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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">SEE SHILLENBERGER 3</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>will start to include in lombord tag</b>
</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">see EP
</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">main format broke</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">mma does not have tag, just generic: <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/climate-deniers">https://www.mediamatters.org/climate-deniers</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bak capt 921</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">   see brkthru shill-enberger</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">i'm not selling out, I'm buying in!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see lomborg shuffle (clintel covid fight covid not carbon)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">820 aha: this is <b>variant last stage of fallback strategy:</b> 1) not real  2) real but not anthro  3)  agw but too expensive to fix (wreck gnp) 4: we can afford to fix it, but we must be smart/targeted w/ $  4a we can't really afford to fix big global warming, but we can do smaller green humanitarian stuff that will make some ppl's lives better and might let us move incrementally to fix climate [and BTW the worst effect/chaos in in far future if ever]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4th phase denialism to DELAYISM</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/jesse-watters/kremlin-praises-fox-news-fox-personalities-desperately-try-link-environmental-groups">https://www.mediamatters.org/jesse-watters/kremlin-praises-fox-news-fox-personalities-desperately-try-link-environmental-groups</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>as Russia’s foreign minister <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/russias-invasion-ukraine/russian-minister-sergey-lavrov-praises-fox-news-coverage-putins-invasion" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">praises</a> Fox News coverage of war in Ukraine, the network has exploited the crisis to villainize the environmental movement, capitalizing on the global economic sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s invasion to recycle <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/16/2086235/-GOP-Revives-Pre-Re-DeBunked-Disinfo-From-Dr-Evil-Smearing-Green-Groups-With-Fake-Russian-Ties?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">previously debunked claims</a> that Russia is secretly funding  “green campaigns” against oil drilling and fracking in the U.S.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox hosts and personalities took their cues from a March 10 <a href="https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/3.10.22-Letter-to-LCV.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">letter</a> from Republican members of the<b> House Energy Committee </b>asking three environmental groups – the League of Conservation Voters, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Sierra Club – to provide evidence of any financial support from Russia.</span> Yet, as the Washington Post Fact Checker <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/17/bogus-allegation-that-putin-is-funding-california-environmental-charity/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">explains</a>, the “bogus” allegations in the letter are remnants of a <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/23/fracking-russia-republicans-240834" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">2017 scandal</a> concocted by Republicans to distract from an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here are some examples of Fox pushing this lie: </font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox host Jesse Watters suggested green energy campaigns “are taking dirty Russian money” in order “to scare Americans out of fracking and energy exploration.” [Fox News, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesse Watters Primetime</em>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/climate-deniers/fox-host-jesse-watters-suggests-russians-are-funding-green-energy-campaigns-scare" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">3/3/22</a>]</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watters, and co-host Greg Gutfeld pushed this evidence-free claim again, saying that green energy campaigns in America are funded by Russia to increase dependence on foreign oil. [Fox News, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Five</em>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/greg-gutfeld/fox-news-hosts-make-evidence-free-claim-green-energy-campaigns-america-are-funded" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">3/4/22</a>]</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox’s Carley Shimkus stated that “a lot of Republicans are calling for an investigation into whether Russia was funding climate change groups in the U.S.” Co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy followed up, “Of course they were.” [Fox News, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends</em>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3986109" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">3/16/22</a>]</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gutfeld spent his monologue ranting that “the left are in lockstep with what Putin wants, for us to be dependent on other countries like his for energy,” saying “Russia duped Europe into depending on their energy by funding rabid environmental groups” and spread “disinformation within green groups to steer countries away from fracking and shale gas.” [Fox News, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gutfeld!</em>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3986099" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">3/16/22</a>] </font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Later in the episode, Gutfeld suggested that opposition to fracking in the U.S. had been “driven” by Russian propaganda efforts: “The past 10 years, all this stuff – all the documentaries, all the Hollywood celebrities, all the stuff about fracking – might have all been driven by Russia, or at least paying for that.” [Fox News,<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Gutfeld!</em>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3986101" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">3/16/22</a>]  </font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gutfeld repeated the claim yet again the next day, saying the Democrats should be thanking Putin for rising gas prices “because after all, it was Russia who infiltrated the green groups to get us off our domestic oil and buy their foreign oil.” [Fox News, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Five</em>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3986102" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">3/17/22</a>]</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox personalities have been criticized for pro-Kremlin commentary – and the Kremlin itself has noticed, as exposed by minister Sergey Lavrov's <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/russias-invasion-ukraine/russian-minister-sergey-lavrov-praises-fox-news-coverage-putins-invasion" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">remarks</a> about Fox and a recently reported <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/russias-invasion-ukraine/report-kremlin-memo-tells-russian-media-feature-fox-host-tucker-carlson" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">memo</a> from the Russian government that directed the country’s media outlets to promote as many clips of Fox News star Tucker Carlson as possible. (The Kremlin’s propaganda and Carlson’s own rhetoric have <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/russias-invasion-ukraine/tucker-carlsons-history-pro-kremlin-anti-ukraine-propaganda" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">remarkable</a> similarities.) The narratives parroted by Fox to earn this praise – from blaming Joe Biden for rising gas prices to suggestions the war in Ukraine is pushed by elitist self interests – are baseless and incendiary. Their recent push of easily debunked anti-environmental conspiracies are no different.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The allegations stem from whether the aforementioned environmental groups received donations from the <a href="https://www.seachange.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Sea Change Foundation</a>, an environmental philanthropy group run by billionaire <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/person/nathaniel-simons/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Nat Simons</a>. In 2015, a baseless report from the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> GOP lobbyist-led front group <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/environmental-policy-alliance-berman_n_4913303" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Environmental Policy Alliance</a></span> accused the law firm that set up a Bermuda-based company financing Sea Change of having extremely vague ties to an adviser to Putin. The firm <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/us-republicans-brewing-russian-scandal-to-target-greens-2/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">refuted</a> these allegations as “completely false and irresponsible,” saying, “We can state categorically that at no point did this philanthropic organization receive or expend funds from Russian sources or Russian-connected sources.” In fact, the <a href="https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2018/7/20/top-climate-change-donors-pull-back-the-curtain-on-their-past-and-future-giving" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">sole source</a> of the foundation’s funding is the Simons family. Despite the appearance of Kremlin-linked donations being obliterated, that did not stop 2017 House GOP members from <a href="https://republicans-science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/06_29_2017%20CLS%20%26%20Weber%20-%20Mnuchin.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">requesting an investigation</a>, and now recycling the debunked claims. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The network’s hosts and guests – primarily recently promoted prime-time stars <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/jesse-watters/fox-news-names-misinformation-machine-jesse-watters-permanent-host-7-pm-hour" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Jesse Watters</a> and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/greg-gutfeld/fox-news-rewards-greg-gutfelds-bigotry-lies-and-sycophancy-another-weekday-show" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Greg Gutfeld</a> – are also conflating a separate <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/russia-funding-environmental-groups-europe-united-state" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">online article</a> from Fox that quotes “experts” like the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Heritage Foundation’s James Carafano</span> noting that “Russians actually fund some of the most rabid environmental groups in Europe.” (Carafano has been a <a href="https://twitter.com/JJCarafano/status/1479814396293570563" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">vocal</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JJCarafano/status/1451517522126180355" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">critic</a> of climate science and recently co-authored a piece describing the Biden administration’s climate policies as a “<a href="https://nationalinterest.org/feature/biden%E2%80%99s-climate-policy-titanic-disaster-waiting-195790" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">titanic disaster in waiting</a>.”) The article’s so-called “experts” also included right-wing media’s <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-medias-favorite-climate-contrarians-go-fox-shows-bash-bidens-climate-plan" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">favorite climate contrarian</a>,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> Michael Shellenberger, a <a href="https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/07/shellenbergers-op-ad/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">notorious</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1239364394863063046" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">natural gas</a> advocate who’s pushed lies about the <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/09/04/why-renewables-cant-save-the-climate/?sh=39128e723526" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">cost and efficiency</a> of renewable energy.  </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Republicans point to a 2017 <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">national intelligence report</a> that highlighted a Russian state news channel, RT America, that ran “anti-fracking programming,” and was trying to expand its U.S. audience. Not only did the report not provide any evidence that the channel had been successful, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">but <b>as of March 4, RT America announced it was “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/03/media/rt-america-layoffs/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">ceasing production</a>.</b>” It is simply preposterous to believe that over a decade of fracking commentary was driven by the network prior to its dissolution</span>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Some efforts against European drilling and fracking have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/19/russia-secretly-working-with-environmentalists-to-oppose-fracking" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">linked</a> to Kremlin propaganda designed to increase dependency on Russian oil exports, but with each reshaping of the conspiracy theory, there has been no evidence of any similarly funded successful campaign in the United States.</b></font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">blame greta</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/climate-deniers/fox-host-jesse-watters-suggests-russians-are-funding-green-energy-campaigns-scare">https://www.mediamatters.org/climate-deniers/fox-host-jesse-watters-suggests-russians-are-funding-green-energy-campaigns-scare</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">simone de beauvoir has got your #:</font></div><div><div><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">15 pp</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://mahb.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/America_Misled.pdf">https://mahb.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/America_Misled.pdf</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">First published in October 2019. For more information, visit https://www.climatechangecommunication.org/america-misled/ Graphic design: Wendy Cook Cite as: Cook, J.,<b> Supran, G., Lewandowsky, S., Oreskes, </b>N., & Maibach, E., (2019). America Misled: How the fossil fuel industry deliberately misled Americans about climate change. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. Available at https://www.climatechangecommunication.org/america-misled/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How the fossil fuel industry polluted the information landscape </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Key points 1. Internal corporate documents show that the fossil fuel industry has known about the reality of human-caused climate change for decades. Its response was to actively orchestrate and fund denial and disinformation so as to stifle action and protect its status quo business operations. 2. As the scientific consensus on climate change emerged and strengthened, the industry and its political allies attacked the consensus and exaggerated the uncertainties. 3. The fossil fuel industry offered no consistent alternative explanation for why the climate was changing—the goal was merely to undermine support for action. 4. The strategy, tactics, infrastructure, and rhetorical arguments and techniques used by fossil fuel interests to challenge the scientific evidence of climate change—including cherry picking, fake experts, and conspiracy theories—come straight out of the tobacco industry’s playbook for delaying tobacco control. These key points reflect the position of experts studying climate denial and the history of fossil fuel interests, based on thousands of pages of documented evidence.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contradictory contrarianism The most common denialist arguments have been shown to contain fatal assumptions or fallacies26. Climate deniers do not offer any rational explanation for why our climate is changing. Rather, denialist arguments are incoherent and often contradictory27. For example, deniers will seize on snowfall to claim that global warming is a hoax, while at the same time claiming that an extreme event such as a drought or wildfire cannot be attributed to climate change. This is incoherent because either extreme events can be a signal of climate change or they cannot be. Climate denial lacks consistency because it is not about scientific evidence—it is about how to continue business as usual in the face of climate disruption. Climate deniers reject climate science because they are averse to proposed or perceived solutions to climate change28.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Common Fallacies </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Climate denial arguments can be summarized by the five techniques of science denial (summarized with the acronym FLICC): fake experts, logical fallacies, impossible expectation, cherry picking, and conspiracy theories</b>29,30.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Fake Experts</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Logical Fallacies</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Impossible Expectations </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Cherry Picking</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Conspiracy Theories </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Promoting dissenting non-experts as highly qualified while not having published any actual climate research and/or received any relevant education. Logically flawed arguments that lead to false conclusions. Common logical fallacies are red herrings, non sequiturs, and false dichotomies. Demanding unrealistic standards of certainty before acting on the science. A technique practised by the tobacco industry. Selectively choosing data that supports a desired conclusion that differs from the conclusion arising from all the available data32. Proposing a secret plan among a number of people, generally to implement a nefarious scheme such as conspiring to hide a truth or perpetuate misinformation. Climate deniers are more likely to be conspiracy theorists33</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Deconstructing Denial </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Figure 7 shows deconstructions of some of the most common myths about climate change. </b>Determining the misleading techniques of a climate myth requires outlining the argument structure: listing any premises (starting assumptions) and the conclusion. This allows one to ascertain whether any premises are false, and/or whether the argument is logically invalid. Figure 7:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Deconstruction of common climate myths.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MYTH “Cold weather disproves global warming.” Premise 1 CHERRY PICKING </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IMPOSSIBLE EXPECTATIONS Some place is cold. Premise 2 No place can experience cold during global warming. Conclusion Global warming isn’t happening. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cherry Picking: Ignores that most of the globe is warm. Impossible Expectations: Global warming doesn’t mean cold events don’t happen, just that they’re less likely to happen. MYTH “Global warming stopped in 1998.” </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">SLOTHFUL INDUCTION </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CHERRY PICKING Premise 1 The temperature trend since 1998 is statistically insignificant. Conclusion Global warming isn’t happening.<b> Slothful Induction: Ignores other temperature records and measures of heat imbalance showing a significant warming trend.</b> Cherry Picking: Trends over short periods do not lead to conclusions about </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conclusion Disinformation about climate change has a straightforward purpose—to block action on climate change. In America, it has largely succeeded, with policies to mitigate climate change stymied or delayed for decades. Meanwhile, climate change has intensified, causing impacts such as intensified extreme weather events, rising sea level, harmful effects on human health, and much more. Climate denial has seriously hurt the American people. The damage, deaths, and harm to people will continue to worsen if we don’t expose and discredit denial. This is not the first time that corporations prioritizing profits over people have caused great harm. The tobacco industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars disinforming the public about the health impacts of smoking in order to undermine tobacco control34,35. The World Health Organization estimates that six million people die every year from preventable tobaccocaused disease. Drawing on the tobacco industry’s playbook, fossil fuel companies have done the same on climate change, spending hundreds of millions of dollars confusing the public and delaying life-saving action. Their legacy is the death, destruction, and injustices of irreversible global warming. Big Oil is the new Big Tobacco.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">disinformation around this year’s climate negotiations got off to a </span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/2/2061703/-COP26-Disinfo-Off-To-The-Stupidest-Possible-Start-Biden-Closed-His-Eyes" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">stupid start</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, got</span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/9/2063209/-As-COP26-Gets-Serious-Climate-Disinfo-Gets-Seriously-Stupid-And-Sexist" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"> slightly funny and gross there for a minute</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and then just gross as a </span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/4/2062213/-TERF-Think-Tank-Director-Says-Climate-Journalists-are-Activists-Lacking-Objectivity" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">TERF called climate reporters biased</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. But not to worry, it’s still getting stupider, and more offensive!</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">On the stupid front, a member of the new </span><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2021/10/28/new-climate-denial-group-run-by-celebrity-pr-exec-behind-net-zero-referendum-poll/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">denial PR pop-up CAR26</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> that </span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/1/2061471/-COP26-Begins-What-To-Expect-When-You-re-Expecting-Disinformation" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">we warned about</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> last week </span><a href="https://twitter.com/LoisPerry26/status/1457704106919927813?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1457704106919927813%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.desmog.com%2F2021%2F11%2F11%2Fanti-net-zero-activists-claim-she-was-evicted-from-cop26-rejected-by-organisers%2F" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">tweeted</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> on Monday that she was “chased” out of COP26, and had to do an interview while “hiding in the disabled loos.” </span><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2021/11/11/anti-net-zero-activists-claim-she-was-evicted-from-cop26-rejected-by-organisers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">But it turns out no one chased her out of COP26</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, she was just asked to leave a private meeting room at a side event, presumably because it was about to be used for, you know, a meeting.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Anti-climate actors rely on a reactionary dynamic with ‘mainstream’ institutions, media, or experts,” Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) disinformation expert </span><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2021/11/11/anti-net-zero-activists-claim-she-was-evicted-from-cop26-rejected-by-organisers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jennie King told DeSmog</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, “and cultivate their brand, especially on social media, around being ‘cancelled’ or outcast by perceived elites.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">This dynamic is absolutely unmistakable across the deniersphere, to the extent that it even entices people who try to distance themselves from it, like “</span><a href="https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2020/10/13/honest-brokering/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">honest broker</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">” author </span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/21/2053512/-Pielke-Jr-Thinks-He-s-Invented-The-Coal-Focused-Climate-Strategy-Sierra-Club-s-Pursued-For-A-Decade" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Roger Pielke Jr.</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> While he’s long attempted to portray himself as sitting squarely within the consensus, and expresses support for a carbon tax, he’s also </span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/11/2045089/-Pielke-Jr-Equivocates-On-IPCC-s-Unequivocal-Warning-As-Denier-Wonder-What-s-So-Bad-About-Warming" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">done plenty of work</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> that’s </span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/19/2040695/-Congress-Shouldn-t-Be-A-Place-For-Conspiracies-Pielke-Jr-s-False-Claims-And-Abusive-Behavior" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">immediately used</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> by the </span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/22/1751116/-Pielke-Jr-Joins-Red-Team-Defends-Trump-Critiques-Mainstream-Climate-Report" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">sorts of people</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> who cry persecution when they lock themselves in a bathroom, like <a href="https://twitter.com/ClimateOfGavin/status/1458139293373788169" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">alleging</a> that </span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2020/01/02/how-billionaires-tom-steyer-and-michael-bloomberg-corrupted-climate-science/" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Democrats have corrupted climate science</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">And deniers return the favor by supporting him, </span><a href="https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2021/11/Laframboise-Pielke.pdf?mc_cid=5f514b9f6e&mc_eid=8346460a5c" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">for example with a new 20-page report published by GWPF detailing</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> how, due to persecution, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/aaronhuertas/status/1458835016360894464" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">his university office is tiny</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and filled with boxes from his shuttered projects. Based on an interview with Donna LaFramboise, who’s past works have </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131203074137/http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2013/09/25/donna-laframboise-recycles-old-attacks-on-ipcc/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">centered on smearing the IPCC</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, it’s built on the idea that the tenured professor who once complained about being silenced</span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/my-unhappy-life-as-a-climate-heretic-1480723518" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"> in the Wall Street Journal</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> has been, as King described of the bathroom-dweller, “‘cancelled’ or outcast by perceived elites.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.125px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">(On Tuesday, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XDoYjol0w" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">a COP26 event</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> honored the lives of the 1,000+ </span><a href="https://grist.org/protest/2020-was-the-deadliest-year-for-environmental-activists-heres-why/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">environmental activists murdered</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> since the </span><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/8/memorial_for_murdered_earth_defenders" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Paris Agreement in 2015</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, a third of whom were from indigenous communities. But everyone should really feel very sorry for Pielke, because his office is very small and doesn’t even have any windows!)</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.125px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">While most may not be moved by such a harrowing tale of being told you’re wrong, refusing to admit it, and facing </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fivethirtyeight-climate-change-dispute_n_5049279" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">consequences for your toxic actions</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, one person who did praise Pielke yesterday </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1458835202948673540" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">was <b>Michael Shellenberger</b></u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>. Also on the anti-elitist kick, Shellenberger tweeted a link to his new substack post</b> a couple dozen times as well, so we took the bait and gave “</span><a href="https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-wokeism-is-a-religion" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why Wokeism Is A Religion</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">” a read. And surprisingly, we were glad we did!</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.125px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Because for years now, Shellenberger has slowly been evolving beyond his brand as the liberal presenting hard truths in the name of a stronger and more successful progressive movement, and despite naming his post-</span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/12/1740695/-The-Fallacy-of-Ted-Nordhaus-s-2C-Delusion-in-Foreign-Affairs" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Breakthrough</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> spin-off “</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/04/the-environmentalists-apology-how-michael-shellenberger-unsettled-some-of-his-prominent-supporters" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Environmental Progress</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">,” he is moving fully into the reactionary, alt-right space. This undoubtedly confirms it.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.125px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Shellenberger’s new “taxonomy” of the “woke religion” is a project with fellow anti-woke-ist Peter Boghossian, who recently quit Portland State University </span><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/08/author-recent-academic-hoax-faces-disciplinary-action-portland-state" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">after getting blowback for writing fake academic papers</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and in an apparent preemptive self-cancellation, as </span><a href="https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/my-university-sacrificed-ideas-for" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">announced</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> on the substack of fellow </span><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/158535/self-cancellation-bari-weiss" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">preemptive self-canceller</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span><a href="https://discourseblog.com/bari-weiss-gaza-children-zionism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bari Weiss</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Similar to the </span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/4/2062213/-TERF-Think-Tank-Director-Says-Climate-Journalists-are-Activists-Lacking-Objectivity" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">TERFs and trans disinfo</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> we talked about last Thursday, </span><a href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13d916eb-0db4-476b-aa19-6540243afb60_4500x4171.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">this “woke religion taxonomy”</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> links racism, climate change, trans people, crime, mental illness, and drug and homelessness issues by suggesting each has an “original sin” (history) committed by “guilty devils,” (white capitalists, mostly) perpetuated by “myths” (sociology) and impacting “sacred victims” (actual victims of racism)  who “the elect” </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">(((</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">elite</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">)))</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> protect with “supernatural beliefs” (facts) and by outlawing “taboo facts” (alternative facts) and “taboo speech” (hate speech), and can only be improved through “purifying rituals” (reducing emissions, being respectful of people's identities by using their pronouns) and by embracing “purifying speech” of words and phrases as outlandish as “Black,” “Renewables,” and “Trans women are women.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Seriously, those are the actual examples!  </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Somehow, though, that’s not even the most disgusting content coming from a supposed ally of climate action yesterday. While the Republican plan to export natural gas as a climate cure </span><a href="https://www.climateinteractive.org/analysis/climate-plan-proposed-by-u-s-republican-senators-falls-short-of-its-goal/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">would lead to a catastrophic 3.1°C of warming</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, apparently even that is too much climate action for so-called skeptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/reasonable-alternative-to-cop26-climate-cost-policy-carbon-emissions-glasgow-net-zero-11636577945?mod=e2two" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">this week's Wall Street Journal column, Lomborg argues</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> that a "reasonable alternative" to the COP26 talks is to allow for 3.5°C (6.3°F) of warming. But just the difference</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/07/climate/ipcc-report-half-degree.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"> between 1.5°C and 2·°C of warming is significant</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, with</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/09/1bn-people-will-suffer-extreme-heat-at-just-2c-heating-say-scientists" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">upward of 1 billion additional people who would be at risk of dying from extreme heat if they spend a summer day outside</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> at 2°C (and half the world population is at risk at 4°C). Allowing fossil fuels to pollute us to</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2017/nov/03/three-degree-world-cities-drowned-global-warming" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"> to 3.5°C would put at </u><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">least</u><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"> 275 million people’s homes under water</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, including</span><a href="https://time.com/longform/sinking-islands-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">entire island nations</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (and </span><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18072021/to-flee-or-to-stay-until-the-end-and-be-swallowed-by-the-sea/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Louisiana</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> communities) that will be submerged by</span><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/12/09/459053208/for-the-marshall-islands-the-climate-goal-is-1-5-to-stay-alive" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">sea level rise after just 2°C of warming</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, literally </span><a href="https://www.climatechangenews.com/2015/10/05/climate-change-migration-is-genocide-says-marshall-islands-minister/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">committing cultural genocide</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Experts were quick to debunk Lomborg's claims, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/dana1981/status/1458862064198307864" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">for example pointing out</u></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> that if you look at the updated version of the study he cites to justify that genocide, it now matches the Paris goals.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">While the antics of obvious anti-climate activists hiding in bathrooms may be an entertaining distraction, it seems these days the real danger is coming from those “honest brokers” pretending to offer “reasonable” advice.</span></p></div><div>
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">sadly can't grab substack headlines url but anti homeless, SF, gavin san fran sicko bk pro musk ~ UN...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/archive">https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/archive</a>?sort=community</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1/22 gmail ltr to editor fresno</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.165px; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The letter writer of “‘Group think’ does not equal science” (Letters 1/11/22) encourages readers to embrace global warming denial writers Marc Morano and Michael Shellenberger.  He also says, “People who get their paycheck to generate information falsely presented as science to support a foregone conclusion are not doing scientific research and it is fraudulent.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.165px; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interestingly, this statement – which is very cleverly misused/abused here – is one of the main talking points of climate scientists.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.165px; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Proof of abuse:  the Heartland Institute, which helps lead the charge to reject the scientific consensus on climate change (and bankrolls a local climate change denial website), gives glowing accolades to Marc Morano, a former Republican aide, Rush Limbaugh reporter/producer, and founder of another climate change denial website.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.165px; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Heartland Institute, however, wrote the book on generating falsely presented information to support a foregone conclusion, as it worked with tobacco company Philip Morris throughout the 1990s to attempt to discredit the health risks of secondhand smoke and lobby against smoking bans.   It currently represents the Petro-Chemical Industry by using the same playbook.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.165px; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marc Morano has been quoted saying, “We should kick (climate change) scientists when they’re down.  They deserve to be publicly flogged”.</font></b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.165px; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seven academic reviewers and one editor from the “Climate Feedback” Media Bias/ Fact Check site reviewed a 2020 Forbes article written by Michael Shellenberger and concluded that he “mixes accurate and inaccurate claims in support of a misleading and overly simplistic argumentation about climate change.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.165px; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marc Morano and Michael Shellenberger = pretty suspect spokespersons.</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/wake-hurricane-ida-fox-doubling-down-climate-denial-order-attack-bidens-infrastructure">https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/wake-hurricane-ida-fox-doubling-down-climate-denial-order-attack-bidens-infrastructure</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox News is using Hurricane Ida to downplay the seriousness of climate change and attack President Joe Biden’s climate agenda, including the infrastructure bill which contains measures to make us more resilient in the face of extreme weather.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The fingerprints of climate change on the recent Hurricane Ida, which caused extensive damage from the Southeast to the Northeast U.S., were clear. One was its <a href="https://wskg.org/news/climate-changes-fingerprint-seen-in-ida-flooding/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">rapid intensification</a> over very warm Gulf waters before pummeling Louisiana. Another was the amount of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/09/02/heres-what-made-new-york-city-flooding-so-devastating/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">heavy rainfall</a> that the storm brought in the Northeast that <a href="https://theconversation.com/hurricane-ida-2-reasons-for-its-record-shattering-rainfall-in-nyc-and-the-northeast-long-after-the-winds-weakened-167252" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">broke records</a> in New Jersey, New York, and <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/hurricane-ida-damage-cost-pennsylvania-20210908.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Pennsylvania</a>, and caused major flash flooding. Beyond clearly showing that climate change is happening now,<b> Ida’s devastating impacts, particularly in the Northeast, exposed how ill-prepared we are for it. And much of the coverage of Hurricane Ida was permeated with the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/05/us/new-york-infrastructure-climate-change/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">theme</a> that “the infrastructure in place today was built for a climate that no longer exists.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">In fact, with <a href="https://twitter.com/media_climate/status/1434272941760401412" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">increased media coverage</a> of <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/national-tv-news-beginning-connect-climate-change-extreme-weather-now-they-must" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">events such as Ida</a>, the public is beginning to increasingly understand the <a href="https://phys.org/news/2021-09-climate-hurricane-ida-potential-preview.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">dangers of climate change</a> and the need for actions that not only reduce climate-causing emissions, but make our communities less vulnerable to the climate impacts that are already happening. But as the public and more media outlets are starting to connect extreme weather to the need for climate action, Fox News coverage seeks to break those links.</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox networks downplayed climate change and accused Biden of politicizing Hurricane Ida to push a climate agenda</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Since September 2, the day after Ida’s remnants ravaged the Northeast, Fox News and Fox Business have aired at least a dozen segments, combined, that claimed that the Democrats are using Ida as a pretext to implement a massive climate agenda including through the infrastructure bill [W/ CORP Tax increase]. These attacks, coupled with instances of climate denial, show the network’s ultimate goal is to stop the implementation of Biden’s climate agenda by all means necessary.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>Fox’s favorite new <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-medias-favorite-climate-contrarians-go-fox-shows-bash-bidens-climate-plan" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">climate contrarian</a> Michael Shellenberger</b> </span>appeared on two Fox programs to downplay climate’s impact on Ida and to argue that the climate crisis is actually overblown, first on the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3967686" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">September 2 edition</a> of <b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tucker Carlson Tonight</span>, a</b>nd later on the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3967691" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">September 7 edition</a> of <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>The Ingraham Angle</b></span>. In both segments, Shellenberger accused Democrats of using climate change only as a cover to make the economy more dependent on renewable energy sources like solar power, which he has a <a href="https://skepticalscience.com/latest-weak-attacks-evs-solar.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">history of attacking</a>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">(Shellenberger is useful for Fox News because he doesn’t outright deny that climate change is happening; he only -- <a href="https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/article-by-michael-shellenberger-mixes-accurate-and-inaccurate-claims-in-support-of-a-misleading-and-overly-simplistic-argumentation-about-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">and</a> <a href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/07/review-bad-science-and-bad-arguments-abound-in-apocalypse-never/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">falsely</a> -- suggests that it’s not a major problem. In this sense, he provides the perfect cover for the fossil fuel industry to keep polluting the planet.)</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perhaps one of the more egregious examples came during a discussion of Biden’s response to Hurricane Ida during the September 3 edition of Fox Business’ <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mornings With Maria</span>. <b>Guest Patrice Lee Onwuka of the <a href="https://www.desmog.com/independent-women-s-forum/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Koch-funded</a> Independent Women's Forum accused Biden of using the “fallacy” of climate change to get his <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">agenda </span>passed:</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[vid]</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">paTRICE LEE ONWUKA (INDEPENDENT WOMEN’S FORUM): I think President Biden is absolutely looking out for what kind of a legacy he wants to leave behind, and he will try his best to get his <b>agenda</b> passed, using whatever fallacy that he can find. I mean, it’s remarkable that we're talking about, you know, a hurricane, and people who’ve lost livelihoods, some who’ve lost their lives, and we’re still pivoting to this idea that it’s<b> all driven by climate change, when frankly, the facts dispute that</b>. So it is unfortunate that the American people are subjected to this every single day, but this is going to continue.</font></span></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is no “fallacy” here and she is wrong on the facts -- climate scientists know that climate change has an impact on hurricanes, from things like <a href="https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">rainfall</a> to <a href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-probably-increasing-intensity-tropical-cyclones" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">intensity level</a> to <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200422151312.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">how slow they move</a>, and these impacts will <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13082021/six-takeaways-about-tropical-cyclones-and-hurricanes-from-the-new-ipcc-report/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">only get worse in the future</a> unless carbon emissions are rapidly cut.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">There were many other examples that attacked Democrats for politicizing extreme weather events and threw cold water on the infrastructure bill. On the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3967676" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">September 3 edition</a> of Fox News’ <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Your World With Neil Cavuto</em>, correspondent Chad Pergam began a segment on the infrastructure bill by stating, “Democrats are using the storm to justify their push for the infrastructure bill and the $3.5 trillion bill. It's loaded with environmental provisions.”[which are obviously inherently bad?!]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3967571" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">September 4 edition</a> of <b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bongino Unfiltered</em>, host Dan Bongino began a segment on Ida by also claiming, “Democrats wasted no time demanding action against climate change.</b>” The segment which displayed chyrons like “<b>Democrats’ Climate Power Play”</b> and “Dems Push Climate <b>Alarmism</b> After Deadly Storms”<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> also featured a Democratic strategist squaring off against longtime climate denier Marc Morano. <b>Morano</b> used his time to argue that the climate crisis is overblown. Although climate “both-sides” debates should be a relic of the past as they <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/10/how-fossil-fuel-industry-got-media-think-climate-change-was-debatable/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">were promoted solely by polluting interests</a> wanting to advance the narrative that climate change is “debatable,” Fox had no qualms in reviving it here despite overwhelming evidence of climate’s impact on Ida.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In addition, Fox invited <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/why-fox-going-joe-bastardi-climate-change-analysis" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">climate-denying</a> <a href="https://www.desmog.com/joe-bastardi/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">meteorologist</a> Joe Bastardi on the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3967916" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">September 8 edition</a> of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tucker Carlson Tonight</em>. </b>The segment began with guest host Brian <b>Kilmeade </b>claiming that Joe Biden is “using these disasters for political purposes” in order to pass the infrastructure bill. Bastardi then backed up Kilmeade’s claim by dismissing the climate impacts of Ida, simply noting that other bad storms have happened in the past.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> He also <a href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">falsely claimed</a>, “The sun, the oceans, the events, the very design of the system, always try to fight back, and <b>at the very least you can't tell what CO2 is doing.” </b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During an interview with<b> U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY)</b> on the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3967566" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">September 4 edition</a> of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox News Live</em>, co-anchor Anita Vogel referenced <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/us/politics/biden-speech-transcript-hurricane-ida.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Biden’s</a> and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-environment-and-nature-climate-change-a417ec183fb80a14fdeb1e00564ff2af" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Sen. Chuck Schumer’s</a> (D-NY) comments on Ida and climate change, and asked Malliotakis if “it's appropriate to blame this on climate change. … Should he be bringing politics into this when people are suffering?” Malliotakis responded, “We all need to do our part to be more environmentally friendly and reduce our footprint, but at the end of the day, you know, they're using this to push their <b>radical-left agenda to try to pass a $3.5 trillion socialist wish list.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some Fox hosts also made similar comments in the wake of Ida. On the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3967581" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">September 2 edition</a> of Fox News’ <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity</em>, host <b>Sean Hannity began a segment that ultimately downplayed the climate impacts of Ida by stating, “The left is blaming climate change for the heavy rainfall, severe weather and using it as another pretext to push their Green New Deal <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">socialist agenda</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">.”</span> On the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3967681" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">September 5 edition</a> of Fox News’ <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Next Revolution With Steve Hilton</em>, host<b> Steve Hilton </b>did a short segment on Democrats using Ida to implement the Green New Deal.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Although the infrastructure bill is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/09/infrastructure-bill-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">not the Green New Deal</a>, that hasn’t stopped <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/09/infrastructure-bill-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">congressional Republicans</a>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-makes-compelling-case-against-bidens-infrastructure-plan-climate" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Fox News</a>, and other <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-green-new-deal-in-disguise-11618267156" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">right-wing</a> <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/08/02/gop-study-group-calls-1t-infrastructure-deal-trojan-horse-for-dems/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">media outlets</a> from trying to compare the two. Fox is <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/green-new-deal-drives-conservatives-nuts-so-right-wing-media-going-attack" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">utterly</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-rehashes-old-bad-faith-arguments-and-misinformation-covering-green-new-deal" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">obsessed</a> with the </b><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-help-republicans-are-continuing-lie-and-fearmonger-about-green-new-deal" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><b>Green New Dea</b>l</a> and is using it to undermine basically every climate action that is proposed, however modest.<b> This time, it’s the infrastructure bill the costs of which <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66275-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">would pale in comparison</a> to what unchecked climate change would do to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/22/climate/climate-change-economy.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">global economy</a>.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Ida hit the U.S. against the backdrop of the recent report from U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that <a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-what-the-new-ipcc-report-says-about-extreme-weather-and-climate-change" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">conclusively linked</a> climate change “to an increased frequency and/or intensity of some weather and climate extremes since pre-industrial times.” It also followed a summer of harrowing extreme weather events that also had climate fingerprints all over them, including <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/7/25/22592004/wildfires-climate-change-reconciliation-bill" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Western U.S. wildfires</a> and <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/06/09/1003424717/the-drought-in-the-western-u-s-is-getting-bad-climate-change-is-making-it-worse" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">drought</a>, and a brutal <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07072021/pacific-northwest-heat-wave-attribution-study-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Pacific Northwest heat wave</a>. The fact that, despite all these events, Fox continued to diminish climate’s impact on Ida and argued for continued delayed action on climate change shows how much of a dangerous threat the network is to the discourse on climate change</span>.</font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref do i have it? 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://skepticalscience.com/latest-weak-attacks-evs-solar.html">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">think, if you will, of the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets in “Romeo and Juliet.” Or of the 1863-1891 classic American feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys, warring families in West Virginia and Kentucky.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the decades-old tensions involving environmental science, population, resource dynamics, and ecology, it’s the Malthusians and the Cornucopians. Subscribing to the wisdom of English economist Thomas Malthus, Malthusians express concerns that exponential human population growth and economic demands will outrun global resources needed to support people, undermining long-term sustainability. Cornucopians, in contrast – with their nod to the cornucopia or “horn of plenty” of Greek mythology – hold that technological advances can sustain societal needs and that unbounded economic growth and increased population are positive, giving rise to more good ideas.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Review</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The historical tensions and intellectual debates between Malthusians and Cornucopians are now more than two centuries old and have evolved. In recent years, the public conversation around critical global crises like human-caused climate change, deforestation and species extinction, population pressures, and new and worsening public health threats has grown louder, harsher, and increasingly ideological. As the sciences have improved, the deep complexity and connections among these problems have also become more apparent, as have urgent calls to address them through local, national, and global actions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A recent entry in this debate is Michael Shellenberger’s “Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All” (HarperCollins Publishers, 2020</b>). Shellenberger explains in his introduction that he seeks to counter and dismiss what he considers irrational, overwrought arguments of pending Malthusian catastrophes; instead, he seeks to promote the Cornucopian view that environmental problems can be eliminated if we’d just pursue aggressive economic growth, simple technological advances, and increased tapping of abundant natural resources. <b>In doing so, he echoes previous efforts of authors like Herman Kahn, Julian Simon, and Bjørn Lomborg.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate dialogue seen as ‘out of control’</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger self-describes as an environmentalist activist and a bringer of facts and science to counter “exaggeration, alarmism, and extremism that are the enemy of a positive, humanistic, and rational environmentalism.” He decided to write this book because he believes “the conversation about climate change and the environment has, in the last few years, spiraled out of control.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Voices of reason and clear analyses in the contentious debates about how to tackle our global problems are welcome. Unfortunately, the book is deeply and fatally flawed. At the simplest level, it is a polemic based on a strawman argument: To Shellenberger, scientists, “educated elite,” “activist journalists,” and high-profile environmental activists believe incorrectly that the end of the world is coming and yet refuse to support the only solutions that he thinks will work – nuclear energy and uninhibited economic growth.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>‘What is new in here isn’t right, and what is right isn’t new.’</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But even if the author properly understood the complexity and nature of global challenges, which he does not, and got the science right, which he did not, a fatal flaw in his argument is the traditional Cornucopian oversimplification of his solutions – reliance on economic growth and silver-bullet technology. As the great American journalist and humorist<b> H. L. Mencken said, “there is always a well-known solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.”</b> Mencken also warned against those who know precisely what is right and what is wrong, a warning especially worth hearing in the highly complex and uncertain worlds of global climate, pandemics, and environmental change.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">… yet bad science, strawman arguments, cherry-picking facts, and ad hominem attacks on scientists, media, others</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the problems in the book go much deeper. The author wanders from topic to topic, jumping from personal anecdote to polemical arguments to data and numbers carefully chosen to support his views, making it difficult for the reader to follow his threads. The most serious flaw, however, is that he assumes a position and seeks data and facts to fit that position rather than, as science demands, using data and facts to develop, test, and refine a theory. As a result, the book suffers from logical fallacies, arguments based on emotion and ideology, the setting up and knocking down of strawman arguments, and the selective cherry-picking and misuse of facts, all interspersed with simple mistakes and misrepresentations of science. Distressingly, this is also an angry book, riddled with ugly ad hominem attacks on scientists, environmental advocates, and the media.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I provide just a few examples of these flaws here – a comprehensive catalog would require its own book. In short, what is new in here isn’t right, and what is right isn’t new.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Two Cornucopian ideas lie at the heart of this book: The first idea is that there are no real “limits to growth” and environmental problems are the result of poverty and will be solved by having everyone get richer. This idea isn’t original and has long been debunked by others (for a few examples see here, here, here, and here).</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>View that nuclear alone can address needs</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">The second idea – and the focus of much of Shellenberger’s past writings – is that climate and energy problems can and should be solved solely by nuclear power</span>. He writes, “Only nuclear, not solar and wind, can provide abundant, reliable, and inexpensive heat,” and, “Only nuclear energy can power our high-energy human civilization while reducing humankind’s environmental footprint.” (“Apocalypse Never” – hereafter “AN” – pp. 153 and 278) The many economic, environmental, political, and social arguments levied against nuclear are simply dismissed as having no merit, for example: “As for nuclear waste, it is the best and safest kind of waste produced from electricity production. It has never hurt anyone and there is no reason to think it ever will.” (AN, p. 152) His passionate belief that nuclear is the only answer to our energy and climate problems (maybe along with a mega-dam on the Congo River in Africa) is matched by the corollary that renewable energy alternatives – he calls them “unreliables” (AN, p. 176) – are bad because he asserts they are small scale, intermittent, and their economic, environmental, political, and social problems disqualifying.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The argument that poverty and environmental threats are intertwined is both correct and not new. It lies at the heart of international development efforts, including the early United Nations Millennium Development Goals and the current Sustainable Development Goals, which state:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. The 17 Goals are all interconnected. (emphasis added)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Similarly, mainstream experts in environmental science and environmental economics have long acknowledged that all energy options have complex sets of environmental advantages and disadvantages. The fields of energy risk assessment, integrated environmental systems analysis, and ecological economics have addressed them for decades.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Using the facade of ‘strawman arguments’</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger regularly sets up other strawman arguments and then knocks them down. [A strawman argument is an effort to refute an argument that hasn’t been made by replacing your opponent’s actual argument with a different one.] One of the most prevalent strawman arguments in the climate debate is that scientists claim climate change “causes” extreme events, when in fact, climate scientists make careful distinctions between “causality” and “influence” – two very different things. This area, called “attribution science,” is one of the most exciting aspects of climate research today.