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</div><div>alex epstein promoter eg</div><div><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">With the blessing of<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"> Penguin Random House’s Portfolio</span> imprint, which bills itself as providing nonfiction for “ambitious people” and also published Epstein’s previous book, Fossil Future offers a newer, more reassuring flavor of doubt regarding the consequences of human-influenced climate effects</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Oil and gas and coal aren’t actually ruining Earth’s habitats for all forms of life, and they’re also not neutral—in fact, fossil fuels are making things better for all of us, thanks to their </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">natural <b>density</b> and economic efficiency. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But even if they do lead to rising carbon levels and emissions, it actually won’t be that bad, at least not as horrific as the economic fallout of transitioning away from fossil fuels would be. Epstein argues that fossil fuels will actually protect us from their own adverse side effects, that phenomena like mass human displacement and ocean acidification won’t really be issues, and that all government standards meant to stem greenhouse gas emissions must be done away with. To retain the standard of living billions of Earthlings enjoy, and to bring this “flourishing” to the billions more Earthlings who don’t yet enjoy it thanks to influence by “anti-human” climate activists, unlimited fossil fuel production is the only way forward.</span></div><div>
</div><div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="" /><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><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"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Marc Morano</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Weekly update ⋅ October 21, 2022</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">pix gp mm holds bk next to his junk]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2022/10/20/climate-science-deniers-go-unchallenged-at-london-green-summit/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">
</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2022/10/20/climate-science-deniers-go-unchallenged-at-london-green-summit/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.desmog.com/2022/10/20/climate-science-deniers-go-unchallenged-at-london-green-summit/</a></div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">a “sustainable development” conference taking place in London gave a platform to two prominent climate science deniers, who used the event to claim that coal-fired power is “clean” and call global warming a “religion”.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b><a href="https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano/" data-wpel-link="internal" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Marc Morano</a> and <a href="https://www.desmog.com/christopher-monckton/" data-wpel-link="internal" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Christopher Monckton</a> were hosted at the Dorchester Hotel in Mayfair this week for the “Global Investment in Sustainable Development</b>” event organised by <a href="https://london.cc-forum.com/agenda/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Climate Change (CC) Forum</a>, which <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CjX3OoNIMMb/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">touts itself</a> as the “green Davos”. </span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last week DeSmog <a href="https://www.desmog.com/2022/10/14/uk-climate-minister-pulls-out-of-event-with-climate-science-deniers/" data-wpel-link="internal" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">revealed</a> that UK Climate Minister Graham Stuart had agreed to give a keynote speech at the event, before pulling out on Friday after DeSmog asked questions about Morano and Monckton’s involvement. </span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When contacted, CC Forum’s CEO Max Studennikoff, who claims to support climate action, defended holding a debate with climate science deniers as a way of “publicly debunking their arguments”. </span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But DeSmog can report that the pair were given free rein to spread climate science misinformation at the event on Tuesday, with their arguments warmly applauded by the audience. Monckton was also allowed to give a keynote speech unchallenged in which he called net zero “not possible” and likened global warming to a religious belief. </span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Morano and Monckton <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXPHzTWiQFc" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">appeared</a> on GB News after the event claiming victory, and referenced coverage by DeSmog, which Monckton called “the smug blog”. </b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At the event, Studennikoff expressed frustration that the climate minister had pulled out, but repeatedly claimed that Prime Minister Liz Truss had provided a message of support for the conference. Monckton read out a “short message” he claimed was emailed from Truss. Number 10 did not respond when asked by DeSmog whether such a message was provided</span>. </p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The event was partly supported by Mastercard, and featured a “fireside chat” with the company’s vice president Derren Powell</span>. Mastercard had not responded to a request for comment at time of publication. </p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;">The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has <a href="https://www.desmog.com/2022/02/28/ipcc-report-calls-out-vested-interests-delaying-climate-action/" data-wpel-link="internal" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">noted</a> the dangers of climate misinformation, which it said “undermines climate science and disregards risk and urgency”, at a time when there is “a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all”. </p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;">The scientific body has also described the link between human activity and climate change as “<a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_SPM.