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Jan 28 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
"this climate thing is a very rigid ideology..." -@joerogan

"It's a religion....Alex Epstein, who wrote Fossil Future, comments about this....The climate pseudoreligion is based on a characterization of nature as...a hapless, defenseless, fragile virgin." -@jordanbpeterson
More on the false view of Earth @jordanbpeterson calls the "fragile virgin" and I call "the delicate nurturer."
Why the "fragile virgin" / "delicate nurturer" view leads to catastrophizing. For examples check out #catastrophizing
The true, pro-human alternative to the "fragile virgin" / "delicate nurturer" view of Earth:
Learn about my book Fossil Future here:
Watch the full @joerogan episode with @jordanbpeterson here:
open.spotify.com/episode/4GJZmm…

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Jan 25
Myth: Just a small area of solar panels plus storage can power the world.

Truth: Storing just 3 days of global energy would cost $590 trillion at @elonmusk’s current prices. And the panels would take up more space than all the world’s cities, towns, and villages combined.

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We often hear just a small area of solar panels plus storage batteries can power the world.

"Such an obvious move" says @elonmusk about this idea, adding "Even solar plus batteries on a small section of Spain would solve EU energy needs."

This is dangerously false.
Musk says that "to power the whole Earth" we need just solar panels and "some batteries."

What is "some batteries"?

To store a mere 3 days of world energy, to be prepared for weeks (let alone seasons) with lower-than-usual sunlight, takes >1335 terawatt-hours in batteries. Image
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Jan 18
If you want to go to bed on time every night this week, don't start reading @LePortChristina's new thriller, Dissection—which begins with a string of deadly, unusual heart attacks that seem to have no conceivable explanation.
LePort, who is not only a novelist but also a cardiologist, does a masterful job of incorporating ultra-clear explanations of medical science to develop a fascinating medical mystery.
I was hooked from the beginning of Dissection and by the time I was halfway through I found myself going to bed late and waking up early to see how it would end.
amazon.com/Dissection-Pol…
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Jan 13
Calls to ban gas stoves are anti-science, anti-freedom, and anti-energy

Instead of informing us with accurate science about gas stoves so we can make better decisions, anti-fossil fuel activists are distorting science to justify forcing their anti-gas agenda on us.

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Early 2023 has featured a carefully orchestrated campaign in which:

1. A paper whose lead author is an anti-fossil-fuel activist claims that gas stoves cause 12.7% of child asthma.
2. The Federal government and NY proposed bans on new gas stoves.

We should reject this campaign.
The campaign against gas stoves should be rejected for 3 reasons:
1. Families have the right incorporate any real science about gas stoves as they judge best
2. The 12.7% claim is a distortion of science
3. The anti-gas movement is a threat to our grid and therefore our health
Read 21 tweets
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Jan 9
4 energy hearings the House should hold

Republicans are promising a pro-energy agenda.

Here are 4 essential topics they should take up:
1. Nuclear overregulation
2. Unreliable electricity
3. Lessons of Europe’s energy crisis
4. The "Inflation Reduction Act" disaster

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Essential hearing 1: How to Decriminalize Nuclear and Unleash its Full Potential

This hearing would discuss the stalled potential of nuclear energy, what has caused it, and how to fix it.

It could be held by: @WaysandMeansGOP, @HouseCommerce, @GOPoversight, @TransportGOP
Fact: Nuclear energy has limitless potential. It is the cleanest and safest form of energy ever devised. And nuclear had a proven track record of being able to provide low-cost, ultra-reliable electricity before hostile government policies made it near impossible.
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Jan 6
The Biden Administration is rightly being criticized for not publicizing its own report documenting that Biden's Keystone KL cancellation caused billions in economic damage and destroyed thousands of productive jobs.

But the damage from killing Keystone was far, far greater.
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The biggest damage by far of the Keystone XL cancellation was the threatening message it sent to the oil and gas industry, which ever since then has been more averse to investing in oil/gas production, refining, and transport.
Two years ago I warned the Biden administration about the dangerous message they were sending to the natural gas pipeline industry and how that would harm our grid. Now we're seeing unprecedented national shortages of electricity.
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Jan 2
Why is @60Minutes featuring Paul Ehrlich, the anti-human ecologist who has been 180° wrong for 55 years??!!

“humanity is not sustainable. To maintain our lifestyle (yours and mine, basically) for the entire planet, you'd need 5 more Earths.”

More on Ehrlich’s catastrophizing
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#PaulEhrlichCatastrophizing CC @60Minutes
#PaulEhrlichCatastrophizing CC @60minutesUG
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