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger sets up the strawman argument that people are incorrectly claiming recent extreme events (like forest fires, floods, heat waves, and droughts) were caused by climate change, and then he debunks this strawman. “Many blamed climate change for wildfires that ravaged California” (AN, p.2) and “the fires would have occurred even had Australia’s climate not warmed.” (AN p. 21) He misrepresents how the media reported on the fires, describing a New York Times story on the 2019 Amazon fires: “As for the Amazon, The New York Times reported, correctly, that the ‘fires were not caused by climate change.’<b>” But here Shellenberger is cherry-picking a quote</b>: If you look at the actual article he cites, the journalist makes clear the “influence” of climate change just two sentences later:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These fires were not caused by climate change. They were, by and large, set by humans. However, climate change can make fires worse. Fires can burn hotter and spread more quickly under warmer and drier conditions. (emphasis added)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He also misunderstands or misrepresents the extensive and growing literature on the links between climate change and extreme events, saying “But climate change so far has not resulted in increases in the frequency or intensity of many types of extreme weather” (AN, p. 15) citing out-of-date research, including a workshop from 15 years ago. In fact, a large and growing body of literature already shows strong links between climate change and extreme events, including hurricanes, heat deaths, flooding, decreasing ice, and more (see, for a few examples, here, here, and here), and this literature has been expanding rapidly. For instance, in 2019, the American Meteorological Society, or AMS, published a summary – produced annually – with 21 peer-reviewed analyses of extreme weather in 2018 including the research of 121 scientists from 13 countries. The severe Four Corners drought in the U.S., intense heat waves on the Iberian peninsula and in northeast Asia, exceptional precipitation in the mid-Atlantic states, and record-low sea ice in the Bering Sea were all examples of extreme weather events “made more likely by human-caused climate change.” As Jeff Rosenfeld, the editor-in-chief of the AMS series, noted, “We’ve now published more than 100 of these attribution studies in this AMS series and can see how powerful this science is getting. Attribution studies increasingly yield useful, nuanced conclusions that embrace real-world complexity,” Rosenfeld wrote. “They collectively make an ever starker statement about the human influence on extreme weather.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Another example of a serious conceptual confusion is his chapter dismissing the threat of species extinctions</b>. The chapter is full of misunderstandings of extinction rates, ecosystem and biological functions, confusions about timescales, and misuses of data. For example, Shellenberger confuses the concept of species “richness” with “biodiversity” and makes the astounding claim that</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Around the world, the biodiversity of islands has actually doubled on average, thanks to the migration of ‘invasive species.’ The introduction of new plant species has outnumbered plant extinctions one hundred fold. (AN, p. 66)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By this odd logic, if an island had 10 species of native birds found only there and they went extinct, but 20 other invasive bird species established themselves, the island’s “biodiversity” would double. This error results from a misunderstanding of the study he cites, which properly notes that simply assessing species numbers (richness not biodiversity) on islands ignores the critical issues of biodiversity raised by invasive species, including the disruption of endemic species interactions, weakening of ecosystem stability, alteration of ecosystem functions, and increasing homogenization of flora and fauna.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another set of classic logical fallacies is the misuse, misrepresentation, and selective use of evidence. Shellenberger sees himself as the white knight bringing science and facts to emotional arguments. “Every fact, claim, and argument in this book is based on the best-available science … Apocalypse Never defends mainstream science from those who deny it on the political Right and Left.” (AN, p. xiii) But often, his arguments are based on inappropriate use of evidence, outdated or cherry-picked science, misunderstandings or misrepresentation, or just outright errors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the most common flaws is his confusing use of the terms “can,” “could,” “will,” “will likely,” and so on. These grammatical choices usually reflect classic Cornucopian optimism and the advantage of telling the audience a positive story, rather than one based on the actual evidence. For example, he claims:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When it comes to food production, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concludes that crop yields will increase significantly, under a wide range of climate scenarios. (AN, p. 6, emphasis added)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What great news, if only we knew for sure it were true and under all plausible climate scenarios. But in fact, this is a misrepresentation of the 2018 FAO report cited, which looks at possible futures and actually says:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate change already has negative effects on crop yields, livestock production and fisheries, particularly in low- and middle- income countries. Such impacts are likely to become even stronger later in this century. (emphasis added)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unaddressed climate change, which is associated, inter alia, with unsustainable agricultural practices, is likely to lead to more land and water use, disproportionately affecting poor people and exacerbating inequalities within and between countries. This carries negative implications for both food availability and food access.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>There are many other examples where his optimism (things “will” happen) overrides the scientific evidence and uncertainties about the future.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Misrepresenting what scientists actually say or said</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger’s discussion of nuclear energy and risk also misrepresents what scientists say. He states “mixing up reactors and bombs was, as we say, the go-to strategy for Malthusian environmentalists” (AN, p. 242), but to support this claim he offers the work of Drs. Paul and Anne Ehrlich and John Holdren in their 1977 book Ecoscience. Shellenberger quotes their factual statement that “A large reactor’s inventory of long-lived radioactivity is more than one thousand times that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.” (Ecoscience, p. 445) But he then falsely says they are implying reactors can explode like bombs: “The implication was wrong. Nuclear reactors cannot detonate like bombs.” (AN, p. 242) Shellenberger was eager to set up the strawman that “Malthusian environmentalists” don’t know the difference between nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs, but in the paragraph right before the statement he quoted, Ehrlich, Ehrlich, and Holdren (the latter trained in part as a nuclear physicist, by the way) literally write: “It is physically impossible for an LWR [light-water reactor] or any thermal-neutron reactor to blow up like a nuclear bomb.” (Ecoscience, p. 444)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is just one of a series of misrepresentations of the works of the Ehrlichs and Holdren. Just a few paragraphs later, for instance, he says “Holdren and the Ehrlichs had to claim fossil fuels were scarce to oppose the extension of fertilizers and industrial agriculture to poor nations and to raise the alarm over famine.” (AN, p. 242) This is the exact opposite of what they have long argued. To quote Dr. Holdren: “What environmentalists mainly say on this topic is not that we are running out of energy, but that we are running out of environment – that is, running out of the capacity of air, water, soil, and biota to absorb” the environmental, social, and health impacts of burning fossil fuels. (emphasis added)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another example of the confusions running through Shellenberger’s narratives is the section “Greed Saved the Whales, Not Greenpeace.” His argument is that cheap oil, epitomized by the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, saved the whales: “The discovery of the Drake Well led to widespread production of petroleum-based kerosene… thus saving the whales.” (AN, p. 111) Just a page later, however, he acknowledges “But then, whaling came back, and in a big way. Between 1904 and 1978, whalers killed one million whales, nearly three times more than had been harvested before.” He then claims that cheap vegetable oils (ironically in the form of palm oil from deforestation in the Congo) saved the whales, but then again has to acknowledge that massive whale kills continued.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What finally led to today’s almost near moratorium on whale hunts? Not just changes in market forces, not changes in energy sources, not “greed” and the growth in wealth and prosperity as he argues, but the change in public opinion pushed by environmental groups and the public. And oddly, his last sentence in this chapter acknowledges this: “When it comes to protecting the environment by moving to superior alternatives, public attitudes and political action matter” (AN, p. 125) – exactly the point of environmental advocacy groups like Greenpeace that worked to change public opinion.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Scientific uncertainty is not the same as ‘We don’t know’</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger misunderstands the concept of “uncertainty” in science, making the classic mistake of thinking about uncertainty in the colloquial sense of “We don’t know” rather than the way scientists use it to present “a range of possibilities.” In his discussion about catastrophic tipping points like loss of ice sheets, forest and species die back in the Amazon, and changes in ocean circulation, he says (AN, p. 25):</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The high level of uncertainty on each, and a complexity that is greater than the sum of its parts, make many tipping point scenarios unscientific … there is no scientific evidence that one would be more probable or catastrophic than other potentially catastrophic scenarios, including an asteroid impact, super-volcanoes, or an unusually deadly influenza pandemic.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is both wrong and hardly comforting. First, high levels of uncertainty are not “unscientific” and second, while most of the climate assessments of the IPCC and others generally do not assess the risk of global catastrophes like these, they do not rule them out, especially if we are too slow to act. The late climate scientist Dr. Stephen Schneider, in a critique of this same argument made by another Cornucopian, addressed the critical importance of looking at extreme risk probabilities at the “fat tail” of probability distributions and said:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is precisely because the responsible scientific community cannot rule out such catastrophic outcomes at a high level of confidence that climate mitigation policies are seriously proposed.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thus, when scientists discuss possible catastrophic climate risks, they are not being “apocalyptic” – they are responsibly identifying risks that must be evaluated and discussed in the context of science, economics, public policy, and public health.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another classic logical fallacy is to try to discredit an opponent’s argument by attacking the person and her or his motives, rather than the argument – hence the Latin “ad hominem” (“against the man”). Ad hominem attacks are pervasive in this book and detract from its tone and the content. Shellenberger attacks “apocalyptic environmentalists” as “oblivious, or worse, unconcerned” about poverty (AN, p. 35) or for opposing a massive dam on the Congo river. (AN, p. 276) He attacks the finances of leading environmental groups and leaders like the late David Brower, arguing they have taken donations from fossil fuel companies to “greenwash the closure of nuclear plants.” (AN, p. 205) And he attacks the motives, reputations, and science of many individual environmental and geophysical scientists whose work contradicts his arguments.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Do media and environmental scientists have the opposite of a ‘love for humanity’?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But Shellenberger has a special level of animosity for the press:</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">News media, editors, and journalists might consider whether their constant sensationalizing of environmental problems is consistent with their professional commitment to fairness and accuracy, and their personal commitment to being a positive force in the world. While I am skeptical that stealth environmental activists working as journalists are likely to change how they do their reporting, I am hopeful that competition from outside traditional news media institutions, made possible by social media, will inject new competitiveness into environmental journalism and raise standards (AN, p. 277-278)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the most disturbing examples of vicious personal attacks, he paints broad categories of people who disagree with him as motivated by a hatred of humanity:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When we hear activists, journalists, IPCC scientists, and others claim climate change will be apocalyptic unless we make immediate, radical changes, including massive reductions in energy consumption, we might consider whether they are motivated by love for humanity or something closer to its opposite (AN, p. 275, emphasis added). We must fight against Malthusian and apocalyptic environmentalists who condemn human civilization and humanity itself. (AN, p. 274) (emphasis added).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He argues in his closing sections that people worried about environmental disasters are playing out “a kind of subconscious fantasy for people who dislike civilization” (AN, p. 270) and suggests that people who oppose the solutions he prefers do so because they long for the destruction of civilization – a nasty attack on the motives of all those working in this field.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finally, the book is riddled with a variety of simple errors. Any book with as many numbers, citations, and claims is at risk of having some mistakes, of course. But the number and scope of them here is problematic. A comprehensive catalog is well beyond the scope of this review, but one example is a massive misstatement of the amount of water required to produce energy. He says “And burning gas rather than coal for electricity requires 25 to 50 times less water.” (AN, p. 118) As shown by the actual numbers from the reference he cites, however, the difference is a factor of around two or less, not 25 to 50. And in an important omission, he fails to note that key renewable energy sources such as wind and solar photovoltaics require far less water per unit of electricity produced than all fossil fuel and nuclear thermal plants. In his discussion about climate change and extreme events, he leaves out extensive peer-reviewed evidence (like this 2015 paper, among many others) showing how fire seasons have gotten much longer as a result of rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns. He claims, twice (AN pp. 211 and 241), that nuclear power plants produce “zero pollution” – an inaccurate and unnecessary exaggeration.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger no doubt believes in, and supports, the goal of a better future. So do environmental scientists, activists, and any decent human. The disagreements we hear lie in different perceptions of the root causes of our crises and the choice of solutions to move our current world to that better future. But ideological polemics, misunderstandings and misrepresentations of science, and angry ad hominem attacks on others working in the field do nothing to move us in the right direction.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is uncertainty about the best path forward. Those who believe the evidence shows our current path crosses dangerous planetary limits and may lead to severe environmental and social disruption can’t prove an apocalyptic future will happen – they’re arguing we must do what we can to avoid it. But neither can Cornucopians prove that narrow technological solutions and unconstrained economic growth will avoid those catastrophic futures. The imbalance of these viewpoints is key however: if Malthusians are wrong, all they would have done is made the world a better place. If Cornucopians are wrong, apocalyptic outcomes are indeed a real possibility.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Where does that leave us? Identifying, publicizing, and working to avoid future environmental and social disasters is vitally important. I’ve worked at the intersection of science and policy on issues of climate change, freshwater resources, and environmental conflicts for more than 40 years, and the good news is that positive, effective solutions exist. We know how to provide safe water and sanitation to the billions who still lack it. We know we must now work to both cut greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the severity of climate change and at the same time work to adapt to the impacts we can no longer avoid. We know how to improve agricultural efficiency to both grow enough food for everyone and to get it to hungry mouths.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What we lack are adequate efforts to prioritize solutions, fix governmental and institutional failures, motivate policymakers, and, sadly, talk rationally to each other about moving forward quickly and effectively. This book fails to contribute to those much-needed efforts.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Peter H. Gleick is president emeritus of the Pacific Institute, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a MacArthur Fellow, and winner of the 2018 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?michaelshellenberger" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Shellenberger</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, founder and president of </span><a href="https://www.c-span.org/organization/?137487/Environmental-Progress" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Environmental Progress</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, offered his thoughts on what he calls “apocalyptic” environmentalism and provided some solutions on how to address environmental issues of today and into the future. He was interviewed by </span><a href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?andrewrevkin" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Andrew Revkin</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, author and </span><a href="https://www.c-span.org/organization/?5030/Columbia-University" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Columbia University</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">’s diirector of the Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability</span></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">00:00:35</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A LITTLE CABIN FEVER I MUST ADMIT . NOT THAT I'M THERE BUT I'M EAGER TO GET BACK TO TRAVELING AGAIN . I WAS SICK OF IT BEFORE THE PANDEMIC AND NOW I AM EAGER TO GET OUT OF CALIFORNIA . HOW ARE YOU ? Show Less Text</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">00:00:52</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PRETTY GOOD. WE'RE ALL DOING WHAT WE CAN TO SHARE A MOMENT, EVEN THOSE AVOIDING THE CONTAGION WHICH SUPPOSEDLY PRESAGED WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN REALLY...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Show Full Text</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">00:01:40</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THANKS ANDY . THE ARGUMENTS IN THE BOOK IS CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL BUT IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD AND IT'S NOT EVEN ALMOST AREAS ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Show Full Text</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">00:04:29</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I GUESS THE GOAL IS TO PROD AND KIND OF GET A NEW CONVERSATION GOING . ALTHOUGH I DO WONDER SOMETIMES AND I WONDER THIS ABOUT ALL BOOKS, I'VE WRITTEN...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Show Full Text</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">00:06:45</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THANKS FOR THE QUESTION. I THINK SO OBVIOUSLY TITLES ARE TITLES THAT YOU ONLY GET ONE OR TWO WORDS FOR THE TITLE . THE BOOK IS BASICALLY A DEFENSE...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Show Full Text</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">00:11:25</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ONE OF THE GOOD ARGUMENTS FOR THE US STAYING INVOLVED IN NUCLEAR ENERGY WORK IS THAT I'VE HEARD AFTER FUKUSHIMA PARTICULARLY WAS THAT INTERNATIONAL...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Show Full Text</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">00:13:11</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THANKS. I THINK THE IDEA THAT THE UNITED STATES SHOULD COMPUTE ON ENERGY , I THINK IT'S THE RIGHT ONE.SO YOU SEE COUNTRIES LIKE RUSSIA AND THE UAE...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Show Full Text</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">00:16:14</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HOW MUCH OF THE RESISTANCE HAVE YOU FACED IN THAT MANY OTHERS CAN LOOK AT THE PORTFOLIO OF ENERGY OPTIONS YOU WOULD NEED TO LIMIT GLOBAL WARMING AND...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Show Full Text</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">00:17:10</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. I THINK WE HAVE TO JUST REFLECT ON THE FACT THAT THERE'S BEEN A HUGE SEA CHANGE IN PUBLIC ATTITUDES, AT LEAST IN THE ATTITUDES...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Show Full Text</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">00:20:53</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">YOU FEEL THAT GLOBALIZATION IS COMING TO AN END?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">00:21:00</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I DON'T THINK GLOBALIZATION IS COMING TO AN END . I THINK THE GLOBAL SYSTEM IS IN CRISIS . I THINK EVERY MAJOR INSTITUTION IN OUR SOCIETY IS IN CRISIS AND I WAS REFLECTING THE OTHER NIGHT THAT THE THING EVERYBODY BELIEVES ABOUT THE PANDEMIC IN THE FIRST FEW WEEKS IS THAT WASHING YOUR HANDS WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT BUT WE DIDN'T NEED TO WEAR MASKS . NOW THE THINKING IS THAT MASKS ARE OF ESSENTIAL IMPORTANCE AND WASHING YOUR HANDS IS LIKE SURE BUT WE DON'T REALLY KNOW AND IT MIGHT TRANSFER. WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, I DON'T THINK FROM THAT INTENTIONS, I JUST THINK THEY'RE A DISCREDITED ORGANIZATION . I THINK THE WHITE HOUSE IS A DISCREDITED INSTITUTION . I'M SORRY TO SAY THIS BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S HER FORMER EMPLOYER, I THINK THE NEW YORK TIMES IS NOT HAVE THE CREDIBILITY ONCE HAD AREA IT READS LIKE THE GUARDIAN OR THE NATION . IT DOESN'T READ LIKE A NEWSPAPER . I'M STRUCK AND ANDY I'M SURE YOU ARE TWO COMMON ENVIRONMENT STORIES ONLY HAVE ONE SIDE OF THE STORY. I READ A BLOOMBERG PIECE THAT PUTS OUR FRIENDS LEAH STEPS. IT DOESN'T PUT ANYBODY CRITICAL OF RENEWABLES AT ALL . THAT'S STANDARD NOW SO THESE INSTITUTIONS ARE I THINK IN CRISIS RIDDEN THERE IN A CRISIS OF CREDIBILITY AND TRUST . I DON'T THINK THAT MEANS INSTITUTIONS ARE GOING TO GO AWAY , WHAT IT MEANS IS THOSE INSTITUTIONS ARE GOING TO NEED NEW LEADERS WHO HAVE A DIFFERENT WORLDVIEW. ACTUALLY ARE MORE COMFORTABLE EXPRESSING THE FACT THAT WE DON'T KNOW IF MASKS MIGHT WORK OR NOT BUT YOU MIGHT WANT TO WEAR THEM OR ARE WORRIED ABOUT THEM BEING, THE REAL ISSUE IS THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT THEIR NOT HAVING ENOUGH MASKS BUT INSTEAD OF SAYING THAT THERE WAS THIS KIND OF MANIPULATION SO I DON'T THINK GLOBALIZATION IS COMING TO AN END . I THINK NATIONS ARE GOING TO GET BACK IN TOUCH WITH THE FACT THAT WE'RE ALL COMPETING WITH EACH OTHER IN SOME ESSENTIAL WAY AND WHERE ALL ECONOMIC NATIONALISTS . I THINK WITHOUT KIND OF THINKING ABOUT IT . BUT THESE INSTITUTIONS ARE ULTIMATELY GOING TO NEED TO BE KIND OF REGENERATED BY NEW LEADERSHIP AND NEW IDEAS. Show Less Text</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">00:23:03</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LET'S TALK ABOUT CLIMATE DIPLOMACY BRIEFLY AND I WANT TO GET TO ECOLOGY AND JESSE ASKED ABOUT A COUPLE OF PEOPLE . BUT SOMETHING YOU SAID TO MY CONCEPT...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1376" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);">LET'S TALK ABOUT CLIMATE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1377" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);">DIPLOMACY BRIEFLY </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1378" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);">AND I WANT TO GET </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1379" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);">TO ECOLOGY AND JESSE ASKED ABOUT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1380" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);">A COUPLE OF PEOPLE . </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1383" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);">BUT SOMETHING YOU SAID </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1384" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);">TO MY </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1387" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);">CONCEPT</a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1388" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1391" style="margin: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1403" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1404" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1405" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1407" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1408" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1410" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1411" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1412" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1413" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1418" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1419" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1420" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1422" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1423" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1426" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1427" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1429" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger..]tons of coe cut]...a href=" https="https" www.c-span.org="www.c-span.org" video="video" after-words-michael-shellenberger="after-words-michael-shellenberger" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1506" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1507" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1508" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1509" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1511" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1515" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1516" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1517" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1518" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1519" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1520" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1523" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1524" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1525" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1526" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1527" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1528" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1531" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);"><span class="hidden-full-transcript-text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /></a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1388" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"> THAT I FOCUSED ON </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1391" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">WHEN THE KEYSTONE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1392" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">PIPELINE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1393" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ARGUMENT CAME IN </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1394" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">AND I WAS WRITING </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1398" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">FROM A MACROECONOMIC </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1399" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">LENS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1400" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">SAYING THAT PIPELINE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1401" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">WAS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1403" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">FINE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1404" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">BUT IF YOU DO THAT OIL WILL </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1405" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">FIND ITS WAY . </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1407" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">AND I WAS BEING </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1408" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">PUNISHED </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1410" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">IS WHAT YOU </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1411" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">SAID. AND I WAS GOOGLING </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1412" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">WORDS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1413" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ON COOPERATION . </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1418" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">THAT CAN'T </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1419" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">LIKE MINDED , SEE IT AS A </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1420" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">GOAL, AS SUSTAINABLE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1422" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">FOR HUMAN </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1423" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">EXPERIENCE ON THE PLANET . </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1426" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ACKNOWLEDGE DIVERSITY </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1427" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">AND PATHWAYS, IS THAT POSSIBLE ? </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1429" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">AND I'M GOOGLING THE RESPONSE , </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1434" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">THERE WAS THIS 2003 </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1435" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">PAPER BY A CONGRESSMAN IN </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1436" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">STOCKHOLM . </a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span class="hidden-full-transcript-text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1438" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">WHAT IS DOING </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1439" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">TO ECOSYSTEMS THAT ARE RESILIENT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1440" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">FOR THOSE THAT , IT'S NOT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1441" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">THE NUMBER OF SPECIES . </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1443" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">IT'S THE NUMBER OF RESPONSES </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1447" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">TO THOSE SPECIES THAT FUNCTION </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1448" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">IN AN ECOSYSTEM </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1449" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">SO </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1450" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">TO ME THAT WAS A COOL </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1453" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">MOMENT. IT'S ADAPTIVE, YOU THINK </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1454" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">LIKE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1456" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">A HUMAN ADVENTURE, YOU'VE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1457" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">GOT CHINA , THE UNITED STATES </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1458" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">AND </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1459" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1463" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">SENSIBILITIES, GEOGRAPHIES, </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1465" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">HISTORIES AND THAT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1466" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">KIND OF SCRUM THAT RESULTS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1467" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">IS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1468" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">FUNDAMENTALLY </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1469" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ADAPTIVE . WHICH </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1471" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">GETS TO YOUR POINT ABOUT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1472" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">A </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1477" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">UNIFORM, THE DANGER </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1478" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">OF HAVING UNIFORMITY OR </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1479" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">A UNIFORM AND TERRY AND </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1480" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">MILL </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1482" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">YOU AND IF </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1483" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">YOU'RE NOT WITH US </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1484" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">YOU'RE AGAINST US . </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1488" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">AND WEIRDLY </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1489" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">WHEN I WAS WRITING ABOUT THE PARIS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1490" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">CLIMATE ACCORDS I NOTICED </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1492" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">IT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1493" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">HAS ALL THE ATTRIBUTES YOU </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1495" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">WOULD WANT . </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1496" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">IT'S ELASTIC, IT'S </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1497" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ADAPTIVE. NOT DETERMINATIVE , </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1499" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ALL THE THINGS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1502" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">THAT IT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1503" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">WAS YELLED AT FOR BEING WEAK </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1504" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ATTRIBUTES . </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1506" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">IT CREATES THIS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1507" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">HUNDRED YEAR </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1508" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">LANDSCAPE OF CHANGE . </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1509" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">AND I GUESS THAT MAKES </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1511" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ME </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1515" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">OPTIMISTIC </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1516" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ABOUT AND I WONDER HOW </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1517" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">WELL THAT FITS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1518" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">WITH YOUR </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1519" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ARTICULATION OF </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1520" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">A PATHWAY </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1523" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">OF </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1524" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">HOW TO </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1525" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">THINK AS AN INDIVIDUAL AND HOW </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1526" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">TO ACT AS A COUNTRY . </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1527" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">DOES THE RESPONSE TO </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1528" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">DIVERSITY </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1531" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">MAKES SENSE ?</a></font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1534" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);">IT'S A </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1535" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);">GREAT OBSERVATION ANDY. </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1536" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);">YOU KNOW I VIEW ON THE UNITED </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1537" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);">NATIONS, </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1538" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);">I JUST DON'T THINK IMPLEMENTS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1539" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);">WILL HAVE MUCH INFLUENCE OVER </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1540" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);">THE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1542" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);">DIVISIONS THAT</a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1543" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1544" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1547" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1548" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1549" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1550" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1551" style="margin: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1555" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1556" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1557" style="margin: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1565" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1566" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1567" style="margin: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1646" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1647" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1648" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1649" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1650" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1651" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1652" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1653" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1654" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1655" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1656" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1658" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1659" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1661" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1662" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1663" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1664" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1665" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1668" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1669" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1670" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1674" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1675" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1676" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1677" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1678" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1679" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1680" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1681" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1682" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1683" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1684" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1685" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1687" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1688" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1689" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1691" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);"><span class="hidden-full-transcript-text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);" /></a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1543" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"> NATIONS MAKE ABOUT FOOD AND ENERGY </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1544" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">SUPPLY.I THINK </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1547" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">THE DECISIONS THAT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1548" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">NEED TO BE MADE ABOUT ENERGY SUPPLY </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1549" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ARE BASED ON LOCAL GEOGRAPHY </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1550" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">BUT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1551" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ALSO </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1553" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">WHAT'S POSSIBLE WE THINK IS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1554" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">I BELIEVE THERE IS A CLEAR </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1555" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">TREND FROM ENERGY DILUTE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1556" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">FUELS LIKE WOOD AND </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1557" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">DUNG AND COAL </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1563" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">TOWARDS MY ENERGY DENSE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1564" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ONES LIKE NATURAL GAS AND NUCLEAR </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1565" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">BUT ON YOUR BROADER POINT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1566" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">I'M WHOLEHEARTEDLY </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1567" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">AGREE. </a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="hidden-full-transcript-text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">EVERYTHING I COMPLAIN </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1568" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ABOUT , I CAN FIND SOMETHING </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1569" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">POSITIVE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1570" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">SO THE </a><b><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">NEW YORK TIMES </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1571" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">AND BLUEBIRD AND MOST </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1572" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ELITE MEDIA </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1577" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">NOW ARE VERY ONE-SIDED. </a></b></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="hidden-full-transcript-text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);"><b><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1578" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">AT THE SAME TIME, WE HAVE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1579" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">TWITTER AND WE GET MOST OF US , </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1583" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">I DON'T EVEN GO TO THE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1584" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">NEW </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1585" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">YORK TIMES ANYMORE, I JUST GO </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1586" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">TO TWITTER AND AS A ACTIVIST </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1587" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">AND AS A JOURNALIST</a></b><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">, I THINKING </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1588" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">TO WRITING A COLUMN </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1589" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">FOR COURTS . IT'S , </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1591" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">I LOVE MY RELATIONSHIP </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1592" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">WITH FORMS . </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1593" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">IT HAS SOME CHALLENGES </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1594" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">THERE . </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1597" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">BUT NONETHELESS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1598" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">I'M ABLE TO </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1599" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">PUBLISH ARTICLES THAT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1600" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ARE MUCH MORE WIDELY READ ENVIRONMENTAL </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1601" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ARTICLES IN THE NEW </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1602" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">YORK TIMES AND I KNOW </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1603" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">BECAUSE I CAN </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1604" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">SEE THE TRAFFIC </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1605" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ON THEM BUT I CAN GET </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1606" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">1 MILLION OR 2 MILLION </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1607" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">VIEWS . </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1609" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">EVEN THOUGH I DON'T WORK </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1610" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">AT THE NEW YORK TIMES JUST </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1611" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">BECAUSE I'M WRITING ABOUT THINGS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1612" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">PEOPLE CARE ABOUT . </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1613" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">SIMILARLY ON THE ONE HAND IT'S </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1614" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">INCREDIBLY POLARIZED . </a></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="hidden-full-transcript-text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1617" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">WE ARE LEFT IN) </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1618" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">CURRENTLY </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1619" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">POLARIZED </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1620" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ON THE OTHER </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1621" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">HAND THERE'S </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1622" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">A BUNCH OF STUFF THAT ARE NOT CLEARLY </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1623" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">LEFT OR RIGHT ISSUES RIGHT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1624" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">NOW I THINK NUCLEAR IS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1625" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ONE OF THEM. </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1627" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">NOT CLEAR THAT THAT'S </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1631" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">TRADITIONALLY WAS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1632" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">SEEN AS A </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1633" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">BIPARTISAN TECHNOLOGY, </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1634" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">THEN IT BECAME A REPUBLICAN </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1635" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">TECHNOLOGY, NOW THERE'S OTHER </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1636" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">DEMOCRATS WHO SUPPORTED . </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1638" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">HOUSING IS ANOTHER ISSUE WHERE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1639" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">I DON'T KNOW </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1643" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">IF IT'S CONSERVATIVE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1644" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">OR LIBERAL TO BE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1645" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">BECAUSE IN CALIFORNIA WE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1646" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">HAVE BOTH LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1647" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">NIMBYS . I THINK </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1648" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">THERE'S OTHER ELEMENTS OF </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1649" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">THAT AND I'M VERY </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1650" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">INTERESTED IN THEM WHERE IT'S </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1651" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">NOT OBVIOUS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1652" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">THAT SOME THINGS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1653" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">ARE MORE LIBERAL OR MORE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1654" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">CONSERVATIVE THAN OTHERS AND </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1655" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">HOW MUCH IS BEING DETERMINED </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1656" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">BY PARTISAN POLARIZATION . </a></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="hidden-full-transcript-text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 248);"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1658" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">SO I THINK </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1659" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">THERE'S ACTUALLY MORE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1661" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">SPACE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1662" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">OPENING UP AND I </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1663" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">THINK WE'RE AT THE BEGINNING </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1664" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">OF IT AND I CREDIT SOCIAL MEDIA </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1665" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">OR A LOT OF THIS AREA I </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1668" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">KNOW THAT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1669" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">SOCIAL MEDIA IS A LITTLE LIKE </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1670" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">PLATO'S DISCUSSION </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1674" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">OF MEDICINE WHICH </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1675" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">IS THAT IS IT A POISON, IS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1676" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">IT A MEDICINE, IT'S BOTH AND IT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1677" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">DEPENDS ON WHAT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1678" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">HOW YOU USE IT </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1679" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">AND WHAT THE DOSE IS SO I </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1680" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">THINK </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1681" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">WE'RE IN AN INTERESTING TIME </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1682" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">I THINK POTENTIALLY </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1683" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">SOCIAL MEDIA IS CREATING </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1684" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">SOME COLLECTIVE MADNESS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1685" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">BUT I ALSO </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1687" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">THINK </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1688" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">SOME AMOUNT OF MADNESS </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1689" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">CAN BE VERY </a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?473859-1/after-words-michael-shellenberger#" class="transcript-time-seek" id="transcript-time-1691" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">CREATIVE.</a></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For Utilities, the Best of Both Worlds</font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Illinois and Ohio scandals are tied to the ways utility companies have responded to the competition brought on by electricity deregulation. Both states are among the 15 or so that implemented deregulation laws in the late 1990s and early 2000s, leading to systems today in which power plants must compete on an open market. </b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At one time, nuclear and coal-fired power plants were strong competitors on that market, but now they are struggling because of the low costs to operate plants that run on natural gas, along with the plunging costs of wind and solar power.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rather than close plants that are not profitable or barely profitable, plant owners have chosen to seek government subsidies.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f957e988-7fff-5a47-85d2-1a8561941162" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Illinois passed the </span><a href="https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/future-energy-jobs-act/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Future Energy Jobs Act</a> in 2016,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"> one of the measures cited in the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/press-release/file/1295241/download" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">U.S. attorney's recent filing</a> as being tainted by corruption. The law provided subsidies for two nuclear power plants and included a major expansion of the state's support for renewable energy and energy efficiency. The nuclear plants are owned by Exelon, which is ComEd's parent company.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">The law's supporters argued that the plants were a vital source of carbon-free power and that they were important for jobs and the economy.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f957e988-7fff-5a47-85d2-1a8561941162" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=41534" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Other states</a></span> have enacted their own laws or regulatory actions in recent years that include nuclear subsidies as part of a package or a larger agenda that also expanded use of renewable energy. They include Connecticut, New Jersey and New York.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f957e988-7fff-5a47-85d2-1a8561941162" style="box-sizing: inherit;">In Ohio, it was a different story, with elected officials hostile to renewable energy. </span><a href="https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-6" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">House Bill 6</a>, passed in 2019, gave more than a billion dollars to two nuclear power plants owned by a company with ties to FirstEnergy. It also provided subsidies for two coal-fired power plants owned by Ohio Valley Electric Corp., and canceled the requirements of a 2008 law that had required utilities to invest in renewable energy and energy efficiency.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmental groups that had supported the 2016 Illinois law opposed the 2019 one in Ohio. But the laws are alike in that they started as nuclear bailouts and then sponsors added whatever provisions they needed to get them passed.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Both laws subvert the market, which is unfair to competing owners of power plants, said Michael Haugh, an energy policy consultant who has done work for the Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel, the state's utility consumer advocate, and for the R Street Institute, a think tank that advocates for open markets and limited government.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The result is that utilities have a system in which they can earn substantial profits in situations where they are well-equipped to compete, and can get government protection to guarantee profits when they are ill-equipped to compete.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"They found the way to walk the line in-between," Haugh said, which, he added, is "the best of both worlds" for the companies.</font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Favors and Inducements</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f957e988-7fff-5a47-85d2-1a8561941162" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/press-release/file/1295241/download" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Documents in the Illinois case</a></span> <b>describe years of favors and other inducements that ComEd provided to a "Public Official A." </b>Although the documents do not name the official, they refer to the person as speaker of the Illinois House during the period of the alleged crimes. <b>That was Mike Madigan, a Democrat, who remains speaker.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>ComEd agreed to pay a fine of $200 million and cooperate with the investigation,</b> while Madigan has not been charged. A spokeswoman for Madigan said he "never made a legislative decision with improper motives and has engaged in no wrongdoing here."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f957e988-7fff-5a47-85d2-1a8561941162" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, also a Democrat, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">said at </span></span><a href="https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/watch-now-pritzker-talks-about-criminal-case-against-comed-madigan/video_69def35f-ac1c-55ed-80fb-59eba8e9462b.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">a public appearance</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> last week that he is "furious with what is being reported" and that Madigan has a lot that he needs to answer for, to authorities and voters.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f957e988-7fff-5a47-85d2-1a8561941162" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The agreement between prosecutors and ComEd was the largest development so far in an investigation that Chicago media </span><a href="https://www.bettergov.org/news/feds-search-for-michael-madigan-records-at-home-of-retired-alderman-sources-say/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">have been reporting</a> on since last summer, based on reports of authorities raiding officials' homes and offices.