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23 Nov, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Elizabeth Warren has just sent a letter to energy CEOs complaining about natural gas prices.

What a crock. If not for Warren's success at restricting gas production, transport, and export, we would have low and stable prices--because the US has virtually unlimited natural gas.🧵
Warren and other anti-gas politicians claim that high natural gas prices come from too much freedom to export natural gas.

In fact, *restrictions* on natural gas transport, including exports, suppressed investment in gas production and helped create today's shortages/spikes.
Here's the real reason why natural gas and coal prices are skyrocketing around the world: the actions of anti-fossil fuel politicians like @SenWarren.
Here's America's biggest natural gas producer explaining how anti-natural-gas politicians--like @SenWarren--are stopping him from providing America and the world low-cost, reliable natural gas.
Elizabeth Warren has been an advocate for radically restricting the freedom to produce and transport natural gas. Industry has done its job becoming incredibly efficient. If only Warren and other anti-fossil fuel politicians hadn't screwed things up.
If Elizabeth Warren and others hadn't succeeded at blocking so much infrastructure, Americans would be enjoying lower prices, including lower heating bills, this winter.
The Elizabeth Warrens of the world have caused huge price problems in Europe, as well.
Any anti-fossil fuel politician who complains about rising natural gas prices, and does not admit that *they* are the primary cause, is being ignorant and/or dishonest. Unfortunately, this doesn't just describe @SenWarren but dozens of other Senators. Don't let them off the hook.

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24 Nov
If you want to see how my humanistic approach to energy/climate compares to the approach of prestigious climate catastrophists, watch the just-released "Opposing Views" by @MikhailaAleksis, which features me vs. Dr. Andrew Dessler.

It's changing minds!👇
"I was expecting Alex Epstein to be an idiot, but to me he clearly comes out as the winner. I guess I'm moving away from the 'save the planet people'"
"Dr. Dessler has many political comments, but little scientific comments. Some of his scientific comments are debatable. I believe Mr. Epstein had a more cogent set of arguments."
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24 Nov
Need talking points for this year's Thanksgiving energy/climate conversations?

Here's a 🧵 with my top 6.

Summary: Fossil fuels are making the world a better and better place by providing uniquely low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people--and are needed by billions more.
1: Contrary to rhetoric that we've "destroyed the planet," the world has never been a better place for human beings to live. Life expectancy and income have been skyrocketing, with extreme poverty (<$2/day) plummeting from 42% in 1980 to <10% today.
2: A root cause of today's amazingly livable world is fossil fuel. Low-cost, reliable energy enables us to use machines to be productive and prosperous. And only fossil fuels (80% of energy) provide low-cost, reliable energy for all energy needs on a scale of billions of people.
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23 Nov
A reader pointed me to this fascinating 2017 article by anthropologist John Tooby (credited with founding evolutionary psychology) on the nature of coalitions--including how they destroy science. Almost every paragraph applies to climate catastrophism.
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edge.org/response-detai…
"Since coalitional programs evolved to promote the self-interest of the coalition’s membership...even coalitions whose organizing ideology originates (ostensibly) to promote human welfare often slide into the most extreme forms of oppression..."
"to earn membership in a group you must send signals that clearly indicate that you differentially support it, compared to rival groups....to think and express content conforming to and flattering to one’s group’s shared beliefs and to attack and misrepresent rival groups."
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17 Nov
*Corporate Energy Liar exposed*

Budweiser claims its beers are "100% renewable." In fact, most of the energy that goes into its beer is fossil fuel.

Learn how @BudweiserUSA is lying about its energy use and why that's so damaging--then join me in calling for a public apology.👇
Today's Budweiser cans and Budweiser ads are plastered with logos saying "100% renewable electricity"--leading customers to think that if they drink Budweiser they are not using any fossil fuel.

But in reality *most of the energy that goes into a Bud is fossil fuel*.
When you drink a Budweiser beer you are indirectly using energy in many ways: mining for aluminum, manufacturing cans, farming hops, brewing beer, transporting beer, and refrigeration. Most of this energy comes from fossil fuels.

How can Bud claim "100% renewable"? Deception.
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16 Nov
LinkedIn has finally "explained" why they took down my popular video criticizing COP 26: "false claims of denying climate change due to the use of fossil fuels."

But my video contains no such claims, and in fact contains two *affirmations* by me of manmade climate change!
🧵
Last week LinkedIn took down, without explanation, this popular video of mine criticizing COP 26. The video had 11,000 views when they took it down, and was spreading rapidly.
Here's the transcript of my video criticizing COP 26. At no point do I deny "climate change due to the use of fossil fuels." At 2 points I affirm it--as acknowledged by the host: "AS YOU RECOGNIZE YOURSELF, HUMANS DO HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE CLIMATE."
dropbox.com/s/embtaxk552t9…
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12 Nov
This taxonomy of "woke religion" by @peterboghossian and
@ShellenbergerMD is fascinating.

Question: What's the essence of "woke"?

My working answers:
* anti-achievement
* anti-value

There's always some achievement/value "woke" is trying to destroy.🧵
In the case of climate change/catastrophism, the achievement of industrial civilization, which has made human life incomparably better--including far safer from climate--is the object of "woke" hatred and attempts at destruction. The hatred/destruction includes nuclear and hydro.
In the case of racism, "woke" claims to be focused on racial discrimination but its actual focus is on denigrating myriad achievements--America's success, individuals' career success, even mathematics--as "racist." (What could be more racist than calling math/logic "white"?)
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