COP 29 is immoral

COP 29 seeks net-zero—rapidly eliminating fossil fuels—in the name of protecting us from climate danger.

In reality, net-zero would radically increase climate danger and ruin billions of lives.

Good people should condemn COP and embrace energy freedom. 🧵👇 The COP 29 climate conference has a consistent theme: previous COPs have done an okay job of restricting fossil fuels in the name of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but this one needs to eliminate fossil fuel use far faster so as to reach net-zero by 2050.

This is 180° wrong.

Myth: Hurricanes Helene and Milton show that we’re experiencing unprecedented danger from extreme weather thanks to fossil fuels.

Truth: Fossil fuels have made us much safer from extreme weather—and the recent hurricanes would’ve been far worse without them. 🧵👇 Media reports would lead us to believe that hurricanes like Helene and Milton are proof that fossil-fueled “climate change” is making extreme weather much more dangerous by virtue of being more intense and/or frequent. Mainstream data and climate science show otherwise.

The costs of Biden-Harris's "government-dictated green energy" policies have been enormous so far, would have been catastrophic if not for their opponents' resistance, and will be apocalyptic if not stopped in the future.

My testimony to the Budget Committee (video below) 🧵👇 Watch my testimony here:

Media myth: Fossil fuels are making Texas, the capital of fossil fuels, more endangered by heat.

Truth: Fossil fuels have made Texas far safer than ever from climate, both from heat and the far more dangerous cold—but anti-fossil-fuel policies are stalling that progress. 🧵👇 A recent WSJ article portrays Texas as threatened by fossil-fueled climate warming. But as evidence, they point to just 200 additional heat deaths that can’t be traced back to climate change, while ignoring the overall decline in climate deaths that fossil fuels helped cause.

Myth: @KamalaHarris used to be for banning fracking, but now she supports fracking.

Truth: Kamala Harris is still for banning fracking—because she is still for the *net-zero agenda that requires banning fracking* along with all other fossil fuel activities. 🧵👇 Kamala Harris, who in 2019 said, “There is no question I am in favor of banning fracking,” now tells voters in fracking-dependent states like PA that she is no longer wants to ban fracking.

They shouldn’t believe her, since Harris’s net-zero agenda *requires* banning fracking.

Electricity rates have risen 47% faster than the CPI the last 12 months, and nearly 24% overall since the Biden-Harris administration began.

High electricity bills are the result of government-dictated green energy schemes. 🧵👇 As Americans struggle with rising summer electricity bills, it’s important to know that this struggle was 100% unnecessary and 100% preventable.

The truth about warm temperatures:

Warmer temperatures are less of a threat than cold ones, and fossil fuels make us safer from both. 🧵👇 Anti-fossil fuel politicians love summer because hot temperatures give them the opportunity to portray the world as “on fire”—and offering anti-fossil-fuel policies as a solution.

In reality, cold is a bigger problem than heat—and anti-fossil-fuel policies make both worse.

Don’t blame the climate for unreliable power, blame climate policies that shut down reliable power. 🧵👇 In recent summers it’s become commonplace for Americans to experience electricity shortages, with calls to use less electricity and the frequent threat of brownouts or blackouts.

This is an embarrassment, and it was totally preventable.

Climate “experts” love to talk about the climate negatives of fossil fuels but not the climate positives. But in fact, fossil fuels’ climate positives far outweigh the negatives.

Here are 44 of my favorite truths about fossil fuels and climate.👇 🧵 When looking at the climate effects of fossil fuels, we must look at both negatives and positives.

Energy and climate "experts" love to talk about the negatives of fossil fuels but ignore the huge benefits.

Here are 54 lines I use to spread the truth about fossil fuels' benefits. 👇🧵 Fossil fuels are a uniquely cost-effective and scalable source of energy.

21 lines I use to get people to think about fossil fuels in a balanced way, instead of the negative-focused way most “experts” use. Try them out! 🧵👇 Most “experts” look at the negatives of fossil fuels but ignore huge positives.

The Biden administration claims that draining the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve shows its commitment to low gas prices.

In fact, this is yet another cynical ploy to disguise that its real goal is raise gas prices.

🧵👇 Biden’s claim that he released 1B barrels of gasoline to “lower prices at the pump” is his latest attempt to convince Americans he's trying to lower gasoline prices. But in fact, he’s doing his utmost to raise prices, because this is necessary for his anti-fossil-fuel goals.