</font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Threats and Payoffs</font></h3></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> </span></font></p><p><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22072020/inside-clean-energy-ohio-bribery"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22072020/inside-clean-energy-ohio-bribery</font></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last October, I went to the public library in my Columbus, Ohio, neighborhood and saw a woman standing outside the front entrance, asking people to sign a petition.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The signatures were for a proposed ballot measure to repeal an Ohio law, passed a few months earlier, that provided taxpayer-funded bailouts for nuclear and coal-fired power plants. The legislation also got rid of Ohio's requirements that utilities meet annual targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Two people standing near the petition gatherer were "blockers," paid operatives there to discourage me and any other passers-by from signing it. They were handing out postcards from a dark money group saying that the campaign to repeal the law was part of a Chinese government plot to harm the United States.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">as of Tuesday, the world knows that the campaign to pass the Ohio law and the attacks on the effort to repeal it were part of what prosecutors call the largest bribery scheme in Ohio history.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The $61 million scheme was bankrolled by the utility FirstEnergy, the Akron-based company that was the main beneficiary of the bailout legislation, and the money went to accounts controlled by Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder for his political and personal use, prosecutors said.</b></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Householder, a Republican, and three lobbyists have been arrested and charged. Also charged was a dark money group, Generation Now.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit;">I </span><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07032019/ohio-nuclear-bailout-firstenergy-renewable-energy-legislature-election-campaign-donations" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">wrote</a> <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31052019/ohio-nuclear-bailout-coal-plants-kills-renewable-energy-efficiency-standards" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">extensively</a> <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23072019/ohio-coal-nuclear-bailout-law-signed-cuts-renewable-energy-efficiency-programs-governor-dewine" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">about</a> the battle over the law before it was passed. With Tuesday's events, the shocking thing for me is not the brazen nature of the wrongdoing or its scale. It's that much of this scheme—most of it even—was legal and indicative of the way energy and utility policy is done in Ohio and other states.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before I started at InsideClimate News in 2018, I covered Ohio energy and utilities for <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Columbus Dispatch</em> for about a decade. I have written about this subject for long enough that I have mostly lost my ability to be shocked by the ways that utilities, legislators and regulators often solve political and financial problems by dumping costs onto the public.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The 82-page </span><a href="https://www.cleveland.com/open/2020/07/read-the-complaint-against-ohio-house-speaker-larry-householder-aide-lobbyists-charged-with-racketeering-conspiracy.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">charging document</a> from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Ohio case reads like a novel, using wiretap recordings and recovered emails and text messages to tell the story of a shameless and successful plan by an elected official to get a utility to finance his personal piggy bank in exchange for passing a bailout for that company</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Householder got $61 million. FirstEnergy got a bailout of more than $1 billion to subsidize money-losing nuclear plants, courtesy of Ohio ratepayers.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You can read the full document, and I encourage you to do so.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But here is some of what was done in public that I and other reporters thoroughly documented:</b></font></span></p><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; padding: 0px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FirstEnergy was unable to get the Ohio General Assembly and the governor to sign a nuclear plant bailout in 2017 and early 2018. So the company spent heavily on Republican primary elections in 2018 for seats in the Ohio House to elect a group of lawmakers who would support Householder's bid to become speaker and support the bailout. At least nine Householder-backed candidates won in these races, and FirstEnergy's donations were substantial and publicly reported.</font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even after helping to elect pro-Householder and pro-bailout legislators in 2018, Householder didn't have enough support in the House from Republicans to become speaker, so he approached Democrats for help. Democrats gave Householder the decisive votes to become speaker as part of an agreement in which Householder pledged not to bring forward legislation that would curb the power of labor unions, among other concessions.</font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit;">When Householder unveiled the bailout measure, </span><a href="https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-6" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">House Bill 6</a>, he surprised some environmental advocates by revealing that the bill would include a cancelation of rules that say utilities must invest in renewable energy and energy efficiency. Despite getting rid of clean energy mandates, he and his colleagues described the legislation as a "clean air" measure because the main point of the bill was to subsidize nuclear power, which has almost no emissions.</font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Supporters of the bailout bill were struggling to get the votes they needed in the Ohio House, so they amended the bill to also include a bailout of two coal-fired power plants owned by Ohio Valley Electric Corp. With this change, the clean air bill supported some of the dirtiest power on the market.</font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">bill narrowly passed in the House and Senate and was signed by Gov. Mike DeWine last summer. Immediately, a group tied to owners of competing power plants said it was launching a petition campaign to let voters decide on the law. Supporters of the bailout responded by hiring "blockers" who impeded the work of petition gatherers and a media campaign that said, without evidence, that the repeal effort was part of a plot by the Chinese government to take over Ohio's electricity supply. In the face of this opposition, the repeal campaign failed to get enough signatures.</span></font></span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The charging document tells the story of what was happening behind the scenes of the public story, how FirstEnergy's publicly reported donations was just a small part of a much larger effort carried out through dark money groups, and how Householder controlled the dark money spending even though he claimed he had no responsibility for the groups' outlandish claims and actions.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now we focus on what happens with the prosecution, and look for additional arrests, including potentially of other government or company officials.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But what risks being lost is that elected officials and a utility went through this whole process with seemingly little thought about what the energy future ought to look like, and how they can play a role in getting there.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They scrapped clean energy standards almost as an afterthought, and have yet to replace them with any sort of strategy for how Ohio's energy economy can avoid being left behind by states that have been much more aggressive in attracting jobs and projects related to solar, wind and battery storage.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-256f6770-7fff-bd01-2f20-79bc8963a19e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The alleged shenanigans of Householder and company to win an election and pass a bill have consequences that will last a few years. But the lack of a plan for the future is much more damaging, the kind of thing that could sting for generations.</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-medias-favorite-climate-contrarians-go-fox-shows-bash-bidens-climate-plan"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-medias-favorite-climate-contrarians-go-fox-shows-bash-bidens-climate-plan</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Climate contrarians Michael Shellenberger and Bjorn Lomborg both got airtime on Fox shows this week to attack Joe Biden’s recent climate plan and promote their new books, which similarly downplay the seriousness of the climate crisis. This claim is wrong, of course, and plays right into the hands of the right-wing media which is all too eager to use their message to delay necessary climate action.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3883631" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">On July 14</a>, Environmental Progress <a href="https://environmentalprogress.org/founder-president" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">founder</a> Shellenberger appeared on Fox News’ <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tucker Carlson Tonight</em> to discuss Biden’s new climate plan</b>. With his recent book <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All</em> in the background behind him, Shellenberger falsely accused renewable energy of being <a href="https://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/fy97/20505.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">costly</a> and <a href="https://www.wri.org/blog/2020/05/setting-record-straight-about-renewable-energy" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">inefficient</a>, lamented why natural gas and nuclear power weren’t taken seriously by the Biden campaign, and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">accused “United Nations officials and some scientists” of wanting to “control energy and food production around the world.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3883746" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">July 15</a>, Danish political scientist Lomborg appeared on Fox Business’ <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Varney & Co.</em> to discuss Biden’s new climate plan and to promote his new book, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet</em>. </b>He called Biden’s plan “a very poor deal” that is “phenomenally expensive,” stated that “we need to get out of this ‘<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">it’s the end of the world’ sense” on climate change, and promoted continued investment in research and development of new energy technologies as the sensible solution to climate change.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3884301" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">July 16</a>, Lomborg appeared on Fox Business’ <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Making Money with Charles Payne</em>.</b> He referred to Biden’s climate plan as “a phenomenally large cost for not very much benefit” and dismissed dire climate claims, stating that “we've been so force-fed with all these stories that are a little true and a lot of false.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Shellenberger is a <a href="https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">pro-nuclear</a> advocate who has a history of <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/09/04/why-renewables-cant-save-the-climate/#71304dd43526" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">criticizing renewable energy</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1239364394863063046" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">singing the</a> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2020/02/17/if-they-are-so-alarmed-by-climate-change-why-are-they-so-opposed-to-solving-it/#7a9875a16b75" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">praises of</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1237073310015311874" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">natural gas</a>, and pushing <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/07/shellenbergers-op-ad/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">contrarian and bad-faith views</a> about the environmental movement. He’s espoused deliberately misleading claims on recent issues including the <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/michael-shellenbergers-sloppy-forbes-diatribe-on-amazon-fires-commentary/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Amazon fires of 2019</a> and the recent <a href="https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1278080117701566464" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Australia wildfires</a></span>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Similarly, Lomborg has his own history of <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/bjorn-lomborg" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">downplaying the dangers</a> of climate change. As Media Matters <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/climate-deniers/dallas-morning-news-editorial-board-conducted-rare-climate-change-focused-qa" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">wrote last year</a>, he’s “been long discredited within the climate science community,” including being “caught downplaying the risks of sea level rise and even misrepresenting Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports.” His claim to fame, the book <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Skeptical Environmentalist</em>, was so riddled with errors that a Danish government committee found him <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jan/09/highereducation.science" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">guilty of “scientific dishonesty</a>,” and a website was <a href="http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">created specifically to debunk</a> these errors.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Neither of these individuals, of course, are climate scientists.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Their appearances on Fox shows, which have been <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/commentary/2019/12/03/how-fox-news-is-helping-to-destroy-the-planet" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">notorious purveyors of climate misinformation</a>, were the culmination of a slew of op-eds and appearances by Shellenberger and Lomborg in various right-wing media outlets. Although their arguments have been picked apart by actual climate experts, that won’t stop right-wing media from using their works to continue pushing for delay on climate action.</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Both books are being heavily promoted by climate deniers and right-wing media</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger has <a href="https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1277651999593381889" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claimed</a>, “No book on the environment has ever been praised by a more prestigious group of scientists & scholars than ‘Apocalypse Never.’” However, a look at the discourse surrounding his book showed that the praise largely came from climate skeptics within right-wing media.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In the days before and after the release of his book on June 29, climate denier and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/two-foxs-favorite-climate-deniers-testified-congress-un-extinction-report" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Fox News staple</a> Marc Morano </b><a href="https://twitter.com/ClimateDepot/status/1277587370532052999" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">praised</a> Shellenberger, <a href="https://twitter.com/ClimateDepot/status/1276844518919278593" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">lumping</a> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Apocalypse Never</em>, in with another set of contrarian climate works as “A Winning Trifecta for Climate Science & Rationality.” </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/committee-constructive-tomorrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">conservative, climate-denying</a> Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow <b>(CFACT</b>) <a href="https://twitter.com/CFACT/status/1277652009399783425" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">shared</a> an op-ed Shellenberger wrote for Forbes that teased some of the arguments made in the book -- the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> article has since been taken down by Forbes due to violating its <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/04/the-environmentalists-apology-how-michael-shellenberger-unsettled-some-of-his-prominent-supporters" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">standards of self-promotion</a> (and not, <a href="https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1277611390195216390" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">as Shellenberger has claimed</a>, due to censorship). </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://polluterwatch.org/CO2-Coalition" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">climate-denying</a> <b>CO2 Coalition</b> also <a href="https://twitter.com/CO2Coalition/status/1275169167377907712" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">tweeted</a> in support of his new book.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Breitbart </b><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2020/06/29/prominent-environmental-activist-michael-shellenberger-apologizes-for-climate-scare/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">wrote an article</a> on it, and noted how Shellenberger “issued a public apology for the unfounded panic caused by environmentalists over the fabricated horrors of global warming.” This was followed by a fawning profile of Shellenberger’s claims by <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/30/delingpole-forbes-cancels-environmentalist-who-wrote-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">James Delingpole</a>, who has <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/james-delingpole" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">called</a> climate change “the biggest scam in the history of the world.” </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jack Posobiec, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/jack-posobiec" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist</a> with white supremacist ties, called Shellenberger’s book “<a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1277946457216122880" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">really a big deal</a>.” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shellenberger-on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">republished</a> an excerpt of his since-deleted Forbes article in which, “on behalf of environmentalists,” he apologizes for the “climate scare.” </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1277747432319827975" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Zero Hedge</a>, whose recent climate screeds have included “<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/global-warming-fraud-exposed-pictures" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Global Warming Fraud Exposed In Pictures</a>” and “<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-02-12/climate-change-real-its-manufactured-weather-new-battlefield" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Climate Change is real, but its manufactured. Weather is the new battlefield</a>,” also <a href="https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1277747432319827975" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">tweeted about Forbes’ removal</a> of Shellenberger’s piece. Finally, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/video/sen-ted-cruz-claims-the-data-are-mixed-on-climate-change-70172741957" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">recently</a> <a href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/settled-science-basic.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">and falsely</a> claimed that “the data are mixed” on climate change, <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1275130423035789312" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">tweeted</a> a Wall Street Journal review that praised Shellenberger’s book, calling it “worth reading.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Prior to appearing on Fox News, Shellenberger made the conservative media rounds, appearing on <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blazetv" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Glenn Beck’s</a> right-wing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvPCDgEzCuc&t=1517s" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">BlazeTV</a>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU_YgXnle1k" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">The Federalist Radio Hour</a></em> podcast, the Murdoch-owned <a href="https://www.skynews.com.au/details/6168491756001" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Sky News Australia</a>, and the podcast of The <a href="https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/heartland-interviews-michael-shellenberger-on-his-new-book-apocalypse-never" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Heartland Institute</a>, a group that has “<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">been at the forefront</a> of denying the scientific evidence for man-made climate change.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Lomborg’s book, published roughly two weeks after Shellenberger’s, has also run the right-wing media gamut</b>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He published op-eds in both the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/11/how-climate-change-alarmists-are-actually-damaging-the-planet/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">New York Post</a> and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-lockdowns-lessons-for-climate-activism-11594440061" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">The Wall Street Journal</a>. His book has been promoted by <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/bjorn-lomborgs-false-alarm-brings-reason-to-the-climate-change-debate_3405697.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">The Epoch Times</a>, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/a-cartoonists-nihilistic-defense-of-donald-trump/537297/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">nihilistic Trump defender</a> <a href="https://www.scottadamssays.com/2020/07/15/episode-1058-scott-adams-part1-talking-with-bjorn-lomborg-about-his-book-false-alarm-plus-ridiculous-news/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Scott Adams</a>, and Climate Depot’s <a href="https://twitter.com/ClimateDepot/status/1276844518919278593" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Morano</a>. He conducted an <a href="https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1283799388071104513" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">interview</a> with uber-conservative radio host and <a href="https://features.weather.com/course-climate-misinformation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">major climate misinformer</a> Dennis Prager on July 16, and he is <a href="https://twitter.com/ceidotorg/status/1283089987664134144" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">scheduled</a> to discuss his book on July 23 with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a group with a <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">long history</a> of fossil-fuel backed climate denial.</span></font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Actual experts have thoroughly debunked Shellenberger and Lomborg’s arguments</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shellenberger’s Forbes article was <a href="https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/article-by-michael-shellenberger-mixes-accurate-and-inaccurate-claims-in-support-of-a-misleading-and-overly-simplistic-argumentation-about-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">admonished by seven climate scientists</a> at Climate Feedback, which <a href="https://climatefeedback.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">bills itself</a> as “a worldwide network of scientists sorting fact from fiction in climate change media coverage.” They referred to many of Shellenberger’s claims as “inaccurate” and made “in support of a misleading and overly simplistic argumentation about climate change.” Climate scientist Peter Gleick reviewed Shellenberger’s book for Yale Climate Connections, calling it “<a href="https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/07/review-bad-science-and-bad-arguments-abound-in-apocalypse-never/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">bad science and bad arguments</a>,” and noted its propensity for “strawman arguments, cherry-picking facts, and ad hominem attacks on scientists, media, others.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Lomborg’s book was given a <a href="https://twitter.com/jswatz/status/1283731552988475393" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">scathing review</a> in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/books/review/bjorn-lomborg-false-alarm-joseph-stiglitz.html?smid=tw-share" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">The New York Times</a> by Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, </b>noting the “many contradictions within the book” and taking to task his “underestimation of the damage associated with climate change.” (Indeed, during Lomborg’s appearances on both <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3883746" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Varney & Co.</a> </em>and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3884301" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Making Money with Charles Payne</em></a>, he did not once mention the cost of inaction on climate change, which is estimated to be <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/moodys-analytics-says-climate-change-could-cost-69-trillion-by-2100/2019/07/02/f9fb94ac-99cb-11e9-916d-9c61607d8190_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">many trillions of dollars</a> -- <a href="https://skepticalscience.com/graphics.php?g=11" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">much greater than actually taking action</a>.) The Times’ review closed by saying “Lomborg’s work would be downright dangerous were it to succeed in persuading anyone that there was merit in its arguments.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unfortunately, climate deniers within right-wing media are all too eager to use these false arguments to contradict the prevailing scientific consensus: <a href="https://www.un.org/press/en/2019/ga12131.doc.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Bold and immediate climate action</a> is necessary if we want to maintain a livable climate.</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These false claims play right into the hands of those who want to delay climate action</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The arguments made by Lomborg and Shellenberger -- who both identify themselves as environmentalists and acknowledge the reality of man-made climate change -- represent a very insidious form of climate skepticism. Doubting the urgency of climate change is one of the <a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-climate-change-misinformation-spreads-online" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">three main themes</a> of spreading climate misinformation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Shellenberger here is just following in the footsteps of Lomborg, who has been at this schtick for years (and <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2014/06/25/millions-behind-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">making a lot of money</a> in the process).</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But Shellenberger’s case is particularly egregious because he took the authority to speak on behalf of the entire environmental movement. By painting himself as some sort of reformed environmentalist, he gains a lot of credibility and legitimacy with his readers who either outright deny climate change or are skeptical about it in the first place.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In fact, Shellenberger’s book was explicitly tailored for climate skeptics -- as journalist and meteorologist Eric Holthaus <a href="https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/1279149494693769216" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">pointed out</a>, Shellenberger’s publicist admitted that the book’s purpose was to get “people to think of climate change as a ‘100 year problem’ not a ‘10 year problem.’” Obviously, climate change is a <a href="https://time.com/5418134/ipcc-climate-change-report-2030-crisis/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">serious problem that needs to be taken care of right now</a> -- to argue otherwise is to encourage inaction on the issue.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By appearing on Fox to promote their books, they are just showing who their true audience really is -- those who want to kick the can down the road and avoid taking necessary action to address climate change.</font></p></div></div></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/05/01/fossil-fuel-backed-climate-deniers-rush-promote-michael-moore-planet-of-humans" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/05/01/fossil-fuel-backed-climate-deniers-rush-promote-michael-moore-planet-of-humans</font></a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Climate science deniers and long-time opponents of renewable energy, many with ties to oil and gas companies, have seized on Michael Moore’s latest documentary to argue the case for continued fossil fuel dependence.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Planet of the Humans investigates the environmental footprint of renewable technologies such as wind, solar and biomass, and argues that the green movement has sold out to corporate interests. The documentary has been viewed over five million times on YouTube since its release last week to coincide with the 50<span style="line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</span> Anniversary of Earth Day.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the film, produced by Moore and written and directed by his long-time collaborator Jeff Gibbs, has been widely <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/4/28/21238597/michael-moore-planet-of-the-humans-climate-change" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">criticised</a> by energy and climate experts, who say it fails to provide context on the benefits of renewable energy and the negative impacts of fossil fuels, and is based on out-of-date information.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A group of environmentalists and climate scientists, including Professor of Atmospheric Science <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Michael Mann, who was this week <a href="https://news.psu.edu/story/617687/2020/04/28/research/mann-elected-national-academy-sciences" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">elected</a> to the National Academy of Sciences,</span> has described the documentary as “shockingly misleading” and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/28/climate-dangerous-documentary-planet-of-the-humans-michael-moore-taken-down" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">called</a> for it to be withdrawn.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In contrast, the film has been heavily promoted in recent days by commentators known for their rejection of mainstream climate science and support for fossil fuels, including some with direct ties to the industry.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the film’s anti-economic growth and population control message has not appealed to the free-market philosophies of many of these commentators, its criticism of renewables struck a chord, with the narratives used generally taking one of three forms.</font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="quo">‘</span>Renewables are ineffective and more damaging than fossil fuels and nuclear’</font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The <span class="caps">US</span>-based libertarian <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Heartland Institute</a>, which hosts “counter-summits” alongside <span class="caps">UN</span> climate conferences and has taken funding from fossil fuel interests including oil major ExxonMobil, was quick to <a href="https://www.heartland.org/multimedia/podcasts/in-the-tank-ep240--review-michael-moores-planet-of-the-humans" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">host</a> a podcast episode dedicated to Moore’s documentary.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One of the Heartland employees contributing to the podcast praised it for doing a “really good job of ticking off all the downsides” to renewables, which he claimed were the “least efficient way that you can try to generate electricity”.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Another said the “green weenies” could have “learned all of this stuff about the folly of wind and solar” by “coming to Heartland Institute conferences and reading our website”.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/myron-ebell" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Myron Ebell</a>, Director of Energy and Environment at the free-market <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> and a regular speaker at Heartland conferences, has written a <a href="https://cei.org/blog/hurry-see-planet-humans-it%E2%80%99s-banned" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">blog</a> lauding the film.</span> In the article, since reposted by the <span class="caps">UK</span>-based climate science denial campaign group the <b><a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/global-warming-policy-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">Global Warming Policy Foundation</a>, </b>Ebell claims the film “exposes” every type of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">green energy as “phony, useless, and inextricably dependent on fossil fuel production and large-scale hardrock mining”.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Both Heartland and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has similarly received funding from Exxon and the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-family-foundations" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Koch family</a>, owners of the largest privately owned oil company in the <span class="caps">US</span>, have <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/05/10/conservative-groups-pushing-trump-exit-paris-deal-have-taken-millions-koch-brothers-and-exxon" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">sought</a> to pressure <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/donald-trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Donald Trump</a> into removing the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change action.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmental commentator and nuclear enthusiast Michael Shellenberger also reacted positively to Moore’s film, <a href="https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1252667741372211200" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">tweeting</a> that it proves “renewables are worse for environment than fossil fuels”.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Environmental commentator and nuclear enthusiast Michael Shellenberger also reacted positively to Moore’s film, tweeting that it proves “renewables are worse for environment than fossil fuels”.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>In a column for Forbes, he argued that nuclear was the only answer to our energy needs,</b> claiming solar panels require more materials to build and create more waste than nuclear plants. While solar panels can create a certain amount of potentially hazardous waste, around 80% of a panel is recyclable and solutions are being developed for the remaining materials.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Later interviewed by Sky News Australia’s Andrew Bolt,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> who has been criticised for repeatedly dismissing mainstream climate science, Shellenberger claimed most countries would need to use roughly 50% of their land to produce 100% renewable energy. Many studies have found the figure to be considerably lower.</span></b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The far-right news website Breitbart similarly claimed the documentary reveals that the solar and wind industries “pretend to be saving the planet from climate change while consuming more fossil fuels than they save”, despite research showing their carbon footprint to be many times lower.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the UK, pro-Trump commentator <b>James Delingpole </b>wrote on the same website that Moore’s documentary was the “most powerful, brutally honest and important documentary of his career”.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He said it “clearly shows that renewable energy is damaging to the landscape and to wildlife and does NOT reduce the use of fossil fuels”. He suggested it could help Trump win the upcoming US election because it “undermines the entire basis of the Green New Deal” advocated by some Democrats. Elsewhere, Delingpole has called Moore his “new hero” and praised the film for “causing greenie heads to explode”.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Breitbart News, whose UK branch Delingpole edits, was co-founded by Steve Bannon, former White House Chief Strategist for Donald Trump, and board member of scandal-hit political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica were both financially backed by long-standing funders of climate science denial, the Mercer Family.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Matt Ridley, an author and former chairman of the Northern Rock bank, whose collapse precipitated the 2008 financial crash in the UK, has also applauded Planet of the Humans</b> for being “extremely critical of the green renewable energy industry, saying it’s just as industrial as the fossil fuel industry, in fact it’s dependent on it”.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Speaking in a webinar organised by the British Conservation Alliance, a student network that describes itself as the “home of conservative climate solutions”, Ridley, who has a coal mine on his family estate, said you “simply cannot run a modern economy on wind or solar because there just isn’t enough space for putting up the panels or the windmills. And there isn’t enough resources.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">‘Renewable energy is a profit-driven scam and the environmental movement is corrupt’</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">These groups and individuals have also used the film to promote the narrative that renewable energy is a scam, backed by crony capitalists colluding with environmentalists.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In his blog about the film, the<b> Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Myron Ebell </b>called it a “stunning evisceration of so-called green energy and the people profiting from it”.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Moore’s documentary was also the subject of an interview by the Canadian far-right news site Rebel News with Marc Morano, Communications Director of <b>CFACT</b>, a Washington-based free-market think tank that has claimed carbon dioxide is a “harmless trace essential gas in the atmosphere”.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Morano called Planet of the Humans an “amazing film”</b> during the interview with host Ezra Levant, with the only downside being that Moore “believes in climate alarmism severely”.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Asked by Rebel News host Ezra Levant whether Moore produced the documentary because “he hated the fact these billionaires were tricking everyone”, Morano said the filmmaker “sees all the con that they’re doing and who’s profiting and who’s making money”. CFACT has taken funding from ExxonMobil and billionaire industrialists the Koch brothers.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A similar narrative was used by Robert Bradley Jr, founder of the Koch-funded<b> Institute for Energy Research,</b> when pre-release screenings of the documentary took place last summer.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>In a blog post for a pro-fracking website Natural Gas Now, Bradley Jr described renewables as “mostly a hedge-fund scam”.</b> The Pennsylvania-based Natural Gas Now is run by Tom Shepstone, a former employee of<b> Energy in Depth, a PR campaign launched by the Independent Petroleum Association of America</b> to promote fracking, with funding from oil majors including Shell, BP and Chevron.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">In Australia, Sky News’ Andrew Bolt </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">highlighted a scene from the documentary showing corporate executives awkwardly trying to explain where the energy for the electric vehicles they were promoting was coming from.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Bolt assured viewers he didn’t agree with many of the points the film makes, but nonetheless claimed “all this effort of green power, all this expense, is for next to nothing”, despite studies repeatedly finding that electric vehicles reduce emissions even in heavily coal-dependent power grids.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Another presenter on the same channel, Rowan Dean, similarly described renewables as a “hoax”.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In Canada, Terence Corcoran, comment editor for the Financial Post section of the <b>Toronto-based National Post</b>, said Moore’s film showed green energy was a “giant capitalist fraud” and should be the “hottest doc of the year”.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Corcoran has previously dismissed warnings about climate change from the UN and downplayed threats the Arctic, criticising the “sensational language in the media and elsewhere that implies the Arctic is heading into some kind of oblivion. A changing Canadian Arctic might even be good.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>In the UK, James Delingpole wrote on Breitbart that renewables were “a monstrous, dirty, ugly scam, orchestrated by a cynical few at the expense of the many”</b>, while Andrew Montford, Deputy Director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, tweeted that the documentary showed “the green movement is just a way to make a few dishonest capitalists very rich. Greens have been lying to everyone for 25 years”. The GWPF refuses to disclose its sources of funding, but has been revealed to be bankrolled by a number of wealthy donors, many of which financially supported the UK’s pro-Brexit campaign, including billionaire hedge fund manager Michael Hintze and currency trader Neil Record.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">‘Environmentalists are now trying to cover up the truth’</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Following the call from some environmentalists to have the film removed, opponents of climate action have since accused them of censorship.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The GWPF’s Montford tweeted in response: “You know the Michael Moore film is right about renewables because the greens are trying to have it taken down rather than arguing their case. Just as they always do”.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Another GWPF employee, Harry Wilkinson, Head of Policy at the organisation’s campaign wing, tweeted: “This is a classic. The Guardian endorse censoring a film exposing the environmental consequences of renewables, labelling it 'full of misinformation'. But fail to identify a single inaccurate fact in the documentary.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The letter, organised by the director of the anti-fracking documentary Gasland, Josh Fox, and co-signed by climate scientist Michael Mann among others, said Moore’s film “trades in debunked fossil fuel industry talking points” and “ignores the last ten years of peer-reviewed renewable energy planning and policy”</b>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the US, an article on the film in the Daily Caller, founded by Fox News host Tucker Carlson and majority funded by the Charles Koch Foundation, reported that climate activists had failed to “browbeat” the Films for Action website, which is hosting the documentary in addition to YouTube, into taking down the film. The article was reposted by the popular climate science denial blog, Watts Up With That?</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sky News Austrlia’s Chris Kenny also hinted that Australia’s public broadcaster ABC was deliberately burying the film, stating: “it seems the ABC has forgotten about Mike Moore and this film. Last I checked they hadn't reported on it at all. It seems to present too many inconvenient truths.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The ABC was widely praised for its coverage of the Australian wildfires at the beginning of the 2020, while Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which owns Sky News Australia, was criticised for its “irresponsible” coverage of the fires</b>. Murdoch’s son James said he was “disappointed” with the media company’s climate science denial and a News Corp employee resigned saying she could no longer work for an organisation that she claimed was running a “misinformation campaign” around the wildfires.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Criticism of the film</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dana Nuccitelli,<b> Yale Climate Connections:</b> “Michael Moore's 'Planet of the Humans' documentary peddles dangerous climate denial”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ketan Joshi: “Planet of the humans: A reheated mess of lazy, old myths”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Leah C. Stokes<b>, Vox: “M</b>ichael Moore produced a film about climate change that’s a gift to Big Oil”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dan Gearino<b>, Inside Climate News: “</b>Inside Clean Energy: 6 Things Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ Gets Wrong”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Brian Kahn,<b> Gizmodo: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Planet of the Humans Comes This Close to Actually Getting the Real Problem, Then Goes Full Ecofascism”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Siegel, Get Energy Smart Now: “Planet of The Humans: An Annotated Collection“ </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-melts-down-over-bidens-climate-speech"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-melts-down-over-bidens-climate-speech</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">fox News melts down over Biden’s climate speech</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The network continues its toxic rhetoric against climate action</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Special PROGRAMS</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CLIMATE & ENERGY</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WRITTEN BY ALLISON FISHER, EVLONDO COOPER & TED MACDONALD</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Tuesday, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden unveiled his revamped climate plan, which now calls for a $2 trillion investment in clean energy over four years with a goal of getting the U.S. to run on 100% clean electricity by 2035.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since the release of the climate plan yesterday, six Fox programs, The Daily Briefing, Bill Hemmer Reports, The Five, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox & Friends, and Fox News @ Night have discussed it -- and they have covered it exactly how you think they would. </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The plan triggered the usual hysterical claims by Fox anchors, hosts, and their guests about any policy or plan related to the reduction of carbon emissions: It’s part of a radical agenda, based on climate alarmism, pushed by extreme elements of the Democratic Party that will devastate the U.S. economy.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Or the shorthand of that narrative: the Green New Deal.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All six programs invoked this narrative while providing little substance around the goals of the plan or the multiple crises it’s intended to address including climate change, the country’s aging and toxic infrastructure, and mass unemployment.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three programs -- Bill Hemmer Reports, Tucker Carlson Tonight, and Fox News @ Night -- brought on guests to discuss the plan. But these discussions were lousy with falsehoods and agenda pushing.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox “news side” kicks off the dishonest attacks on Biden’s climate plan </b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a well-worn routine, the Fox “news” team provided the network’s right-wing stars with an opportunity to opine about the news of the day, which in this instance was Biden’s climate plan. <b>The network’s “straight news” anchors have not been honest brokers on climate change and energy; yesterday was no exception.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino, which carried live Biden’s speech introducing the plan, invited anchor Bret Baier to weigh in on it.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Although Baier, in particular, has a reputation for not being as bad on climate issues as some of the more explicit climate deniers on the network, he has given climate skeptics a platform to attack climate science and climate action, often with very little pushback. Baier was the first person to disingenuously label Biden’s plan “a light green new deal that would still have a big government price tag to it.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video file</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the July 14, 2020, edition of The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bill Hemmer, who took over former-anchor Shepard Smith’s news hour timeslot in January, told the Associated Press, “I’m much more comfortable in this news lane than I would ever be as an opinion anchor.”<b> But during yesterday’s episode of Bill Hemmer Reports, the anchor allowed network correspondent Peter Doocy to read the Republican National Committee’s response to Biden’s climate plan with no pushback or contextualization. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hemmer’s subsequent questions to Biden surrogate Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) adopted a right-wing framing about the costs of climate action rather than the costs of inaction.[// lomborg/shill]</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video file</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the July 14, 2020, edition of Bill Hemmer Reports</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With that, the “news” side had laid the groundwork for the “opinion” side to further distort Biden’s climate plan, which Fox figures did with abandon (more on this below). After the opinion hosts were done for the night, “straight news” anchor Shannon Bream allowed Larry Kudlow, director of the Trump administration’s National Economic Council, to lie about Biden’s climate plan with only the most cursory pushback.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video file</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the July 14, 2020, edition of Fox News at Night</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox News’ opinion hosts use Biden’s climate plan to beat the Green New Deal drum</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For over a year, while other TV news networks have dropped the ball on articulating what the Green New Deal is and what it would accomplish, Fox News has been hammering the same messaging -- tethering the proposal to radical socialism, climate alarmism, and economic devastation, while vilifying those who champion it.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As a result, for Fox viewers, the Green New Deal has become synonymous with extreme socialism manifested by a fake climate crisis. The network’s opinion show hosts readily invoke the Green New Deal every chance they get.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As The New Times noted, right-wing media, in addition to Republican lawmakers and the Trump campaign, “have also labeled virtually every climate change effort as part of the Green New Deal — an ambitious plan championed by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, both democratic socialist — whether they are part of the proposal or not.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Biden’s climate plan is no exception.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox’s The Five was the first opinion program to air after Biden's live speech, and co-hosts Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters both invoked the Green New Deal and its chief architects in an effort to align Biden and his plan with socialism and climate alarmism:</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the July 14, 2020, edition of Fox News' The Five </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, whose July 14 edition was guest hosted by Brian Kilmeade invited discredited and self-proclaimed “environmentalist” Michael Shellenberger to respond to the plan.</b> In their exchange, Kilmeade suggested that the plan must have been penned by more radical elements of the Democratic Party to which Shellenberger agreed: </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BRIAN KILMEADE (GUEST HOST): Michael, who is writing this stuff? There is a presumption that we heard Jay Inslee talk about, we heard Elizabeth Warren talk about. This has never been part of Joe Biden's agenda. Since when?</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MICHAEL SHELLENGERGER: That's probably fair. …<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> I just think that the radical left has just taken a big part of the Democratic Party. One of the things that I was really surprised to discover in researching Apocalypse Never is that really it’s just about a dozen people that were major donors to President Obama who benefited the most from really about 90 billion in subsidies, in taxpayer subsidies.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kilmeade ramped up his rhetoric even more the next morning while hosting Fox & Friends, claiming that Biden’s plan is based on the idea that the climate crisis, if left unchecked, will mean the end of the world in nine years:</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video file</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the July 15, 2020, edition of Fox & Friends</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prime-time host Sean Hannity did not mention Biden’s climate plan explicitly on his eponymous show last night. But during a rant directed at the presidential candidate, Hannity summarized the Green New Deal narrative with precision and demonstrated how foundational it has become to the network’s campaign against the Democratic Party. <b>Hannity claimed that Biden “has taken his cues from the most radical, the most extreme socialist extremist that this party has ever embraced,’ including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY):</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video file</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video Player</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CitationFrom the July 14, 2020, edition of Hannity</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox guests push bad faith arguments and falsehoods</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox’s guests invoked bad-faith arguments and misinformation to criticize Biden’s climate plan. On Bill Hemmer Reports, longtime Republican operative <b>Karl Rove</b>sidestepped the actual details of Biden’s plan to focus on fracking, which he said that Biden has “endorsed the immediate end” of. Biden’s plan makes no mention of fracking, while Biden himself has not called for a ban on it. In Rove’s mind, only jobs in the fossil fuel industry matter -- despite the fact that clean energy jobs “outnumber fossil fuels jobs nearly three to one.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Larry Kudlow,</b> appearing on Fox News @ Night, generally echoed Rove. He lamented the loss of natural gas, coal, and oil, and failed to mention the climate catastrophe that mining and using these products are getting us to. And again, he ignored the millions of jobs that Biden’s climate plan intends to create.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More natural gas hype occurred on the July 15 edition of Fox & Friends. Texas Republican congressional candidate Wesley Hunt misleadingly categorized fracking as a technology that made the U.S. energy independent; falsely stated that “we’re doing just fine” through fracking; and repeated the age-old Republican mantra of “innovate for the future” to reduce carbon footprint. In reality, “innovation” to Republicans is just a way to continue burning fossil fuels and worsen climate change.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">On Tucker Carlson Tonight, guest-host Kilmeade hosted Michael Shellenberger to</span> criticize the Biden climate plan</b>. Shellenberger, a pro-nuclear activist who has a history of pushing contrarian and bad-faith views about the environmental movement, mentioned a high price tag of renewable energy, even though renewable energy prices are at record lows, even lower than those of fossil fuel and nuclear. He also exaggerated fracking and nuclear power as a climate solution. While replacing coal with natural gas has led to lower U.S. carbon emissions, natural gas is still an incredibly dirty energy source, and its continued usage will be a disaster for climate change. Nuclear power generation, which is incredibly expensive, is also mentioned in Biden’s climate plan, making Shellenberger’s hand-wringing over the issue unnecessary.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox News is a key cog in the right-wing climate misinformation network</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox has played a critical role in undermining the public consensus around climate change by eroding the trust of its viewers in climate scientists and scientific institutions. According to a study by the Union of Concerned Scientists, 72% of Fox News segments about climate science in 2013 “contained misleading statements.”</span> Since then, the network has continued to parade a coterie of network personalities, fringe cranks, and conspiracy theorists to push misinformation about climate change and thwart climate action.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In 2018, “climate denial claims dominated 86% of climate change segments on Fox News,” according to progressive nonprofit think tank Public Citizen.</b> And, in 2019, Fox’s climate denial reached unhinged new levels even as global temperatures reached record heights, natural disasters wreaked havoc on the most marginalized populations, and youth environmental activism sparked large-scale protests around the world.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the general election campaign ramps up, Fox will continue going to great lengths to avoid having good-faith discussions about tackling the climate crisis. By painting any climate proposal as absurd and ignoring President Donald Trump’s climate denial and ongoing assault on environmental protections, Fox aims to fulfill its role as a propaganda machine for the Trump administration and the fossil fuel industry that is “reaping a regulatory windfall” during his presidential term.</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>=</b></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">aha nan J 1st good poster child?  he was pioneer in terms of PIC and EJ; SCALP he was the last victim of anti-commie rhet? anticipated GREEN NEW DEAL</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">shillenberger? renta-tom</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">kinda // to franken and eric s metoo did not fight?</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></font></font></p></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1 link?</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/how-ohios-fascist-pro-nuke-attack-on-democracy-threatens-the-referendum-process-across-the-nation/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/how-ohios-fascist-pro-nuke-attack-on-democracy-threatens-the-referendum-process-across-the-nation/</font></a></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>How Ohio’s fascist pro-nuke attack on democracy threatens the referendum process across the nation</b></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Harvey Wasserman / Common Dreams October 20, 2019</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A terrifying series of gestapo-style assaults, petiton buying, bribery, mass media manipulation and systematic intimidation has smacked into the attempt of Ohio citizens to repeal a billion-dollar bailout for two dangerously failing atomic reactors on Lake Erie.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The unprecedented assault threatens the referendum process in Ohio and across the nation.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It also threatens to keep on line two very old, dangerously decayed reactors where melt-downs and explosions could forever contaminate the Great Lakes region and more. (For a full explanation, hear this one-hour discussion).</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The story may end Monday, October 21, when signatures are due to qualify an anti-nuclear referendum for the fall 2020 ballot.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It begins with the July passage by the <b>gerrymandered Ohio Legislature </b>of HB6, a massive bailout scheme designed to subsidize the Perry and Davis-Besse nukes, plus two fifty-year-old coal burners, one of them in Indiana. HB6 does support ten small solar facilities. But it also kills an extremely popular, effective energy efficiency program along with larger subsidies for wind and solar energy in general.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The bailout is vehemently opposed by a large majority of Ohioans, including most of its usually pro-corporate media. Commercial, industrial and environmental groups did mount a massive campaign meant to stop the bill from passing. But with help from Democrats in both houses, the Legislature narrowly approved the bailouts.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Almost immediately, a referendum was filed for repeal. With 265,000 signatures due by October 21, Ohioans Against Corporate Bailouts began hiring canvassers.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Ohio’s GOP Secretary of State delayed the process as long as possible. He waiting a full 20 days before turning down the first petition submission. He then waited another 20 to certify the second.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But as soon as the referendum supporters began gathering signatures, pro-nuke forces attacked with a fascist assault unlike any other in US history.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">First they began running an astonishing wave of TV ads claiming the<b> referendum was a plot by Chinese Communists to take over Ohio’s electrical grid</b>. The ads feature (they are still running!) hordes of goose-stepping Chinese soldiers, sinister footage of China’s dictator, shuttered US factories, and more.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Accompanied by high-gloss mass mailings,</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">the pro-nuke forces are also running saturation radio ads warning Ohioans to shun all signature gatherers lest they be tracked by sinister communists out to ruin their lives and credit. A toll-free number is offered to those willing to call in the location of any repeal supporters.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But the pro-nuke gestapo has also leapt from mere media manipulation to physical intimidation. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When the referendum-gatherers hit the streets, they were confronted by industry “blockers” to tangibly prevent them from doing their job. In one case (as filmed on a security camera) a blocker smacked the cell phone out of the hands of a signature gatherer as he tried to photograph her. Gatherers have widely reported close-up verbal assaults. In some cases as many as three paid blockers have surrounded a single signature gatherer to prevent anyone from coming near to signing a petition.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Because many of the signature gatherers are hired employees, they’re required to register contact information with the state. The pro-nuke mob has assaulted them with threatening phone calls. In some cases they’ve reportedly offered substantial cash payments and airline tickets if they leave the state. One signature gatherer reported being offered $2500 (!) for the day’s accumulated sign-up sheets, which would presumably then be shredded.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Under the circumstances, many now wonder if the pro-referendum forces have been able to accumulate the required 265,000 signatures, plus the many more needed for a traditional cushion. The Republican Secretary of State is certain to discard as many signatures as he can, especially with the micro-managed scrutiny of the nuclear industry.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It could also mean two old, uncompetitive, uninsured, un-inspected crumbling atomic reactors highly likely to explode will continue to threaten the entire Great Lakes region for years to come.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">nukes: there's a weird nerdy techo-optimist mansplaining aspect to this? if you irrational girly treehuggers would just man up, we could solve all our energy problems.
