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<div>1) it's not real</div><div>
</div><div>2) it's real but just natural variation (sunspots, medieval ice age...)</div><div>
</div><div>3) it's real and human caused, but too expensive to fix (wreck economy)</div><div>
</div><div>3a) Lomborg: more efficient to do Y  (or do evil in the guise/name of green: frack, nuke)</div><div>
</div><div>3b: wheeler many decades out, 3rd world clean water (ignores that coal poisons am water/kids, coal ash, arsenic...)</div><div>
</div><div>=</div><div><div>see lomborg shuffle (clintel covid fight covid not carbon) ALSO SHILLENBERGER</div><div>
</div><div>820 aha: this is variant last stage of fallback strategy: 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 cvan't really afford to fix big global warming, but we can do smaller green humanitarian stuff [WHEELER CLEAN WATER IN 3RD WORLD] 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]</div><div>=</div></div><div>evil crypto because to promotes denial IN THE NAME OF  humanitarianism/ EJ when in fact poor POC in 3rd world will bhe hit 1st and worst, and have least ability to cope and made least contribution to the problem</div><div> =
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</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">With COP Closing, Deniers Beclown Themselves, Then Cry ‘I’ve Been Cancelled!’ When People Laugh</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The disinformation around this year’s climate negotiations got off to a stupid start, got slightly funny and gross there for a minute, and then just gross as a TERF called climate reporters biased. But not to worry, it’s still getting stupider, and...</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">ClimateDenierRoundup</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Nov 12, 2021 at 7:00 am PST</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">disinformation around this year’s climate negotiations got off to a <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/2/2061703/-COP26-Disinfo-Off-To-The-Stupidest-Possible-Start-Biden-Closed-His-Eyes" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">stupid start</a>, got<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/9/2063209/-As-COP26-Gets-Serious-Climate-Disinfo-Gets-Seriously-Stupid-And-Sexist" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;"> slightly funny and gross there for a minute</a>, and then just gross as a <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/4/2062213/-TERF-Think-Tank-Director-Says-Climate-Journalists-are-Activists-Lacking-Objectivity" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">TERF called climate reporters biased</a>. But not to worry, it’s still getting stupider, and more offensive!On the stupid front, a member of the new <a href="https://www.desmog.com/2021/10/28/new-climate-denial-group-run-by-celebrity-pr-exec-behind-net-zero-referendum-poll/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">denial PR pop-up CAR26</a> that <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/1/2061471/-COP26-Begins-What-To-Expect-When-You-re-Expecting-Disinformation" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">we warned about</a> last week <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="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">tweeted</a> on Monday that she was “chased” out of COP26, and had to do an interview while “hiding in the disabled loos.” <a href="https://www.desmog.com/2021/11/11/anti-net-zero-activists-claim-she-was-evicted-from-cop26-rejected-by-organisers/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">But it turns out no one chased her out of COP26</a>, 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.“Anti-climate actors rely on a reactionary dynamic with ‘mainstream’ institutions, media, or experts,” Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) disinformation expert <a href="https://www.desmog.com/2021/11/11/anti-net-zero-activists-claim-she-was-evicted-from-cop26-rejected-by-organisers/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Jennie King told DeSmog</a>, “and cultivate their brand, especially on social media, around being ‘cancelled’ or outcast by perceived elites.”This dynamic is absolutely unmistakable across the deniersphere, to the extent that it even entices people who try to distance themselves from it, like “<a href="https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2020/10/13/honest-brokering/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">honest broker</a>” author <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="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Roger Pielke Jr.</a> While he’s long attempted to portray himself as sitting squarely within the consensus, and expresses support for a carbon tax, he’s also <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="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">done plenty of work</a> that’s <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="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">immediately used</a> by the <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/22/1751116/-Pielke-Jr-Joins-Red-Team-Defends-Trump-Critiques-Mainstream-Climate-Report" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">sorts of people</a> who cry persecution when they lock themselves in a bathroom, like <a href="https://twitter.com/ClimateOfGavin/status/1458139293373788169" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">alleging</a> that <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2020/01/02/how-billionaires-tom-steyer-and-michael-bloomberg-corrupted-climate-science/" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Democrats have corrupted climate science</a>.And deniers return the favor by supporting him, <a href="https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2021/11/Laframboise-Pielke.pdf?mc_cid=5f514b9f6e&mc_eid=8346460a5c" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">for example with a new 20-page report published by GWPF detailing</a> how, due to persecution, <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronhuertas/status/1458835016360894464" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">his university office is tiny</a> and filled with boxes from his shuttered projects. Based on an interview with Donna LaFramboise, who’s past works have <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131203074137/http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2013/09/25/donna-laframboise-recycles-old-attacks-on-ipcc/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">centered on smearing the IPCC</a>, it’s built on the idea that the tenured professor who once complained about being silenced<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/my-unhappy-life-as-a-climate-heretic-1480723518" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;"> in the Wall Street Journal</a> has been, as King described of the bathroom-dweller, “‘cancelled’ or outcast by perceived elites.”(On Tuesday, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XDoYjol0w" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">a COP26 event</a> honored the lives of the 1,000+ <a href="https://grist.org/protest/2020-was-the-deadliest-year-for-environmental-activists-heres-why/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">environmental activists murdered</a> since the <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/8/memorial_for_murdered_earth_defenders" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Paris Agreement in 2015</a>, 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!)While most may not be moved by such a harrowing tale of being told you’re wrong, refusing to admit it, and facing <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fivethirtyeight-climate-change-dispute_n_5049279" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">consequences for your toxic actions</a>, one person who did praise Pielke yesterday <a href="https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1458835202948673540" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">was Michael Shellenberger</a>. Also on the anti-elitist kick, Shellenberger tweeted a link to his new substack post a couple dozen times as well, so we took the bait and gave “<a href="https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-wokeism-is-a-religion" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Why Wokeism Is A Religion</a>” a read. And surprisingly, we were glad we did!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-<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/12/1740695/-The-Fallacy-of-Ted-Nordhaus-s-2C-Delusion-in-Foreign-Affairs" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Breakthrough</a> spin-off “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/04/the-environmentalists-apology-how-michael-shellenberger-unsettled-some-of-his-prominent-supporters" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Environmental Progress</a>,” he is moving fully into the reactionary, alt-right space. This undoubtedly confirms it.Shellenberger’s new “taxonomy” of the “woke religion” is a project with fellow anti-woke-ist Peter Boghossian, who recently quit Portland State University <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/08/author-recent-academic-hoax-faces-disciplinary-action-portland-state" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">after getting blowback for writing fake academic papers</a> and in an apparent preemptive self-cancellation, as <a href="https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/my-university-sacrificed-ideas-for" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">announced</a> on the substack of fellow <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/158535/self-cancellation-bari-weiss" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">preemptive self-canceller</a> <a href="https://discourseblog.com/bari-weiss-gaza-children-zionism/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Bari Weiss</a>.Similar to the <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/4/2062213/-TERF-Think-Tank-Director-Says-Climate-Journalists-are-Activists-Lacking-Objectivity" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">TERFs and trans disinfo</a> we talked about last Thursday, <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="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">this “woke religion taxonomy”</a> 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” <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">(((</a>elite<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">)))</a> 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.”Seriously, those are the actual examples!  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 <a href="https://www.climateinteractive.org/analysis/climate-plan-proposed-by-u-s-republican-senators-falls-short-of-its-goal/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">would lead to a catastrophic 3.1°C of warming</a>, apparently even that is too much climate action for so-called skeptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg. In <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/reasonable-alternative-to-cop26-climate-cost-policy-carbon-emissions-glasgow-net-zero-11636577945?mod=e2two" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">this week's Wall Street Journal column, Lomborg argues</a> that a "reasonable alternative" to the COP26 talks is to allow for 3.5°C (6.3°F) of warming. But just the difference<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/07/climate/ipcc-report-half-degree.