energy accidents.

I investigated why I was so wrong & spoke publicly about it:

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19 Jul
People say climate change caused the floods in Europe but the main reason for them was the failure of warning systems, dams, and the public's response.

In truth, deaths & damage from flooding in Europe declined dramatically over last 150 years

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/the-real-rea…
The floods in Europe that killed over 150 people in recent days were a result of climate change, many people say. “Deadly Floods Show World Unprepared to Cope with Extreme Weather,” blared the headline of The New York Times.

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/the-real-rea…
“‘No One Is Safe.’” Said a German climate activist, “This is the climate crisis unravelling in one of the richest parts of the world.” The country’s interior minister agreed. "This is a consequence of climate change," he said.
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