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/07/11/quake-make-los-angeles-radioactive-dead-zone">https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/07/11/quake-make-los-angeles-radioactive-dead-zone</a></font></font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/moscow-nuclear-power-protest-2639327154.html">https://www.ecowatch.com/moscow-nuclear-power-protest-2639327154.html</a></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Their signs read "We want to live!" and "Road to Death," and many bear the bright yellow symbol warning of radiation. On Monday, several hundred protesters gathered in the south of <b>Moscow</b> outside residential housing blocks that overlook a </span><a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/nuclear" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">nuclear</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> waste site.</span></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">L<span style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">awmakers in Ohio yesterday took decisive action to save the state's nuclear power plants, </span></font></b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">giving momentum to efforts to defend and expand nuclear energy globally.</font></b></span><article-body-container ngcontent-c10="" _nghost-c15="" class="article-body fs-article fs-responsive-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px; max-width: initial; display: block; margin-top: 16px; position: relative; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><div _ngcontent-c15="" class="article-container color-body font-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div _ngcontent-c15="" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 584.594px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On October 20, pro-nuclear activists will "Stand Up for Nuclear" in actions in capitals around the world, building on the momentum started with <a href="https://nuclear-pride.eu/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://nuclear-pride.eu/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Nuclear Pride Fests </a>in Munich last October and in Brussels this spring.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since 2016, pro-nuclear advocates have won major victories saving or expanding nuclear in <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2016/8/1/important-new-york-victory-shows-nuclear-still-has-a-long-way" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2016/8/1/important-new-york-victory-shows-nuclear-still-has-a-long-way" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">New York</a>, <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2016/12/1/big-illinois-nuclear-victory-shows-why-both-pro-anti-nuclear-groups-must-change" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2016/12/1/big-illinois-nuclear-victory-shows-why-both-pro-anti-nuclear-groups-must-change" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Illinois</a>, <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/10/19/victory-pro-nuclear-win-in-south-korea-gives-momentum-to-atomic-humanists-everywhere" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/10/19/victory-pro-nuclear-win-in-south-korea-gives-momentum-to-atomic-humanists-everywhere" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">South Korea</a>, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/11/24/pro-nuclear-activists-win-landslide-electoral-victory-in-taiwan/#4854d53829a0" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/11/24/pro-nuclear-activists-win-landslide-electoral-victory-in-taiwan/#4854d53829a0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Taiwan</a>, <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2018/4/12/pro-nuclear-victory-in-new-jersey-but-at-the-cost-of-a-hefty-new-subsidy-for-solar" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2018/4/12/pro-nuclear-victory-in-new-jersey-but-at-the-cost-of-a-hefty-new-subsidy-for-solar" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">New Jersey</a>, <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/10/31/another-atomic-humanist-victory-this-time-in-connecticut-usa" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/10/31/another-atomic-humanist-victory-this-time-in-connecticut-usa" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Connecticut</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A majority of lawmakers in the Netherlands <a href="https://nltimes.nl/2018/11/07/majority-dutch-parliament-supports-building-nuclear-plants" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://nltimes.nl/2018/11/07/majority-dutch-parliament-supports-building-nuclear-plants" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">want</a> to build more nuclear plants, and Dilan Yesilgoz, the chairperson of the climate and energy committee for the VVD, the largest political party in the Netherlands, recently passed legislation that could open the door to more nuclear.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;" /><p style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Voters in Taiwan <a href="http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201907030023.aspx" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201907030023.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">will</a> likely to elect a new, pro-nuclear president next January, and pass pro-nuclear ballot initiatives, which would re-start closed nuclear power plants.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In South Korea, a public opinion survey by Gallup <a href="https://pulsenews.co.kr/view.php?year=2018&no=724477" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://pulsenews.co.kr/view.php?year=2018&no=724477" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">found</a> that 70% of voters now oppose the government's phase-out of nuclear energy, which has increased electricity prices, air pollution, and the country's use of coal and natural gas.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Around the world, the public and lawmakers express growing concern that their nations will become too dependent on natural gas.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">I testified before the Ohio legislature four times since 2016 and each time found lawmakers worried that, with coal plants closing, their state might become wholly dependent on natural gas.[who invited? get trans?]</font></p><p class="p-text" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Our goal all along has been to save the nuclear plants, save the jobs but also to keep the cost of energy down for the ratepayer," Ohio's governor <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/23/ohio-nuclear-bailout-set-final-vote/1802640001/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/23/ohio-nuclear-bailout-set-final-vote/1802640001/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">said</a>.[NO MENTION OF BAILLOUT BOOST RATES?]</font></p><p class="p-text" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The worry is more acute in Asia and Europe, where nations must import their natural gas from abroad.</font></p><p class="p-text" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When I visited Belgium in February, the leadership of the nation's largest political party forcefully <a href="https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/53964/the-n-va-is-open-to-the-idea-of-constructing-a-new-nuclear-power-station/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/53964/the-n-va-is-open-to-the-idea-of-constructing-a-new-nuclear-power-station/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">defended</a> the continued operation of its nuclear plants and declared they were open to building new ones.</font></p><p class="p-text" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last month, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Belgian energy authorities <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-nuclearpower/belgium-unprepared-for-phasing-out-nuclear-power-by-2025-grid-operator-idUSKCN1TT233" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-nuclearpower/belgium-unprepared-for-phasing-out-nuclear-power-by-2025-grid-operator-idUSKCN1TT233" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">warned</a> that the country will face electricity shortages if nuclear is phased out in 2025.</span></font></p><p class="p-text" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In France, President Emanual Macron last year <a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-11-france-nuclear-reactors-macron.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://phys.org/news/2018-11-france-nuclear-reactors-macron.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">delayed</a> efforts to phase out nuclear from 2025 to 2035, with a priority on closing coal plants first.</font></p><p class="p-text" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Politicians and the public increasingly recognize that unreliable renewables like solar panels and industrial wind turbines <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to/#5a1f02b6ea2b" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to/#5a1f02b6ea2b" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">cannot adequately power</a> modern societies.</font></p><p class="p-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Where Germany used to be held up as a model, it is <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to/#5a1f02b6ea2b" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to/#5a1f02b6ea2b" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">increasingly viewed</a> as having pursued the wrong approach to energy by phasing out nuclear plants and trying to rely on renewables.</font></p><p class="p-text" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Germany <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/the-complete-case-for-nuclear/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/the-complete-case-for-nuclear/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">spends</a> nearly twice as much for electricity that produces 10 times more carbon emissions as French electricity.</font></p><p class="p-text" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As part of the legislation to save nuclear power, lawmakers in Ohio <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/23/ohio-nuclear-bailout-set-final-vote/1802640001/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/23/ohio-nuclear-bailout-set-final-vote/1802640001/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">ended</a> renewable energy and energy efficiency mandates, recognizing that the efficiency programs <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/business/combating-climate-change-with-science-rather-than-hope.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/business/combating-climate-change-with-science-rather-than-hope.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">haven't been cost-effective</a> while renewables <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/04/22/unreliable-nature-of-solar-and-wind-makes-electricity-much-more-expensive-major-new-study-finds/" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/04/22/unreliable-nature-of-solar-and-wind-makes-electricity-much-more-expensive-major-new-study-finds/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">increase</a> the price of electricity. </font></span></p><p class="p-text" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ohio nuclear plants provide eight times more electricity than all of the state's solar and wind combined. [AND WILL CONTINUE BUT RENEWABLE EFFORTS WILL MIGRATE TO NEIGHBOR STATES]</font></b></p><p class="p-text" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lawmakers around the world are increasingly taking note of the severe impact that industrial wind turbines have on wildlife. <b>Industrial </b>wind turbines today <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/06/26/why-climate-activists-threaten-endangered-species-with-extinction/" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/06/26/why-climate-activists-threaten-endangered-species-with-extinction/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">threaten</a> several bird and bat species with extinction.</font></p><p class="p-text" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservationists and birders in Ohio have <a href="https://abcbirds.org/article/bird-conservation-groups-to-testify-against-icebreaker-wind-energy-project-in-lake-erie/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://abcbirds.org/article/bird-conservation-groups-to-testify-against-icebreaker-wind-energy-project-in-lake-erie/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">hotly opposed</a> a proposal to build dozens of turbines on Lake Erie, which is home to dozens of threatened, endangered, and high-conservation value bird species</font></p><p class="p-text" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then there is the economics. It would have <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/ohio" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/ohio" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">cost</a> $25 billion to replace Ohio's nuclear plants with solar and $22 to replace them with wind — and taken 300 to 2,600 times more land.</font></p><p class="p-text" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, Britain is moving forward with plans to expand nuclear energy, out of the recognition that wind energy is too unreliable</font></p><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.2rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thanks to progress being made building a new nuclear plant at Hinkley, Britain may opt to build more French reactors, known as the EPR. Experts anticipate the cost will be significantly less, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/06/21/if-innovation-makes-everything-cheaper-why-does-it-make-nuclear-power-more-expensive/" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/06/21/if-innovation-makes-everything-cheaper-why-does-it-make-nuclear-power-more-expensive/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">thanks to standardization and learning</a>.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the replacement of coal with natural gas lowered air pollution in many nations over the last decade, increased use of natural gas resulted in higher emissions in the US and other countries in 2018. Emissions <a href="https://www.wuft.org/news/2019/07/17/why-us-carbon-dioxide-emissions-are-back-on-the-rise/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.wuft.org/news/2019/07/17/why-us-carbon-dioxide-emissions-are-back-on-the-rise/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">rose</a> over 3% in the US.</font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="generic-articlebody article-details-type--p content--p" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Singapore, the chief executive of a major government investment fund and wife to the Prime Minister published a long pro-nuclear article.</font></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="generic-articlebody article-details-type--p content--p" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Overall, for a greener earth and to reduce carbon emissions, we must master and adopt nuclear energy as a key solution,” she <a href="https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3019393/will-singapore-warm-nuclear-energy-combat-climate-change" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3019393/will-singapore-warm-nuclear-energy-combat-climate-change" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">said</a>. “This will reduce the demand for fossil fuels, and lower the overall carbon emissions.”</font></p><p class="generic-articlebody article-details-type--p content--p" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.2rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Support for nuclear in the US may be increasing out of recognition of its role in reducing global warming. "<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The latest results show a modest increase in support for nuclear power," <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/248048/years-three-mile-island-americans-split-nuclear-power.aspx" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://news.gallup.com/poll/248048/years-three-mile-island-americans-split-nuclear-power.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">noted</a> Gallup in April, "possibly in response to increased oil prices in 2019. Or perhaps some of the increase in support stems from the fact that nuclear energy generates emissions-free electricity -- 60% of Americans favor </span><a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/248006/americans-support-reducing-fossil-fuel.aspx?g_source=link_newsv9&g_campaign=item_248048&g_medium=copy" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://news.gallup.com/poll/248006/americans-support-reducing-fossil-fuel.aspx?g_source=link_newsv9&g_campaign=item_248048&g_medium=copy" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">dramatically reducing the use of fossil fuels</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."</span></font></p></div></div></div></div></article-body-container><sig-file _ngcontent-c10="" class="article-body fs-responsive-text" _nghost-c16="" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px auto; font-style: italic; line-height: 30px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);"><div _ngcontent-c10="" class="contrib bottom-contrib-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);"><contrib-block _ngcontent-c10="" _nghost-c13="" class="full-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; width: 584.594px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div _ngcontent-c13="" class="contrib-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; align-items: center; display: flex; padding: 12px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a _ngcontent-c13="" class="fs-author-avatar" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/" title="Photo of Michael Shellenberger" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); width: 44px; max-width: 44px; margin-right: 12px; float: left; position: relative; height: 44px;"><img _ngcontent-c13="" aria-hidden="true" class="fs-author-image" role="presentation" src="https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/144x144/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Ffiles%2F2018%2F04%2Fmichaelshellenberger_avatar_1523650172-400x400.jpg" data-ga-track="Gravatar Link" alt="Michael Shellenberger" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; width: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; height: auto !important; border-radius: 50%; overflow: hidden; min-width: 44px;" /></a><contrib-byline _ngcontent-c13="" _nghost-c24="" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; line-height: 1; position: relative; width: 528.594px;"><div _ngcontent-c24="" class="contrib-byline full-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 20px; justify-content: center; align-items: flex-start;"><div _ngcontent-c24="" class="fs-author-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: 4px; width: 528.594px;"><div _ngcontent-c24="" class="fs-author-name contrib-byline-author speakable-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 16px; position: relative;"><a _ngcontent-c24="" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/" data-ga-track="contrib block byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); float: left; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-right: 6px;">Michael Shellenberger</a><span _ngcontent-c24="" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left;" /></div></div></div></contrib-byline></font></font></font></font></div><contrib-full-bio _ngcontent-c13="" _nghost-c26="" class="contrib-bio" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><div _ngcontent-c26="" class="full-description" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p _ngcontent-c26="" class="author-description" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; line-height: 1.8em;">I am a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” Green Book Award Winner, and President of Environmental Progress, a research and policy organization. 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The dark-money effort deployed a</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://oklahomawatch.org/2018/09/14/oklahomas-biggest-dark-money-players/" style="letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">variety of vehicles</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">that went by names like the<b>Conservative Leadership Alliance </b>and the Ohio Clean Energy Jobs Alliance</span>. Murray Energy, a coal company,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?committee_id=C00410985&two_year_transaction_period=2018&data_type=processed" style="letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">also gave heavily </a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">to current state House Speaker Larry Householder and his allied candidates, and the bailout from Ohio also includes subsidies to prop up failing coal plants in the state.</span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In April 2018, two nuclear plants, both owned by the electric utility FirstEnergy, <a href="https://www.cleveland.com/business/2018/03/firstenergy_solutions_bankrupt.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">filed for bankruptcy</a> and have been threatening to cease operations if not bailed out. They were under <a href="https://www.cleveland.com/open/2018/04/firstenergy_pac_writes_big_che.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">increasing pressure</a> to compete with cheaper alternatives, ranging from natural gas to wind and solar. The <a href="https://www.energyandpolicy.org/firstenergy-bailout/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">bankruptcy filings</a> give a glimpse into the company’s political spending: more than $30 million from 2018-2019 on lobbying and campaigns in Ohio and Pennsylvania (where the company also sought a bailout, so far unsuccessfully).</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The payoff is extraordinary in degree — something like $30 million for campaigns in Ohio and Pennsylvania to win $1.1 billion in government subsidy.</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But it is similar in kind to other nuclear projects across the country. According to the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit devoted to research and advocacy, five cash-strapped states across the country have foisted more than $15 billion in subsidies on failing nuclear power plants since 2016, the latest sign that nuclear is unable to stand in a competitive energy market against lower-cost renewables.</span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px, rgb(17, 17, 17) 0px 4px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">IN <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">OHIO,</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> the state House battle was fought in at least 18 competitive Republican primaries, all proxy battles between Reps. Ryan Smith, the incumbent House speaker, and Larry Householder. Householder was a co-sponsor of the nuclear bailout bill that stalled in the legislature in 2018, making him a key ally to the nuclear industry. Several dark-money vehicles backed the pro-Householder candidates, and<a href="https://www.cleveland.com/open/2018/05/here_the_9_most_interesting_st.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> won 15 of the 18</a> races. Four pro-Householder candidates lost in the general election, but the primary wins put Householder in contention for the speakership.</span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The industry even targeted one Republican state representative who had rebuffed FirstEnergy’s advances before making a bid for Congress. “I didn’t budge when they came into my office to lobby me,” former state Rep. Christina Hagan<a href="https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/an-ohio-legislator-defied-firstenergy-lobbyists-then-a-dark-money-group-helped-sink-her-bid-for-congress/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> said </a>of FirstEnergy. “I became the target of the company and the members of our leadership team who wanted to get it done but couldn’t because I wasn’t going to be supportive. I’m sure they just wanted to make an example of me in my race for higher office that if you don’t play well, this is what will happen to you.”</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On top of the dark money, FirstEnergy’s political action committees directly contributed <a href="https://www.cleveland.com/open/2018/04/firstenergy_pac_writes_big_che.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">more than $150,000 </a>to the campaigns of Householder and candidates aligned with him, while giving none to Smith last cycle. Of the pro-Householder candidates who won their races, all but one supported the bailout.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Dark money also contributed to ads on Ohio television. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Generation Now spent almost $2 million on ads in favor of the bailout, and perhaps much more. The Growth & Opportunity PAC, which got more than<a href="http://www.commoncause.org/ohio/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/05/OHIO-Connect-the-Dots.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> $1 million i</a>n donations from <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/donor_detail.php?cycle=2018&id=Generation+Now&type=O&super=S" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Generation Now</a>, also<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> blanketed the state House districts with television ads</span> in favor of Republican candidates. Generation Now’s office <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2019/07/02/who-paid-all-money-buy-all-those-nuclear-bailout-ads-ohio-house-bill-6/1443145001/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">is listed</a> as the Columbus address of a longtime Householder adviser, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.</span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The new lawmakers entered office in January, and Householder, who, along with his son, <a href="https://www.cleveland.com/open/2018/04/firstenergy_pac_writes_big_che.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">flew to Donald Trump’s inauguration</a> on a FirstEnergy-chartered plane,</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">won with the backing of 26 Republican and 26 Democratic representatives, while Smith got the votes of 34 and 11, respectively. <b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Householder was able to win the support of those </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Democrats with his opposition to right-to-work legislation, as unions pushed Democrats to back him in the speaker fight with Smith. </span></b></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">On July 23, Smith and 14 other House Republicans voted against the bailout, but Householder was able to push it through 51-38, backed by nine Democrats. It was quickly signed by the state’s new governor, Republican Mike DeWine. (FirstEnergy also contributed to the campaign of <b>DeWine, who then</b></span><b><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://governor.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/governor/media/news-and-media/010319cabinetappointments" style="letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">tapped a FirstEnergy lobbyist </a></b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>to be his liaison to the legislature.</b></span>)</span>That month, the legislature also began work on reviving the nuclear bill known as HB 6. <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">At least seven witnesses who spoke to the legislature in support of the bill </span><a href="https://www.energyandpolicy.org/firstenergy-lobbyists-behind-testimony-supporting-bailout-bill/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">drew on testimony</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> written by a FirstEnergy lobbying firm, according to a review of metadata by the Energy and Policy Institute, which has closely tracked the fight.</span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <b>Ohio legislation reads as if it was designed specifically to undermine the planet’s continued capacity to support a steady human population.</b> Along with propping up the state’s two nuclear plants, it also provides subsidies for failing coal plants in the state, as well as one in Indiana. It cuts and eventually ends any subsidies for new wind or solar, while approving just $20 million annually for large-scale solar projects that have already been approved. It even ends programs aimed at encouraging Ohio residents to reduce power consumption, through upgrades to appliances or heating and cooling systems.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In April, <b>Householder denied that the corporate PAC money had anything to do with the nuclear bill, and said that FirstEnergy should be applauded for its civic engagement. </b>“For them to care about those people who are trying to serve the state of Ohio and make sure they’ve got good quality candidates moving forward I think is important for anybody,” <a href="https://radio.wosu.org/post/householder-denies-firstenergy-contributions-influenced-bill#stream/0" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">he said</a>.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When asked specifically about ads from the dark money–funded Growth & Opportunity PAC, Householder <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2019/07/02/who-paid-all-money-buy-all-those-nuclear-bailout-ads-ohio-house-bill-6/1443145001/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">said</a>, “I’ll tell you who’s paying for these ads: it’s working men and women from Ohio, who want to save their jobs and it’s Ohio corporations, headquartered in Ohio, that want to stay here. That’s who’s paying for it.</span>” He did not respond to a request for comment from The Intercept.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px, rgb(17, 17, 17) 0px 4px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">THE ROLE OF</span> the nuclear industry in the shuffling of speakers was not prominent in the news coverage of the politics, but it wasn’t entirely unknown. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gregory Jaczko, who served as chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2009 to 2012, said that the industry’s role in the affair was visible to those paying close attention. “FirstEnergy has been trying, really, for years to get this subsidy, and the legislature kept denying it, and nobody really, even the previous governor [John Kasich] was not really supportive of it,” he said. “FirstEnergy put a lot of money into local races and essentially turned the legislature around. So they ran this thing through.”</span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On a policy level, the legislation is appalling, said Jaczko, who has become an outspoken critic of the industry, and recently published a book, “Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator.” Building new wind and solar capacity would not only be a better climate solution and produce more jobs, he said, it would be far cheaper for the state, and it’s the direction Ohio will have to go eventually anyway. Wind and solar “creates a brand new economy, which is going to be a future-looking economy rather than a dying economy,” said the former NRC chair. “Nuclear is dying. It’s dying in Ohio.”</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><b>Winning the speakership is quite the comeback for Householder,</b> whose career appeared to be cut short in the mid-2000s by a federal investigation into</span><a href="https://www.toledoblade.com/news/state/2006/06/17/U-S-inquiry-hurt-Householder-says/stories/200606170049" style="letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> kickbacks and a pay-to-play scandal</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, a Republican, had referred the case to the FBI; it was resolved without charges.</span><b> Householder won election back to the House in 2016, and during his first cycle, the incumbent speaker resigned amid his own FBI investigation</b>. Smith took over on a temporary basis, leading to the battle between the two.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The irony, he noted, is that Ohio had planned to be a testing ground for next-generation smaller nuclear power plants, which purported to solve some of the problems associated with nuclear energy, and won federal subsidies to try to build them.</span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b> </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“As soon as they <a href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-new-investment-us-small-modular-reactor-design-and" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">got that money</a> from the Department of Energy, they decided they weren’t going to pursue these reactors anymore,</b>” Jaczko said. No new nuclear plants are planned for Ohio or anywhere else in the United States, and the closure of the two currently operating facilities is not a matter of if, but when. The billion-dollar subsidy only delays the transition to wind and solar, he said.</span></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ohio’s two senators, both of whose campaigns have taken money from FirstEnergy throughout their careers, were on different pages when asked about the billion-dollar bailout. Republican Sen. Rob Portman, whose campaigns have taken at least $615,000 from FirstEnergy PACs since his first run for Senate in 2009, said he didn’t know enough of the details of the decision and was swamped with other things this week.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, though, was indignant. </b>“You don’t bail out utility companies and raise prices for customers,” Brown said. The utility has contributed around $380,000 to Brown’s campaigns since 1997, when he was in the House of Representatives. “And you don’t undermine the efforts our state has made on alternative energy and other energy sources. So it’s just wrong.” Asked about reports of the involvement of dark-money groups in pushing the bailout, Brown said: “Of course there is.”</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I mean, these things happen because these monied interests control the state legislature. There’s no question about it.”</font></font></p></div><div data-reactid="226" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a statement Brown’s office sent later in the day, the senator added that expending enormous resources to prop up outdated sources of power would only hurt Ohio going forward. “Of course we need to make sure our state has access to reliable power, but we shouldn’t do that by raising the utility bills of hardworking Ohioans,” Brown said. “We need solutions designed for Ohio workers and families, not Wall Street and fat-cat lobbyists. <b>By eliminating the renewable standard, Ohio is going backward when almost every other state is looking to the good-paying jobs of the future. It’s short-sighted and it is going to result in significant lost opportunities in our state</b>—our businesses will be less competitive, energy developers will avoid investing in Ohio, and there will be fewer jobs in this growing sector.”</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The cost of the nuclear bailout for Ohio ratepayers is a bargain compared to the bill being given to <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/02/06/south-caroline-green-new-deal-south-carolina-nuclear-energy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">residents in South Carolina</a>. The cost of a failed program to build a nuclear power plant there topped $9 billion. Two of the companies involved — Dominion Energy and SCANA Corporation — entered into a buyout and settled a large portion of the bill, leaving ratepayers responsible for footing the remaining $2.3 billion, more than twice the Ohio figure. Not a single kilowatt of energy was produced in South Carolina by the project, which consisted largely of a hole in the ground.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Ohio subsidies for coal and nuclear, which follow bailouts doled out by Illinois, New York, and New Jersey, underscore the futility of pursuing nuclear power.</b></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nuclear power once offered the tantalizing promise of endless cheap and clean energy, and to this day remains a hope in the minds of some climate activists. But in reality, nuclear hasn’t met the promise. It is far more expensive to produce nuclear power than wind or solar, and the world has not solved the intractable problem of nuclear waste, to say nothing of safety. To truly meet the scale of the climate crisis with nuclear power, Jaczko said, the world would need to start construction on roughly 1,000 plants <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">this</em> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">year</em>. But because of the safety concerns, waste problem, and astronomical cost, there are just a handful being built. Ohio lawmakers, though, are hanging on to the bitter end — courtesy of Ohio’s residents.... Ohio homeowners and businesses are now stuck paying more to keep old, uneconomical power plants running, and money-saving energy efficiency programs will likely disappear.</font></font></p></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> =</font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">watts up w/ that?</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">guest essay by Eric Worrall</font></span></font><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">h/t Willie Soon – Lifelong Democrat, Founder and President of <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Environmental Progress</a>, and <a href="http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1841778_1841779_1841804,00.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Time Magazine</a> Hero of the Environment <a href="https://m.facebook.com/michael.shellenberger1" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Michael Shellenberger</a> will stand as an Independent candidate for Governor in the 2019 California Election.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger, who supports nuclear power as a legitimate means of reducing CO2 emissions, is horrified at Brown’s efforts to shut down the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant</a>. He accuses the California Democrat Party of corruption, waste, environmental destruction, and hurting poor people with out of control cost of living increases.</font></font></font></p><blockquote style="border: thin solid rgb(223, 223, 223); margin: 1px 24px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 12px 1px 50px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: " background-image="background-image" none="none" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-size="background-size" initial="initial" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat="repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" scroll="scroll" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" position="position" relative="relative" box-shadow="box-shadow" rgb="rgb" clear="clear" both="both" important="important"><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dear Friends,</font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">As most of you know, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">atomic humanists</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"> around the world have recently scored a series of big victories protecting nuclear power, our largest source of clean energy.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last year we won in Illinois and New York; this year we won in South Korea, Connecticut, and France.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Battles are still simmering in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, where I will testify on Monday.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the biggest battle is here in California — my home state.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Soon, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will announce a plan to kill Diablo Canyon, our largest source of clean energy, and replace it with fossil fuels.</font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Who’s behind the CPUC’s effort to kill our largest source of clean power? Our anti-nuclear governor, Jerry Brown, who appoints its members.</font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As Brown travels around the world claiming to be a climate leader, emissions have risen in California every year since he took office. Meanwhile, throughout the rest of the United States, they declined.</font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The main reason? The Brown Machine’s successful effort to kill another nuclear plant, San Onofre, in 2012, and replace it with natural gas, at a cost to ratepayers of $3.3 billion.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>The more I looked, the more corruption I found:</b></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is an active state and federal criminal investigation of the California Public Utilities Commission’s role in killing San Onofre;</font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The State Legislature has twice tried and failed to reform Brown’s corrupt California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC);</font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Under Brown, electricity prices in California rose 40 percent, from 13 to 18 cents/kWh — that’s four times more than rates rose nationally;</font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Every Californian family of four has paid $1,200 in higher gasoline prices since 2015 — and Brown Machine lawmakers in Sacramento refuse to investigate why;</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brown is trying to build ecologically destructive water tunnels — at a cost of $17 billion — that no independent water expert believes are needed;</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Brown is trying to build a</span><b> slow-speed train </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">at a minimum cost of $64 billion — even though</span><b> self-driving cars will make it obsolete before it’s finished.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>The people who are paying the highest price are, as usual, the poor and vulnerable.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>Today, California has the highest poverty rate in the nation. Why? Because the cost of living is so high, and wages are too low.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Air pollution has worsened in southern California,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"> disproportionately increasing asthma attacks among the poor, Latino, and African American children.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even though we pay some of the highest taxes in the country, seven percent of Californians lack health insurance, housing prices are outrageously high, and tuition keeps rising.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, our schools are failing. Less than half of our students are proficient at math and English. And Latino and African American students suffer the most.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>And our prison industrial complex — rightly called “the new Jim Crow,” for its racially disproportionate impact — is maintained by lavish campaign contributions from the corrupt prison guards union to the Brown Machine.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Who is the heir-apparent to the Brown Machine when Brown steps down in 2019?</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gavin Newsom.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Lieutenant Governor, Newsom is implicated in the corruption. Indeed, he has played a pivotal role in the effort to replace Diablo Canyon with fossil fuels.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Newsom appeared on “The Colbert Report,” in 2013, he babbled like an airhead, but he is no idiot.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why does Newsom spend all day attacking Donald Trump on Twitter and Facebook?</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To distract us from his record running and ruining our golden state.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, none of the other candidates are telling the truth. None are offering real solutions. And none can be trusted.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the last year I have struggled with what to do.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I went to Sacramento and discovered that the few clean legislators who exist are powerless against the Brown Machine;</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I tried and failed to participate in the corrupt CPUC process;</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And I tried and failed to recruit a reform-minded legislator to run for governor.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">None of it has worked.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I am left with one option to save our largest source of clean energy, and our state, and that’s to run for Governor.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While I appreciate this may come as a shock, I hope you will consider supporting my candidacy.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>First, though I am a lifelong Democrat</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, I’m running as an Independent. The Democratic Party is corrupt, through and through.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Second, I’m running to win, and “winning” will require more than getting elected. It will require enacting sweeping reforms.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Until we smash the dirty Brown Machine, nothing we do on jobs, schools, health care, housing, or energy matters.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I only came to this decision very recently, and very reluctantly.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I hate politics for precisely the reason I am running for governor: it’s a dirty profession and must be cleaned up.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I have spent most of my career fighting for clean energy. Now, I must fight for clean government.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I have spent my life creating and working for not-for-profit organizations. Now, we must make California’s government a not-for-profit organization.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I did whatever it took to win in Illinois, New York, South Korea, Connecticut, and France — I will do whatever it takes to win in California.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This won’t be easy. The Brown Machine is backed by millions of dollars and the dark money of its allied special interest groups.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But we have something on our side they don’t have: the truth. It is the stone in our sling shot.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">My campaign will be a campaign of action: it will consist of exposing the corruption of California by the Brown-Newsom Machine at every turn. Sunlight remains the best disinfectant.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The media gatekeepers can no longer stand in the way between the public and the truth.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twitter and Facebook have ripped down the barriers to communicating directly with the people of California.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I need your help. I can’t win without your moral and financial support.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before I ask you for a contribution, I want to ask for your volunteer labor.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We need everything: researchers; organizers; graphic designers; fundraisers; attorneys; and administration. If you’d like to help, please send me an email.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But don’t ask me for permission. If you support the reform agenda I’ve laid out here, then please just start campaigning: make your own Shellenberger for Governor sign; share this on your Facebook page; and recruit your friends and family to help.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>I have so far only asked one person for his or her endorsement, and that’s climate scientist James Hansen</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">. I am honored to announce he has given it to me.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Let me reassure you that EP’s critical work saving nuclear around the world will continue.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I will testify in New Jersey next Monday, and I will travel where I need to travel to defend clean power in crisis.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And I will keep a very bright line between my work at EP, and my work at Shellenberger for Governor.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thank you for your support in helping EP to achieve our goals of nature, prosperity and justice for all.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now let’s go fight for the California dream.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael</font></font></font></p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Source: <a href="https://m.facebook.com/michael.shellenberger1/posts/10154770325226895" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">https://m.facebook.com/michael.shellenberger1/posts/10154770325226895</a></font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Back in September this year I posted <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/09/12/extreme-poverty-usa-the-true-cost-of-climate-madness/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Extreme Poverty USA: The True Cost of Climate Madness</a>, in which I discussed the horrific suffering caused in part by Jerry Brown’s climate zealotry.</font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Shellenberger is not a climate skeptic, he does point out the obvious – <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/22/shocker-top-google-engineers-say-renewable-energy-simply-wont-work/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>renewables don’t work</b></a>. They are hideously expensive, they don’t reduce emissions, and they hurt poor people.</font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger also points out something which should be even more obvious, that nuclear power is the only viable way to rapidly decarbonise the economy – a point supported by high profile green activist <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/12/17/naomi-oreskes-james-hansen-is-a-denier/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">James Hansen</a>, former director of NASA GISS. Even hardline green campaigner <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/12/22/senator-sheldon-whitehouse-we-need-nuclear-power/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Senator Sheldon Whitehouse thinks nuclear power is a good idea</a>.</font></font></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If Shellenberger wins, California will still be expensive and green; but if Shellenberger is true to his word, if the Brown climate madness is tempered with a little compassion, under Shellenberger poor people in California will have at least a chance of living their lives with dignity and hope.</font></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">E&E on sci am</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6/16</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-scientists-debate-best-path-forward-for-clean-energy/"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-scientists-debate-best-path-forward-for-clean-energy/</font></a></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a rented 15-passenger van barreling south on Interstate 55 out of Chicago in April, a group of environmental activists, a legendary scientist and a camera crew embarked on a quixotic rescue effort.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Their goal: saving Illinois nukes.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“We shouldn’t be taking them off the table, in my opinion,” said James Hansen, a former scientist at NASA famous for raising the alarm about climate change before Congress in 1988, speaking from the van. “It’s our biggest source of carbon-free energy at this time.”</b></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hansen and the bandwagon headed for Clinton, 160 miles southwest of Chicago, to meet employees at the Clinton Power Station, a sky blue and gray 1-gigawatt nuclear power plant.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The 29-year-old boiling water reactor’s future is grim as the Illinois Legislature missed the deadline yesterday to pass new energy rules and <b>rates that would extend Clinton a lifeline.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Exelon Corp., the plant’s operator, punted last October on a decision to close the plant, but previously said if it didn’t get to raise electric rates for customers by May 31, it would shut down the money-losing facility by 2017.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We’ll have more to say about the path forward within the next few days,” said Exelon spokesman Paul Adams in an email.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pro-nuclear activists want lawmakers to treat the Clinton plant and other fission reactors as some of the most powerful weapons in the fight against global warming, a rationale that would give them a new lease on life.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The rules of the game are so rigged against nuclear in Illinois,” said Michael<b> Shellenberger,</b> a nuclear energy supporter and founder of Environmental Progress who rode with Hansen.<b> He pointed out that nuclear energy is excluded from the state’s renewable portfolio standards</b> and that wind energy is subsidized at more than double the rate Exelon was seeking.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, the push to extend lifelines to nuclear power has collided with the goals of other environmental activists who have spent decades railing against reactors as expensive and unsafe, creating cracks in the coalition that helped bring nations to an international agreement to fight climate change.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nuclear energy supporters, renewable power purists and all flavors of environmental activists in between gathered in Paris last December and applauded as world leaders inked a global agreement to combat climate change, the fruit of 20 years of fraught negotiation. But getting nations to acknowledge that the climate is changing, that the leading cause is human activity and that everyone is obligated to act is only the first step.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The harder part is figuring out a path forward. Nations have agreed to targets, but the road to achieving them remains uncharted. And some of the scientists, engineers, activists and policymakers that converged to assemble the Paris Agreement want to move in opposite directions.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Is the objective to take emissions to zero or to keep warming in check? Should nations run with the clean technologies now in existence or invest in finding better solutions? Can geoengineering play a role? Is the enemy short-term air pollution or long-term carbon emissions? Does everyone shoulder an equal burden, or should rich nations go first and further?</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The push to peak global emissions and keep warming below 2 degrees Celsius has opened rifts over whether the world should embrace stepping stones like nuclear and natural gas power or go full tilt toward a 100 percent zero-carbon renewable energy economy. The debate is especially fractious among climate scientists, who ostensibly agree on the scale and urgency of climate change (<a href="https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/stories/1060029818/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(101, 101, 101); outline: none !important;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;">ClimateWire</em></a>, Dec. 21, 2015).