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;"> between 1.5°C and 2·°C of warming is significant</a>, with<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/09/1bn-people-will-suffer-extreme-heat-at-just-2c-heating-say-scientists" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;"> upward of 1 billion additional people who would be at risk of dying from extreme heat if they spend a summer day outside</a> at 2°C (and half the world population is at risk at 4°C). Allowing fossil fuels to pollute us to<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2017/nov/03/three-degree-world-cities-drowned-global-warming" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;"> to 3.5°C would put at least 275 million people’s homes under water</a>, including<a href="https://time.com/longform/sinking-islands-climate-change/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;"> entire island nations</a> (and <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18072021/to-flee-or-to-stay-until-the-end-and-be-swallowed-by-the-sea/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Louisiana</a> communities) that will be submerged by<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="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;"> sea level rise after just 2°C of warming</a>, literally <a href="https://www.climatechangenews.com/2015/10/05/climate-change-migration-is-genocide-says-marshall-islands-minister/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">committing cultural genocide</a>.Experts were quick to debunk Lomborg's claims, <a href="https://twitter.com/dana1981/status/1458862064198307864" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">for example pointing out</a> that if you look at the updated version of the study he cites to justify that genocide, it now matches the Paris goals.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.</div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></div><div>=</div><div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-medias-favorite-climate-contrarians-go-fox-shows-bash-bidens-climate-plan">https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-medias-favorite-climate-contrarians-go-fox-shows-bash-bidens-climate-plan</a></div><div>
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</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;">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.<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’ Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss Biden’s new climate plan. With his recent book Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All 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 accused “United Nations officials and some scientists” of wanting to “control energy and food production around the world.”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’ Varney & Co. to discuss Biden’s new climate plan and to promote his new book, False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet. He called Biden’s plan “a very poor deal” that is “phenomenally expensive,” stated that “we need to get out of this ‘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.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’ Making Money with Charles Payne. 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.”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>. 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 The Skeptical Environmentalist, 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.Neither of these individuals, of course, are climate scientists.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.</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;">Both books are being heavily promoted by climate deniers and right-wing media</h3>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.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 <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> Apocalypse Never, in with another set of contrarian climate works as “A Winning Trifecta for Climate Science & Rationality.” 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 (CFACT) <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 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). 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> CO2 Coalition 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.Breitbart <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.” 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.” <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.”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>, <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> 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.”Lomborg’s book, published roughly two weeks after Shellenberger’s, has also run the right-wing media gamut. 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.</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;">Actual experts have thoroughly debunked Shellenberger and Lomborg’s arguments</h3>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.”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, 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 <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> 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;">Making Money with Charles Payne</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.”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.</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;">These false claims play right into the hands of those who want to delay climate action</h3>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.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). 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.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.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.</div></div></div><div></div><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; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/05/01/fossil-fuel-backed-climate-deniers-rush-promote-michael-moore-planet-of-humans</a>
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.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 50th Anniversary of Earth Day.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; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); 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.A group of environmentalists and climate scientists, including Professor of Atmospheric Science 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; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">elected</a> to the National Academy of Sciences, 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; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">called</a> for it to be withdrawn.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.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.<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">‘Renewables are ineffective and more damaging than fossil fuels and nuclear’</h3>The US-based libertarian <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Heartland Institute</a>, which hosts “counter-summits” alongside UN 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; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">host</a> a podcast episode dedicated to Moore’s documentary.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”.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”.<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/myron-ebell" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); 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; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); 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; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">blog</a> lauding the film. In the article, since reposted by the UK-based climate science denial campaign group the <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/global-warming-policy-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Global Warming Policy Foundation</a>, Ebell claims the film “exposes” every type of green energy as “phony, useless, and inextricably dependent on fossil fuel production and large-scale hardrock mining”.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; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Koch family</a>, owners of the largest privately owned oil company in the US, 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; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">sought</a> to pressure <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/donald-trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Donald Trump</a> into removing the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change action.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; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">tweeting</a> that it proves “renewables are worse for environment than fossil fuels”.... no lnx pix twt
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”.In a column for Forbes, he argued that nuclear was the only answer to our energy needs, 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.Later interviewed by Sky News Australia’s Andrew Bolt, 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.
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.
In the UK, pro-Trump commentator James Delingpole wrote on the same website that Moore’s documentary was the “most powerful, brutally honest and important documentary of his career”.
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”.

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.
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 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”.
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.”
‘Renewable energy is a profit-driven scam and the environmental movement is corrupt’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.
In his blog about the film, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Myron Ebell called it a “stunning evisceration of so-called green energy and the people profiting from it”.
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 CFACT, a Washington-based free-market think tank that has claimed carbon dioxide is a “harmless trace essential gas in the atmosphere”.
Morano called Planet of the Humans an “amazing film” during the interview with host Ezra Levant, with the only downside being that Moore “believes in climate alarmism severely”.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.
A similar narrative was used by Robert Bradley Jr, founder of the Koch-funded Institute for Energy Research, when pre-release screenings of the documentary took place last summer.
In a blog post for a pro-fracking website Natural Gas Now, Bradley Jr described renewables as “mostly a hedge-fund scam”. The Pennsylvania-based Natural Gas Now is run by Tom Shepstone, a former employee of Energy in Depth, a PR campaign launched by the Independent Petroleum Association of America to promote fracking, with funding from oil majors including Shell, BP and Chevron.
In Australia, Sky News’ Andrew Bolt 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.
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.Another presenter on the same channel, Rowan Dean, similarly described renewables as a “hoax”.
In Canada, Terence Corcoran, comment editor for the Financial Post section of the Toronto-based National Post, said Moore’s film showed green energy was a “giant capitalist fraud” and should be the “hottest doc of the year”.
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.”
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”, 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.
‘Environmentalists are now trying to cover up the truth’Following the call from some environmentalists to have the film removed, opponents of climate action have since accused them of censorship.
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”.
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.”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”.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?
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.”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. 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.
