Thread by @AlexEpstein

Catastrophizer @ClimateOfGavin has for years been smearing me on Twitter without any argument.

Now he thinks he's found some silver bullet to discredit me.

Here's a quick debunking of what Gavin says and a broader exposé of his embarrassing intellectual conduct on Twitter.
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https://twitter.com/ClimateOfGavin/status/1514664283161960451

Here's the post @ClimateOfGavin called "flat out 💩 from Epstein."

It's a quote from 1986--keep track of the year, as Gavin will soon confuse it with 1988--where the NYT reports on claims made by James Hansen. I shared a chart of those claims vs. reality.

https://twitter.com/AlexEpstein/status/1514589407931686919

My point in this post, and in my #Catastrophizing series more broadly, is that the institutions and people we trust to give us expert knowledge give us wild overestimates of the negatives of fossil fuels.

This clearly happened with the @nytimes in 1986.

https://twitter.com/AlexEpstein/status/1514589407931686919

One key #Catastrophizing practice is to misrepresent the state of science--e.g., taking a scientist with the most extreme negative view and portraying them as mainstream. Or: misrepresenting a scientist.

If NYT misrepresented Hansen in 1986, it's just further proof of my point.

Instead of trying to understand my point about the NYT's #Catastrophizing in *1986*, @ClimateOfGavin uses the 💩 emoji and goes on a rant about Hansen's work in *1988*! This is the level of rigor I've come to expect from Gavin over the years.
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https://twitter.com/ClimateOfGavin/status/1514664291718385669

Here's my first ever interaction with @ClimateOfGavin, which began with an incredibly rude and empty attack by him.

Gavin never responded to my offer, and he clearly has never read my book--certainly not if "reading" includes any modicum of comprehension.

CC @mattwridley

I reached out repeatedly to @ClimateOfGavin to oppose despicable propaganda by the entity he runs: @NASAClimate. Maybe he should focus on fixing that instead of making sloppy attacks against me.

https://twitter.com/AlexEpstein/status/1392104489390202882

Here's the climate trash that @ClimateOfGavin not only allowed to be published, but still allows to be up!

Gavin needs to apologize to me, and he needs to have @NASAClimate apologize for this #Catastrophizing.

If he does either I will pleasantly shocked.

https://twitter.com/AlexEpstein/status/1390482059676639234

To learn more about the error of #Catastrophizing, and how it leads the public to be fundamentally misinformed about the state of science, check out Fossil Future.

Here's an excerpt from Chapter 2, which is called "Catastrophizing Side-Effects."