</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Billions of dollars in public and private capital for energy investment are up for grabs as developed countries like the United States and emerging economies like India get down to brass tacks on how they will hit their greenhouse gas emissions pledges and move their energy systems away from fossil fuels.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And without a firm hand on the rudder steering the world’s energy, both nuclear and renewable advocates warn that the planet may miss its climate change targets.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Now, the question has shifted from whether global warming is happening to what to do about it,” said Naomi Oreskes, a science historian at Harvard University, in an email. “For that we need to look to a different set of experts.”</font></font></font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 5px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.22222; letter-spacing: 0.15em; text-transform: uppercase; position: relative; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A SCIENTIFIC DEBATE OR AN IDEOLOGICAL ONE?</font></font></font></h2><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Among climate scientists, however, both the nuclear energy proponents and the renewable energy purists claim authority.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I’m a physicist, and I’m looking at energy data,” Hansen said. “I have as high a level of expertise as anyone I know.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Broadly, Hansen said the world should impose a stiff carbon fee while remaining agnostic about the technology solutions. Part of this strategy includes saving aging nuclear plants from shutting down and may lead to building new ones.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On the other side, atmospheric scientists like Mark Jacobson at Stanford University say that wind, water and solar are all that’s needed to power the modern world.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The avoided health and environmental damages offset the costs of building up this grid, and nuclear energy is an expensive, time-consuming distraction from this effort. The only thing lacking, he argues, is political will.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“He’s a great climate scientist, and he’s real passionate about solving the problem. I completely admire him for that,” Jacobson said about Hansen. However, he said that Hansen and many scientists who have joined him haven’t published any peer-reviewed research on comparing energy sources, while Jacobson has published dozens.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Most of the people who do talk about it, they’re not actually doing an evaluation of the science,” Jacobson said. “They’ve examined the problem, but they’ve never examined the solutions.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though researchers on either side of the debate remain largely cordial, the divide has become a flash point in public debates and even in otherwise stolid scientific meetings, leading to testy exchanges and heated arguments over whose approach is most rational.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At a tense debate in February at UCLA where Jacobson argued over the merits of supporting nuclear versus ramping up renewables, sharing the stage with nuclear supporters like Environmental Progress’ Shellenberger and fellow Stanford climate scientist Ken Caldeira, the question-and-answer <a href="https://youtu.be/tFOBJ8z4IN8?t=1h23m40s" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(101, 101, 101); outline: none !important;">session</a> with the audience devolved into a shouting match.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some scientists suggest that these differences arise from ideology rather than scientific disagreements.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In my mind, the word ‘renewable’ is more of a tribal identifier than a technical basis for energy,” said Caldeira, adding that researchers shouldn’t inveigh on energy engineering issues in general.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I don’t think climate scientists should be pretending they’re in some kind of privileged position to know what kind of technology could meet economic and environmental power restraints,” he said.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Mann, a climatologist at Pennsylvania State University, suggested that some of the strident opposition to 100 percent renewable energy stems from fears over losing public credibility.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’ve encountered folks who have an irrational dislike of renewable energy. Perhaps they associate it with granola-chewing socialists,” he wrote in an email. “Who knows—but it really colors the way that they look at this issue, and leads to an irrational dismissiveness about prospects for meeting much or all of our projected future energy demand through renewable energy.”</font></font></font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 5px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.22222; letter-spacing: 0.15em; text-transform: uppercase; position: relative; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THE ‘OLD GEEZERS’ ARE PASSING THE TORCH</font></font></font></h2><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The divide among scientists has a corresponding fissure among activists.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“To me Jacobson’s work seems rigorous and detailed, and more to the point countries like Denmark are now showing it’s entirely possible. The technology is there; we need the political will to match,” said environmental activist Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, in an email. “I’m convinced by the careful work of Mark Jacobson and others that this is possible.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</span></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Others argue that the 100 percent renewable energy vision is a luxury afforded by wealth,</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“In rich countries, people turn against nuclear,” said Shellenberger. “A lot of it is [not in my back yard]-ism. A lot of it is M<b>althusianism.”</b></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Malthusianism” is often shorthand for population control, building on the ideas of 18th-century scholar Thomas Robert Malthus who projected that without checks, the number of people on Earth would grow faster than the resources available to sustain them.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“In order to maintain the fiction of energy shortages, you have to take nuclear off the table,” Shellenberger said.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Other countries that are counting on kilowatt-hours to cut infant mortality aren’t so picky, nuclear advocates note, and it would behoove wealthier parts of the world to help them gain access to energy, even if it’s not the cleanest available.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The concern now is which vision will be codified in policy. In March, Democrats introduced a bicameral resolution that would set a target of 50 percent clean energy in the United States by 2030, not mentioning whether or not <b>nuclear </b>would fit on the “clean” side of the portfolio (<a href="https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/stories/1060033425/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(101, 101, 101); outline: none !important;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;">E&ENews PM</em></a>, March 3).</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“What the climate science tells us is that we have to leave most of the remaining fossil fuels in the ground,” Hansen said. “Unfortunately, our governments have become so dominated by money that both parties are heavily dependent on contributions from industry, including especially the fossil fuel industry.”</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ultimately, most of the people who will have to live with the worst consequences of climate change are not old enough to vote, and Hansen argues that they should be the ones that make the final decisions about their energy sources.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It shouldn’t be the old geezers who are running the system now,” he said.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px; background: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC. <a href="https://www.eenews.net/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(101, 101, 101); outline: none !important;">www.eenews.net</a>, 202-628-6500</font></span></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">shouting match" short and inconclusive?  2-3 guy call shill on disinfo? but nrdc woman schools shill on mkt and subsidies (he smirks and shakes head but does not reply?] also mark j stanford [hangs back?]</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">UCLA Institute for the Environment and Sustainability presents the launch of a brand new format for our flagship public program, the Oppenheim Lecture Series. The series presents leading authorities on energy and the economics of emissions reduction for a dynamic programs on whether California’s bid to shift exclusively to renewable energy is a strategy that the rest of the world should and could adopt in the near term—or whether other energy approaches, such as nuclear, are still needed.</font></span></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2018/4/10/billionaire-energy-speculator-tom-steyer-bank-rolls-arizona-initiative-that-would-close-americas-single-largest-source-of-clean-energy"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2018/4/10/billionaire-energy-speculator-tom-steyer-bank-rolls-arizona-initiative-that-would-close-americas-single-largest-source-of-clean-energy</font></a></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>billionaire Energy Speculator Tom Steyer Bankrolls Arizona Initiative That Would Close America's Single Largest Source of Clean Energy</b></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 10, 2018</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Michael Shellenberger</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Tom Steyer, a billionaire energy speculator, is bankrolling an Arizona ballot initiative that would prematurely close the state’s sole nuclear plant — which is also America’s largest single source of clean energy — and replace it with fossil fuels.</b></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">If Steyer’s ballot initiative succeeds, Palo Verde will close in 2024 instead of in 2044, according to its operator, Arizona Public Service (APS). </font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Steyer’s ballot proposal, which will be voted on this November, would require 50 percent of Arizona’s electricity to come from renewable sources like solar and wind — an increase from 13 percent today (over half of which is from hydro-electric dams).</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The initiative excludes nuclear from the clean energy mandate even though the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finds nuclear produces one-quarter of the emissions of solar.  </font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If it passes, the initiative would only increase the share of the state's electricity from clean energy sources by four percent. In 2017, Arizona generated 46 percent of its electricity from clean energy source — 79 percent of which came from Palo Verde.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arizona 2018.003.jpeg</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In order to accommodate such a large increase in intermittent energy from solar and wind, APS would need to close Palo Verde and replace it with natural gas, APS says.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If Palo Verde is replaced entirely by natural gas, carbon emissions in Arizona would increase by the equivalent of adding 2.8 million cars to the road.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Steyer’s wealth derives heavily from his investments in fossil fuels and renewables. A colleague of Steyer’s told The New York Times in 2014 that Steyer’s firm was “like an anchor in the Indonesian coal industry... By drawing money to an overlooked sector, they helped expand the coal industry there.”</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Farallon invested heavily in natural gas owning millions in shares of Westport Innovations  which makes natural gas engines; Fuel System Solution, and BP, according to investigative reporting done by Lachlan Markay, a reporter for Politico.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Steyer is also a long-time investor in renewables. In 2012, The New York Times reported, “Mr. Steyer, the founder of Farallon Capital Management, is the main financial backer of Greener Capital, a venture firm that invests in renewable energy start-ups.”</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>If Steyer remains invested in natural gas and/or renewables, he and his charities could benefit financially from the Arizona initiative he is financing.</b></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steyer acknowledged to The New York Times that he continued to make money from his investments even after stepping down as a manager of his investment firm. "He remains a passive investor," The Times reported Steyer's aides as having said, "though they declined to describe the size of his investment."</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Farallon is still invested in carbon-generating industries," reported the Times, "and [Steyer's] aides declined to say whether Mr. Steyer had asked it to sell those holdings, a request that would presumably hold significant sway given his role as a founder.”</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steyer and his spokespersons declined to comment on the impact of the ballot initiative on Palo Verde or his potential financial conflicts of interest.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Prematurely retiring Palo Verde in order to satisfy this ill-conceived renewable energy mandate,” Jenna Rowell, an APS spokesperson, told Environmental Progress, “will impose a major setback in our vision of providing a sustainable clean energy future for Arizona.”</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">APS says it is already planning on retiring its two coal plants. As such, if the Steyer initiative passes, Arizona will become heavily-dependent on natural gas as its only source of reliable electricity.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">APS also says the cost of electricity would rise significantly. California and Germany have seen their electricity rates increase by 23% and by 50%, respectively, since they started closing nuclear plants and scaling up renewables.</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Progress </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>ABOUT/ KEY QUESTIONS/ CLEAN ENERGY IN CRISIS/ POTENT STORIES/ NEWS/ GIVE</div><div> Diablo times.jpg</div><div>News</div><div>Open Letter to President Rodrigo R. Duterte</div><div>January 22, 2019</div><div>January 20, 2019</div><div>
</div><div>President Rodrigo R. Duterte</div><div>
</div><div>Malacanan</div><div>
</div><div>JP Laurel Street, San Miguel</div><div>
</div><div>Manila 1005, NCR, Philippines</div><div>
</div><div>Dear President Duterte,</div><div>
</div><div>We are writing as concerned scientists, environmentalists, and global citizens to encourage you to support the inclusion of nuclear energy in your pursuit of clean energy. We applaud your efforts to increase the share of electricity in the Philippines that comes from clean, reliable, and secure energy sources.</div><div>
</div><div>While the Philippines benefits significantly from geothermal energy, the share of electricity it generates from clean energy sources has fallen from 55 percent in 1986 to 25 percent in 2017. The reason was that most of the growth of the country’s energy supply was met by fossil fuels.[1]</div><div>
</div><div>Now, Philippines is at risk of increasing its dependence on the dirtiest fossil fuel, coal. It is currently the largest source of electricity in the country, and is expected to grow significantly. About half of the coal Philippines consumes is imported at a cost of about ?50 billion ($1 billion) a year.[2] The Philippines has the 16th most expensive electricity out of 44 nations, according to a 2016 study by Manila Electric Co.[3]</div><div>
</div><div>We encourage the Philippines to consider using nuclear to reduce its reliance on coal and other fossil fuels. In 1963, the Philippines received a research reactor from the U.S. under President Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” program, and from 1976 until 1984, the Philippines built the Bataan nuclear power plant in Luzon, but never started it. The plant has been maintained over the years and thus with a refurbishment could be operational within a few years. Doing so would be a positive next step to making nuclear energy a key source of electricity for the Philippines. </div><div>
</div><div>Few people realize that nuclear energy is the safest way to produce reliable electricity.[4] The reason for this is because it does not create outdoor air pollution, which kills 4.2 million people a year.[5] In fact, nuclear power has saved over 1.8 million lives by preventing the burning of biomass and fossil fuels.[6] </div><div>
</div><div>Nuclear power also protects the natural environment by requiring far less land and resources than other energy sources — an especially important attribute for the Philippines, a biodiversity hotspot. Due to the energy density of nuclear fuel, coastal nuclear plants in the Philippines would require 180 times less land[7] and 17 times less construction material than solar.[8] </div><div>
</div><div>Had the 71 terawatt-hours of fossil fuel electricity that Philippines consumed in 2017[9] been provided instead by solar farms like the nation’s largest in Cadiz City, a land area the size of Metropolitan Manila would be required — and at a cost of ?4 trillion ($80 billion).[10] And because of the inconsistent nature of solar energy, which would only generate about 20% of the electricity implied by its installation size[11], a major expansion of solar or wind in the Philippines would require the continued operation of expensive backup fossil fuel plants.</div><div>
</div><div>Wind power fares scarcely better on the basis of either footprint or cost, while also posing significant danger to bats and migrating birds. To replace just the quantity of the Philippine’s fossil electricity production from 2017, 193 wind farms the size of the largest in the country would need to be constructed, covering 1320 square kilometers and at a scaled cost of ?4.5 trillion ($87 billion).[12]</div><div>
</div><div>Because uranium is so energy dense, nuclear plants create very small amounts of waste. For example, all of the used fuel ever produced in the United States can fit in a thirty-foot stack on a football field.[13] And unlike every other method of producing electricity, nuclear power is the only way that safely manages and pays for its waste. </div><div>
</div><div>Though clean energy is important in protecting our shared atmosphere, reliable energy is especially important for island nations, as coal and most natural gas must be imported. This means that unfavorable international developments in world markets or in surrounding territorial waters can become threatening to prosperity and stability. Nuclear energy offers the ability to store many years of fuel, thus providing economic and physical security of supply.</div><div>
</div><div>We encourage you to compare the advantages and disadvantages of different clean energy technologies as you develop a future for your country. We believe that nuclear energy can be the vital link between nature, prosperity, and peace in the Philippines.</div><div>
</div><div>Signed,</div><div>
</div><div>Michael Shellenberger, Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” President of Environmental Progress</div><div>
</div><div>Dr. James Hansen, Climate Scientist, Earth Institute, Columbia University  </div><div>
</div><div>Dr. Tom Wigley, Climate and Energy Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado</div><div>
</div><div>Dr. Peter H. Raven, President Emeritus, Missouri Botanical Garden. Winner of the National Medal of Science, 2001</div><div>
</div><div>Dr. Kerry Emanuel, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div><div>
</div><div>Joe Lassiter, Professor, Harvard Business School</div><div>
</div><div>Dr. Michelle Marvier, Professor, Environmental Studies and Sciences, Santa Clara University</div><div>
</div><div>Dr. David Lea, Professor, Earth Science, University of California</div><div>
</div><div>Dr. Barry Brook, Professor of Environmental Sustainability, University of Tasmania</div><div>
</div><div>Dr. Paul Robbins, Director, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison</div><div>
</div><div>Richard Rhodes, author, Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Making of the Atomic Bomb</div><div>
</div><div>Dr. Gerry Thomas, Professor of Molecular Pathology, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London</div><div>
</div><div>Dr. Philip Thomas, Professor of Risk Management, University of Bristol</div><div>
</div><div>Dr. Wade Allison, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Oxford University</div><div>
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</div><div>[1] Data from BP Statistical Review of World Energy, 2018</div><div>
</div><div>[2] Data from MIT’s Atlas of Economic Complexity, for year 2016. Available: https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/phl/</div><div>
</div><div>[3] Manolo Serapio Jr and Enrico Dela Cruz, “In power hungry Philippines, some advocate a nuclear revival,” Reuters, May 22, 2018</div><div>
</div><div>[4] Markandya, A., & Wilkinson, P. “Electricity Generation and Health,” The Lancet, 370 (9591), p. 979-990, 2007. </div><div>
</div><div>[5] World Health Organization (WHO), 2016. https://www.who.int/airpollution/en/</div><div>
</div><div>[6] Pushker Kharecha and James Hansen, “Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power,” Environmental Science and Technology, 2013</div><div>
</div><div>[7] Comparison between a facility like Bataan Nuclear Plant if operated, and assumed production from Cadiz City solar farm. If operated at 85% capacity factor, Bataan’s 570 megawatt (net) capacity would produce 4.3 terawatt-hours per year on an approximate land area of 0.2 square kilometers, for a density of 21.6 terawatt-hours per square kilometer. Cadiz City as detailed in (8) has a power density of 0.12 terawatt-hours per square kilometer.</div><div>
</div><div>[8] “Quadrennial Technology Review: An Assessment of Energy Technologies and Research Opportunities,” United States Department of Energy, Table 10, 2015. </div><div>
</div><div>[9] BP Statistical Review of World Energy, 2018</div><div>
</div><div>[10] Details on the solar farm near Cadiz City from Ellera, T., “Unveiling of P10-B solar plant set March 3,” Sun Star Bacolod, February 12, 2016.</div><div>
</div><div>Calculation assumes production factor of 15% for installed solar capacity (DC) in the Visayas; measured solar farm area of 1.48 km; solar farm capacity of 132.5 megawatts (DC); and reported solar farm price of ?10 billion.</div><div>
</div><div>[11] Iban Vendrell, “Philippine solar resource characterization, challenges and implications for the sector”, Presentation at 2015 Asia Solar Energy Forum. Available:https://tinyurl.com/ycbochz3</div><div>
</div><div>[12] Burgos Wind Farm in northern Luzon is expected to produce 370 gigawatt-hours per year of electricity while covering 6.86 square kilometers, with an estimated construction cost of $450 million: “Burgos Wind Project, Ilocos Norte”, Power Technology.</div><div>
</div><div>[13] “Safely Managing Used Nuclear Fuel”, Nuclear Energy Institute.</div><div>
</div><div>Paris Wines/  2 Comments  </div><div>Save French Nuclear Power! Meeting to Plan Spring Action in Paris</div><div>January 08, 2019</div><div>Save French Nuclear Power!</div><div>Meeting to Plan Spring Action in Paris</div><div>Saturday, February 9, 2019</div><div>Meeting: 10:00 to 16:00 :: Cocktails: 17:00 :: Dinner 18:00</div><div>
</div><div>NuclearPrideFest-Vector.jpg</div><div>What: Meeting hosted by the Nuclear Pride Coalition to organize pro-nuclear public action in Paris in Spring 2019 to protest proposed nuclear plant closures.</div><div>
</div><div>Why: The French government could close 14 nuclear reactors to make way for natural gas and renewables which would increase electricity prices and air pollution.</div><div>
</div><div>How: Email madison@environmentalprogress.org if you are interested in helping to organize the public action and would like to attend the Saturday February 9 planning meeting. </div><div>
</div><div>All are welcome. This will be a meeting for all people regardless of political persuasion. </div><div>
</div><div>Travel scholarships available for students and low-income individuals.</div><div>
</div><div>Action organized by Nuclear Pride Coalition and co-sponsored by Les Voix du Nucléaire (“Voices of Nuclear,” France); Environmentalists for Nuclear (France); Saving Our Planet (France-UK-Norway); Stitching Ecomodernisme (“Ecomodernist Society,” Netherlands); Environmental Progress (U.S.); Partei der Humanisten (Germany); Mothers for Nuclear (Switzerland); Nuklearia (Germany); Ökomoderne (“Ecomodernist Society”, Germany); Students for Nuclear(U.S.).</div><div>
</div><div>Paris Wines/  0 Comments  </div><div>A Big Year for Pro-Nuclear Victories!</div><div>December 28, 2018</div><div>A Big Year for Pro-Nuclear Victories!</div><div>Thank you for all of your help making Environmental Progress’s third year (!) a huge success!</div><div>
</div><div>Can you believe all that EP and the pro-nuclear movement accomplished in 2018?</div><div>
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</div><div>READ MORE</div><div>Michael Shellenberger/  6 Comments  </div><div>Be Like Marie: Why Women are the Breakthrough Nuclear Needs</div><div>October 03, 2018</div><div>Be Like Marie: Why Women are the Breakthrough Nuclear Needs</div><div>Nuclear power is in trouble. What should be done? The conventional wisdom holds that a techno-fix, like a radically new design, or new construction techniques, will save nuclear. But such a view assumes that nuclear’s underlying problems are technical. They’re not. Public acceptance remains the main obstacle to the future of nuclear. How can public acceptance be addressed? And what role in particular might women have to play? In this talk to Women in Nuclear, Canada, EP President Michael Shellenberger offers suggestions.</div><div>
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</div><div>Michael Shellenberger/  0 Comments  </div><div>With Nuclear Instead of Renewables, California & Germany Would Already Have 100% Clean Electricity</div><div>September 11, 2018</div><div>With Nuclear Instead of Renewables, California & Germany Would Already Have 100% Clean Electricity</div><div>California and Germany could have mostly or completely decarbonized their electricity sectors had their investments in renewables been diverted entirely to new nuclear instead, a new Environmental Progress analysis finds. </div><div>
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</div><div>I’m very happy to invite you to attend a historic, pro-nuclear power demonstration in Munich, Germany, on Sunday, October 21, from 10 am to 4 pm!</div><div>
</div><div>The official name of the event is the “Nuclear Pride Fest,” and its founding purpose is to save and expand nuclear energy in Europe. The Fest will be held in Marienplatz, Munich’s central plaza.</div><div>
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</div><div>READ MORE</div><div>Michael Shellenberger/  3 Comments  </div><div>The Greens are no longer anti-nuclear...in Finland!</div><div>June 26, 2018</div><div>The Greens are no longer anti-nuclear...in Finland!</div><div>The Finnish Green Party adopted a new program on June 19, 2018 under the leadership of MP Olli-Poika Parviainen. </div><div>
</div><div>With regard to nuclear energy, and for the first time in Europe, this green party is now "open to all research and development on low-carbon technologies that respect the environment. The most recent nuclear projects in Finland have been slow and problematic. We do not want it to start over again. "</div><div>
</div><div>READ MORE</div><div>Michel Gay/  4 Comments  </div><div>Pro-Nuclear Now: Why My View Changed, And What I Learned Along the Way -- Part 1</div><div>June 18, 2018</div><div>Pro-Nuclear Now: Why My View Changed, And What I Learned Along the Way -- Part 1</div><div>What I think about a lot.  </div><div>
</div><div>I have, for a long time, been thinking about three important interlinked crises. I put them in these general categories: 1) energy and climate, 2) human development and well-being, and 3) ecosystems and biodiversity. </div><div>
</div><div>READ MORE</div><div>Frank Jablonski/  7 Comments  </div><div>Pro-Nuclear Victory in New Jersey! But at the Cost of a Hefty Subsidy for Solar</div><div>April 12, 2018</div><div>Pro-Nuclear Victory in New Jersey! But at the Cost of a Hefty Subsidy for Solar</div><div>New Jersey’s passage today of legislation to prevent the premature closure of the state’s nuclear plants is another crucial victory to save America’s largest source of clean energy.</div><div>
</div><div>Climate and environmental scientists organized by Environmental Progress urged New Jersey’s Governor Philip Murphy to pass the legislation, and I testified in support of the legislation last December.</div><div>
</div><div>But the legislation’s passage came at a hefty price: 18 to 28 times more in subsidies for solar energy than will be received by nuclear plants.</div><div>
</div><div>READ MORE</div><div>Michael Shellenberger/  4 Comments</div><div>Essay, Subsidies, Victory For Nuclear, Cost, Charts, Energy And Environment</div><div>New Jersey, United States, Energy Sources, Solar, War On Nuclear, Subsidies</div><div> </div><div>New Jersey votes to subsidize solar at rate 18 to 28 times greater than subsidy for nuclear</div><div>April 12, 2018</div><div>New Jersey votes to subsidize solar at rate 18 to 28 times greater than subsidy for nuclear</div><div>New Jersey’s state legislature today passed legislation that will subsidize solar at a rate 18 to 28 times greater than a state subsidy for nuclear, a new Environmental Progress analysis finds.</div><div>
</div><div>READ MORE</div><div>Michael Shellenberger/  0 Comments</div><div>Article, Energy And Environment, Subsidies, Victory For Nuclear</div><div>United States, New Jersey, Futures Of Nuclear, War On Nuclear, Subsidies, Solar</div><div> </div><div>Billionaire Energy Speculator Tom Steyer Bankrolls Arizona Initiative That Would Close America's Single Largest Source of Clean Energy</div><div>April 10, 2018</div><div>Billionaire Energy Speculator Tom Steyer Bankrolls Arizona Initiative That Would Close America's Single Largest Source of Clean Energy</div><div>Tom Steyer, a billionaire energy speculator, is bank-rolling an Arizona ballot initiative that would prematurely close the state’s sole nuclear plant — which is also America’s largest single source of clean energy — and replace it with fossil fuels.</div><div>
</div><div>READ MORE</div><div>Michael Shellenberger/  5 Comments</div><div>Essay, Energy And Environment, War On Nuclear, Charts, Cost</div><div>Arizona, United States, Energy Sources, War On Nuclear, Solar, California, Germany, Electricity</div><div> </div><div>Zero Dark Nuclear</div><div>April 04, 2018</div><div>Zero Dark Nuclear</div><div>Seven nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania produce 30 percent more power than all of the solar in the United States. If they are closed, the future of our largest source of clean energy is dark.  </div><div>
</div><div>READ MORE</div><div>Michael Shellenberger/  7 Comments</div><div>War On Nuclear, Subsidies</div><div>Nuclear, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Germany, Taiwan, Japan, Sierra Club, NRDC, Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, Subsidies</div><div> </div><div>California in Danger: Why the Dream is Dying and How We Can Save It</div><div>February 14, 2018</div><div>California in Danger: Why the Dream is Dying and How We Can Save It</div><div>California today is frequently held up as a progressive model — but is it? California’s high cost of living is a major factor behind the state having the country’s highest rate of poverty and inequality. When the cost of living is taken into account, California still spends less on K-12 education than all but four other states.  In truth, California is neither progressive nor a model for other states. What’s behind California’s high cost of living are tax, regulatory, and other policies that are regressive and parasitical. California has routinely reformed its government in the past and must do so again today. This begins with a vision of a high-productivity and high-wage economy.</div><div>
</div><div>— Curb corruption with a New Sunshine Act that requires transparency into government contracting, permitting, regulating and other activities, and break up the corrupt California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC);</div><div>
</div><div>— Build abundant housing by up-zoning all cities and suburbs to allow modestly taller buildings, and by closing the loophole in the state’s most important environmental law (CEQA) that allows interest groups to file expensive and frivolous lawsuits anonymously and repeatedly;</div><div>
</div><div>— Create high-paying jobs in advanced manufacturing, biotech, and innovative agriculture by leveraging the state's research universities and community colleges in partnership with new and modernized industries and capturing scale-ups from R&D;</div><div>
</div><div>— End poverty by raising the minimum wage, embracing automation, including the autonomous vehicle revolution, and mandating high school and college apprenticeship partnerships with advanced manufacturing and other industries;</div><div>
</div><div>— Personalize and modernize education by establishing a 9-to-5 school day that results in the elimination of homework for students, and of schoolwork for teachers; an incremental lengthening of the school year; and unleashing the special talents of all students through digital instruction and teacher tutoring;</div><div>
</div><div>— Make property taxes fair and sustainable by empowering a representative “citizens jury” to undergo a year-long evidence-based deliberation that culminates in an amendment to California’s constitution;</div><div>
</div><div>— Establish and enforce the principle of universal worker rights for all social classes by demanding the federal government create a path to citizenship for a labor force lacking political rights and power; reforming public pension obligations; and making pension contributions the responsibility of future public employees.</div><div>
</div><div>This plan can unify workers, employers, and taxpayers. Workers will benefit from higher wages and cheaper housing. Employers benefit from being able to grow their high-wage and high skill business in California. And Baby Boomer homeowners will benefit from the creation of housing their children and grandchildren can afford.  This coalition should be enough to overcome well-funded interest groups. School teachers, principals, and parents will benefit from a modernized school day and year, higher pay, and better outcomes. The labor unions whose members lack housing they can afford greatly outnumber the small number of unions opposing CEQA reform. And pro-density environmentalists are younger and growing in power over anti-development NIMBYs.</div><div>
</div><div>READ MORE</div><div>Michael Shellenberger/  11 Comments</div><div>Energy And Environment, Report, War On Nuclear</div><div>California, Energy Sources, Sierra Club, CEQA</div><div> </div><div>Electricity prices in California rose three times more in 2017 than they did in the rest of the United States</div><div>February 12, 2018</div><div>Electricity prices in California rose three times more in 2017 than they did in the rest of the United States</div><div>Between 2016 and 2017, California’s electricity prices rose three times faster than they did in the rest of the United States, according to a new analysis by Environmental Progress.</div><div>
</div><div>The increases came despite 2017 having the highest output of hydroelectricity — the state’s cheapest source of electricity — since 2011.</div><div>
</div><div>Electricity prices in the rest of the United States outside California rose two percent, the same as the rate of inflation. </div><div>
</div><div>Between 2011 and 2017, California’s electricity prices rose five times faster than they did nationally. Today, Californians pay 60 percent more, on average, than the rest of the nation, for resident, commercial and industrial electricity. </div><div>
</div><div>Economists agree that “the dominant policy driver in the electricity sector [in California] has unquestionably been a focus on developing renewable sources of electricity generation.” </div><div>
</div><div>READ MORE</div><div>Michael Shellenberger/  11 Comments</div><div>Report, War On Nuclear, Energy And Environment, Charts</div><div>California, Energy Sources</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>NEXT</div><div> Further Reading & Videos</div><div>Screen Shot 2019-06-07 at 11.00.22 AM.png</div><div>TED: “Why Fear of Nuclear Hurts the Environment,” 2016 (video)</div><div>
</div><div>Screen Shot 2019-06-07 at 11.02.30 AM.png</div><div>TEDx “Why I Changed My Mind About Nuclear, 2017</div><div>(Video)</div><div>
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</div><div>"Yes, Solar And Wind Really Do Increase Electricity Prices -- And For Inherently Physical Reasons" Forbes, April 25, 2018</div><div>
</div><div>"Solar And Wind Lock-In Fossil Fuels, And That Makes Saving The Climate Harder And More Expensive," Forbes, May 5, 2018</div><div>
</div><div>"Carbon Emissions Rose in 2017 Despite Record Solar & Wind -- More Proof They Can't Save The Climate," Forbes, June 13, 2018</div><div>
</div><div>“Had They Bet On Nuclear, Not Renewables, Germany & California Would Already Have 100% Clean Power” Forbes, September 11, 2018 </div><div>
</div><div>"We Don't Need Solar And Wind To Save The Climate -- And It's A Good Thing, Too," Forbes, May 8, 2018</div><div>
</div><div>"Top Scientist Says Japan's Decision To Financially Reward Fukushima Worker Is Not Based On Science" Forbes, September 6, 2018</div><div>
</div><div>"Stop Letting Your Ridiculous Fears Of Nuclear Waste Kill The Planet," Forbes, June 19, 2018 </div><div>
</div><div>"If Nuclear Plants Are So Vulnerable To Terrorist Attack, Why Don't Terrorists Attack Them?" Forbes, July 6, 2018 (French Translation) </div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx few</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">February 27,<b> 2019</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">written by Michael Shellenberger</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When I was a boy, my parents would sometimes take my sister and me camping in the desert. A lot of people think deserts are empty, but my parents taught us to see the wildlife all around us, including hawks, eagles, and tortoises.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After college, I moved to California to work on environmental campaigns. I helped save the state’s last ancient redwood forest and blocked a proposed radioactive waste repository set for the desert.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2002, shortly after I turned 30, I decided I wanted to dedicate myself to addressing climate change. I was worried that global warming would end up destroying many of the natural environments that people had worked so hard to protect.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">I thought the solutions were pretty straightforward: solar panels on every roof, electric cars in every driveway, etc. The main obstacles, I believed, were political. And so I helped organize a coalition of America’s largest labor unions and environmental groups. Our proposal was for a $300 billion dollar investment in renewables. We would not only prevent climate change but also create millions of new jobs in a fast-growing high-tech sector.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[nb in tucker interview he insinuates he worked w.ith/ IN admin] Our efforts paid off in 2007 when then-presidential candidate Barack Obama embraced our vision. Between 2009–15, the U.S. invested $150 billion dollars in renewables and other forms of clean tech. But right away <b>we </b>ran into trouble</span>.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The first was around land use. Electricity from solar roofs costs about twice as much as electricity from solar farms, but solar and wind farms require huge amounts of land. That, along with the fact that solar and wind farms require long<b> new transmissions lines, and are opposed by local communities and conservationists trying to preserve wildlife, particularly birds.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another challenge was the intermittent nature of solar and wind energies. When the sun stops shining and the wind stops blowing, you have to quickly be able to ramp up another source of energy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Happily, there were a lot of people working on solutions. One solution was to convert California’s dams into big batteries. The idea was that, when the sun was shining and the wind was blowing, you could pump water uphill, store it for later, and then run it over the turbines to make electricity when you needed it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other problems didn’t seem like such a big deal, on closer examination. For example, after I learned that house cats kill billions of birds every year it put into perspective the nearly one million birds killed by wind turbines.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It seemed to me that most, if not all, of the problems from scaling up solar and wind energies could be solved through more technological innovation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But, as the years went by, the problems persisted and in some cases grew worse. For example, California is a world leader when it comes to renewables but we haven’t converted our dams into batteries, partly for geographic reasons. You need the right kind of dam and reservoirs, and even then it’s an expensive retrofit.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A bigger problem is that there are many other uses for the water that accumulates behind dams, namely irrigation and cities. And because the water in our rivers and reservoirs is scarce and unreliable, the water from dams for those other purposes is becoming ever-more precious.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Without large-scale ways to back-up solar energy California has had to block electricity coming from solar farms when it’s extremely sunny, or pay neighboring states to take it from us so we can avoid blowing-out our grid.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite what you’ve heard, there is no “battery revolution” on the way, for well-understood technical and economic reasons.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As for house cats, they don’t kill big, rare, threatened birds. What house cats kill are small, common birds, like sparrows, robins and jays. What kills big, threatened, and endangered birds—birds that could go extinct—like hawks, eagles, owls, and condors, are wind turbines.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, wind turbines are the most serious new threat to important bird species to emerge in decades. The rapidly spinning turbines act like an apex predator which big birds never evolved to deal with.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Solar farms have similarly large ecological impacts. Building a solar farm is a lot like building any other kind of farm. You have to clear the whole area of wildlife.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In order to build one of the biggest solar farms in California the developers hired biologists to pull threatened desert tortoises from their burrows, put them on the back of pickup trucks, transport them, and cage them in pens where many ended up dying.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As we were learning of these impacts, it gradually dawned on me that there was no amount of technological innovation that could solve the fundamental problem with renewables.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You can make solar panels cheaper and wind turbines bigger, but you can’t make the sun shine more regularly or the wind blow more reliably. I came to understand the environmental implications of the physics of energy. In order to produce significant amounts of electricity from weak energy flows, you just have to spread them over enormous areas. In other words, the trouble with renewables isn’t fundamentally technical—it’s natural.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Dealing with energy sources that are inherently unreliable, and require large amounts of land, comes at a high economic cost.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There’s been a lot of publicity about how solar panels and wind turbines have come down in cost. But those one-time cost savings from making them in big Chinese factories have been outweighed by the high cost of dealing with their unreliability.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Consider California. Between 2011–17 the cost of solar panels declined about 75 percent, and yet our electricity prices rose five times more than they did in the rest of the U.S. It’s the same story in Germany, the world leader in solar and wind energy. Its electricity prices increased 50 percent between 2006–17, as it scaled up renewables.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I used to think that dealing with climate change was going to be expensive. But I could no longer believe this after looking at Germany and France.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Germany’s carbon emissions have been flat since 2009, despite an investment of $580 billion by 2025 in a renewables-heavy electrical grid, a 50 percent rise in electricity cost.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, France produces one-tenth the carbon emissions per unit of electricity as Germany and pays little more than half for its electricity. How? Through nuclear power.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then, under pressure from Germany, France spent $33 billion on renewables, over the last decade. What was the result? A rise in the carbon intensity of its electricity supply, and higher electricity prices, too.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What about all the headlines about expensive nuclear and cheap solar and wind? They are largely an illusion resulting from the fact that 70 to 80 percent of the costs of building nuclear plants are up-front, whereas the costs given for solar and wind don’t include the high cost of transmission lines, new dams, or other forms of battery.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s reasonable to ask whether nuclear power is safe, and what happens with its waste.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It turns out that scientists have studied the health and safety of different energy sources since the 1960s. Every major study, including a recent one by the British medical journal Lancet, finds the same thing: nuclear is the safest way to make reliable electricity.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Strange as it sounds, nuclear power plants are so safe for the same reason nuclear weapons are so dangerous. The uranium used as fuel in power plants and as material for bombs can create one million times more heat per its <b>mass </b>than its fossil fuel and gunpowder equivalents.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s not so much about the fuel as the process. We release more energy breaking atoms than breaking chemical bonds. What’s special about uranium atoms is that they are easy to split.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because nuclear plants produce heat without fire, they emit no air pollution in the form of smoke. By contrast, the smoke from burning fossil fuels and biomass results in the premature deaths of seven million people per year, according to the World Health Organization.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even during the worst accidents, nuclear plants release small amounts of radioactive particulate matter from the tiny quantities of uranium atoms split apart to make heat.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Over an 80-year lifespan, fewer than 200 people will die from the radiation from the worst nuclear accident, Chernobyl, and zero will die from the small amounts of radiant particulate matter that escaped from Fukushima.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As a result, the climate scientist James Hanson and a colleague found that nuclear plants have actually saved nearly two million lives to date that would have been lost to air pollution.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thanks to its energy density, nuclear plants require far less land than renewables. Even in sunny California, a solar farm requires 450 times more land to produce the same amount of energy as a nuclear plant.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy-dense nuclear requires far less in the way of materials, and produces far less in the way of waste compared to energy-dilute solar and wind.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A single Coke can’s worth of uranium provides all of the energy that the most gluttonous American or Australian lifestyle requires. At the end of the process, the high-level radioactive waste that nuclear plants produce is the very same Coke can of (used) uranium fuel. The reason nuclear is the best energy from an environmental perspective is because it produces so little waste and none enters the environment as pollution.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All of the waste fuel from 45 years of the Swiss nuclear program can fit, in canisters, on a basketball court-like warehouse, where like all spent nuclear fuel, it has never hurt a fly.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By contrast, solar panels require 17 times more materials in the form of cement, glass, concrete, and steel than do nuclear plants, and create over 200 times more waste.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We tend to think of solar panels as clean, but the truth is that there is no plan anywhere to deal with solar panels at the end of their 20 to 25 year lifespan.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Experts fear solar panels will be shipped, along with other forms of electronic waste, to be disassembled—or, more often, smashed with hammers—by poor communities in Africa and Asia, whose residents will be exposed to the dust from toxic heavy metals including lead, cadmium, and chromium.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wherever I travel in the world I ask ordinary people what they think about nuclear and renewable energies. After saying they know next to nothing, they admit that nuclear is strong and renewables are weak. Their intuitions are correct. What most of us get wrong—understandably—is that weak energies are safer.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But aren’t renewables safer? The answer is no. Wind turbines, surprisingly, kill more people than nuclear plants.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In other words, the energy density of the fuel determines its environmental and health impacts. Spreading more mines and more equipment over larger areas of land is going to have larger environmental and human safety impacts.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s true that you can stand next to a solar panel without much harm while if you stand next to a nuclear reactor at full power you’ll die.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But when it comes to generating power for billions of people, it turns out that producing solar and wind collectors, and spreading them over large areas, has vastly worse impacts on humans and wildlife alike.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Our intuitive sense that sunlight is dilute sometimes shows up in films. That’s why nobody was shocked when the recent sequel of the dystopian sci-fi flick, “Blade Runner,” opened with a dystopian scene of California’s deserts paved with solar farms identical to the one that <b>decimated desert tortoises.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the last several hundred years, human beings have been moving away from matter-dense fuels towards energy-dense ones. First we move from renewable fuels like wood, dung, and windmills, and towards the fossil fuels of coal, oil, and natural gas, and eventually to uranium.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy progress is overwhelmingly positive for people and nature. As we stop using wood for fuel we allow grasslands and forests to grow back, and the wildlife to return.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As we stop burning wood and dung in our homes, we no longer must breathe toxic indoor smoke. And as we move from fossil fuels to uranium we clear the outdoor air of pollution, and reduce how much we’ll heat up the planet.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nuclear plants are thus a revolutionary technology—a grand historical break from fossil fuels as significant as the industrial transition from wood to fossil fuels before it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The problem with nuclear is that it is unpopular, a victim of a 50 year-long concerted effort by fossil fuel, renewable energy, anti-nuclear weapons campaigners, and misanthropic environmentalists to ban the technology.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response, the nuclear industry suffers battered wife syndrome, and constantly apologizes for its best attributes, from its waste to its safety.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lately, the nuclear industry has promoted the idea that, in order to deal with climate change, “we need a mix of clean energy sources,” including solar, wind and nuclear. It was something I used to believe, and say, in part because it’s what people want to hear. The problem is that it’s not true.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">France shows that moving from mostly nuclear electricity to a mix of nuclear and renewables results in more carbon emissions, due to using more natural gas, and higher prices, to the unreliability of solar and wind.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil and gas investors know this, which is why they made a political alliance with renewables companies, and why oil and gas companies have been spending millions of dollars on advertisements promoting solar, and funneling millions of dollars to said environmental groups to provide public relations cover.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What is to be done? The most important thing is for scientists and conservationists to start telling the truth about renewables and nuclear, and the relationship between energy density and environmental impact.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bat scientists recently warned that wind turbines are on the verge of making one species, the Hoary bat, a migratory bat species, go extinct.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another scientist who worked to build that gigantic solar farm in the California desert told High Country News, “Everybody knows that translocation of desert tortoises doesn’t work. When you’re walking in front of a bulldozer, crying, and moving animals, and cacti out of the way, it’s hard to think that the project is a good idea.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">I think it’s natural that those of us who became active on climate change gravitated toward renewables. They seemed like a way to<b> harmonize</b> human society with the natural world. Collectively, we have been suffering from an <b>appeal-to-nature fallacy no different from the one that leads us to buy products at the supermarket labeled “all natural.”</b> But it’s high time that <b>those of us who appointed ourselves Earth’s guardians</b> should take a second look at the science, and start questioning the impacts of our actions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Now that we know that renewables can’t save the planet, are we really going to stand by and let them destroy it?