Criticism of the filmDana Nuccitelli, Yale Climate Connections: “Michael Moore's 'Planet of the Humans' documentary peddles dangerous climate denial”Ketan Joshi: “Planet of the humans: A reheated mess of lazy, old myths”Leah C. Stokes, Vox: “Michael Moore produced a film about climate change that’s a gift to Big Oil”Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News: “Inside Clean Energy: 6 Things Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ Gets Wrong”Brian Kahn, Gizmodo: “Planet of the Humans Comes This Close to Actually Getting the Real Problem, Then Goes Full Ecofascism”A Siegel, Get Energy Smart Now: “Planet of The Humans: An Annotated Collection“ =_GND no cars, burger, cos ate one, [crawler aoc: "I'm the boss"prez of env progressomg see tucker b/c of quilette ~ wind and solar, unreliable 40% of yearhe calims to be on BO team on 1st try of new green deal 2003-7 orig founder, $150 billion on renewables, 10-40% of yearlow 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 #)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?3 reasons: 1) assoc w/ atomic bomb but 2 diff technol; 60's cheap too much energy --> pop explosion, overconsumption 3) harmonize w/ natural worldrepost of tedX“It’s when the conservationists became environmentalists that everything went bad,” <a href="https://reason.com/video/this-environmentalist-says-only-nuclear-power-can-save-us-now/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">says Michael Shellenberger</a>, founder and president of Environmental Progress, a pro-nuclear research and advocacy nonprofit based in Berkeley, California. “It stopped being about the environment. It became about controlling society.”<span style="" work="Work" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" common-ligatures="common-ligatures" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” Green Book Award Winner, and President of Environmental Progress, a research and policy organization. My writings have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Nature Energy, and PLOS Biology. My TED talks have been viewed over 1.5 million times[caption: <p class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; position: relative; display: inline;">The expansion of wind energy threatens the extinction of golden eagles, hoary bats, and other endangered species. (Extinction Rebellion protesters walk to Hyde Park in London, April 25, 2019.)ASSOCIATED PRESS]Last Saturday, police in New York <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-protesters-extinction-rebellion-arrested-outside-new-york-times-building-2019-06-22/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-protesters-extinction-rebellion-arrested-outside-new-york-times-building-2019-06-22/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">arrested</a> 70 people protesting the lack of attention to climate change. They <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-protestors-new-york-times-2638965371.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-protestors-new-york-times-2638965371.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">unfurled</a> a banner that read, “climate change = mass murder" with the word "change" crossed out and replaced by the word "emergency.”It was just the latest in a series of high-profile protests organized by an exciting new environmental group, Extinction Rebellion. In April, police in London arrested more than 1,000 people committing civil disobedience during a week of protests. As police arrested Extinction Rebellion protesters on Waterloo Bridge, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke to activists at nearby Hyde Park. “We are now facing an existential crisis, the climate crisis and ecological crisis, which have never been treated as crises before,” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/21/extinction-rebellion-london-protesters-offer-pause-climate-action" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/21/extinction-rebellion-london-protesters-offer-pause-climate-action" 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> the 16-year-old.Extinction Rebellion has attracted popular support. It counts the rock band <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90362676/heres-why-extinction-rebellion-is-radioheads-charity-of-choice" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.fastcompany.com/90362676/heres-why-extinction-rebellion-is-radioheads-charity-of-choice" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Radiohead</a> as a financial supporter, and after the April protests, a senior Labour Party leader <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/extinction-rebellion-protests-john-mcdonnell-labour-climate-change-a8972561.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/extinction-rebellion-protests-john-mcdonnell-labour-climate-change-a8972561.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">endorsed</a> the group’s tactics.One of the main demands of the activists is a rapid transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies like solar and wind farms. “The climate and biodiversity crisis requires urgent and drastic action to decarbonise,” the group <a href="https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/faqs/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/faqs/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">tells</a> policymakers. “How can you… reverse the expansion of renewable energy?!”<div class="vestpocket" vest-pocket="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Both Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion emphasize that their protests are not just about climate change but about broader human threats to endangered species. On its web site, Extinction Rebellion declares, “we are in the midst of a mass extinction of our own making.”But if Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion are so concerned about preventing the extinction of endangered species, why are they advocating the accelerated deployment of renewables? After all, wind energy has emerged as one of the greatest threats to endangered bird and bat species, as well as insect populations, around the world. Wind Energy’s War on NatureIn many countries, wind turbines pose the single greatest threat to bats after habitat loss and white-nose syndrome. In some places such as Texas, where white-nose syndrome, a deadly fungus, has only recently arrived, wind turbines are the single greatest threat to bats.And scientists say wind turbines are the single greatest human threat to migratory bats, which live in different habitats during summer and winter months. Some, like the hoary bat, <a href="https://www.nps.gov/subjects/bats/hibernate-or-migrate.htm" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.nps.gov/subjects/bats/hibernate-or-migrate.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">fly</a> south to Mexico during the winter as insects become more scarce in North America.In 2017, a team of scientists warned that the hoary bat, a migratory species, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320716310485" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320716310485" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">could go extinct</a> if the expansion of wind farms continues.
<div class="author" style="font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" lucida="Lucida" sans="Sans" unicode="Unicode" microsoft="Microsoft" serif="Serif" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" symbol="Symbol" stixgeneral="STIXGeneral" cambria="Cambria" math="Math" arial="Arial" ms="MS" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">W.F. Frick</div><a class="orcid-link" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9469-1839" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; display: block;" lucida="Lucida" sans="Sans" unicode="Unicode" microsoft="Microsoft" serif="Serif" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" symbol="Symbol" stixgeneral="STIXGeneral" cambria="Cambria" math="Math" arial="Arial" ms="MS" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" normal="normal">View the author's ORCID record</a><div class="affiliation" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin: 16px 0px 8px; padding: 0px;"><div class="correspondence" style="font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 16px 0px 8px; padding: 0px;" lucida="Lucida" sans="Sans" unicode="Unicode" microsoft="Microsoft" serif="Serif" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" symbol="Symbol" stixgeneral="STIXGeneral" cambria="Cambria" math="Math" arial="Arial" ms="MS" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><svg focusable="false" viewbox="0 0 106 128" height="16" width="19.875" class="icon icon-person"><path d="m11.07 1.2e2l0.84-9.29c1.97-18.79 23.34-22.93 41.09-22.93 17.74 0 39.11 4.13 41.08 22.84l0.84 9.38h10.04l-0.93-10.34c-2.15-20.43-20.14-31.66-51.03-31.66s-48.89 11.22-51.05 31.73l-0.91 10.27h10.03m41.93-102.29c-9.72 0-18.24 8.69-18.24 18.59 0 13.67 7.84 23.98 18.24 23.98s18.24-10.31 18.24-23.98c0-9.9-8.52-18.59-18.24-18.59zm0 52.29c-15.96 0-28-14.48-28-33.67 0-15.36 12.82-28.33 28-28.33s28 12.97 28 28.33c0 19.19-12.04 33.67-28 33.67" /></svg>Corresponding author at: Bat Conservation International, PO Box 162603, Austin, TX 78716, USA.</div><div class="e-address" style="font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 16px 0px 8px; padding: 0px;" lucida="Lucida" sans="Sans" unicode="Unicode" microsoft="Microsoft" serif="Serif" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" symbol="Symbol" stixgeneral="STIXGeneral" cambria="Cambria" math="Math" arial="Arial" ms="MS" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><svg focusable="false" viewbox="0 0 102 128" height="16" width="19.125" class="icon icon-envelope"><path d="m55.8 57.2c-1.78 1.31-5.14 1.31-6.9 0l-31.32-23.2h69.54l-31.32 23.19zm-55.8-24.78l42.94 32.62c2.64 1.95 6.02 2.93 9.4 2.93s6.78-0.98 9.42-2.93l40.24-30.7v-10.34h-102zm92 56.48l-18.06-22.74-8.04 5.95 17.38 21.89h-64.54l18.38-23.12-8.04-5.96-19.08 24.02v-37.58l-1e1 -8.46v61.1h102v-59.18l-1e1 8.46v35.62" /></svg><a href="mailto:wfrick@batcon.org" target="self" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;">wfrick@batcon.org</a></div>“Unprecedented numbers of migratory bats are found dead beneath industrial-scale wind turbines during late summer and autumn in both North America and Europe,” <a href="https://docs.wind-watch.org/cryan-wind-turbines-migratory-bats.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://docs.wind-watch.org/cryan-wind-turbines-migratory-bats.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">writes</a> Paul Cryan, a research biologist with the US Geological Survey.  Come on, you might be thinking. Surely there are greater threats to migratory bats than wind turbines?There aren’t. “Wind energy facilities kill a significant number of bats far exceeding any documented natural or human-caused sources of mortality in the affected species,” <a href="https://docs.wind-watch.org/cryan-wind-turbines-migratory-bats.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://docs.wind-watch.org/cryan-wind-turbines-migratory-bats.