Tech giants' self-made energy crisis

For years tech giants have been helping climate catastrophists shut down reliable fossil fuel electricity, falsely claiming they can be replaced by solar/wind.

Now the grid they've helped gut can't supply their growing AI needs. 🧵👇 For the last decade, tech giants such as @Apple, @Microsoft, @Meta, and @Google have, through dedicated anti-fossil-fuel propaganda and political efforts, promoted the shutdown of reliable fossil fuel power plants in favor of unreliable solar and wind.

Despite massive subsidies and favoritism, EV sales dropped in Q1 of 2024 compared the previous quarter.

Economics be damned, EPA recently announced pollution standards that require car makers to sell >50% EVs by 2032.

My talking points on Biden's dictatorial EV mandate 🧵👇 Biden's de facto mandate of >50% EVs by 2032 is a dictatorial attack on the American driver and the US grid that will

1. Force Americans to drive inferior cars.

2. Place massive new demand for reliable electricity on a grid that is declining in reliable electricity supply.

How to solve America's critical minerals problem

1) liberate domestic industry to mine and process them cost-effectively
2) encourage friendly trading partners to do the same
3) stop artificially driving up demand before supply chains are ready

🧵👇 America’s economy and its national security depend on the secure availability of numerous “critical minerals”—such as lithium, copper, cobalt, and various “rare earth” elements—that, due to their unique chemical properties, are essential for many of today’s leading technologies.

The “climate disclosure” fraud

Congress won't support Biden's anti-fossil-fuel agenda.

So he's circumventing the legislative process by having the SEC coerce companies into spouting anti-FF propaganda and committing to anti-FF plans in the name of “climate disclosure.”

🧵👇 The SEC's new "climate disclosure rules"—now paused by the Fifth Circuit—have been rightly criticized for forcing companies to do endless, costly paperwork, which discourages companies from going public and thus contradicts the SEC's goal of increasing opportunity for investment.

Q: What should government do to address climate change?

A: “Climate change” is the wrong target; we want to *reduce climate danger*. And the proven way to do that is: *master* climate danger by letting us use all forms of cost-effective energy, including fossil fuels.

🧵👇 Asking how government should “address climate change” assumes that us impacting climate must be a bad thing.

But it’s only bad if it endangers us by creating challenges we can’t master.

And so far, our climate mastery has far outpaced any new climate challenges.

Biden’s LNG pause: a deadly fraud

@JoeBiden has halted LNG expansion, which the world needs for low-cost, reliable, secure energy.

He pretends it's to lower prices or GHG emissions, but it will do neither.

Halting LNG is pure electioneering. And we'll all pay the price.
🧵👇 We live in a world that needs much more energy. Energy poverty is rampant, and even the wealthy world has chronic energy shortages.

Natural gas can dramatically help because it is low-cost, reliable, versatile, clean, and secure. And America can lead.

The climate safety denial movement

For decades climate catastrophists have portrayed climate disasters as getting deadlier and deadlier.

Now that I and others have documented that we're safer than ever from climate, catastrophists are saying that disaster deaths don't matter! Reuters says “Drop in climate-related disaster deaths not evidence against climate emergency.”

But a drop in deaths from something—here, a 98% drop—is obvious evidence against it being an emergency.

Would Reuters say: “98% drop in flu deaths not evidence against flu emergency”?

25 Holiday Power Facts about Energy and Climate

If this year's holiday discussions veer toward energy and climate issues, I've got you covered. Here are 25 facts that will make any honest person think twice about today's anti-fossil-fuel narrative. 1) Annual deaths from climate-related causes (extreme temperature, drought, flood, storms, wildfires) have declined 98% over the last 100 years, even as CO2 levels have risen.

Answers to Gavin Newsom’s favorite myths about energy and climate

@RonDeSantis and @GavinNewsom only spoke about energy briefly in their @FoxNews hosted by @seanhannity, but in that time Newsom raised several of his favorite myths.

Here's answers to all of them. Myth: CA’s ICE ban is a model for the US.

Truth: 6 days after announcing this ban, CA, due to its shutdowns of reliable natural gas and nuclear plants, had to tell citizens there wasn't enough electricity for their EVs. Imagine what would happen if there were 10 times more EVs!