</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Shellenberger is a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” and president of Environmental Progress, an independent research and policy organization. Follow him on Twitter @ShellenbergerMD</font></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">nb this is not science, not assessing afterwards:</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> That includes the high price of the electricity Ivanpah sells to the grid and the several score desert tortoises that have been its victims, despite over $50 million spent to relocate the animals.  Add to that a $1.6 billion-dollar federal loan guarantee for BrightSource, plus the priceless loan of publicly owned land for the project.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At first blush, electricity from the sun and a threatened species seem like green allies. But the Ivanpah project encroaches on land that the desert tortoise has called home for millennia.  The official reptile of both Nevada and California, <i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Gopherus agassizii</i>, is a survivor.  It lives as long as humans do and weathers the triple-digit Mojave summers by burrowing deep in the desert sand.  But it’s no match for encroaching development. Military exercises, dune buggies, grazing livestock and now solar farms devastate the tortoise’s fragile habitat, killing the grasses and cacti it eats.  Since 1950, the species’ population has collapsed by some 90 percent.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Translocation is a terrible idea,” one of the biologists hired to try to save tortoises at the construction site told me, requesting anonymity because unauthorized contact with journalists violates BrightSource’s rules for the scientists it employs.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Everybody knows that translocation doesn’t work.  When you’re walking in front of a bulldozer, crying, and moving animals and cacti out of the way, it’s hard to think that the project is a good idea.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref himself</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no grafs lnx</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Electricity prices in California rose three times more in 2017 than they did in the rest of the United States</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">February 12, 2018</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Screen Shot 2018-02-12 at 12.53.06 PM.png</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By Mark Nelson and Michael Shellenberger</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Between 2016 and 2017, California’s electricity prices rose three times more than they did in the rest of the United States, according to a new analysis by Environmental Progress.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The increases came despite 2017 having had the highest output of hydroelectricity — the state’s cheapest source of electricity — since 2011. Electricity prices in the rest of the United States outside California rose two percent, the same as the rate of inflation. </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Between 2011 and 2017, California’s electricity prices rose five times faster than they did nationally. Today, Californians pay 60 percent more, on average, than the rest of the nation, for residential, commercial and industrial electricity. </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>California's high penetration of intermittent renewables such as solar and wind are likely a key factor in higher prices. Economists agree that “the dominant policy driver in the electricity sector [in California] has unquestionably been a focus on developing renewable sources of electricity generation.”[correlation is not causation]</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">High levels of renewable energy penetration make electricity expensive around the world, not just in California. As Germany deployed high levels of renewables over the last 10 years it saw its electricity prices rise 34 percent. Today, German electricity costs twice as much as that in neighboring France.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">electricity_prices_2011_2017.png</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>California’s RPS increases electricity costs</b> in part by requiring the purchase of renewables even when they cannot be relied on to power the grid, requiring undiminished capacity from the combination of natural gas, hydro, and nuclear power. As a result, California today has a large amount of excess electricity generating capacity without being able to know if much of it will be available from day to day and week to week. </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The rising cost of electricity in places with increasing penetration of intermittent renewables was predicted by German economist Lion Hirth. He found that the economic value of wind and solar must decline significantly as they become a larger part of the electricity supply. For example, the value of wind on the European grid drops 40 percent once it becomes 30 percent of electricity, Hirth finds, and the value of solar drops by half when it gets to just 15 percent. </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">California Deck.037.jpeg</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As wind and solar capacity climbs, the returns of usable power diminish because of increasing curtailment during surges that the grid cannot absorb. More and more intermittent capacity has to be pushed onto the grid to get less and less additional renewable electricity. The dynamic of soaring overcapacity and falling prices is the inevitable result of the fundamental inability of intermittent wind and solar generators to efficiently match supply to demand.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The burden of higher cost electricity and benefits of renewable energy subsidies fall unevenly on Californians. Between 2007 and 2014, the highest-income 40 percent of California households received three times more in solar subsidies — valued between $10,000 and $20,000 per household — as the lowest-income 40 percent. California households with over $100,000 in annual income benefitted from energy efficiency subsidies at twice the rate of households whose income was under $50,000.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://ei.haas.berkeley.edu/research/papers/WP248.pdf">https://ei.haas.berkeley.edu/research/papers/WP248.pdf</a></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">_GND no </font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">cars, burger, cos ate one, [crawler aoc: "I'm the boss"</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">prez of env progress</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">omg see<b> tucker</b> b/c of quilette ~ wind and solar, unreliable 40% of year</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">he calims to be on BO team on 1st try of new green deal 2003-7 orig founder, $150 billion on renewables, 10-40% of year</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">low density of fuel, the bigger envir impact eg lots of land [ "WE"] our friends said what about nuke? how few ppl died in chernbly (no #)</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bio-mass kills ppl (wood smoke, he does say ff too) 7 mil/yr (coal? charcoal?) in nuke accident only a tiny am't escapes ?! how much _ escapes?</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3 reasons: 1) assoc w/ atomic bomb but 2 diff technol; 60's cheap too much energy --> pop explosion, overconsumption 3) harmonize w/ natural world</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2x EP capt 719</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Environmental Progress </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ABOUT/ KEY QUESTIONS/ CLEAN ENERGY IN CRISIS/ POTENT STORIES/ NEWS/ GIVE</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> EP Story Web Banner.010.jpeg</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Science & Economy Advisors</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">John Asafu-Adjaye, University of Queensland, Australia</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">John Asafu-Adjaye, University of Queensland, Australia</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">John Asafu-Adjaye is an environmental economist whose current research activities include investigating the relationships between trade liberalization, agriculture and the environment. His recent publications include Environmental Economics: An Introduction for the Non-Economist (World Scientific Publishing, 2nd Edition) and has published widely including in Journal of Environmental Management, Health Policy, Contemporary Economic Policy, Energy Economics, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Australian Economic Papers, Singapore Economic Review, and the International Journal of Social Economics.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Stewart Brand, Long Now Foundation</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Stewart Brand, Long Now Foundation</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Stewart Brand is co-founder and president of The Long Now Foundation and co-founder of Global Business Network. He created and edited the Whole Earth Catalog (National Book Award), and co-founded the Hackers Conference and The WELL. His books includeThe Clock of the Long Now; How Buildings Learn; and The Media Lab. His most recent book, titled Whole Earth Discipline, is published by Viking in the US and Atlantic in the UK. He graduated in Biology from Stanford and served as an Infantry officer.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Barry William Brook, ARC Australian Laureate Professor and Chair of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Tasmania in the Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Barry William Brook, ARC Australian Laureate Professor and Chair of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Tasmania in the Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Barry Brook, an ecologist and modeller, is an ARC Australian Laureate Professor and Chair of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Tasmania. He is a highly cited scientist, having published three books, over 300 refereed papers, and many popular articles. His awards include the 2006 Australian Academy of Science Fenner Medal, the 2010 Community Science Educator of the Year and 2013 Scopus Researcher of the Year. His research focuses on the impacts of global change on biodiversity, ecological dynamics, forest ecology, paleoenvironments, energy, and simulation models.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">James Hansen, Climate Science, Awareness, and Solutions</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">James Hansen, Climate Science, Awareness, and Solutions</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dr. James Hansen, formerly Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, where he directs the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions. Dr. Hansen is best known for his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995 and was designated by Time Magazine in 2006 as one of the 100 most influential people on Earth. He has received numerous awards including the Carl-Gustaf Rossby and Roger Revelle Research Medals, the Sophie Prize and the Blue Planet Prize. </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Joseph B. Lassiter, Harvard Business School</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Joseph B. Lassiter, Harvard Business School</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Joe Lassiter is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired at Harvard Business School. He focuses on developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy all around the world. On retiring in 2015, he was appointed as a Senior Fellow to continue his work on energy and climate change related issues at Harvard Business School as well as in supporting University-wide efforts as a Faculty Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP) and a Faculty Associate of the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE).    </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Michelle Marvier, Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Santa Clara University</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Michelle Marvier, Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Santa Clara University</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Michelle Marvier is professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Santa Clara University and coauthor of the pathbreaking textbook Conservation Science: Balancing the Needs of People and Nature. Michelle has published widely in the fields of endangered species management, conservation investment, and environmental risk assessment, and she is on the editorial board of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Environment. "Science that illuminates public decisions, but does not prescribe those decisions," Michelle says, "is the vision that shapes my research, my classroom teaching, my one-on-one mentoring, and my professional service." This vision has translated into extensive research on ecosystem services and their benefits for humans, as well as the various bases for priority-setting in conservation and how public support for conservation can be increased. Michelle's engagement in these topics has put her at the cutting edge of the American and global conservation movement. An essay she co-wrote for the Breakthrough Journal, later followed up by a peer-reviewed article in BioScience, has stirred much debate and defined the possibilities and controversies surrounding emerging novel approaches to conservation.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Todd Moss, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Todd Moss, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Todd Moss is chief operating officer and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. His research focuses on U.S.-Africa relations, energy policy, and private investment. Moss is currently working on electrification in Africa, cash transfers in new oil economies, and ideas for upgrading US development policy. In the past he led the Center’s work on Nigerian debt, Zimbabwe, the future of the World Bank’s IDA, and the African Development Bank. Moss served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State 2007-2008 while on leave from CGD. Todd is the author of African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors (Lynne Rienner, 2nd ed., 2011), Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse with Cash Transfers (CGD, 2015) — and an international thriller series about a State Department crisis manager, The Golden Hour  (2014), Minute Zero (2015), and Ghosts of Havana (2016). </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Vijaya Ramachandran, Center for Global Development. </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Vijaya Ramachandran, Center for Global Development.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Vijaya Ramachandran is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. She works on private-sector development, financial flows, food security, humanitarian assistance, and development interventions in fragile states. Most recently, she coauthored an essay titled "Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Africa's Missing Middle,” published in the Oxford Handbook on Economics and Africa. Currently, she is looking at the unintended consequences of rich countries’ anti-money laundering policies on poor countries, and at better ways to deliver humanitarian assistance. Ramachandran has published her research in various journals includingWorld Development, Development Policy Review, Governance, Prism, and AIDS and is the author of a CGD book, Africa’s Private Sector: What’s Wrong with the Business Environment and What to Do About It. Prior to joining CGD, Ramachandran worked in the Africa Private Sector Group of the World Bank and in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. She also served on the faculty at Georgetown University and Duke University. Her work has appeared in several media outlets including the Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, Washington Post, New York Times, National Public Radio, and Voice of America.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Peter Raven, President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Peter Raven, President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Peter Raven is a botanist and environmentalist. He was longtime director and now President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden. In 2000, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists established the Peter Raven Award in his honor to be conferred to authors with outstanding contributions to plant taxonomy and "for exceptional efforts at outreach to non-scientists".  Raven is well-known for his work Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution published in the journal Evolution in 1964, and is also an author of the widely used textbook Biology of Plants, now in its eighth edition, coauthored with Ray F. Evert and Susan E. Eichhorn (both of University of Wisconsin, Madison).</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rathin Roy, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rathin Roy, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Prior to joining NIPFP, Rathin was been the Director of Asia Pacific Regional Centre, UNDP, Bangkok, and the Director, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), UNDP, Brazil. He has also served as the Public Resource Management Advisor, and the Acting Cluster Leader, Inclusive Development, in the Poverty Practice, Bureau for Development Policy (BDP), UNDP. He served as the Economic Advisor to the Thirteenth Finance Commission, a Constitutional body of the Government of India. He has worked in over 80 countries during and prior to his tenure with UNDP. Rathin holds a PhD in Economics and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, UK. Post-PhD, he was tenured in the Economics Faculty at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and an Economist with the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Samir Saran, Observer Research Foundation (ORF)</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Samir Saran, Observer Research Foundation (ORF)</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Samir Saran is a senior fellow and vice president at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), a Fellow at the Cambridge Sustainability Programme, and co-chair of the year-long Road to Paris Track-II initiative. A frequent commentator on issues of Global Governance, his areas of expertise include climate change and energy policy, global development architecture, cyber security and internet governance, and India's foreign policy. Apart from his academic publications, Samir is featured regularly in Indian and international print and broadcast media. His most recent publication on climate changes was "New Room to Manoeuvre: An Indian Approach to Climate Change " - an ORF-Global Policy.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Steven Pinker, Cognitive Scientist at Harvard University</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Steven Pinker, Cognitive Scientist at Harvard University</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Steven Pinker is known as the world's expert on the human mind. He has named as one of the world's most influential intellectuals by various magazines.  He won awards from the American Psychological Association, the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Institution, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society and the American Humanist Association.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Some of his classic books include: The Language Instinct (1994), How the Mind Works (1997), Words and Rules (2000), The Blank Slate (2002), and The Stuff of Thought (2007), The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011) and The Sense of Style (2014).</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Man-Sung Yim, Professor and Head of the Department of Nuclear Quantum Engineering. Director of Nuclear Nonproliferation Education and Research Center</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Man-Sung Yim, Professor and Head of the Department of Nuclear Quantum Engineering. Director of Nuclear Nonproliferation Education and Research Center</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Man-Sung Yim is a member of the Advisory Committee for Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal, Progress in Nuclear Energy and the International Journal of Nuclear Security. Formerly, he was a senior researcher/researcher at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, lecturer at MIT, Associate/Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University, a joint faculty between Oak Ridge National Lab and NC State University. Dr. Yim served on the North Carolina Science Advisory Board on Toxic Air Pollutants and the Nuclear Nonproliferation External Steering Committee at Idaho National Laboratory. Dr. Yim’s research areas include nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear waste management, nuclear safety and nuclear nonproliferation. His research and educational work mainly centers around the theme of safe and responsible use of nuclear energy. </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roger Pielke, Jr., Professor at University of Colorado</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roger Pielke, Jr., Professor at University of Colorado</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roger Pielke, Jr. has been on the faculty of the University of Colorado since 2001, where he teaches and writes on a diverse range of policy and governance issues related to science, innovation, sports. Roger holds degrees in mathematics, public policy and political science, all from the University of Colorado. In 2012 Roger was awarded an honorary doctorate from Linköping University in Sweden and was awarded the Public Service Award of the Geological Society of America. In 2006, Roger received the Eduard Brückner Prize in Munich, Germany in 2006 for outstanding achievement in interdisciplinary climate research. Roger served as a Senior Fellow of The Breakthrough Institute from 2008 to 2018. He has been a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan since 2016. Before joining the faculty of the University of Colorado, from 1993 to 2001 Roger was a Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. His books include The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics published by Cambridge University Press (2007), The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell you About Global Warming (2010, Basic Books) and The Edge: The War Against Cheating and Corruption in the Cutthroat World of Elite Sports (Roaring Forties Press, 2016). His most recent book is The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters and Climate Change (2nd edition, 2018, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes).</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dr. Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dr. Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dr. Kerry Emanuel is the Cecil and Ida Green professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 1981, after spending three years on the faculty of UCLA. Professor Emanuel's research interests focus on tropical meteorology and climate, with a specialty in hurricane physics. His interests also include cumulus convection, and advanced methods of sampling the atmosphere in aid of numerical weather prediction. He is the author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and three books, including Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes, published by Oxford University Press and aimed at a general audience, and What We Know about Climate Change, published by the MIT Press. He is a co-director of MIT’s Lorenz Center, a climate think tank devoted to basic, curiosity- driven climate research.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Peter Brecke, Associate Professor </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Peter Brecke, Associate Professor</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Peter Brecke is an Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has also served as Assistant Dean for Information Technology for the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts since January 2008.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Earlier research projects centered on social global modeling, computer-aided conflict early warning systems, and a taxonomy of conflict. He is the author of numerous articles and research reports on the computer simulation of worldwide political and economic developments, conflict early warning, and foundational topics needed to make those capabilities.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Jim Green ‒ Nuclear Monitor editor, and national nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth Australia</font></div><div class="field field-name-field-content field-type-list-text field-label-hidden field-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; display: inline-block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Article</font></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden field-wrapper body field" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Michael Shellenberger's pro-nuclear lobby group 'Environmental Progress' (EP) is celebrating the decision to proceed with two partially-built reactors in South Korea. A citizens jury appointed by the government voted almost 60% in favor of completing the reactors. President Moon Jae-in said the government would allow construction of the reactors to proceed but "we will completely stop all plans for the construction of new nuclear reactors."</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">1</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's doubtful that Shellenberger's California-based organization could have significantly swayed the citizens jury in South Korea, but EP was very active in the debate and presumably had some effect in shifting opinions. Here is a summary of the work EP carried out in South Korea this year:<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">2</span></font></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: inside;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; direction: ltr; list-style: none; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" wise="wise" images="images" bullit.png="bullit.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>EP published a 62-page pro-nuclear report ‒ 'The High Cost of Fear:</b> Understanding the Costs and Causes of South Korea's Proposed Nuclear Energy Phase-Out'.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">3</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; direction: ltr; list-style: none; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" wise="wise" images="images" bullit.png="bullit.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger visited South Korea four times between April and October 2017, giving speeches, holding press conferences on collaborating with nuclear advocates. He claims that dozens of media outlets reported on EP's visits, that a press conference in Seoul was "packed"<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">4</span>, and that he enjoyed "a crush of media attention".<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">5</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; direction: ltr; list-style: none; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" wise="wise" images="images" bullit.png="bullit.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EP sent a sign-on letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in in July 2017 and another in August 2017.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; direction: ltr; list-style: none; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" wise="wise" images="images" bullit.png="bullit.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In October, EP wrote to the citizens jury tasked with deciding the fate of the two partially-built reactors (Shin Kori 5 and 6).<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">6</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; direction: ltr; list-style: none; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" wise="wise" images="images" bullit.png="bullit.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EP produced a video promoting nuclear power in South Korea.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; direction: ltr; list-style: none; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" wise="wise" images="images" bullit.png="bullit.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger has been talking and writing about his bizarre plan to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula by supporting the development of nuclear power in North Korea.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; direction: ltr; list-style: none; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" wise="wise" images="images" bullit.png="bullit.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And, according to Shellenberger, EP countered the "lies" of Friends of the Earth (FOE) and Greenpeace in "two investigative pieces and three separate open letters to President Moon and the citizens jury that were signed by climate scientists and environmentalists from around the world."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">6</span></font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">EP's campaign has involved a blizzard of misinformation and relentless, dishonest attacks against environment groups, particularly Friends of the Earth (FOE) and Greenpeace. Shellenberger claims<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">4</span> that the "greatest coup" of the two groups was the "Hollywood-style anti-nuclear disaster movie" called Pandora<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">7</span> which was released last year and has been watched by millions, mostly on Netflix. But FOE and Greenpeace had nothing to do with the production of the Pandora film!</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger states: "After it was accused of secretly financing the film, Greenpeace insisted it had merely funded the screenings ..."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">8</span> To translate and correct Shellenberger's misinformation: Greenpeace was falsely accused of secretly financing the film (it isn't clear why funding an anti-nuclear film would be objectionable, any more than EP's funding of a pro-nuclear film). The source of the accusation isn't named ‒ perhaps it was Shellenberger himself! Greenpeace merely hosted a screening of the film (or at most a few screenings) and spoke at Q&A sessions at a few film screenings.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">9</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger claims the Pandora film must have cost tens of millions of dollars to make (although the film-makers say the budget was half a million) but that "amount is peanuts to an organization like Greenpeace International and natural gas interests".<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">8</span> He seems to be insinuating that Greenpeace and/or natural gas interests funded the film but provides no evidence in support of his claims.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The funding of the Pandora film isn't an important issue but it neatly illustrates Shellenberger's M.O. of relentless repetition of falsehoods in the hope that some mud sticks.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Pandora film "propelled to the presidency an anti-nuclear candidate, Moon Jae-in", Shellenberger claims.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">4</span> Seriously? Moon Jae-in would not have been elected if not for a Netflix film?!</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shellenberger himself featured in the dishonest and wildly inaccurate 'Pandora's Promise' film a few years ago.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">10,11</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">South Korea's 'nuclear mafia'</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arguably the main reason Moon Jae-in was elected to the presidency in May 2017 was to clean up widespread corruption ‒ including corruption in the nuclear industry.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">12</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EP describes the nuclear corruption scandal as a "paperwork scandal".<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">3</span> But it wasn't just a "paperwork scandal" ‒ it involved serious incidents such as a power failure in May 2012 which led to a rapid rise in the Kori-1 reactor core temperature, and a cover-up up of that incident.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">13</span> That was followed by revelations of an industry-wide scandal involving fake safety certificates ("paperwork") for reactor parts, sub-standard reactor parts, and bribery.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">13</span> The sub-standard reactor parts included safety-critical components such as defective control cabling that triggered shutdowns at two nuclear plants.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">14</span> According to a whistleblower, equipment failed under Loss-Of-Coolant-Accident conditions during at least one concealed test.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">15</span> Another whistleblower revealed that control cables supplied to four reactors with faked certificates had failed safety tests.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">16</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EP argues that the nuclear corruption scandal "demonstrated the independence of the Korean safety regulator". But the corruption dated back to 2004<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">14</span> and possibly earlier and went undetected for at least seven years. Public revelation of the scandal was a triumph for a small number of whistleblowers; it was deeply embarrassing for the regulator.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EP asserts that "suppliers as well as senior executives were held accountable" for their corruption. But a 2014 parliamentary audit revealed that some officials fired from KEPCO Engineering and Construction were rehired.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">17</span> And the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">New York Times</em> reported that despite the government's pledge to impose a 10-year ban on suppliers found to have falsified documents, KHNP imposed a six-month ban.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">18</span> The <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">New York Times</em> continued: "And nuclear opponents say that more fundamental changes are needed in the regulatory system, pointing out that one of the government's main regulating arms, the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety, gets 60 percent of its annual budget from Korea Hydro [& Nuclear]."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">18</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The scandal was still on the boil in 2014. <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Korea Times</em> noted in June 2014 that more fake quality certificates had been uncovered and that government testing facilities were found to have failed to conduct adequate tests before issuing certificates.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">19</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Korea Times</em> editorialized: "Most disheartening in the latest revelation of irregularities is that the state-run certifiers failed to detect fabrications by skipping the required double-testing. ... Given the magnitude of corruption in the nuclear industry arising from its intrinsic nature of being closed, the first step toward safety should be to break the deep-seated food chain created by the so-called nuclear mafia, which will help enhance transparency ultimately. With the prosecution set to investigate the suppliers, the certifiers will face business suspension. But it's imperative to toughen penalties for them, considering that light punitive measures have stood behind the lingering corruption in the nuclear industry."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">19</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">South Korea's energy mix</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Moon Jae-in government plans to reduce reliance on coal (from 43% of electricity generation to 25% by 2030<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">20</span>) and nuclear (from 30% to 18% by 2030<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">20</span>, with long-term ambitions to phase-out nuclear power) in favour of gas (from 20% to 37% by 2030<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">20</span>) and renewables (from 1.8%<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">21</span> to 20% by 2030<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">20</span>).</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an August 2017 report, EP plugs in a bunch of false and arbitrary assumptions to concoct a scare-story in which the proposed changes to the power-generation mix cost a minimum of US$10 billion per year (to import gas and to build gas-fired power plants ... there is no costing for the replacement of aging reactors, apparently they will operate forever), result in thousands of avoidable deaths from air pollution, and increase carbon emissions by an amount equivalent to adding 15‒27 million cars.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">3</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among other arbitrary, inexplicable assumptions is the assumption that gas replaces nuclear power.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">3</span> (That assumption is part of a broader EP propaganda campaign to convince people of the falsehood that "every time nuclear plants close they are replaced almost entirely by fossil fuels".<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">22</span>) If EP wants to arbitrarily assume that gas replaces nuclear under the 2030 targets, then it ought to assume that the planned 18% reduction in coal is replaced by the planned 18% increase in renewables ‒ but no such assumption is made.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Instead, the EP report asserts that "replacing the nation's nuclear plants would require a significant increase in coal and/or natural gas".<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">3</span> But the 2030 targets have the growth in renewable electricity generation comfortably ahead of the reduction in nuclear power.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And the EP report falsely asserts that the "removal of nuclear plants from the grid would extend the life of coal plants"<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">3</span> even though the government clearly plans to reduce reliance on coal plants and has already taken steps in that direction since the May 2017 election.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The EP report asserts that replacing "South Korea's remaining nuclear plants with natural gas would produce carbon pollution the equivalent of adding 27 million U.S. cars to the road."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">3</span> But ... again ... the South Korean government isn't planning to replace nuclear with gas; it is planning to reduce reliance on coal and nuclear in favour of gas and renewables. The planned increase in gas nearly matches the decline in more carbon-intensive coal, and the growth of renewables more than compensates for the loss of nuclear.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A sign-on letter organized by EP warns that a "significant expansion of natural gas could pose a significant threat to public safety" and cites two accidents in South Korea resulting in 83 deaths and 181 injuries.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">23</span> But it is silent about the costs, ill-health and deaths arising from nuclear disasters such as the Fukushima fires, meltdowns and hydrogen explosions. And it is silent about the myriad benefits of expanding renewable power generation.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peace on the Korean peninsula</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger thinks that supporting the development of nuclear power in North Korea is the key to peace on the Korean peninsula. He claims that "a nuclear phase-out in South Korea would destroy one of the best means of creating peace with North Korea" because it would compromise South Korea's ability to promote the development of nuclear power in North Korea.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">4</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A sign-on letter initiated by EP advocates a new framework agreement involving US and South Korean support for the development of nuclear power in North Korea, in return for North Korea accepting IAEA inspections of its nuclear program, ending its missile tests and limiting its nuclear arsenal.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">24</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The "new framework" is much the same as the old 1994 Agreed Framework, which was a complete failure. If the power reactors proposed under the 1994 agreement had been completed before North Korea terminated IAEA safeguards during the collapse of the Agreed Framework, those reactors might now be used for weapons production in addition to North Korea's small 'experimental power reactor' and its enrichment program.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is no reason to believe the North Korean regime would limit let alone abandon its nuclear weapons program if other nations helped the regime develop nuclear power plants (or other types of power plants). Nor is there any reason to believe that the US and other nations would consider a "limiting" of the regime's nuclear arsenal (whatever that means) to be adequate.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another reason to be skeptical about the "new framework" is the possibility that reactors in both North and South Korea could be deliberately or inadvertently struck in the event of military conflict. According to <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Yonhap News</em>, a report by South Korean energy utility KHNP noted that South Korea's power reactors have not been designed to deal with military attacks ‒ the outer protective walls were not designed to withstand a missile strike or other forms of concerted attacks.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">25</span> Kim Jong-hoon, a parliamentarian representing the conservative Liberty Korea Party, said earlier this year that Seoul was several years behind the US in coming up with safety measures to deal with military and terrorist attacks. "The fact that the country has not taken action in the past is a serious lapse, especially with North Korea's evolving missile threats," Kim said.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">25</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nuclear power and weapons proliferation</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shellenberger states: "One of FOE-Greenpeace's biggest lies about nuclear energy is that it leads to weapons. Korea demonstrates that the opposite is true: North Korea has a nuclear bomb and no nuclear energy, while South Korea has nuclear energy and no bomb."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">4</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In fact, the connections between nuclear power (and associated industries such as enrichment and reprocessing) and weapons proliferation are well understood and there are countless real-world examples demonstrating the risks.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">26</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Prominent nuclear lobbyists are now openly talking about the connections between nuclear power (and related industries) and weapons production in order to boost the case for further subsidies to support the 'civil' nuclear industry, particularly in the US.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">27</span> It seems Shellenberger didn't get the memo.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As for Shellenberger's claims about proliferation on the Korean peninsula, he ignores the fact that North Korea uses what is calls an 'experimental power reactor' (based on the UK Magnox power reactor design) to produce plutonium for weapons.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">28</span> He ignores the fact that North Korea acquired enrichment technology from Pakistan's A.Q. Khan network, who stole the blueprints from URENCO, the consortium that provides enrichment services for the nuclear power industry.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">28</span> He ignores the fact that North Korea's reprocessing plant is based on the design of the Eurochemic plant in Belgium, which provided reprocessing services for the nuclear power industry.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">28</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And Shellenberger ignores South Korea's history of covertly pursuing nuclear weapons, a history entwined with the country's development of nuclear power. For example, the nuclear power program provided a rationale for South Korea's pursuit of dual-use reprocessing technology.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chernobyl and Fukushima</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger says that at a recent talk in Berlin: "Many Germans simply could not believe how few people died and will die from the Chernobyl accident (under 200) and that nobody died or will die from the meltdowns at Fukushima. How could it be that everything we were told is not only wrong, but often the opposite of the truth?"<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">4</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There's a simple reason that Germans didn't believe Shellenberger's claims about Chernobyl and Fukushima ‒ they are false.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shellenberger claims that "under 200" people have died and will die from the Chernobyl disaster. In fact, the lowest of the estimates of the Chernobyl cancer death toll is the World Health Organization's estimate of "up to 9,000 excess cancer deaths" in the most contaminated parts of the former Soviet Union.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">29</span> And of course there are higher estimates for the death toll across Europe.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">30,31</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shellenberger claims that the Fukushima meltdowns "killed precisely no one" and that "nobody died or will die from the meltdowns at Fukushima".<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">4</span> An EP report has this to say about Fukushima: "[T]he science is unequivocal: nobody has gotten sick much less died from the radiation that escaped from three meltdowns followed by three hydrogen gas explosions. And there will be no increase in cancer rates."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">3</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In support of those assertions, EP cites a World Health Organization report that directly contradicts EP's claims. The WHO report concluded that for people in the most contaminated areas in Fukushima Prefecture, the estimated increased risk for all solid cancers will be around 4% in females exposed as infants; a 6% increased risk of breast cancer for females exposed as infants; a 7% increased risk of leukaemia for males exposed as infants; and for thyroid cancer among females exposed as infants, an increased risk of up to 70% (from a 0.75% lifetime risk up to 1.25%).<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">32</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Applying a linear-no threshold (LNT) risk factor to the estimated collective radiation dose from Fukushima fallout gives an estimated long-term cancer death toll of around 5,000 people.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">33</span> Nuclear lobbyists are quick to point out that LNT may overestimate risks from low dose and low dose-rate exposure. But LNT may also underestimate the risks.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The 2006 report of the US National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR) states: "The committee recognizes that its risk estimates become more uncertain when applied to very low doses. Departures from a linear model at low doses, however, could either increase or decrease the risk per unit dose."</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">34</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> And the BEIR report states that "combined analyses are compatible with a range of possibilities, from a reduction of risk at low doses to risks twice those upon which current radiation protection recommendations are based."</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">34</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fukushima evacuation</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger claims that the Fukushima evacuation was "entirely unnecessary and indeed counterproductive" and it was the "outcome of the kind of fear-mongering engaged in by Moon, FOE, and Greenpeace."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">4</span> But of course Moon Jae-in, FOE and Greenpeace had nothing to do with the evacuation of 160,000 people in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Evacuations were ordered not on the basis of fear-mongering by nuclear critics; they were ordered on the basis of multiple fires, hydrogen explosions and presumed meltdowns.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">EP states: "In 2013, the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) concluded that the vast majority of the Fukushima evacuation zone is safe and nearly all residents could have returned long ago ‒ indeed, most should never have left."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">3</span> But the UNSCEAR report didn't conclude that the vast majority of the Fukushima evacuation zone is safe or that nearly all residents could have returned long ago, and it didn't state that most evacuees should never have left.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">35</span> The UNSCEAR report states: "The actions taken to protect the public significantly reduced the radiation exposures that could have been received. This was particularly the case for settlements within the 20-km evacuation zone and the deliberate evacuation zones, where the protective measures reduced the potential exposures in the first year by up to a factor of 10."</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">3</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5</span></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An EP report berates the Japanese government for failing to follow "normal protocols" by ordering Fukushima residents to evacuate instead of sheltering in place.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">3</span> EP cites a 2015 IAEA report<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">36</span> in support of that argument, but nowhere in the IAEA report (or any IAEA report) is there a proscription against evacuation in response to nuclear accidents. No IAEA report states that sheltering in place should be the "normal protocol" in the event of a nuclear accident ‒ the appropriate response depends entirely on the circumstances. A 2011 IAEA report points to the impracticality of sheltering in place as a long-term response to elevated radiation levels following nuclear accidents: "Lesson 12: The use of long term sheltering is not an effective approach and has been abandoned and concepts of 'deliberate evacuation' and 'evacuation-prepared area' were introduced for effective long term countermeasures using guidelines of the ICRP [International Commission on Radiological Protection] and IAEA."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">37</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 2015 IAEA report notes that radiation levels were astronomical in some areas in the days after the Fukushima disaster ‒ even in some locations beyond the 20 km exclusion zone, dose rates of the order of a few hundred microsieverts per hour were measured from 15 March 2011 onward.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">36</span> Thus the annual public limit of 1 millisievert from anthropogenic sources would be reached in just a few hours, and the Japanese government's new limit of 20 millisieverts in Fukushima-contaminated regions would be reached in just a few days.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fake scientists and radiation quackery</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">EP's UK director John Lindberg is described as an "expert on radiation" on the EP website.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">38</span> In fact, he has no scientific qualifications whatsoever let alone specialist qualifications regarding the health effects of ionizing radiation. Likewise, a South Korean article<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">39</span> reposted on the EP website (without correction) falsely claims that Shellenberger is a scientist; in fact, he has a degree in cultural anthropology.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lindberg is an 'Associate Member' of Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information (SARI)<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">40</span>, a group comprised mostly of quacks, cranks, non-scientists and conspiracy theorists whose views are directly at odds with those of scientific associations such as UNSCEAR.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SARI is at war with the linear, no-threshold (LNT) model ‒ the group's short 'Charter & Mission' insists three times that LNT is "misinformation".<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">41</span> Yet LNT enjoys heavy-hitting scientific support. For example the 2006 report of the US National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation states that "the risk of cancer proceeds in a linear fashion at lower doses without a threshold and … the smallest dose has the potential to cause a small increase in risk to humans."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">34</span> Likewise, a report in the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em> states: "Given that it is supported by experimentally grounded, quantifiable, biophysical arguments, a linear extrapolation of cancer risks from intermediate to very low doses currently appears to be the most appropriate methodology."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">42</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A 2010 UNSCEAR report isn't sold on the linear part of LNT but it is at odds with SARI (and EP) on the question of a threshold. The UNSCEAR report states that "the current balance of available evidence tends to favour a non-threshold response for the mutational component of radiation-associated cancer induction at low doses and low dose rates."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">43</span>By contrast, SARI promotes hormesis ‒ the discredited view that low-dose radiation exposure is beneficial to human health.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">44</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Attacking environment groups</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger reduces the complexities of environmental opposition to nuclear power to the claim that in the 1960s, an "influential group of conservationists within Sierra Club feared that cheap, abundant electricity from nuclear would result in overpopulation and resource depletion" and therefore decided to campaign against nuclear power.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">4</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If such views had any currency in the 1960s, they certainly don't now. Yet EP asserts that Greenpeace and FOE "oppose cheap and abundant energy"<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">3</span> and Shellenberger asserts that "the FOE-Greenpeace agenda has never been to protect humankind but rather to punish us for our supposed transgressions."