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">writes</a> Cryan.Cryan is emphatic on this point. “There are no other well-documented threats to populations of migratory tree bats that cause mortality of similar magnitude to that observed at wind turbines.”  Another leading bat expert, Patricia Brown, agrees. More than a decade ago she warned California energy regulators that wind turbines could be the “nail in the coffin” for some migratory bat species.Aren’t bats protected from wind turbines by government agencies enforcing the Endangered Species Act and other conservation laws? They're not.“None of the migratory bats known to be most affected by wind turbines are protected by conservation laws,” writes Cryan, “nor is there a legal mandate driving research into the problem or implementation of potential solutions.” Wind turbines have also emerged as one of the greatest human threats to many species of large, threatened and high-conservation value birds, after habitat loss from agriculture. Wind energy threatens golden eagles, bald eagles, burrowing owls, red-tailed hawks, Swainson’s hawks, American kestrels, white-tailed kites, peregrine falcons, and prairie falcons, among many others. The expansion of wind turbines could result in the extinction of the golden eagle in the western United States, where its population is at an <a href="https://bioone.org/journals/Journal-of-Raptor-Research/volume-51/issue-3/0892-1016-51.3.193/Golden-Eagles-in-a-Changing-World/10.3356/0892-1016-51.3.193.full" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://bioone.org/journals/Journal-of-Raptor-Research/volume-51/issue-3/0892-1016-51.3.193/Golden-Eagles-in-a-Changing-World/10.3356/0892-1016-51.3.193.full" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">unsustainably low level</a>. Any additional mortalities to the golden eagle threatens the species with extinction, scientists with US Fish and Wildlife warned 10 years ago, before the last decade’s massive expansion of wind farms.For decades the wind industry has put out a steady stream of grossly <a href="https://www.awea.org/policy-and-issues/project-development/wildlife" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.awea.org/policy-and-issues/project-development/wildlife" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">misleading</a> information about its wildlife impact. It continues to claim that the impact of wind turbines is relatively low, and compares the bird deaths it causes to those of housecats, or buildings.But where many of the birds killed by wind turbines are large, threatened, and of high-conservation value, most of the birds killed by house cats, and from collisions with buildings are small, unthreatened, and of low-conservation value, like robins and sparrows. And because big birds have much lower reproductive rates than small birds, their deaths have a far greater impact on the overall population of the species.For example, golden eagles will have just one or two chicks in a brood, and usually less than once a year, whereas a songbird like a robin could have up to two broods of three to seven chicks a year. Wind Turbines And The Insect Die-OffThe decline of insect populations may be worsening the threat to endangered bird and bat species.“There is strong evidence that many insect populations are under serious threat and are declining in many places across the globe,” <a href="https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/the-emergency/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/the-emergency/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">notes</a>Extinction Rebellion. “A 27-year long population monitoring study in Germany revealed a dramatic 76% decline in flying insect biomass.”What Extinction Rebellion does not mention is that scientists in Germany say wind turbines appear to be contributing significantly to what it calls the “insect die-off.”Germany’s leading technology assessment research institute published a <a href="https://docs.wind-watch.org/Interference-of-Flying-Insects-and-Wind-Parks.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://docs.wind-watch.org/Interference-of-Flying-Insects-and-Wind-Parks.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">study </a>last October concluding that the rapid expansion of wind farms threatens insect populations.Dr. Franz Trieb of the Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics concludes that a "rough but conservative estimate of the impact of wind farms on flying insects in Germany" is a “loss of about 1.2 trillion insects of different species per year” which “could be relevant for population stability.”The German wind insect death toll is an astonishing one-third of the total annual insect migration in southern England, a comparison that the scientists say “shows that losses of a trillion per year certainly have a relevant order of magnitude.” Because insects migrate, the impact of German wind farms is “not limited to local populations, but includes species like the Ladybird beetle (C. septempunctata) and the Painted Lady butterfly (V. cardui) that travel hundreds and even thousands of kilometers through Europe and Africa.”Insects, birds, bats, and wind farm developers are all attracted to the same thing,  Trieb <a href="https://docs.wind-watch.org/Interference-of-Flying-Insects-and-Wind-Parks.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://docs.wind-watch.org/Interference-of-Flying-Insects-and-Wind-Parks.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">notes</a>: high winds. “Wind-rich migration trails used by insects for millions of years are increasingly seamed by wind farms." Dead insects on wind turbine blades are as visible as dead insects on a car windshield. Scientists have reported the significant build-up of dead insects on wind turbine blades for three decades and in different regions around the world.In the 1990s, the wind industry claimed its turbine blades were too high to threaten flying insects. It also claimed insects flew too slowly to be impacted. Both claims turned out to be completely wrong. Researchers <a href="https://docs.wind-watch.org/Interference-of-Flying-Insects-and-Wind-Parks.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://docs.wind-watch.org/Interference-of-Flying-Insects-and-Wind-Parks.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">calculated</a> in 2001 that the build-up of dead insects on wind turbine blades can reduce the electricity they generate by 50%. <div id="attachment_1143" class="wp-caption wp-caption-wrap alignnone" style="font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: 1.2rem;"><div class="article-body-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; overflow: hidden;"><progressive-image class="wp-image-1143 size-full show-img" src="https://blogs-images.forbes.com/michaelshellenberger/files/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-26-at-12.02.19-AM.jpg" alt="Insects cluster at the same altitudes used by wind turbines." data-height="287" data-width="848" enhanced="" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; display: block;"><img src="https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960x0/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Fmichaelshellenberger%2Ffiles%2F2019%2F06%2FScreen-Shot-2019-06-26-at-12.02.19-AM.jpg" alt="Insects cluster at the same altitudes used by wind turbines." style="box-sizing: border-box; border-style: none; width: 585.844px; max-width: 100%; display: block; height: auto !important;" /></progressive-image></div><div class="article-image-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="caption-container" ng-class="caption_state" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; margin: 8px 0px 0px;">Insects cluster at the same altitudes used by wind turbines. INSTITUTE FOR ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS</div></div></div>Insects cluster at the same altitudes used by wind turbines. In Oklahoma, a major wind energy state, scientists found that the highest density of insects is between 150 to 250 meters. Large new turbine blades stretch from 60 to 220 meters above the ground.And wind turbines may be killing insects during a “critical, vulnerable period” because “a strong lever action is applied on total insect population by killing a mature insect during migration just before breeding, as hundreds of potential successors from the next generation will be destroyed.”While some of the media coverage has blamed the expansion of industrial agriculture, it is notable that the biggest insect population declines are being <a href="https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/03/21/the-insect-apocalypse-is-not-here-but-there-are-reasons-for-concern" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/03/21/the-insect-apocalypse-is-not-here-but-there-are-reasons-for-concern" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">reported</a> in Europe and the United States, where the land area dedicated to agriculture has declined but wind turbines have spread rapidly over the last two decades.German research scientist Trieb is adamant that the impact of wind farms is significant: “there is no evidence that the impact of wind power generation on flying insect population is negligible.”Hiding The Truth About Wind EnergyGovernments rarely stop wind projects or require changes in wind turbine locations or operations.Where government agencies routinely require permits for development near wetlands, in order to protect bird species, they rarely require the same for wind farms, even though the wildlife impacts can be far greater.  Nor do governments require that wind developers disclose when they kill birds and bats, or count the dead. Wind developers <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2014/11/pacificorp_sues_to_block_relea.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2014/11/pacificorp_sues_to_block_relea.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">have even sued </a>to <a href="http://www.sanduskyregister.com/story/201606240028" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://www.sanduskyregister.com/story/201606240028" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">prevent the public from</a> accessing data about bird kills. Incredibly, wind developers are allowed to self-report violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.Only <a href="https://abcbirds.org/to-protect-birds-and-bats-from-wind-turbines-adopt-hawaiis-approach/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://abcbirds.org/to-protect-birds-and-bats-from-wind-turbines-adopt-hawaiis-approach/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Hawaii requires</a> bird and bat death data to be gathered by an independent third party and to be made available to the public on request. The “US Fish and Wildlife Service has encouraged wind developers to avoid prosecution for killing eagles by applying for licenses to cover the number of birds who might be struck by wind turbines,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/nyregion/ny-clean-energy-law-wind.