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">unequivocal</a>”. </p><h2 id="h-climate-change-debate" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2;">Climate Change ‘Debate’</h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;">U.S. activist Morano runs the climate science denial website Climate Depot and is Director of Communications at the think tank CFACT, which has received funding from ExxonMobil and Chevron. He is one of the world’s <a href="https://www.desmog.com/2020/09/24/climate-hustle-2-showcasing-thinning-roster-climate-science-deniers/" data-wpel-link="internal" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">most aggressive climate science deniers</a>, and has said that climate scientists deserve to be “<a href="https://www.desmog.com/2013/09/10/climate-denial-playbook-marc-morano-s-history-bullying-scientists" data-wpel-link="internal" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">publicly flogged</a>”.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the debate this week, Morano said: “There is no climate crisis, from my perspective, no climate emergency, and even if there were, the work of this net zero agenda would have no impact on said climate crisis.” He also plugged his book, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Global Lockdown</span>, to the audience of wealthy investors. </span></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Marc Morano and Christopher Monckton during the debate. Credit: DeSmog</figcaption></figure><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Monckton has a long record of anti-climate activism. In 2010 he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smPUec2yTc0&t=262s" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">led Tea Party crowds</a> in the U.S. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”, with the crowd shouting “Bullshit!” </b>Earlier this year he <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221015155021/https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/the_strategic_threat_from_netzero_emissions.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">wrote</a> that “<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>communist front groups</b> posing as environmental campaign entities but in reality fostered, funded and too often founded by Moscow and Beijing” were targeting climate “sceptic” scientists. </span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>In the debate, Monckton claimed “there has been no global warming at all for the last eight years”</b>, </span>and attacked climate policies, saying: “<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Global warming policy is a strategic threat, but global warming, so far at any rate, isn’t, and doesn’t look as though it’s going to be.”</span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He also supported continuing to burn fossil fuels, claiming: “</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">The fact is <b style="">coal-fired power is still, far and away the cheapest, and now the cleanest [source of electricity] </b>because it has very high energy <b>density.</b>” </span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Coal is the highest-emitting form of energy, <a href="https://www.iea.org/commentaries/it-s-critical-to-tackle-coal-emissions" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">producing a fifth</a> of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the International Energy Agency. Renewable energy from offshore wind is currently estimated to be <a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-record-low-price-for-uk-offshore-wind-is-four-times-cheaper-than-gas/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">nine times cheaper</a> than gas. </span></p><h2 id="h-warm-reception" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2;">Warm Reception</h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Despite CC Forum’s claims about the debate format and its intention to “debunk” the deniers’ arguments, its star speaker, Belgian economist Gunter Pauli, agreed with Morano and Monckton that net zero targets, which he called “the opium of the masses”, should be abandoned. </span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;">Morano welcomed this, asking: “Are you an outlier when you say that net zero is the opium of the masses? Does everyone in this room agree with him?” Debate chair Rand Neveloff, managing director of consultancy Titan Global, said: “I would say you have a much healthier mix in this room than you would imagine.”</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;">Both Morano and Monckton received applause for their talking points from the audience. </p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">[Christopher Monckton delivered a keynote speech on net zero at CC Forum. Credit: DeSmog</figcaption></figure><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Pauli’s debate partner, Mustaq Patel, managing director of geothermal energy company Cindrigo, was able to point to the overwhelming scientific consensus on human-caused climate change, but spoke the least in the debate. </b> </p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;">After the event, Morano told DeSmog he was surprised to have been invited to a conference on sustainable development, but said “the audience loved it”. </p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Later in the day, Monckton gave a keynote speech unchallenged, where he presented a slideshow claiming that cutting emissions to net zero by 2050 is a bad investment and could not be reached, claiming: “You can’t get to net zero. It isn’t actually possible.” </b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He concluded: “It’s all very well to have beliefs. If global warming is your</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> religion, that’s fine. I don’t want to interfere with anybody’s<b style=""> religion.”</b></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Unlike the debate, his speech was followed by a brief question and answer session. DeSmog was refused an opportunity to ask Monckton a question. </b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;">CC Forum CEO Studennikoff calls himself an “ardent supporter of climate change action” but says he believes “in the power of private wealth more than in policy making”. </p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;">The conference will close with a “Networking Luncheon” at the House of Lords on Thursday. </p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NEWS<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Climate Science Deniers Go Unchallenged at London 'Green' Summit - DeSmog</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DeSmog</div></div></div>