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">4</span> And Shellenberger suggests that such views are still current by asserting that the anti-nuclear movement has a "long history of Malthusian anti-humanism aimed at preventing "overpopulation" and "overconsumption" by keeping poor countries poor."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">8</span> Again we see Shellenberger's M.O. of relentless repetition of falsehoods in the hope that mud will stick.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In an 'investigative piece' ‒ titled 'Enemies of the Earth: Unmasking the Dirty War Against Clean Energy in South Korea by Friends of the Earth (FOE) and Greenpeace' ‒ Shellenberger lists three groups which he claims have accepted donations "from fossil fuel and renewable energy investors, as well as others who stand to benefit from killing nuclear plants".<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">4</span> FOE and Greenpeace don't feature among the three groups even though the 'investigative piece' is aimed squarely at them.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Undeterred by his failure to present any evidence of FOE and Greenpeace accepting fossil fuel funding (they don't), Shellenberger asserts that the donors and board members of FOE and Greenpeace "are the ones who win the government contracts to build solar and wind farms, burn dirty "renewable" biomass, and import natural gas from the United States and Russia."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">4</span> Really? Where's the evidence? There's none in Shellenberger's 'investigative piece'.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In an article for a South Korean newspaper, Shellenberger states: "Should we be surprised that natural gas companies fund many of the anti-nuclear groups that spread misinformation about nuclear? </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The anti-nuclear group Friends of the Earth ‒ which has representatives in South Korea ‒ received its initial funding from a wealthy oil man ..."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">45</span>He fails to note that the donation was in 1969</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">! And he fails to substantiate his false insinuation that FOE accepts funding from natural gas companies, or his false claim that natural gas companies fund "many of the anti-nuclear groups".</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shellenberger's 'investigative piece' falsely claims<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">4</span> that FOE keeps its donors secret, and in support of that falsehood he cites an article<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">8</span> (written by Shellenberger) that doesn't even mention FOE. EP falsely claims that FOE has hundreds of millions of dollars in its bank and stock accounts.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">3</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>EP has an annual budget of US$1.5 million,</b> Shellenberger claims, and he asks how EP "can possibly succeed against the anti-nuclear Goliath with 500 times the resources."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">8</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">An anti-nuclear Goliath with 500 times EP's budget of US$1.5 million, or US$750 million in annual expenditure on anti-nuclear campaigns? Shellenberger claims that Greenpeace has annual income of US$400 million to finance its work in 55 nations<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">8</span> ‒ but he doesn't note that only a small fraction of that funding is directed to anti-nuclear campaigns. FOE's worldwide budget is US$12 million according to EP<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">3</span> ‒ but only a small fraction is directed to anti-nuclear campaigns.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References:</font></strong></p></div></article></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">sponsor ohio bill:</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Steven Arndt</b> is the Republican representative for the 89th district of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_House_of_Representatives" title="Ohio House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ohio House of Representatives</a>. He is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican</a>. Arndt has run for various public offices since the 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Arndt#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> When <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kraus" title="Steve Kraus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Steve Kraus</a> was convicted of a felony and forced to resign from office, Arndt was selected by the Ohio House Republican Caucus to replace him. He took office on September 30, 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Arndt#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> Subsequently, Ardnt was reelected in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Arndt#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" 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none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Women's healthcare funding</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Arndt#Public_works_projects" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Public works projects</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Arndt#Gun_control" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: 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style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Planned Parenthood</a>. He voted in favor of the bill, as did nearly every Republican in the chamber.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Arndt#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> In response to the vote, Minority Leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Strahorn" title="Fred Strahorn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fred Strahorn</a> said, "Planned Parenthood provides low-cost preventative care to tens of thousands of women in Ohio. Defunding these effective and cost-efficient programs will put women and families in our underserved communities at risk." <sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Arndt#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Public_works_projects">Public works projects</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve_Arndt&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Public works projects" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Arndt voted in favor of "legislation to ban local hiring standards and restrict project labor agreements (PLAs) for public works projects." <sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Arndt#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> Debate around the issue at the time focused on the likelihood that the legislation would push jobs out of Ohio. "The Ohio Contractors Association and other backers of a ban say such quotas often make it harder for contractors to hire the best people... [Opponents of the bill] say the rules help keep money in the local economy and ensure that tax money goes to Ohio workers." <sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Arndt#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> In the end, the bill passed by just a 5 votes, making it one of the most closely contested proposals of the year.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Arndt#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Gun_control">Gun control</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve_Arndt&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Gun control" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On November 17, 2015, Arndt voted in favor of "legislation that would allow concealed handguns to be taken into day-care centers, public buildings, airports outside security checkpoints, and publicly accessible areas of police stations... House Bill 48 passed 63-25 over vocal Democratic objections that no opponents of the bill were allowed to give floor speeches before House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger, a Clinton County Republican, called for a vote. Even without the speeches, though, there was little doubt that the measure would pass the GOP-dominated House once it was called to the floor." <sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Arndt#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Arndt#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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We need to start fresh with a fresh agenda,” </span><a href="http://www.dailycal.org/2017/12/06/corrupt-broken-berkeley-resident-announces-pro-environment-run-governor/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">he says</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Shellenberger intends to run on an energy and environmental platform, and he hopes to involve student environmental activists in his campaign. California’s gubernatorial election will be held in November 2018. (Watch Shellenberger’s </span><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shellenberger_how_fear_of_nuclear_power_is_hurting_the_environment" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">TED Talk</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)</span></font></div><div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></span></div><div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; 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size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-weight: 700;">The new nuclear choice:</span> <a href="http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6498" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-weight: 700;">Joseph Lassiter</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> challenges us in the audience to view the energy crisis from a new point of view beyond the privileged choices available to the developed world. While developed nations like the US and many in Western Europe can afford cleaner energy sources, much of the developing world, China and India in particular, will use whatever energy sources are available that can improve the quality of life for as many of their citizens as possible, and do it quickly and cheaply. For these booming countries to adopt a renewable energy source, it’s going to have to pass what Vinod Khosla has called the “Chindia Test”:  it must be viable, scalable and effective without subsidy or mandate. Right now, wind and solar power do not pass that test, but Lassiter believes “new nuclear” power can, if people are willing to get past their historical apprehensions. We now have the ability to make and regulate nuclear power sources such that they are safer and cheaper than they have been in the past; now we have to make the choice to pursue it.</span></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.38889; clear: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-weight: 700;">Going nuclear for clean energy</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">. We’re in a clean energy revolution, some would think. Actually, it may be the opposite. According to </span><a href="http://www.environmentalprogress.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-weight: 700;">Michael Shellenberge</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">r</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">, a climate policy expert, the percentage of electricity from clean energy is declining, with nuclear taking the biggest hit  across the board. Nuclear is very low-carbon and can provide a lot of power, but three pervasive fears surround it that stand in the way of wide-scale generation: safety, waste and weapons. Turns out that nuclear is one of the safest renewable energies, doesn’t produce much waste — and the correlation between countries that invest in nuclear energy and in nuclear weapons isn’t strong. With many of the world’s richest nations taking down nuclear reactors instead of building them, we’re at risk of losing four times more clean energy than was lost over the past 10 years. In other words, “We’re not in a clean energy revolution, we’re in a clean energy crisis.”</span></p></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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TAY STEVENSON)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>421 QUEEN AVE N<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Social Welfare Organization</div><div>(Energy Resources Conservation and Development)</div><div>
</div><div><div>GENERATION ATOMIC MOVEMENT MOBILIZING ALLIANCE</div><div>(c/o TAY STEVENSON)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>421 QUEEN AVE N<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>minneapolis?</div><div>Social Welfare Organization</div><div>(Energy Resources Conservation and Development)</div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></div><div><table class="mdl-data-table mdl-js-data-table mdl-shadow--0dp " data-upgraded=",MaterialDataTable" style="position: relative; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-collapse: collapse; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_name" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Name:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_name" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Primary Name of Organization</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GENERATION ATOMIC</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_einn" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EIN:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_einn" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Employer Identification Number (EIN) is a nine digit number assigned by the IRS to identify a particular organization's account.</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">81-4500446</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_careof" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Care Of:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_careof" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Care Of Name is the person (officer, director, etc.) to whose attention any correspondence should be directed.</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">% ERIC G MEYER</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_address" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Address:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_address" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">last known address the organization provided to the IRS</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span itemprop="address"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2569 TELEGRAPH AVE
BERKELEY CA 94704-2917</font></span></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_group" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Group Exemption Number:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_group" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is a four-digit internal number assigned to central/parent organizations holding group exemption letters.</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">0000</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_affil" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Affiliation Type:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_affil" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Affiliation Code defines the organizational grouping.</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Independent - This code is used if the organization is an independent organization or an independent auxiliary (i.e., not affiliated with a National, Regional, or Geographic grouping of organizations).</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_rule" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ruling Date:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_rule" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is the month and year (YYYYMM) on a ruling or determination letter recognizing the organization's exempt status.</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">201708</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_deduct" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Deductibility:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_deduct" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Deductibility Code signifies whether contributions made to an organization are deductible.</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contributions are deductible.</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_found" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Foundation:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_found" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Foundation Code</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public 170(b)(1)(A)(vi)</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_act" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Activity Codes:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_act" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An organization formerly listed up to three activity codes on application Forms 1023 and 1024. These are codes which reflect an organization's purposes, activities, operations, or type. From one to three activity codes may be in this field. Note: activity codes became obsolete with the adoption of the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entity (NTEE) coding system in January 1995. However, organizations determined to be exempt prior to that date will reflect the activity codes previously assigned.</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">000 - 000 - 000</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_orgc" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Organization Type:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_orgc" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This defines the type of organization</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corporation</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_exemcode" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exempt Organization Status:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_exemcode" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The EO Status Code defines the type of exemption held by the organization.</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unconditional Exemption</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_taxp" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tax Period:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_taxp" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is the tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM).</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;" /></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_ass" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Asset Range:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_ass" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Assets</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_inco" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Income Range:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_inco" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Income</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_filingr" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Filing Requirement:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_filingr" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This indicates the primary return(s) the organization is required to file.</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;" /></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_pffilin" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PF Filing Requirement:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_pffilin" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pro Form 990 requirement</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No 990-PF return</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_account" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Accounting Period:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_account" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This designates the accounting period or fiscal year ending date (Jan - Dec) of the organization (MM).</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_assam" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Asset Amount:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_assam" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Asset Amount is an amount from the most recent Form 990 series return filed by the organization. Asset Amount is the Book Value Total Assets End of Year - PART X Balance Sheet Line 16 Col. (B) shown on the Form 990. This field is also from PART II, Line 25, Col. (B) EOY on Form 990EZ and PART II, Line 16, Col. (b) on Form 990PF. This field is dollars only.</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_income" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Income Amount:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_income" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Income Amount is a computer generated amount from the most recent Form 990 series return filed by the organization. Income Amount is computer generated using PART I, Total Revenue Line 12 and adding "back in" the expense items, i.e. Line 6b (Rental Expenses) shown on the Form 990 return. On Form 990EZ it is generated using PART I, Line 9 and adding "back in" the expense items, i.e. Line 5b (Cost or Other Basis Expenses). Income Amount for Form 990PF is generated using Part I, Line 10b (Cost of Goods) and adding Part I, Line 12, Col. (A) (Total Revenue Col. A) and Part IV, Line 1, Col. (G) (Cost or Other Basis). This field is dollars only.</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_990rev" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Form 990 Revenue Amount:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_990rev" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: -500px; left: -500px; padding: 8px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amount from Form 990, Part 1, Line 12, or Part 1, Line 9, of Form 990EZ</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_ntee" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) Code:</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_ntee" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: 591.75px; left: 209.555px; padding: 8px; text-align: center; margin-left: -93px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) Code is a four digit code used to classify an exempt organization in terms of its primary exempt activity. A table of the codes found in the first three-digits can be found described below. The first digit (Common Code) is a modifier used to describe activities in support of nonprofit organizations. The fourth digit further defines the classification of the organization and is not defined here.</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">C35: Energy Resources Conservation & Development</font></td></tr><tr style="white-space: normal; padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; height: 48px; position: relative; transition-duration: 0.28s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); transition-property: background-color;"><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 0.25em 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><span id="bmf_blah" tabindex="0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subsection / Classification Code(s):</font></span><div class="mdl-tooltip" for="bmf_blah" data-upgraded=",MaterialTooltip" style="transform: scale(0); transform-origin: center top 0px; z-index: 999; background: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; line-height: 14px; max-width: 170px; position: fixed; top: 642.75px; left: 221.797px; padding: 8px; text-align: center; margin-left: -63.5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subsection Classification</font></div></td><td class="mdl-data-tablecell--non-numeric" style="position: relative; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); padding: 0.25em 24px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; height: 20px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">03 / 2 - Educational Organization
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Meyer is the Founder and Executive Director of Generation Atomic, a nuclear advocacy non-profit.  He started out pursuing a career in professional singing, but after hearing about the promise of advanced nuclear reactors, he decided to devote his life to saving and expanding the use of atomic energy. He worked as an organizer on several political, union, and issue campaigns while in graduate school for applied public policy, taking time off to attend the climate talks in Paris and sing opera about nuclear power. Meyer began his full time nuclear work in May of 2016 with Environmental Progress by organizing marches, rallies, and trainings in California, New York, and Illinois, before leaving to found Generation Atomic in late 2016. 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</div><div>Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaNonprofit Organization Management</div><div>Current<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Generation Atomic</div><div>Previous<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Environmental Progress, Minnesota Nurses Association, VocalEssence</div><div>Education<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>University of Minnesota-Duluth</div><div>500+</div><div>connections</div><div>View Eric G. Meyer’s full profile. It's free!</div><div>Your colleagues, classmates, and 500 million other professionals are on LinkedIn.</div><div>View Eric G.’s Full Profile</div><div>Eric G. Meyer’s Activity</div><div>Eric G. Meyer liked this</div><div>
</div><div>Bill Gates?'s year in review. The 2 main pillars of...</div><div>Bill Gates looks back on 2018, and shares a few thoughts on what’s going well and what isn’t with...</div><div>Summary</div><div>Organizer, social change artist, and entrepreneur dedicated to building a grassroots movement for practical and evidence based solutions to climate change.</div><div>
</div><div>Current mission -- use cutting edge technology to empower grassroots advocacy in the quest to defend today's nuclear reactors, and build the reactors of tomorrow. Because if we don't? More fossil fuels, more greenhouse gas emissions.</div><div>
</div><div>Experience</div><div>Generation Atomic</div><div>Founder and Executive Director</div><div>Generation Atomic</div><div>November 2016 – Present  2 years 3 months</div><div>Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area</div><div>Environmental Progress</div><div>Director of Engagement at Environmental Progress</div><div>Environmental Progress</div><div>May 2016 – November 2016  7 months</div><div>San Francisco Bay Area</div><div>Minnesota Nurses Association</div><div>Organizer</div><div>Minnesota Nurses Association</div><div>August 2015 – May 2016  10 months</div><div>Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area</div><div>VocalEssence</div><div>Professional Singer</div><div>VocalEssence</div><div>August 2015 – May 2016  10 months</div><div>Minneapolis, Minnesota</div><div>Bass-baritone</div><div>
</div><div>Spirit Mountain Recreation Area</div><div>Bartender</div><div>Spirit Mountain Recreation Area</div><div>September 2013 – April 2015  1 year 8 months</div><div>TakeAction Minnesota</div><div>Organizer</div><div>TakeAction Minnesota</div><div>July 2014 – November 2014  5 months</div><div>Patrick Boyle for St. Louis County Board</div><div>Campaign Manager</div><div>Patrick Boyle for St. Louis County Board</div><div>November 2013 – January 2014  3 months</div><div>Friends of Tarryl Clark 2012</div><div>Logistical Coordinator</div><div>Friends of Tarryl Clark 2012</div><div>May 2012 – September 2012  5 months</div><div>Duluth, Minnesota</div><div>Education</div><div>University of Minnesota-Duluth</div><div>University of Minnesota-Duluth</div><div>Master's Degree, Advocacy and Political Leadership</div><div>2013 – 2015</div><div>Concentrations: Public Sector. Non-profits.</div><div>
</div><div>University of Minnesota-Duluth</div><div>University of Minnesota-Duluth</div><div>Bachelor of Arts (BA), Music Performance, General, 3.8</div><div>2008 – 2012</div><div>Activities and Societies: MPIRG, Energy Task Force Leader President of University Singers, Opera Studio Vocal Jazz Chamber Singers</div><div>
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</div><div>Dave Nagorski</div><div>Independent contractor at self-employed</div><div>
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</div><div>Bret Kugelmass</div><div>Managing Director at Energy Impact Center</div><div>
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</div><div>Alice Caponiti</div><div>Director for Advanced Reactor Technologies at US Department of Energy</div><div>
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size="4">Summary</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>MY 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</div><div>I am a dynamic and creative problem solver with a strong work ethic and polished communication skills. I have a steadfast belief that the intellectual honesty and discipline that result from clear thinking are fundamental to improving humanity. My dream is to improve the world through the fidelity of thought and tenacity of deeds. </div><div>
</div><div>STENGTHSFINDER TOP 5</div><div>
</div><div>Ideation</div><div>Fascinated by ideas and able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena. </div><div>"You revel in taking the world we all know and turning it around so we can view it from a strange but strangely enlightening angle."</div><div>
</div><div>Restorative</div><div>Adept at dealing with problems and good at figuring out what is wrong and resolving it. </div><div>"Whereas some are dismayed when they encounter yet another breakdown, you can be energized by it... It is a wonderful feeling to identify the undermining factors, eradicate them, and restore something to its true glory."</div><div>
</div><div>Command</div><div>Having presence; can take control of a situation and make decisions.</div><div>"You need things to be clear between people and challenge them to be clear-eyed and honest. You push them to take risks."</div><div>
</div><div>Input</div><div>A craving to know more.</div><div>"Yours is the kind of mind that finds so many things interesting. The world is exciting precisely because of its infinite variety and complexity."</div><div>
</div><div>Activator</div><div>Can make things happen by turning thoughts into action.</div><div>"You know you will be judged not by what you say, not by what you think, but by what you get done."</div><div>
</div><div>CONTACT ME</div><div>email - taylor@taylorstevenson.com</div><div>cell - 2183303681</div><div>
</div><div>Experience</div><div>Generation Atomic</div><div>Organizing Director</div><div>Generation Atomic</div><div>November 2016 – Present  2 years 3 months</div><div>FairVote Minnesota</div><div>Director of Campaigns</div><div>FairVote Minnesota</div><div>April 2016 – November 2016  8 months</div><div>Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area</div><div>Rural Renewable Energy Alliance (RREAL)</div><div>Program Development Specialist</div><div>Rural Renewable Energy Alliance (RREAL)</div><div>January 2015 – July 2015  7 months</div><div>Pine River, MN</div><div>Lakes Area Restorative Justice Project</div><div>Executive Director</div><div>Lakes Area Restorative Justice Project</div><div>December 2012 – September 2014  1 year 10 months</div><div>Brainerd, Minnesota</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Act as a liaison between a volunteer Board of Directors and staff; help Board articulate organizational vision and mission</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Direct program staff and volunteers to execute programmatic and mission objectives; develop staff and volunteer skills with appropriate resources and support to achieve organizational mission</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Develop funding resources through grant writing, donor cultivation, and earned revenue opportunities</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Administer program funds responsibly, efficiently, and effectively</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Design, develop, and evaluate with staff effective restorative justice programming</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Design in coordination with the Board and implement through staff a 1-3 year, community-based strategic plan</div><div>
</div><div>Independent School District 181</div><div>Substitute Teacher and Coach</div><div>Independent School District 181</div><div>February 2011 – May 2013  2 years 4 months</div><div>Brainerd, MN</div><div>• Adapted to and instructed from prepared lesson plans presented the morning of</div><div>• Interacted with students from Kindergarten to High School, including special education</div><div>• Coached Junior High track and field, summer power conditioning, and 9th grade football</div><div>
</div><div>Stevenson for Minnesota</div><div>Candidate, Minnesota State Senate</div><div>Stevenson for Minnesota</div><div>January 2010 – November 2012  2 years 11 months</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Won DFL Party endorsement and nomination in addition to endorsements from numerous other</div><div>labor, education, health care, farm, and environmental groups</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Contacted thousands of voters by phone and in person</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Participated in televised debates and numerous other candidate forums</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Crafted a convincing and coherent political message, designed a full direct mail campaign</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Organized and coordinated dozens of volunteers</div><div>
</div><div>Dayton Recount Team</div><div>Field Organizer</div><div>Dayton Recount Team</div><div>November 2010 – December 2010  2 months</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Contacted, scheduled, and trained a group of 20 volunteers in 1-2 weeks time span</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Coordinated staff and volunteers at Cass county recount involving over 15,000 ballots</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Kept constant contact with regional and statewide staff, to ensure immediate information flow</div><div>
</div><div>FDP im Landtag Baden-Württemberg</div><div>Intern</div><div>FDP im Landtag Baden-Württemberg</div><div>June 2009 – August 2009  3 months</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Participated and communicated fluently in a German work environment, experiencing a broad range of caucus and political party activities</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Translated documents and conducted bilingual research for caucus initiatives</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Worked as page during plenary sessions and sat in on caucus meetings and functions</div><div>
</div><div>Deutscher Bundestag</div><div>Intern</div><div>Deutscher Bundestag</div><div>January 2008 – March 2008  3 months</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Participated and communicated fluently in a German work environment</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Translated documents, conducted research, and responded to inquiries of the committee </div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Worked as page during plenary sessions and sat in on committee meetings and functions</div><div>
</div><div>Bill Richardson for President Campaign</div><div>Intern</div><div>Bill Richardson for President Campaign</div><div>2007 – 2008  1 year</div><div>Education</div><div>
</div><div>B.A., Government, Philosophy, German</div><div>2006 – 2010</div><div>Activities and Societies: Dartmouth Rugby, College Democrats of America, Zeta Psi Fraternity, Bait and Bullet, Dartmouth Political Union</div><div>
</div><div>Brainerd High School</div><div>Graduate with Special Distinction</div><div>2002 – 2006</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New 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Director at Energy Impact Center</div><div>
</div><div>Washington, District Of ColumbiaThink Tanks</div><div>Current<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Energy Impact Center, Titans of Nuclear</div><div>Previous<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Airphrame, Panasonic, Nanosolar</div><div>Education<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Recommendations<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>1 person has recommended Bret Kugelmass</div><div>500+</div><div>connections</div><div>View Bret Kugelmass’ full profile. It's free!</div><div>Your colleagues, classmates, and 500 million other professionals are on LinkedIn.</div><div>View Bret’s Full Profile</div><div>Summary</div><div>Our 100% Focus = Climate Change.</div><div>
</div><div>Experience</div><div>Energy Impact Center</div><div>Managing Director</div><div>Energy Impact Center</div><div>October 2017 – Present  1 year 4 months</div><div>Washington D.C. Metro Area</div><div>Research institute analyzing solutions towards net negative carbon by 2040.</div><div>
</div><div>Titans of Nuclear</div><div>Host</div><div>Titans of Nuclear</div><div>January 2018 – Present  1 year 1 month</div><div>Washington D.C. Metro Area</div><div>Titans of Nuclear (www.titansofnuclear.com) is a podcast featuring interviews with experts on nuclear energy. Host, Bret Kugelmass, Stanford MSME '11, is a robotics entrepreneur, inventor of the internet-connected drone, and climate change thought leader. He has identified both a severe disconnect and steep learning curve between nuclear and tech adjacent communities as impediments to innovation, financing, and social acceptance. Seeking to bridge this gulf he is compiling an audio encyclopedia of the greatest minds in Nuclear Energy opening the field to environmental-minded technologists. Titans of Nuclear currently reaches 20,000+ listeners across 90+ countries, 5 times a week. Interviews range across economics, policy, technology and occur across 50 different locations / labs / nuclear sites in 10+ countries and counting...</div><div>...</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LI</font></div><div><h2 class="sans-20px-black-90 aboutheader" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.4; font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">About us</font></h2><p class="sans-14px-black-75 aboutdescription" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.42857; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Energy Impact Center is a research institute that explores climate risk, environmental data, and energy technology.

Our mission is to put better information into the public sphere regarding the risk and potential paths forward associated with carbon emissions. We aim to educate on technical concepts using both scientific data coupled with a rigorous analysis. Our program is divided into three categories:

- Understanding climate risk
Assessing geo-engineering options
Determining an appropriate energy portfolio

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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">About</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Why Nuclear?</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Get Involved</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Store</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Blog</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Donate</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Our Team</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Eric Meyer</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Larkin Mosscrop</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">River Bennett</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><b>Our Advisory Board</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Art Wharton</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Daniel Curtis</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Timothy Crook</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Aries Loumis</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Lenka Kollar</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Gene Grecheck</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Canon Bryan</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Nicholas Thompson</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">About GA</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Our Mission: To energize and empower today’s generations to advocate for a nuclear future.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Generation Atomic is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, that works with its 501(c)4 political advocacy arm GAMMA (Generation Atomic Movement Mobilizing Alliance) to save today’s nuclear reactors and lay the groundwork for deploying the reactors of tomorrow.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">After recognizing that the decline of nuclear energy was one of the greatest threats to climate progress and future prosperity, Eric Meyer-- an opera singing grassroots organizer, and Taylor Stevenson-- a politico and nonprofit manager, decided in late 2016 to form Generation Atomic and build a grassroots movement to fight for this critical technology.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Since its founding, Gen A has worked to cultivate relationships with business leaders, pro-nuclear donors, and grassroots advocates. By engaging stakeholders at all levels, Gen A is working together with many partners to create a loud, effective, and sustainable pro-nuclear constituency.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">This community building is at the heart of Gen A’s grassroots organizing and advocacy. We accomplish this objective by combining the best of old school movement building -- door-to-door canvassing, community organizing, and advocacy trainings to identify and energize new nuclear supporters while empowering them with the best digital tools to make real change in the policy landscape.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">The facts are clear: nuclear power is the safest way to produce energy, the “waste” has the potential to power our future, and building nuclear is the fastest way to decarbonize a society. Indeed, the only countries that have decarbonized fast enough to limit global warming have done it with nuclear. Generation Atomic is here to tell that story, with your help, and take action at the local, national, and global levels to ensure we have a future of abundant clean energy - for everyone, forever.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Our mission</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Generation Atomic is working to change the culture and build a movement to support nuclear energy. Here's how:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Informing the public</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Supporters</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">5,000+</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Face to face impressions</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">12,000+</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Social media reach</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Encouraging Advocacy</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Top Direct Action 2017</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">"Write your OH legislator urging support for ZEN"</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Event Attendees</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">300+</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Postcards</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">8,000+</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Top Digital Action 2017</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">"Petition UNEP to allow nuclear at the Sustainable Innovation Forum"</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Improving Nuclear Messaging</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Using Data to Drive Messaging</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">December 2016</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Eric and Tay found Generation Atomic, signing the Articles of Incorporation at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">January-March 2017</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Generation Atomic pilots its grassroots door-knocking model in Pittsburgh and State College, Pennsylvania. Part-time organizers and volunteer canvassers from Penn State make up the first Gen A Field Team.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">April 2017</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Generation Atomic launches their mobile app, 'Atomic Action' at the ANS Student Conference. The app offers supporters the chance to take action on nuclear issues, and serves as the backbone of field operations.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">April 2017</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Generation Atomic leads the nuclear delegation at the highly publicized March for Science in Washington D.C.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">May 2017</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Generation Atomic launches its Ohio ZEN campaign to save Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear plants out of a cramped duplex in Sandusky, OH. After five weeks of grassroots, door-to-door campaigning in the<b> OH 89th, Rep. Steve Arnd</b>t announces his support for the Ohio ZEN bill.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">June-August 2017</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Generation Atomic expands its Ohio ZEN campaign to a headquarters in Akron, organizing in six counties across northern Ohio. In addition to canvassing, the team holds a series of "Think and Drink" events across the state, garnering hundreds of attendees. Gen A also logistically supports the "NUCLEAR: What it Means to Ohio" symposium held in Columbus and organizes at the Allen and Stark county fairs.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">June-August 2017</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">In July, Eric speaks on the plenary panel at the National WIN Conference, inspiring a 21 year old student to ask her fellow audience members to contact their legislators and ask them to support nuclear. This action results in 1,300 emails to local and state legislators.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">September 2017</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The team concludes its campaign in Ohio after garnering more than 9000 actions and a contact list of more than 5000 Ohio nuclear supporters. The first annual "</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Car Show and Family Fun Day"</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> is spearheaded by a Generation Atomic volunteer and brings 3000+ attendees to the plant.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">June-August 2017</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">The bill that would save Ohio's two nuclear plants "HB 178" - which was originally introduced with only one sponsor - is re-introduced as HB 381-- now with sixteen co-sponsors.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">October 2017</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Generation Atomic organizes at the world premiere of The New Fire in Indianapolis, with special guests from the US Department of Energy</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The film documents several advanced nuclear start-ups and features Eric singing opera about nuclear at the Paris Climate talks in 2015.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">October 2017</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tay and Sam attend the Millennial Nuclear Caucus roundtable meeting hosted by the US Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Tay and Sam also speak at the ANS Winter Conference.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">November 2017</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gen A heads to Germany for COP23 to team up with Nuclear 4 Climate and a host of pro-nuclear NGOs from around the world. Tay, Eric, and Grant hold conversations at the group's booth in the Bonn Zone; Tay speaks at the official Side Event held at the Turkish Pavilion.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">November 2017</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Sundance-nominated filmmaker Frankie Fenton documents "A Seat at the Table," a Generation Atomic-led, forum-style discussion at the entry of the Sustainable Innovation Forum, which had reneged on a sponsorship agreement with the<b> World Nuclear Association.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">December 2017</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Generation Atomic runs its first <b>"Atomic Winter"</b> fundraising drive, collecting contributions from nuclear advocates around the globe.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">January 2018</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Generation Atomic returns to Ohio to promote and provide logistical support for the second Millennial Nuclear Caucus, hosted by NEI and the Department of Energy. The team spends a week on campus at Ohio State University organizing legislative visits, giving advocacy trainings, and connecting with hundreds of students. The Department of Energy features Eric and the work of Gen A in a promotional video.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Shellenberger is a Time Magazine "Hero of the Environment" and Green Book Award-winning author and policy expert.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Founder and President of Environmental Progress, Michael is one of the world's leading pro-nuclear environmentalists. His efforts to date have helped save 14 nuclear reactors around the world, from Illinois and New York to South Korea, which prevented an increase in emissions equivalent to adding 14 million cars to the road.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael is a regular contributor to Forbes, and his writings have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post , Scientific American, Nature Energy, and PLOS Biology. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael’s 2016 TED talk on "How Fear of Nuclear Hurts the Environment," and his 2017 TEDx Berlin Talk, "Why I Changed My Mind About Nuclear Power," have been viewed over 1.5 million times.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael was featured in "Pandora's Promise," an award-winning film about environmentalists who changed their minds about nuclear, appeared on "The Colbert Report," and debated nuclear on CNN "Crossfire" with Ralph Nader, and at UCLA with Mark Jacobsen. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael is coauthor of visionary books and essays including “An Ecomodernist Manifesto,” "The Death of Environmentalism," and Break Through, which was called "prescient" by Time and "the best thing to happen to environmentalism since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring" by Wired Magazine. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael is co-founder and Senior Fellow at Breakthrough Institute where he was president from 2003 - 2015, and served as an advisor to MIT's "Future of Nuclear Energy" task force.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael has been profiled in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, National Review,  New Republic, and NPR. His research and writing have appeared in The Harvard Law and Policy Review, Democracy Journal, the PLOS Biology, The New Republic the Wall Street Journal; and cited by the New York Times, Slate, USA Today, Washington Post, New York Daily News, The New Republic.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael has been an environmental and social justice advocate for over 25 years. In the 1990s Michael helped save an old-growth redwood forest, and helped force Nike to improve factory conditions in Asia. In the 2000s, Michael advocated for and helped realize an expansion of federal investment in renewables and energy efficiency.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report attacks nuclear power as a key climate solution by promoting the notion that it risks nuclear weapons proliferation, may cause childhood leukemia, and destroys the natural environment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Nuclear energy,” write IPCC authors, “can increase the risks of proliferation, have negative environmental effects (e.g., for water use), and have mixed effects for human health when replacing fossil fuels.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, study after study over the last 40 years finds that nuclear is the safest way to make reliable electricity, and climate scientists found that nuclear energy has saved 1.8 million lives by preventing premature deaths from air pollution.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Where nuclear was 19% of U.S. electricity last year, solar and wind still constitute just 1.3 and 6.3% of electricity in the U.S., and 1.3% and 3.9% of electricity globally.  </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And yet IPCC repeatedly characterizes nuclear as inherently flawed in contrast to renewables whose problems can be solved through “policy interventions.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In reality, there is no policy intervention that can change the physics of making electricity.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Solar farms (like California’s Ivanpah) require up to 450 times more land per unit of energy than nuclear plants (like California’s Diablo Canyon) because sunlight is energy-dilute and uranium is energy-dense.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IPCC authors promote “policy interventions” to “enhance affordability” for renewables, but never suggest similar “policy interventions” for nuclear.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And IPCC authors note that “Bundling energy-efficient appliances” with renewables can reduce costs — which is true, but combining energy efficient appliances with nuclear (or any other energy source) would have the same effect.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The report comes days after two major scientific papers published by Harvard University professors found that “the transition to wind or solar power in the U.S. would require five to 20 times more land than previously thought, and, if such large-scale wind farms were built, would warm average surface temperatures over the continental U.S. by 0.24 degrees Celsius.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IPCC authors even promote “bio-energy” — the use of wood, dung, and ethanol — fuels with large, well-documented negative human health and environmental impacts.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2012, a Science Advisory Board to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency concluded bioenergy was not “carbon neutral” — a view supported by more than 90 leading scientists in an open letter, and the European Union’s Environment Agency.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IPCC authors use biased and misleading cost comparisons to put solar in a positive light and nuclear in a negative one.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nuclear, IPCC authors claim, is an example “of where real-world costs have been higher than anticipated … while solar PV is an example where real-world costs have been lower.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In truth, those places like California and Germany who have added the most solar and wind have seen their electricity prices rise significantly as they have dealt with the high cost of unreliability, which require expensive solutions like batteries that more reliable sources of energy don’t require.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In other words, solar energy is so expensive in part because it produces electricity at less than one-third of their rated power over a year, whereas nuclear plants run at full power over 90% of the year — something the IPCC report never explains.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Worse, the IPCC report reinforces the widespread — and wrong — view that poor nations can “leap-frog” rich nations with solar panels, batteries, and energy efficiency, by pointing to charity or development agency subsidies for rural solar in poor villages.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IPCC points to the 19 million people in Bangladesh who now have solar-plus-batteries, but never mentions that the same country is building nuclear power plants.