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/nyregion/ny-clean-energy-law-wind.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">reports</a> Joseph Goldstein in The New York Times.In the rare circumstances when governments require the wind industry to mitigate their impact, such as by setting aside land elsewhere, there is often little to no enforcement, scientists say. In other circumstances, wind developers do not follow through on their promises and in some cases lie.When wind developer “Apex submitted its application to [New York] state in late 2017 to build the wind farm, it said there were no known bald eagle nests on the island, according to public documents reviewed by The Times.”Later, Apex flew a helicopter over the eagles nest, even though doing so posed a direct threat to the birds. “They destroyed an active eagle’s nest,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/nyregion/ny-clean-energy-law-wind.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/nyregion/ny-clean-energy-law-wind.html" 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> a local conservationist.While the wind industry has hyped technical fixed, none have proven successful at even demonstration levels. Curtailment, which is the intentional halting of turbine blades, is the only proven way to reduce the killing of birds, bats and insects. For example, scientists have found that curtailing wind turbines when wind speed is low <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261939946_Altering_turbine_speed_reduces_bat_mortality_at_wind-energy_facilities" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261939946_Altering_turbine_speed_reduces_bat_mortality_at_wind-energy_facilities" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">can reduce</a> bat fatalities 44% to 93%. However, very few wind farm developers are willing to commit to curtailment as a means of reducing their impact on the environment, notes Scott Cashen, a biologist that has been reviewing wind farm applications over the past decade.One US government study found that <a href="https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy14osti/60983.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy14osti/60983.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">curtailment levels</a> are lower than 5% of total wind energy generation.And curtailment often isn’t enough to stop the killings. “In fact, red-tailed hawk fatalities peaked at the 50% of turbines that never operated during the three years of monitoring,” reported Sean Smallwood, another leading scientist studying the impact of wind turbines on bird populations. Smallwood calls the most-studied wind farm in California, Altamont Pass, a “population sink for golden eagles as well as burrowing owls.”While Smallwood helped improve the siting of wind turbines to modestly reduce their death toll, he also discovered that scientists had been significantly undercounting bird deaths, in part because scavengers like coyotes quickly eat them, and because body parts were outside the search radius.“I recently found two golden eagles mortally injured by modern wind turbines just after I had been watching them,” wrote Smallwood in an extensive ritique of the methods relied upon by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Both eagles “ended up outside the maximum search radius, and both left no evidence of their collisions within the search radius.” As such, the mainstream practice of limiting death counts to search radii “is analogous to excluding highway fatalities,” he writes, “when fatalities are found beyond the road verge.”Environmental journalists deserve a significant amount of blame for suggesting the problem is either small or has been solved. “Wind farm works to reduce eagle deaths from old turbines,” <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/wind-turbines" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/wind-turbines" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">reads</a> the headline of a PBS Newshour story that typifies journalistic bias. But greater responsibility for the threatened extinction of birds and bats lies with environmentalists who promote wind energy as good for the environment. Against the best-available science, Sierra Club <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/michigan/wind-turbines-and-birds-and-bats" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.sierraclub.org/michigan/wind-turbines-and-birds-and-bats" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">claims</a> that “the toll from turbines is far from a major cause of bird mortality.”Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) recently <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/stories/wind-farm-great-lakes-lets-give-it-twirl" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.nrdc.org/stories/wind-farm-great-lakes-lets-give-it-twirl" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">endorsed</a> a massive expansion of wind turbines on the Great Lakes against the opposition from local wildlife experts, birders, and conservationists, who note that the lakes are one of the world’s most important sanctuaries to many migratory bird species.And Environmental Defense Fund <a href="http://blogs.edf.org/energyexchange/2014/12/05/can-birds-and-wind-energy-co-exist/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://blogs.edf.org/energyexchange/2014/12/05/can-birds-and-wind-energy-co-exist/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">repeats</a> wind industry misinformation by claiming that “wind turbines kill far fewer songbirds than building collisions or cats” and that “technological solutions are in the works.”All three organizations are advocating the rapid expansion of wind farms in New York state, even though <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/nyregion/ny-clean-energy-law-wind.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/nyregion/ny-clean-energy-law-wind.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">they pose a direct threat</a> to bald eagles. Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg, for their part, continue to promote industrial scale wind farms, even though they <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);">require</a> around 400 times more land than do nuclear power plants, which have never threatened any endangered species.“Personally I am against nuclear power,” Thunberg said last March, calling the carbon-free energy source “extremely dangerous, expensive and time-consuming.” At best nuclear might be “a small part” of the solution “in countries and areas that lack the possibility of a full-scale renewable energy supply.”Why They Threaten ExtinctionWhy do activists like Thunberg who claim to be concerned about climate change and extinction oppose nuclear, which is the only technology that has decarbonized a majority of a nation’s electricity supply, and support wind farms, which are threatening the extinction of birds and bats?It can’t be because nuclear is “extremely dangerous, expensive and time-consuming.” After all, the science is clear that nuclear is the <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(07)61253-7/abstract" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(07)61253-7/abstract" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">safest</a> way to make electricity, and both the <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/_{jeh1/mailings/2016/CaoJ.China-U.S.}_{cooperation_to_advance_nuclear_power.Science.2016.pdf}" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://www.columbia.edu/_{jeh1/mailings/2016/CaoJ.China-U.S.}_{cooperation_to_advance_nuclear_power.Science.2016.pdf}" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">fastest</a> and <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/02/05/if-saving-the-climate-requires-making-energy-so-expensive-why-is-french-electricity-so-cheap/" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/02/05/if-saving-the-climate-requires-making-energy-so-expensive-why-is-french-electricity-so-cheap/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">cheapest</a> way to decarbonize energy.Nor can it be because activists believe climate change and species extinction are an “emergency.” If they did, they would be committing civil disobedience to block new wind farms rather than to build them.[SEE DJT TWT ALGO]A more likely scenario is that Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion want what anti-nuclear advocates of renewables have always wanted: recognition, followers, and the political power to impose their low-energy lifestyle on society. The problem with nuclear energy is that it requires neither radical lifestyle change, system overthrow, or renewables. It has the apparent disadvantage of simply decoupling human welfare from air pollution and the killing of wildlife.Their advocacy of renewables suggests that climate activists like Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion either don’t want to solve or simply don’t care very much about climate change or species extinction. After all, it’s the apparent intractability of the problem that make their protests seem exciting and necessary.As such, Extinction Rebellion resembles not so much a environmental movement as a religious one. Only a deep religious fervor could justify extinctions to prevent extinctions. While radical climate activists like Extinction Rebellion insist that their motivations are selfless, their advocacy of a technology that threatens the hoary bat and golden eagle with extinction betrays something closer to the opposite.<a href="https://thebreakthrough.org/people/linus-blomqvist" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://thebreakthrough.org/people/linus-blomqvist&ved=2ahUKEwj16-Xt5eHfAhVBYKwKHRqPA3QQFjAAegQIFRAC" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); cursor: pointer;" /><a href="https://thebreakthrough.org/people/linus-blomqvist" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://thebreakthrough.org/people/linus-blomqvist&ved=2ahUKEwj16-Xt5eHfAhVBYKwKHRqPA3QQFjAAegQIFRAC" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); cursor: pointer;">719 shillenberger update chernoble, green cause extinction?! forbes</a><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/#7054f47b1b8a">https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/#7054f47b1b8a</a>
