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28 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
People think climate change is increasing fires but the share of land that burned globally declined from 4.2% in 1900 to 2.5% this year

What about California? Wildfires burned up to 12% of the state before 1800 & was 4.2% in 2020

@BjornLomborg @WSJ

wsj.com/articles/clima…
People think "fire is bad" but it's not. Many forests need fires. The kind of fire matters. Many forests including California's famous Sierra Nevadas need "good" low-intensity fires to stay healthy and prevent "bad" low-intensity fires
Fires have declined by one-quarter globally since 1998, according to NASA, and the primary cause of California’s high-intensity fires is forest mismanagement, not warmer temperatures.

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/the-reason-t…
What determines whether a fire in a forest is high-intensity or low-intensity is the amount of wood fuel. Climate change is “not the cause of the intensity of the fires. The cause of that is fire suppression and the existing debt of wood fuel.”

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/the-real-rea…
Most of the what apocalyptic activists, irresponsible scientists, and activist journalists have told you about climate and the environment is wrong. Most trends are going in the right direction. Don't be a victim! Get the facts!

environmentalprogress.org/the-case-again…

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30 Oct
This barbarism. Why do the progressives who run our cities allow it? Because they believe arresting him and mandating drug treatment is worse than letting him die on the sidewalk without dignity.

Yes, that is the actual reason. And yes, it is as stupid as it sounds.
The big lie is that San Francisco lets ~700 people/year die totally preventable drug deaths, including on the street, because it lacks the money to help them.

But SF spends over $100,000 per homeless person. That’s more than enough to pay for 90 days of court-ordered rehab Image
The official line from the people who are directly responsible for allowing 700+ of our fellow humans to die on sidewalks, rather than receive mandated treatment, is that “homelessness is caused by poverty, high rents & lack of housing.” They want us to believe our eyes are lying
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29 Oct
After the Fukushima accident 10 years ago, nuclear energy was widely viewed as politically radioactive. Today, nuclear energy is coming back, around the world, in a big way. Why? By doing the opposite of what the anti-nuclear movement had done.

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-the-pro-…
“Abandoning Nuclear Power Would Be Europe’s Biggest Climate Mistake,” screams Bloomberg today. “If Biden is serious about the climate crisis, he should put nuclear on the table,” said the LA Times Wednesday. “The Dream Is Possible,” tweeted French President Emmanuel Macron.
Viewed as politically radioactive just a decade ago, after the Fukushima accident, nuclear power is today coming back in a big way. The pro-nuclear movement is growing like gangbusters in even hostile nations like Belgium, Germany, and Australia.
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28 Oct
Yesterday, Health & Human Services retracted a suggestion by Sec. @XavierBecerra that Biden Admin. supports "safe injection sites" to use meth, heroin, & fentanyl

The reason for the confusion is because Biden Admin has no vision for reversing America's drug death crisis
The following is a joint statement by @calif_peace, a formal coalition of parents of homeless children addicted to illicit drugs, parents of children killed by fentanyl, recovering addicts, homeless service providers, & community leaders

californiapeacecoalition.org/media/statemen…
America urgently needs a serious and comprehensive strategy to halt and reverse the rise in illicit drug deaths, from 17,000 in 2000 to 99,000 in the twelve months preceding March 2021, and yet the Biden administration has still not offered one.
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27 Oct
For the last half decade, renewable energy lobbyists have claimed that electricity from solar & wind is *already* cheaper than existing electricity. Now, Congress is about to give solar & wind industries another $238 billion in subsidies. Fascinating.
These subsidies should further reduce the incentive by US oil and gas firms to expand production.

A win-win-win for the Saudis, Chinese solar panel makers, and investment bankers!

#BuildBackBlackrock
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27 Oct
Many are blaming the post-covid economic boom for today's energy crisis, but the main cause of energy shortages, rising coal use, and higher emissions is the under-investment in oil & gas exploration driven by climate activism

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/how-climate-…
Over the last decade, climate activists have successfully pressured governments, banks, and corporations to divest from oil and natural gas companies. At first such efforts appeared to be strictly symbolic.
But in recent years years climate activists succeeded in driving public and private investment away from oil and gas exploration and toward renewables. The result is the worst energy crisis in 50 years.
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25 Oct
The world’s renewables experiment is over

Biden’s climate bill is dead, Norway affirms oil drilling, and Uganda says “Solar & Wind Force Poverty on Africa”

The global energy crisis has snapped humanity out of its trance: we need cheap & reliable energy to survive & thrive ImageImage
“Africa can’t sac­ri­fice its fu­ture pros­per­ity for West­ern cli­mate goals,” says Uganda President @KagutaMuseveni “De­vel­oped na­tions are push­ing an ac­cel­er­ated tran­si­tion to re­new­ables on Africa….”

wsj.com/articles/solar…
“The West­ern aid-in­dus­trial com­plex, com­posed of non­govern-men­tal or­ga­ni­za­tions and state de­vel­op­ment agen­cies, has poured money into wind & so­lar … which leave many Africans with un­re­li­able and ex­pen­sive elec­tricity.”
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