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In sharp contrast, the IPCC hammers again and again on the alleged dangers of nuclear:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In spite of the industry's overall safety track record, a non-negligible risk for accidents in nuclear power plants and waste treatment facilities remains. The long-term storage of nuclear waste is a politically fraught subject, with no large-scale long-term storage operational worldwide. Negative impacts from upstream uranium mining and milling are comparable to those of coal, hence replacing fossil fuel combustion by nuclear power would be neutral in that aspect. Increased occurrence of childhood leukaemia in populations living within 5 km of nuclear power plants was identified by some studies, even though a direct causal relation to ionizing radiation could not be established and other studies could not confirm any correlation (low evidence/agreement in this issue)."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In truth, the environmental impacts of uranium mining are vastly smaller than for coal, precisely because uranium is at least 2 million times more energy dense than coal.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Waste" (used fuel) from nuclear plants, meanwhile, is the only waste by-product from any electricity production that is not externalized into the environment, which is why nuclear waste never hurts anyone, while seven million die prematurely each year from air pollution.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Elsewhere IPCC engages in unsubstantiated fear-mongering, claiming “Continued use of nuclear power poses a constant risk of proliferation."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Where many nations that acquire civilian nuclear plants do so in part to provide the option of gaining a weapon in the future, no nation has used its civilian nuclear plants to create a weapon.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moreover, as nuclear weapons have spread from one to nine nations since 1945, deaths from wars and conflicts have declined 95% — and by 90% in battle conflicts between India and Pakistan — an outcome empirical studies attribute largely to nuclear deterrence between large nations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For decades, the nuclear energy industry denied any connection between nuclear power and nuclear weapons. In recent years, however, writes Jim Green, nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth Australia, the industry has turned around and started openly acknowledging that there is a connection, hoping that this will secure political support. Prominent nuclear activist Michael Shellenberger has even gone a step further, notes Green: he welcomes nuclear weapons proliferation as a contributor to world peace. This argument may well backfire: proliferation risks may well become a much greater concern in new nuclear energy projects.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2015, Nuclear Monitor published a detailed analysis of the many ways nuclear industry insiders and lobbyists trivialise and deny the connections between nuclear power (and the broader nuclear fuel cycle) and nuclear weapons proliferation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since then, the arguments have been turned upside down with prominent industry insiders and lobbyists openly acknowledging power-weapons connections. This remarkable about-turn has clear origins in the crisis facing nuclear power and the perceived need to secure increased subsidies to prevent reactors closing and to build new ones.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The new sales pitch openly links nuclear power to weapons and arguesthat weapons programs will be jeopardised unless greater subsidies are provided for the civil nuclear industry. The US Nuclear Energy Institute, for example, tried in mid-2017 to convince politicians in Washington that if the only reactor construction projects in the US ? in South Carolina and Georgia ? weren’t completed, it would stunt development of the nation’s nuclear weapons complex.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Decades of deceit have been thrown overboard with the new sales pitch linking nuclear power and weapons</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Nuclear Energy Institute paper wasn’t publicly released. But in the second half of 2017, numerous nuclear insiders and lobbyists openly acknowledged power-weapons connections and called for additional subsidies for nuclear power. The most important of these initiatives was a paper by the Energy Futures Initiative ? a creation of Ernest Moniz, who served as energy secretary under President Barack Obama.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Decades of deceit have been thrown overboard with the new sales pitch linking nuclear power and weapons. However there are still some hold-outs. Until recently, one nuclear lobbyist continuing to deny power-weapons connections was Michael Shellenberger from the ‘Environmental Progress’ pro-nuclear lobby group in the US.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger told an International Atomic Energy Agency conference last year that “nuclear energy prevents the spread of nuclear weapons”. And he claimed last year that “one of FOE-Greenpeace’s biggest lies about nuclear energy is that it leads to weapons” and that there is an “inverse relationship between energy and weapons”.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger’s backflip</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In two articles published in August, Shellenberger has done a 180-degree backflip on the power-weapons connections. “[N]ational security, having a weapons option, is often the most important factor in a state pursuing peaceful nuclear energy,” Shellenberger now believes.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A recent analysis from Environmental Progress finds that of the 26 nations that are building or are committed to build nuclear power plants, 23 have nuclear weapons, had weapons, or have shown interest in acquiring weapons.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“While those 23 nations clearly have motives other than national security for pursuing nuclear energy,” Shellenberger writes, “gaining weapons latency appears to be the difference-maker. The flip side also appears true: nations that lack a need for weapons latency often decide not to build nuclear power plants … Recently, Vietnam and South Africa, neither of which face a significant security threat, decided against building nuclear plants …”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of the 26 nations that are building or are committed to build nuclear power plants, 23 have nuclear weapons, had weapons, or have shown interest in acquiring weapons</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here is the break-down of the 26 countries that are building or are committed to build nuclear power plants according to the Environmental Progress report:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thirteen nations had a weapons program, or have shown interest in acquiring a weapon: Argentina, Armenia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt, Iran, Japan, Romania, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, UAE.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seven nations have weapons (France, US, Britain, China, Russia, India and Pakistan), two had weapons as part of the Soviet Union (Ukraine and Belarus), and one (Slovakia) was part of a nation (Czechoslovakia) that sought a weapon.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Poland, Hungary, and Finland are the only three nations (of the 26) for which Environmental Progress could find no evidence of weapons latency as a motivation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Current patterns connecting the pursuit of power and weapons stretch back across the 60 years of civilian nuclear power. Shellenberger notesthat “at least 20 nations sought nuclear power at least in part to give themselves the option of creating a nuclear weapon” ? Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, France, Italy, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Libya, Norway, Romania, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, West Germany, Yugoslavia.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger points to research by Fuhrmann and Tkach which found that 31 nations had the capacity to enrich uranium or reprocess plutonium, and that 71% of them created that capacity to give themselves weapons latency.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nuclear weapons ? a force for peace?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So far, so good. The pursuit of nuclear power and weapons are often linked. That’s a powerful reason to eschew nuclear power, to strengthen the safeguards system, to tighten export controls, to restrict the spread of enrichment and reprocessing, and so on. But Shellenberger has a very different take on the issues.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Discussing the Fuhrmann and Tkach article (and studiously avoiding contrary literature), Shellenberger writes:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“What was the relationship between nuclear latency and military conflict? It was negative. “Nuclear latency appears to provide states with deterrence-related benefits,” they [Fuhrmann and Tkach] concluded, “that are distinct from actively pursuing nuclear bombs.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Why might this be? Arriving at an ultimate cause is difficult if not impossible, the authors note. But one obvious possibility is that the “latent nuclear powers may be able to deter conflict by (implicitly) threatening to ‘go nuclear’ following an attack. …”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“After over 60 years of national security driving nuclear power into the international system, we can now add “preventing war” to the list of nuclear energy’s superior characteristics. …”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“As a lifelong peace activist and pro-nuclear environmentalist, I almost fell out of my chair when I discovered the paper by Fuhrmann and Tkach. All that most nations will need to deter military threats is nuclear power ? a bomb isn’t even required? Why in the world, I wondered, is this fact not being promoted as one of nuclear powers many benefits?”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The answer is that the nuclear industry and scientific community have tried, since Atoms for Peace began 65 years ago, to downplay any connection between the two ? and for an understandable reason: they don’t want the public to associate nuclear power plants with nuclear war.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“But in seeking to deny the connection between nuclear power and nuclear weapons, the nuclear community today finds itself in the increasingly untenable position of having to deny these real world connections ? of motivations and means ? between the two. Worse, in denying the connection between energy and weapons, the nuclear community reinforces the widespread belief that nuclear weapons have made the world a more dangerous place when the opposite is the case. …”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Nuclear energy, without a doubt, is spreading and will continue to spread around the world, largely with national security as a motivation. The question is whether the nuclear industry will, alongside anti-nuclear activists, persist in stigmatizing weapons latency as a nuclear power “bug” rather than tout it as the epochal, peace-making feature it is.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“After over 60 years of national security driving nuclear power into the international system, we can now add ‘preventing war’ to the list of nuclear energy’s superior characteristics”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger asks why the deterrent effect of nuclear power isn’t being promoted as one of its many benefits. Nuclear weapons can have a deterrent effect ? in a uniquely dangerous and potentially uniquely counterproductive manner ? but any correlation between latent nuclear weapons capabilities and reduced military conflict is just that, correlation not causation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the contrary, there is a history of military attacks on nuclear facilities to prevent their use in weapons programs (e.g. Israel’s attacks on nuclear facilities in Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007, and US attacks on nuclear facilities in Iraq in 2003). Shellenberger points to the same problem, asking whether latency could “also be a threat to peace?” and noting Israeli and US threats to take pre-emptive action against Iran’s nuclear facilities. He doesn’t offer an answer or explore the issue further.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger argues that Iran should be encouraged to develop nuclear weapons. He cites long-term nuclear weapons proliferation enthusiast Kenneth Waltz, who claims that the “decades-long Middle East nuclear crisis … will end only when a balance of military power is restored”. He cites a German academic who argues that a nuclear-armed Germany “would stabilize NATO and the security of the Western World”. We “should be glad that North Korea acquired the bomb” according to Shellenberger. And on it goes ? his enthusiasm for nuclear weapons proliferation knows no bounds.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">‘Shellenberger has gone down a rabbit hole’</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nuclear Monitor has previously discussed the litany of falsehoods in his writings on nuclear and energy issues. In his most recent articles he exposes himself as an intellectual lightweight prepared to swing from one extreme of a debate to the other if that’s what it takes to build the case for additional subsidies for nuclear power.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Remarkably, even Environmental Progress’ attorney Frank Jablonski appears not to agree with Shellenberger. Jablonski writes:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“From Shellenberger’s article you would conclude that, for any “weak nation”, or for the “poor or weak” persons within such nations, things are bound to improve with acquisition of nuclear weapons. So, for humanitarian reasons, the imperialistic nations and hypocritical people standing in the way of that acquisition should get out of the way. No. The article’s contentions are falsified by … logical untenability, things it got wrong, and things it left out. While Shellenberger’s willingness to take controversial positions has often been valuable, a “contrarian” view is not always right just because it is contrarian.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Few would swallow Shellenberger’s arguments including his call to shred the non-proliferation and disarmament system and to encourage weapons proliferation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sam Seitz, a student at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, argues that Shellenberger’s argument is “almost Trumpian in its incoherence”. He takes issue with Shellenberger’s claims that no nuclear powers have been invaded (“a pretty misleading statistic” and “wrong”); that battle deaths worldwide have declined by 95% (“fails to prove that nuclear weapons are responsible for this trend … as we are frequently reminded, correlation and causation are not equivalent”); that Indian and Pakistani deaths in two disputed territories declined sharply after Pakistan’s first nuclear weapons test in 1998 (“doesn’t account for non-nuclear factors like the role of outside mediation and domestic politics”); and that Nazi Germany invaded France because the French lacked a credible deterrent (“makes very little sense and conflates several things … also silly”).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hostile response</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Responding to Shellenberger’s more-the-merrier attitude towards nuclear weapons proliferation, pro-nuclear commentator Dan Yurman puts it bluntly: “Here’s the problem. The more nations have nuclear weapons, the more dangerous the world will be. Sooner or later some tin pot dictator or religious zealot is likely to push a button and send us all to eternity.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger’s about-turn on power-weapons connections provoked a hostile response from Yurman:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Shellenberger has crossed a red line for the global commercial nuclear industry, which has done everything in its power to avoid having the public conflate nuclear weapons with commercial nuclear energy. Worse, he’s given opponents of nuclear energy, like Greenpeace, a ready-made tool to attack the industry. …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In the end he may have painted himself into a corner. Not only has he alienated some of his supporters on the commercial nuclear side of the house, but he also has energized the nonproliferation establishment, within governments and among NGOs, offering them a rich opportunity to promote critical reviews of the risks of expanding nuclear energy as a solution to the challenge of climate change. …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Shellenberger has gone down a rabbit hole with his two essays promoting the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Given all the great things he has done to promote commercial nuclear energy, it is a perplexing and disturbing development.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Power-weapons connections</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No doubt there will be more acknowledgements of power-weapons connections by nuclear industry insiders and lobbyists. As Shellenberger notes, the nuclear ‘community’ today finds itself in an increasingly untenable position denying the connections.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is a degree of domestic support for nuclear weapons programs in weapons states … but few people support generalised nuclear weapons proliferation and few would swallow Shellenberger’s arguments including his call to shred the non-proliferation and disarmament system and to encourage weapons proliferation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Understanding of the power-weapons connections, combined with opposition to nuclear weapons, is one of the motivations driving opposition to nuclear power. According to Shellenberger, the only two US states forcing the closure of nuclear plants, California and New York, also had the strongest nuclear disarmament movements.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The growing acknowledgement ? and public understanding ? of power-weapons connections might have consequences for nuclear power newcomer countries such as Saudi Arabia</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is some concern that claims that the civil nuclear industry is an important (or even necessary) underpinning of a weapons program will be successfully used to secure additional subsidies for troubled nuclear power programs (e.g. in the US, France and the UK). After all, nuclear insiders and lobbyists wouldn’t abandon their decades-long deceit about power-weapons connections if they did not believe that their new argument will gain traction, among politicians if not the public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The growing acknowledgement ? and public understanding ? of power-weapons connections might have consequences for nuclear power newcomer countries such as Saudi Arabia. Assuming that the starting point is opposition to a Saudi nuclear weapons program, heightened sensitivity might constrain nuclear exporters who would otherwise export to Saudi Arabia with minimalist safeguards and no serious attempt to check the regime’s weapons ambitions. Or it might not lead to that outcome ? as things stand, numerous nuclear exporters are scrambling for a share of the Saudi nuclear power program regardless of proliferation concerns.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More generally, a growing understanding of power-weapons connections might lead to a strengthening of the safeguards system along with other measures to firewall nuclear power from weapons. But again, that’s hypothetical and it is at best some way down the track ? there is no momentum in that direction.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And another hypothetical arising from the growing awareness about power-weapons connections: proliferation risks might be (and ought to be) factored in as a significant negative in comparative assessments of power generation options.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr Jim Green is the national nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth Australia and editor of the Nuclear Monitor newsletter, where a longer version of this article was originally published.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why I changed my mind about nuclear power: Transcript of Michael ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">environmentalprogress.org/.../why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcri...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nov 21, 2017 - By Michael Shellenberger. Like a lot of kids born in the early 1970s, I had the good fortune to be raised by hippies. One of my childhood heroes ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Shellenberger - Wikipedia</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump to </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Save Illinois Nuclear - In April 2016, Shellenberger, alongside other scientists and ... the six operating nuclear power plants in Illinois: Braidwood; ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?Career · ?Breakthrough Institute · ?Environmental Progress · ?Writings</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nuclear activist Shellenberger learns to love the bomb - EnergyPost.eu</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://energypost.eu/nuclear-power-weapons-michael-shellenberger/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 21, 2018 - Nuclear power activist Michael Shellenberger now welcomes nuclear weaponsproliferation as a contributor to world peace – an argument that ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stop Letting Your Ridiculous Fears Of Nuclear Waste Kill The Planet</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.forbes.com/.../michaelshellenberger/.../stop-letting-your-ridiculous-fears-...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jun 19, 2018 - Michael Shellenberger Contributor ... In other words, nuclear power's waste by-products aren't a mark against the technology, they are its key ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Had They Bet On Nuclear, Not Renewables, Germany & California ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.forbes.com/.../michaelshellenberger/.../had-they-bet-on-nuclear-not-rene...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sep 11, 2018 - Thanks to its deployment of nuclear power, the Canadian province of Ontario's ... Michael Shellenberger, President, Environmental Progress.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If Innovation Makes Everything Cheaper, Why Does It Make Nuclear ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.forbes.com/.../michaelshellenberger/.../if-innovation-makes-everything-c...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jun 21, 2018 - South Koreans made nuclear plants cheaper by resisting innovationMichaelShellenberger. Para leer este artículo en español, haga clic aquí.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Attacking Nuclear As Dangerous, New IPCC Climate Change Report ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.forbes.com/.../michaelshellenberger/.../attacking-nuclear-as-dangerous-ne...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oct 8, 2018 - A new IPCC report attacks nuclear power as a key climate solution by promoting the notion that it risks ... Michael Shellenberger Contributor.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last year the Trump administration's Energy Department announced the launch of a media campaign to counter what an official called "misinformation" about nuclear power. We haven't noticed an upsurge in pro-nuclear news—because there is none to report.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the first day of 2019, the energy industry trade journal Power asked whether new technology can save nuclear power by making new reactors economically feasible—not only to replace coal and natural gas but also to compete with the rapidly dropping cost of renewable energy. The verdict from Peter Bradford, a former member of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">. . . [N]ew nuclear is so far outside the competitive range. . . . Not only can nuclear power not stop global warming, it is probably not even an essential part of the solution to global warming.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His bleak outlook is shared by the authors of a recent article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The authors—an engineer, an economist and a national security analyst—reviewed the prospects for so-called advanced designs for large nuclear reactors, and for much smaller modular reactors that could avoid the billions in construction costs and overruns that have plagued the nuclear energy industry since the beginning.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They concluded that no new designs can possibly reach the market before the middle of the century. They cite the breeder reactor that, according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, received $100 billion in public development funds worldwide over six decades and still did not get off the ground.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The authors say there may be an opening for small modular reactors but that it will be very difficult to find a market for these reactors without—as is always the case with nuclear power—a massive infusion of taxpayer dollars. "For that to happen," they argue, "several hundred billion dollars of direct and indirect subsidies would be needed to support their development and deployment over the next several decades, since present competitive energy markets will not induce their development and adoption."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite the past failure and poor future outlook, support for more nuclear funding persists. In a recent study, the Energy Department pointed to the $50 billion in federal incentives provided to renewables like solar and windpower between 2005 and 2015, implying that such policies can have a similar impact on modular nuclear reactors. But unlike nuclear power, the costs of wind and solar have dropped dramatically, to the point where the cost of new, unsubsidized utility-scale wind and solar power investment can now compete with that of existing coal and nuclear power plants.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bigger question is whether nuclear power is needed at all.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nuclear advocates' claims that nuclear power is required to fight climate change falls short. California met its climate goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 four years early by turning off its nuclear plants and setting policies that prioritize renewables, energy efficiency and energy storage investments over natural gas plant additions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An argument advanced in the Energy Department report is that, to ensure that power can be delivered 24/7, large coal and nuclear power plants designed to run day and night—also known as baseload plants—need to be replaced by small nuclear units that run day and night. However, mounting, real-world evidence refutes this assertion.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recent studies from New York and California show that it is cheaper to invest in renewables, energy efficiency and energy storage in order to replace aging nuclear plants than it is to keep the existing plants running. Savings range from hundreds of millions to billions of dollars—achieved without any impact on electric system reliability.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nuclear power belongs in a museum. We shouldn't continue to squander public dollars on a technology that will never make economic sense. We should divert resources into improving and deploying wind, solar, energy efficiency and energy storage technology that we know will keep the lights on, effectively reduce carbon emissions and cost what we can afford to pay.  Grant Smith is senior energy policy advisor at Environmental Working Group.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">teague am prospect 2007 (ex0boxer) apollo http://prospect.org/article/global-warming-age-energy-anxiety =2008 blogThose of you who may have read Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger's books (The Death of Environmentalism, 2005; Break Through 2008) know how they have stirred things up in the environmental movement and the mass media. They have been widely interviewed and widely praised for their bashing of the environmental movement and for their purported new vision of activism. I dissected both of these books on my web site as well as onculturechange.org, as being ahistorical, neo-liberal and fraudulent.It turns out that I am not the only one who identified these shysters (Nordhaus is a pollster and Shellenberger a public relations hack who now represents Hugo Chavez's government in Venezuela). Alex Smith, in British Columbia, hosts a magnificent and comprehensive environmental radio show which is available at the site below (printed transcripts are also available). Tonight I found the time to listen to the two shows he mentions below: "Plotting the Green Death", in which he interviews both Nordhaus and Shellenberger. Clearly Smith has their number.In the course of the first of these shows Smith lays wide open the financial and political support infrastructure for these books: the once-liberal Nathan Cummings Foundation (which helped fund Alternet, according to Smith), now become a mouthpiece for what can only be described as desperado capitalism, under its present director Peter Teague. Cummings once funded many small and diverse environmental groups. No more. It has shed whatever liberal pretenses it once had in favor of an overt unabashed effort to destroy, once and for all, the entire environmental movement. Cummings is on the warpath against environmentalism and found the perfect tools. They got perfect fools into the bargain.The appearance of Nordhaus and Shellenberger was their biggest coup and opportunity. Here, in the shape of two ostensible liberals, was their path to undermining the credibility and survival of environmentalism. What was the plan and their objective? Here is my analysis.The climate change emergency has grabbed the attention of the public, the government and the media like no other issue. Every day credible scientists, scientific journals and scientific research bodies come out with a new pronouncement about the acceleration of global warming. Every day the date of the "tipping points", beyond which there is no turning back, advances towards us. Every day scientists like James Hansen are in the public view saying we have only a handful of years to stabilize and reduce CO2 concentrations. Every day there are cries for legislation and policies and actions to reduce energy use.This latter point is the crucial one. Reduction in energy use threatens economic growth, otherwise known as capitalism. It is becoming clear and undeniable that only a massive reduction in the use of fossil fuels gives us any chance at all for mitigating global warming and averting ecocide. Moreover, the smiley faces of those who propose salvation through renewable energy - solar, wind, biofuels, hydrogen fuel cells - cannot disguise the fact that all of these sources together cannot - in the time remaining to us - fill our present energy demand. The ONLY thing that can buy us time - the time to bring a fully renewable energy economy on line - is a radical reduction in energy consumption and tough mandatory energy efficiency measures and statutes in every sector of the economy.High oil prices have already cut into energy consumption and into all other areas of consumer purchases. This reduction in consumption is anathema to capitalism and growth. Without continued growth the economy starts crumbling. To industry, investors, financiers and business owners, this means recession if not depression, zero growth. Of course zero growth is the only thing that CAN possibly fend off the worst effects of global warming, and as such it should be not just welcomed but sought. This is, however, not in the capitalist cards.So what do the capitalists need to do? They need to DISTRACT the public and the media from the Bad News that says: buy less, consume less. They need to distract the public from the science that announces more grim news every day. They need to promote the Good News: prosperity (which N&S say is the answer to the world's environmental problems, if such problems exist at all), jobs, growth, globalization. If you thought that N&S were neo-cons in disguise, you aren't far off. Read Democrats instead. Their message, and that of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, is that things will start looking up as soon as we stop pretending there are constraints. Out there in that blue sky is the promise of salvation through technology, through optimism, through prosperity. The environmentalists have it all wrong, they say. We have it right. Trust us.Cummings and N&S are thus the handmaidens facilitating Business as Usual and presenting a fancy show of fireworks with the hope that depressed people will embrace their argument and reject the pessimism and spectre of hardship and sacrifice presented by those who commit the error of being truthful about global warming. For them, the biggest obstacle is environmentalism, in all shapes and sizes, that must be squashed once and for all, so as to allow the happy voice of unfettered capitalist growth to dominate public dialogue.Small wonder, therefore, that so many confused people and climate change deniers have welcomed N&S' book Break Through with open arms. Here at last their worst fears are allayed and their fervent hopes substantiated. Here at last is some good news that they can throw back at the environmentalists. Here at last are some "credible liberals" who themselves say environmentalists are wrong. Here at last is justification for their doubts about climate change.N&S are the hired guns for the Cummings "cosa nostra". They have the blessing of godfather Peter Teague and the foundation board members. They are truly "made men". _ ABOUT AUTHORLorna Salzman has been an environmental activist, writer, lecturer and organizer for forty years. Her web site is http://www.lornasalzman.com/.kqed forum coi greens http://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2016/06/22/pge-agrees-to-close-diablo-canyon-californias-last-nuclear-plant/ june 23 50 min Guests: Damon Moglen, senior strategic advisor, Friends of the Earth not effective? Michael Shellenberger, president, Environmental Progress Lauren Sommer, science and environment reporter, KQED Public Radio---a lot like credo entine BShttp://www.environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2016/6/23/environmental-group-could-benefit-financially-from-closure-of-diablo-canyonClick here to hear the on-line recording of EP President Michael Shellenberger discussing the findings of his investigation into NRDC's conflict of interests on KQED radio, June 23, 2016.   by Michael ShellenbergerThe lead environmental organization that negotiated a proposal with Pacific Gas & Electric to close California's last nuclear power plant could significantly benefit financially from its closure, as could the trustees that govern the organization, and its donors.  NRDC itself has significant, direct investments in natural gas and renewable energy companies.The Proposal was negotiated by NRDC, PG&E and others is being proposed to the California Public Utilities Commission, which could allow it to become state policy. The two highest-ranking members of NRDC’s Board of Trustees, its Chair and Vice Chair, as well as one of NRDC’s single largest donors, are all major investors in natural gas and renewables companies, could benefit significantly from Diablo’s closure.A partial list of potential conflicts of interest. " id="yui_3_17_2_1_1468626385451_150" style="line-height: 0; text-align: center; position: relative; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 94.1719px;"> A PARTIAL LIST OF POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. The Board of Trustees governs nonprofit organizations like NRDC, is responsible for hiring and firing the Executive Director, as well as making sure NRDC is avoiding conflicts of interest in its fundraising and advocacy.NRDC as an organization has large investments in both renewables and natural gas. In 2015, the NRDC disclosed in a 2014 financial report that it had $7,710,276 million invested in four separate renewable energy private equity funds. The report said it had $7,852,229 invested in four funds in 2013.Evidence of NRDC's large stake in energy companies that could benefit from closing Diablo Canyon or other nuclear plants. " id="yui_3_17_2_1_1468626385451_166" style="line-height: 0; text-align: center; position: relative; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 181.188px;"> EVIDENCE OF NRDC'S LARGE STAKE IN ENERGY COMPANIES THAT COULD BENEFIT FROM CLOSING DIABLO CANYON OR OTHER NUCLEAR PLANTS. Diablo Canyon contributes such a significant amount of power to the grid — about 8 percent of California's electricity — that removing it could create profitable business opportunities for solar, wind, battery, bioenergy and natural gas companies.NRDC’s Board Chair is Vice President at AECOM one of the world's largest developers of natural gas power plants and pipelines -- more of which could be needed if Diablon Canyon closes.NRDC has three Vice Chairs, one of whom is Max Stone, a managing partner at D.E. Shaw, an investment firm that on June 16, 2016, bought a solar farm in California that has a power purchase agreement with PG&E. If Diablo Canyon closes, PG&E may make many more such deals with solar farm builders.RALPH CAVANAGH, LEAD NEGOTIATOR FOR NRDCDE Shaw has large investments in natural gas, solar, wind and efficiency companies. DE Shaw reported having $37 billion in investments as of March 1, 2016, and a portfolio of 23 wind and solar projects whose capacity totals 1,100 MW.  In 2013 D.E. Shaw settled a lawsuit for $75,000 for allegedly exceeding "position limits" in natural gas. DE Shaw also invests in energy efficiency, more of which would be required under the NRDC proposal to close down Diablo Canyon.NRDC justifies closing Diablo Canyon so it can make room for renewables. NRDC's lead negotiator for the agreement, Ralph Cavanagh, told the New York Times that Diablo Canyon should be closed to accommodate renewables:Giant baseload nuclear power plants like Diablo Canyon cannot easily be taken offline, or ramped up and down, as system needs change... This worsening problem is forcing the California grid operator to shut down low-cost renewable generation that could otherwise be used productively.One of NRDC’s largest donors is Nat Simons, an investor in solar, wind, biofuels and other renewable energy companies. Funding by Nat Simons' Sea Change fund to NRDC. " id="yui_3_17_2_1_1468626385451_198" style="line-height: 0; text-align: center; position: relative; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 547.75px;"> Simons contributed $14,879,000 to NRDC from 2009 to 2013 (see chart below). and specified that the donations be used to change energy and climate policies. In a 2009 public meeting about climate change and clean energy, Simonssaid  "role of philanthropy is really to facilitate that process" of changing policies to accelerate the transition to renewables.The policies NRDC lobbies at state and federal levels directly benefit Simons’ companies. Those policies include federal subsidies for solar and wind (ITC & PTC), federal renewable energy procurement, and state Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS). Several of Simons' companies have won Department of Energy grants.NRDC helped create and put $66 million in Black Rock "Ex-Fossil Fuels Index Fund" stock fund that invests heavily in natural gas and renewables companies, including pipeline companies. NRDC wroteNatural gas stocks in Blackrock-NRDC fund. " id="yui_3_17_2_1_1468626385451_214" style="line-height: 0; text-align: center; position: relative; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 818px;"> NATURAL GAS STOCKS IN BLACKROCK-NRDC FUND. IN FISCAL 2014, NRDC, BLACKROCK AND FTSE GROUP PARTNERED TO LAUNCH A EQUITY GLOBAL INDEX SERIES - FTSE DEVELOPED EX-FOSSIL FUELS INDEX SERIES - THAT EXCLUDES COMPANIES LINKED TO EXPLORATION, OWNERSHIP OR EXTRACTION OF CARBON-BASED FOSSIL FUEL RESERVES. Black Rock’s investments in natural gas pipelines may not be a coincidence. NRDC worked closely with Black Rock to create the fund, and more natural gas pipelines will likely needed in California if Diablo Closes.The lack of of natural gas pipelinecapacity is one of the key factors state officials say is behind power outages in Southern California.Last December, NRDC announced its participation in another investment fund it helped to create. In a blog post called "Invest in the Future, Not in Fossil Fuels," NRDC’s Executive Director Rhea Suh described NRDC's investment:While NRDC derives no benefit from others’ participation, we made a significant investment in State Street’s new vehicle, because it supports our core mission.….We can’t afford the damage, destruction, and hazard that come with producing, shipping, and burning the world’s coal, gas, and oil.However, the fund invests significantly in natural gas companies, just like the BlackRock fund. The fund lists Eversource, Next Energy, Talen and Pacific Gas & Electric. While most of the fund is not directly invested in energy, the energy companies in the portfolio are almost entirely oil and gas companiesNRDC is the most influential environmental organizations among California policymakers. Mary Nichols of the Air Resources Board, Governor Jerry Brown’s top environment official, used to work at NRDC.RHEA SUH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NRDCAccording to the National Council of Nonprofits, an organization’s “conflict of interest policy should (a) require those with a conflict (or who think they may have a conflict) to disclose the conflict/potential conflict, and (b) prohibit interested board members from voting on any matter in which there is a conflict.”NRDC reported on its most recent IRS tax forms (990) that it has a conflict of interest policy that “may be provided at management’s discretion, if requested.” NRDC wrote:EACH OFFICER, DIRECTOR, AND EMPLOYEE IS REQUIRED TO ANNUALLY DISCLOSE ANY CONFLICTS OF INTEREST THAT ARISE BY VIRTUE OF RELATIONSHIP TO THE ORGANIZATION, BOARD SERVICE, OR POSITION WITH EITHER NRDC ACTION FUND OR NRDC. NRDC ACTION FUND MONITORS COMPLIANCE WITH ITS CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY THROUGH AN ANNUAL QUESTIONNAIRE/DISCLOSURE STATEMENT THAT IS DISTRIBUTED TO THESE INDIVIDUALS. POTENTIAL CONFLICTS ARE INVESTIGATED IMMEDIATELY. =mom for nukes http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/06/21/the-end-of-an-era-california-to-close-last-nuclear-power-plant/=http://fair.org/home/wsj-fakes-a-green-shift-toward-nuclear-power/ The Wall Street Journal (6/16/16) published an article headlined “Environmental Groups Change Tune on Nuclear Power: Focus on Climate Change Has Raised Profile of Reactors, Now Viewed as Reliable, Carbon-Free Source of Energy.” Written by Amy Harder, the approximately 600-word piece appeared on the front page of the Journal’s B section. Its dramatic lead-in:Some of the nation’s most influential environmental groups are softening their longstanding opposition to nuclear power, marking a significant shift in the antinuclear movement as environmentalists’ priority shifts to climate change.This shift, Harder wrote, “is lowering one of the biggest political hurdles facing the nuclear power industry in the US.”What followed was framed by the story’s two quoted pro-nuclear sources, Joe Dominguez, an executive with Exelon Corp, the US’s largest electric holding company and operator of its largest fleet of nuclear plants, and Michael Shellenberger, co-founder of the quasi-neoliberal, pro-technology environmental think tank The Breakthrough Institute. According to Dominguez, the green groups’ “absence on the opposition front” is “’pretty significant’” and the “’shift in attitude…has a clear impact on companies’ bottom line.’” The evidence of this shift? Vague assertions that the Sierra Club “is debating whether to halt its longtime position in support of shuttering all existing nuclear power plants” and that its “leaders see existing reactors as a bridge to renewable energy…as the group campaigns to shut down coal and natural gas plants.” Similarly, the story says, the Environmental Defense Fund is “deciding to what extent it should adjust its policy.”Central to the story is the contention that prominent eco-advocacy groups, including Sierra, EDF and the Natural Resources Defense Council, are among those working with Exelon and state lawmakers on a legislative deal that would reverse a decision the company made in early June to close two money-losing nuclear reactors, Quad Cities and Clinton, and “ensure that the reactors remain in operation by providing financial recognition for the zero-carbon electricity they produce.”But major assertions in the Journal article turn out to be either factually inaccurate, or to omit or spin important details. First, though Harder refers multiple times to nuclear power being “carbon-free” (echoing the websites of nuclear plant owners such as Exelon and Pacific Gas & Electric), that is not the case.According to the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry lobbying group:Nuclear energy facilities do not emit criteria pollutants or greenhouse gases when they generate electricity, but certain processes used to build and fuel the plants do. This is true for all energy facilities. Nuclear energy’s life-cycle emissions include emissions associated with the construction of the plant, mining and processing the fuel, routine operation of the plant, disposal of used fuel and other waste byproducts, and decommissioning.Nuclear energy’s greenhouse gas footprint is higher than renewables’, however. And as Greenpeace nuclear policy analyst Jim Riccio told the peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change in 2008, “The fact is, there’s no such thing as a carbon-free lunch for any energy source.” Riccio is also quoted in the Journal piece—against nuclear power: “Illinois should not be bailing out old and dangerous reactors because they can’t complete,” he said—hardly an endorsement. That sentiment is reflected on Greenpeace’s website, which states, “Nuclear power has no place in a safe, clean, sustainable future.”Second, the notion that “the nation’s most influential” green groups are “changing their tune” is also untrue. The characterization of Illinois’ energy-policy debate, for example, is “over-the-top outrageous,” according to Dave Kraft, director of the Nuclear Energy Information Service, a 35-year-old safe-energy organization that calls itself “Illinois’ Nuclear Power Watchdog.” NEIS is part of a coalition of environmental groups opposing SB 1585, a piece of legislation dubbed the Next Generation Energy Plan that is still in play. The bill was cobbled together from a proposal developed by Exelon with input from a variety of competing interests, including green groups. Kraft says these activists have been negotiating not “SO THAT the plants would be kept in operation, but WHETHER they will.… That’s a significant difference.” He says NEIS plans to write a letter of complaint to the Journal, asking for a correction and a retraction. (As this story went to press, Exelon notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that it intends to close the Quad Cities and Clinton reactors—WJBC, 6/23/16.) Since the Journal story’s publication, other eco groups are rushing to clarify their positions. The NRDC, for one, published  a blog post (6/19/16) debunking the piece, stating: The story highlighted coalition negotiations underway in the Illinois General Assembly…. NRDC is engaged with allies in legislative negotiations on energy policy in Illinois. But the Journal is dead wrong on our goals, focus and motivation. Our effort to reform energy policy does not involve, or signal, a change in NRDC’s long-held concerns about the role of nuclear energy in the country’s generation mix. That is especially true in Illinois, the state with the greatest number of nuclear reactors and waste in the entire country. Our efforts to negotiate an agreement with Exelon involves a continuing dedication to transform the Illinois energy landscape and advance a new, clean energy economy. The post went on to refute the Journal piece’s allegation that shuttered plants inevitably mean more carbon-spewing coal and gas in their place:Current proposals by Exelon would bring financial assistance to the company’s two economically distressed nuclear facilities, as noted in the Wall Street Journal…. Our coalition is negotiating to ensure an orderly and just transition that will help ensure that when nuclear plants close (whether for financial reasons or reaching the end of their design life), efforts should be focused on how to replace them with energy efficiency gains and clean power from the wind and sun, not dirty fossil fuels. Without fixing the state’s flawed renewable energy policies, that cannot happen—so this is a conversation NRDC will continue to encourage in Illinois.The Sierra Club, for its part, quickly answered the assertion that it’s reconsidering its position with a June 17 statement on the Club’s website by executive director Michael Brune: Sierra Club remains opposed to dangerous nuclear power, and our efforts to make sure these plants shut down continue. Our successful work to stop and retire coal, oil, and gas operations has not precluded this important work, nor will it in the future. It’s imperative that we move toward an economy powered by 100 percent clean, renewable energy like wind and solar right away. In addition, Sierra has publicly opposed the proposed bailout of the Exelon plants embodied in SB 1585, and has submitted a letter to the editor of the Journal, according to Club spokesperson Trey Pollard. Even EDF, historically more industry-friendly, is not exactly a nuclear booster. The organization’s website recently featured a blog post (6/1/16) that listed key policies to “turn the corner” on carbon emissions: putting a price on carbon, implementing President Obama’s Clean Power Plan and developing a nationwide smart grid.With this story, the Journal seems to be conflating the pro-nuke positions of prominent individuals in the scientific and policy community with the sentiments of major environmental organizations. As the Washington Post’s Chris Mooney reported in a fairly balanced (but misleadingly titled) article late last year, there has been a vocal group of academic scientists rethinking nukes. He wrote: A new letter, signed by 71 ecologists and conservation researchers (at last count), may be…significant. Authored by ecologists Barry Brook of the University of Tasmania and Corey J.A. Bradshaw of the University of Adelaide—and based on a longer paper by the two just out in the journal Conservation Biology—it argues that greens must rethink their nuclear power resistance…. This is not the first time that a coterie of environmental scientists have stood up for nuclear energy. Last year, four top climate researchers—Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution, Kerry Emanuel of MIT, Tom Wigley of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and James Hansen of the Earth Institute of Columbia University—wrote a letter defending the deployment of what they described as newer, safer nuclear power technologies. Frequently joining this latter group of pro-nuclear climate hawks has been TBI’s Michael Shellenberger, who told the Journal, “If anything gives me hope in these dark times, it’s that so many environmentalists are changing their minds about nuclear…. What was just a trickle of converters a few years ago has become a positive stampede.” Who these converts are he did not say. But although the Journal describes TBI as “a progressive think tank,” the Institute and its new spinoff, Environmental Progress, have a history of separating themselves from, and even trashing, the environmental mainstream. The organization originally gained fame in the early 2000s with their essay “Death of Environmentalism: Global Warming Politics in a Post-Environmental World.” TBI advances a philosophy they call “ecomodernism,” a “manifesto to use humanity’s extraordinary powers in service of creating a good Anthropocene.” A strong pro-nuclear stance is part of TBI’s and EP’s platforms. So perhaps it’s not surprising that Shellenberger, Hansen, Caldeira et al. signed a letter to Illinois legislators April 4 that repeatedly refers to nuclear power as “clean energy” and said that the two plants Exelon may close have saved lives that otherwise might have been harmed by coal plant emissions. The letter asserts that renewables like wind have an unfair market advantage over nuclear in terms of subsidies, and advocates that nukes be included in the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard. (For the record, nuclear power is not a renewable energy source because it does not regenerate, according to the US Energy Information Administration—and nuclear power is heavily subsidized, not least through the Price Anderson Act, which caps liability for nuclear accidents at a tiny fraction of their potential cost.) These scientists and policy wonks have also established a “win/win” pro-nuclear group called Save Diablo Canyon. In response to the Southern California plant’s impending closure, Save Diablo Canyon, Environmental Progress and something called Mothers for Nuclear (started by two women who work in the nuclear power industry) will lead a protest “March for Environmental Hope” from San Francisco to Sacramento beginning June 24 (Forbes, 6/21/16). The Wall Street Journal has a long history of editorial page support for nuclear power (4/17/01; 8/5/09; 11/9/09; 4/6/11; 5/24/13, to cite but a few) and against wind power (5/22/06, 3/1/10, 8/24/10, 11/8/12, 5/18/14 and others).  In publishing this piece as edited, perhaps it is telling a story it wishes were true. As Harder’s article itself acknowledges, nuclear power is in decline due to a combination of economics, displacement by renewables and opposition. The green groups’ supposed change of heart “comes at a critical time, as several financially struggling reactors are set to shut down” even as other reactors already have, due to the low price of natural gas and state policies “that favor renewables over nuclear power.” As if to prove that point, the story provided a list of a dozen reactors that have been or will soon be shut down. Indeed, the anticipated closing of Diablo Canyon seems to show the opposite of the trend Harder describes. There, a coalition of environmentalists led by Friends of the Earth got industry and government to agree not only to phase out the plant, but also to replace the energy it generated with something other than fossil fuels. As Ivan Penn and Samantha Masunaga of the Los Angeles Times (6/21/16) reported, PG&E pledged that the “power produced by Diablo Canyon’s two nuclear reactors would be replaced with investment in a greenhouse-gas-free portfolio of energy efficiency, renewables and energy storage.” Their story notes that the move “runs counter to the nuclear industry’s arguments that curbing carbon emissions and combating climate change require use of nuclear power.” So are there prominent climate scientists and self-described environmentalists advocating for nuclear power? To be sure. But their stance doesn’t necessarily define the larger movement of low-carbon, renewable energy advocates who hold a decidedly different position. Miranda Spencer is a freelance writer and editor, and a longtime FAIR contributor.http://fair.org/home/wsj-fakes-a-green-shift-toward-nuclear-power/ The Wall Street Journal(6/16/16) published an article headlined “Environmental Groups Change Tune on Nuclear Power: Focus on Climate Change Has Raised Profile of Reactors, Now Viewed as Reliable, Carbon-Free Source of Energy.” Written by Amy Harder, the approximately 600-word piece appeared on the front page of the Journal’s B section.Its dramatic lead-in:</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div></div>