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</div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);">morano gmail catch</div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);">biz mkt</div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);"><a href="https://senecastandard.com/author/admin/" title="Posts by Lynn Wilkins" rel="author" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Lynn Wilkins</a> on February 17, 2019 at 10:00 pm<div class="entry" style=""><div class="entry-content" style="">New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “green dream” plan in Congress has been widely ridiculed, and it According to the Washington Examiner, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., hasn’t promised it will get time on the floor, and, as of last week, she hadn’t even read the ambitious resolution.House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern, D-Mass., who helps to determine the floor schedule and debate rules, said leaders are waiting to see how many lawmakers sign on to the bill before deciding whether to bring it to the floor.But a whole new level of opposition just appeared, with a guru of the environmental movement calling the plan “climate fakery.”“I am calling bulls–t not just on AOC but on her progressive enablers in the news media who are giving her a pass on the most crucial test of moral and political leadership of our time when it comes to climate change: a person’s stance on nuclear power,” said He’s a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment” and a “high priest” of the atomic humanist movement.Shellenburger has helped save nuclear reactors around the world, from Illinois and New York to South Korea and Taiwan, preventing pollution that would be the equivalent of having 24 million cars on the world’s roads.He’s been profiled in the New York Times, National Review, NPR and other news outlets. by Marc Morano of Climate Depot.“Now that more details about the ‘Green New Deal’ from New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been released, a major figure in the environmental community, Michael Shellenberger, is calling ‘bulls–t’ on her plan for failing to support nuclear energy,” Morano wrote.He noted Shellenberger also labeled Ocasio-Cortez a “climate fraud,” and he is “outraged by the fawning uncritical mainstream media coverage the ‘Green New Deal.‘”Shellenberger said: “I am calling bulls–t on climate fakery. Anyone who is calling for phasing out nuclear is a climate fraud perpetuating precisely the gigantic ‘hoax’ that [Oklahoma Republican] Sen. James Inhofe famously accused environmentalists of perpetuating.”He wrote on Twitter that if you “want to be a self-respecting progressive or journalist who is fairly considering or covering the climate issue, please stop giving Ocasio-Cortex and other supposedly climate-concerned greens a pass.”“THEY ARE INCREASING EMISSIONS,” he wrote.</div></div></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);"></div>3 forbes pretty close in time (around gov race CA?revoke time and ucsc ?

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Shellenberger is a Time Magazine "Hero of the Environment" and Green Book Award-winning author and policy expert.

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.

...Nature Energy, and <a target="blank" href="http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001700" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">PLOS Biology</a>. Michael’s 2016 TED talk on <a target="blank" href="http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shellenberger_how_fear_of_nuclear_power_is_hurting_the_environment" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"How Fear of Nuclear Hurts the Environment,"</a> and his 2017 TEDx Berlin Talk, <a target="blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciStnd9Y2ak" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"Why I Changed My Mind About Nuclear Power,"</a> have been viewed over 1.5 million times.Michael was featured in <a target="blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBMj-96hols" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"Pandora's Promise,"</a> an award-winning film about environmentalists who changed their minds about nuclear, appeared on <a target="blank" href="http://www.cc.com/video-clips/qdf7ec/the-colbert-report-michael-shellenberger" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"The Colbert Report</a>," and debated nuclear on <a target="blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbWVfxRG8zA" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">CNN "Crossfire"</a> with Ralph Nader, and at<a target="blank" href="http://www.environment.ucla.edu/oppenheim/" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> UCLA</a> with Mark Jacobsen. Michael is coauthor of visionary books and essays including “An Ecomodernist Manifesto,” "The Death of Environmentalism," and Break Through, which was called "prescient" by <a target="blank" href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1841778_1841779_1841804,00.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Time</a> and "the best thing to happen to environmentalism since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring" by <a target="blank" href="http://archive.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/15-10/mf_burning?currentPage=all" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Wired Magazine</a>. 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.Michael has been profiled in the <a target="blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/books/review/Yglesias-t.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">New York Times</a>, <a target="blank" href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Yes-nukes-Conservationists-rally-to-save-6794124.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">San Francisco Chronicle</a>, <a target="blank" href="http://www.aei.org/article/energy-and-the-environment/climate-change/an-environmental-reformation/" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">National Review</a>, <a target="blank" href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/91062/breakthrough-journal-liberalism-media" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> New Republic</a>, and <a target="blank" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105834436" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">NPR</a>. His research and writing have appeared in <a target="blank" href="http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/Fast%20Clean%20Cheap.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Harvard Law and Policy Review</a>, <a target="blank" href="http://www.democracyjournal.org/9/6616.php?page=all" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Democracy Journal</a>, the <a target="blank" href="http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001700" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">PLOS Biology</a>, <a target="blank" href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/78209/clean-energy-jobs-obama" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The New Republic</a> the <a target="blank" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704312504575618972157288244.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Wall Street Journal</a>; and cited by the <a target="blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/business/economy/washingtons-role-in-oil-prices-recent-fall.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">New York Times</a>, <a target="blank" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/12/07/bernie_sanders_climate_plan_calls_for_end_to_nuclear_energy.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_bot" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Slate</a>, <a target="blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/12/02/fracking-ends-climate-change-wars-clean-energy-solutions-column/76663456/" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">USA Today</a>, <a target="blank" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-boom-in-shale-gas-credit-the-feds/2011/12/07/gIQAecFIzO_story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Washington Post</a>, <a target="blank" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/boisvert-shellenberger-climate-save-ny-nuke-plants-article-1.2455951" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">New York Daily News</a>, <a target="blank" href="http://www.tnr.com/article/the-green-bubble" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The New Republic</a>.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.Michael lives in Berkeley, California and travels widely. You can email him<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/10/08/attacking-nuclear-as-dangerous-new-ipcc-climate-change-report-promotes-land-intensive-renewables">https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/10/08/attacking-nuclear-as-dangerous-new-ipcc-climate-change-report-promotes-land-intensive-renewables</a><div _ngcontent-c14="" class="article-container color-body font-body" style="font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div _ngcontent-c14="" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 584.594px;">A new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report attacks nuclear power as a key climate solution by promoting the notion that it risks <a href="http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter5.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter5.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">nuclear weapons proliferation</a>, <a href="http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter5_table5_3.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter5_table5_3.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">may cause childhood leukemia</a>, and destroys the natural environment.“Nuclear energy,” <a href="http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter5.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter5.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">write</a> 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.”In fact, <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(07)61253-7/abstract" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(07)61253-7/abstract" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">study</a> after <a href="https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/kh05000e.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/kh05000e.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">study</a> over the last 40 years finds that nuclear is the safest way to make reliable electricity, and climate scientists found that <a href="https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/kh05000e.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/kh05000e.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">nuclear energy has saved 1.8 million lives</a> by preventing premature deaths from air pollution.<fbs-ad position="inread" progressive="" ad-id="article-0-inread" aria-hidden="true" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><div id="article-0-inread" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Where nuclear was 19% of U.S. electricity last year, solar and wind still constitute just <a href="https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">1.3 and 6.3% of electricity</a> in the U.S., and 1.3% and 3.9% of electricity globally.  And yet IPCC repeatedly characterizes nuclear as inherently flawed in contrast to renewables whose problems can be solved through “policy interventions.”In reality, there is no policy intervention that can change the physics of making electricity.Solar farms (like California’s Ivanpah) require up to <span data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/17/if-renewables-are-so-great-for-the-environment-why-do-they-keep-destroying-it/#4bf829553a1c" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/17/if-renewables-are-so-great-for-the-environment-why-do-they-keep-destroying-it/#4bf829553a1c" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/17/if-renewables-are-so-great-for-the-environment-why-do-they-keep-destroying-it/#4bf829553a1c" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">450 times more land</a> per unit of energy than nuclear plants (like California’s Diablo Canyon) because sunlight is energy-dilute and uranium is energy-dense.IPCC authors <a href="http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter5.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter5.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">promote “policy interventions”</a> to “enhance affordability” for renewables, but never suggest similar “policy interventions” for nuclear.And IPCC authors <a href="http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter5.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter5.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">note that</a> “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.The report comes days after<a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/10/large-scale-wind-power-has-its-down-side/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/10/large-scale-wind-power-has-its-down-side/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"> two major scientific papers</a> 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.”IPCC authors <a href="http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter5_table5_3.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter5_table5_3.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">even promote “bio-energy”</a> — the use of wood, dung, and ethanol — fuels with large, well-documented negative human health and environmental impacts.In 2012, a <a href="https://www.wri.org/blog/2017/12/insider-why-burning-trees-energy-harms-climate" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.wri.org/blog/2017/12/insider-why-burning-trees-energy-harms-climate" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Science Advisory Board</a> 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.IPCC authors use biased and misleading cost comparisons to put solar in a positive light and nuclear in a negative one.Nuclear, <a href="http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter2_annex.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter2_annex.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">IPCC authors claim</a>, 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.”In truth, those places like California and Germany who have added the most solar and wind <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/04/23/if-solar-and-wind-are-so-cheap-why-are-they-making-electricity-more-expensive/" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/04/23/if-solar-and-wind-are-so-cheap-why-are-they-making-electricity-more-expensive/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"><span data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/04/23/if-solar-and-wind-are-so-cheap-why-are-they-making-electricity-more-expensive/" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">have seen their electricity prices rise significantly</a> 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.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.Worse, the IPCC report reinforces the widespread — and wrong — view that <a href="http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter4.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter4.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">poor nations can “leap-frog”</a> rich nations with solar panels, batteries, and energy efficiency, by pointing to charity or development agency subsidies for rural solar in poor villages.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.In sharp contrast, the IPCC hammers again and again on the alleged <a href="http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter5_table5_3.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_chapter5_table5_3.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">dangers of nuclear</a>:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.6rem 0px; position: relative; padding-left: 1.75em;">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)."</blockquote>In truth, the environmental impacts of uranium mining are vastly smaller than for coal, precisely because <a href="https://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/f/fuelcomparison.htm" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/f/fuelcomparison.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">uranium is at least 2 million times more energy dense than coal.</a>"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 <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/06/19/stop-letting-your-ridiculous-fears-of-nuclear-waste-kill-the-planet/1" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/06/19/stop-letting-your-ridiculous-fears-of-nuclear-waste-kill-the-planet/1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">nuclear waste never hurts anyone</a>, while seven million die prematurely each year from air pollution.Elsewhere IPCC engages in unsubstantiated fear-mongering, claiming “Continued use of nuclear power poses a constant risk of proliferation."Where <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/08/29/for-nations-seeking-nuclear-energy-the-option-to-build-a-weapon-remains-a-feature-not-a-bug/#c8cdda62747c" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/08/29/for-nations-seeking-nuclear-energy-the-option-to-build-a-weapon-remains-a-feature-not-a-bug/#c8cdda62747c" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"><span data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/08/29/for-nations-seeking-nuclear-energy-the-option-to-build-a-weapon-remains-a-feature-not-a-bug/#c8cdda62747c" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">many nations</a> 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.Moreover, as nuclear weapons have spread from one to nine nations since 1945, deaths from wars and conflicts <a href="https://slides.ourworldindata.org/war-and-violence/#/6" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://slides.ourworldindata.org/war-and-violence/#/6" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">have declined 95%</a> — and by 90% in battle conflicts between India and Pakistan — an outcome <a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4c6e/25b2f53cedee2300fd3e25448e83e2225744.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4c6e/25b2f53cedee2300fd3e25448e83e2225744.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">empirical studies attribute</a> largely to nuclear deterrence between large nations.</div></div><div _ngcontent-c15="" class="full-description" style="box-sizing: border-box;">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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<a href="https://energypost.eu/nuclear-power-weapons-michael-shellenberger/">https://energypost.eu/nuclear-power-weapons-michael-shellenberger/</a>omfgFor 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.In 2015, Nuclear Monitor published a detailed <a href="https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/804/myth-peaceful-atom" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">analysis</a> 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.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 <a href="https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/850/nuclear-power-weapons-and-national-security" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">origins in the crisis facing nuclear power</a> and the perceived need to secure increased subsidies to prevent reactors closing and to build new ones.The new sales pitch openly links nuclear power to weapons and <a href="https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/850/nuclear-power-weapons-and-national-security" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">argues</a>that weapons programs will be jeopardised unless greater subsidies are provided for the civil nuclear industry. The <a href="https://www.axios.com/nuclear-scramble-on-tax-credits-1513303038-7c4178f7-f93a-4614-bb13-efbca70c4835.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">US Nuclear Energy Institute</a>, 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.<blockquote style="border-radius: 2px; background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-width: 0px 0px 0px 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); margin: 5px 5px 20px 30px; padding: 25px 30px 5px;">Decades of deceit have been thrown overboard with the new sales pitch linking nuclear power and weapons</blockquote>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 <a href="https://energyfuturesinitiative.org/news/2017/8/15/efi-releases-nuclear-energy-enterprise-study" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">paper by the Energy Futures Initiative</a> ‒ a creation of Ernest Moniz, who served as energy secretary under President Barack Obama.Decades of deceit have been thrown overboard with the new sales pitch linking nuclear power and weapons. However there are still some <a href="https://wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/858/pro-nuclear-environmentalists-denial-about-powerweapons-connections" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">hold-outs</a>. 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.Shellenberger <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/10/30/saving-power-in-danger-keynote-address-to-iaea-inter-ministerial-2017" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">told</a> an International Atomic Energy Agency conference last year that “nuclear energy prevents the spread of nuclear weapons”. And he <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/10/16/enemies-of-the-earth-unmasking-dirty-war-friends-of-earth-greenpeace-south-korea-nuclear-energy" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">claimed</a> 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”.<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.25; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Shellenberger’s backflip</h3>In <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/08/29/for-nations-seeking-nuclear-energy-the-option-to-build-a-weapon-remains-a-feature-not-a-bug/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">two</a> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/08/06/who-are-we-to-deny-weak-nations-the-nuclear-weapons-they-need-for-self-defense/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">articles</a> 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 <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2018/8/28/vipin-narang-interview" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">believes</a>.A recent <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YA4gLOekXNXiwpggCEx3uUpeu_STBlN_gHD60B5QG1E/edit#gid=0" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">analysis</a> 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.“While those 23 nations clearly have motives other than national security for pursuing nuclear energy,” Shellenberger <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/08/29/for-nations-seeking-nuclear-energy-the-option-to-build-a-weapon-remains-a-feature-not-a-bug/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">writes</a>, “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 …”<blockquote style="border-radius: 2px; background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-width: 0px 0px 0px 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); margin: 5px 5px 20px 30px; padding: 25px 30px 5px;">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</blockquote>Here is the <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/08/29/for-nations-seeking-nuclear-energy-the-option-to-build-a-weapon-remains-a-feature-not-a-bug/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">break-down</a> of the 26 countries that are building or are committed to build nuclear power plants according to the Environmental Progress report:<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">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.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">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.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">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.</li></ul>Current patterns connecting the pursuit of power and weapons stretch back across the 60 years of civilian nuclear power. Shellenberger <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/08/29/for-nations-seeking-nuclear-energy-the-option-to-build-a-weapon-remains-a-feature-not-a-bug/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">notes</a>that “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.Shellenberger points to <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0738894214559672" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">research by Fuhrmann and Tkach</a> 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.<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.25; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nuclear weapons ‒ a force for peace?</h3>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 <a href="https://nuclear.foe.org.au/safeguards/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">safeguards system</a>, 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.Discussing the Fuhrmann and Tkach <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0738894214559672" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">article</a> (and studiously avoiding contrary literature), Shellenberger <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/08/29/for-nations-seeking-nuclear-energy-the-option-to-build-a-weapon-remains-a-feature-not-a-bug/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">writes</a>:“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.”“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. …”“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. …”“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?”“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.”“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. …”“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.”<blockquote style="border-radius: 2px; background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-width: 0px 0px 0px 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); margin: 5px 5px 20px 30px; padding: 25px 30px 5px;">“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”</blockquote>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.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.Shellenberger argues that Iran should be encouraged to develop nuclear weapons. He <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/08/06/who-are-we-to-deny-weak-nations-the-nuclear-weapons-they-need-for-self-defense/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">cites</a> 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 <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/08/06/who-are-we-to-deny-weak-nations-the-nuclear-weapons-they-need-for-self-defense/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">cites</a> a German academic who <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2018/8/6/as-america-becomes-isolationist-under-trump-germany-should-pursue-nuclear-weapons-for-self-defense" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">argues</a> 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” <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/08/06/who-are-we-to-deny-weak-nations-the-nuclear-weapons-they-need-for-self-defense/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">according to Shellenberger</a>. And on it goes ‒ his enthusiasm for nuclear weapons proliferation knows no bounds.<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.25; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">‘Shellenberger has gone down a rabbit hole’</h3>Nuclear Monitor has previously discussed the <a href="https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/853/exposing-misinformation-michael-shellenberger-and-environmental-progress" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">litany of falsehoods</a> 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.Remarkably, even Environmental Progress’ attorney Frank Jablonski appears not to agree with Shellenberger. Jablonski <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2018/8/24/shellenberger-is-wrong-about-proliferation" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">writes</a>:“From Shellenberger’s <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/08/06/who-are-we-to-deny-weak-nations-the-nuclear-weapons-they-need-for-self-defense/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">article</a> 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.”<blockquote style="border-radius: 2px; background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-width: 0px 0px 0px 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); margin: 5px 5px 20px 30px; padding: 25px 30px 5px;">Few would swallow Shellenberger’s arguments including his call to shred the non-proliferation and disarmament system and to encourage weapons proliferation</blockquote>Sam Seitz, a student at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, <a href="https://politicstheorypractice.com/2018/08/06/the-nonproliferation-regime-exists-for-a-reason-lets-not-tear-it-up/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">argues</a> 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”).<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.25; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hostile response</h3>Responding to Shellenberger’s more-the-merrier attitude towards nuclear weapons proliferation, pro-nuclear commentator Dan Yurman <a href="http://neutronbytes.com/2018/08/30/the-fatal-attraction-of-nuclear-weapons-lures-another-victim/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">puts it bluntly</a>: “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.”Shellenberger’s about-turn on power-weapons connections provoked a <a href="http://neutronbytes.com/2018/08/30/the-fatal-attraction-of-nuclear-weapons-lures-another-victim/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">hostile response</a> from Yurman:“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. …“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. …“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.”<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.25; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Power-weapons connections</h3>No doubt there will be more acknowledgements of power-weapons connections by nuclear industry insiders and lobbyists. As Shellenberger <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/08/29/for-nations-seeking-nuclear-energy-the-option-to-build-a-weapon-remains-a-feature-not-a-bug/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">notes</a>, the nuclear ‘community’ today finds itself in an increasingly untenable position denying the connections.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.Understanding of the power-weapons connections, combined with opposition to nuclear weapons, is one of the motivations driving opposition to nuclear power. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/08/29/for-nations-seeking-nuclear-energy-the-option-to-build-a-weapon-remains-a-feature-not-a-bug/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">According to Shellenberger</a>, the only two US states forcing the closure of nuclear plants, California and New York, also had the strongest nuclear disarmament movements.<blockquote style="border-radius: 2px; background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-width: 0px 0px 0px 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); margin: 5px 5px 20px 30px; padding: 25px 30px 5px;">The growing acknowledgement ‒ and public understanding ‒ of power-weapons connections might have consequences for nuclear power newcomer countries such as Saudi Arabia</blockquote>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.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 <a href="https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/854/saudi-arabia-going-nuclear" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">weapons ambitions</a>. 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.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.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.Editor’s NoteDr Jim Green is the national nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth Australia and editor of the <a href="https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/subscribe-nuclear-monitor" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Nuclear Monitor</a> newsletter, where a longer version of this article was originally published.<div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAgQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjJ6rGnwOHfAhVGnq0KHfexBzUQFSgAMAp6BAgIEAA" style=""><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017&ved=2ahUKEwjJ6rGnwOHfAhVGnq0KHfexBzUQFjAKegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block;"><a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017&ved=2ahUKEwjJ6rGnwOHfAhVGnq0KHfexBzUQFjAKegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017&ved=2ahUKEwjJ6rGnwOHfAhVGnq0KHfexBzUQFjAKegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017&ved=2ahUKEwjJ6rGnwOHfAhVGnq0KHfexBzUQFjAKegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017&ved=2ahUKEwjJ6rGnwOHfAhVGnq0KHfexBzUQFjAKegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017&ved=2ahUKEwjJ6rGnwOHfAhVGnq0KHfexBzUQFjAKegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017&ved=2ahUKEwjJ6rGnwOHfAhVGnq0KHfexBzUQFjAKegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/11/21/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-nuclear-power-transcript-of-michael-shellenbergers-tedx-berlin-2017&ved=2ahUKEwjJ6rGnwOHfAhVGnq0KHfexBzUQFjAKegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Why I changed my mind about nuclear power: Transcript of Michael ...</a></h3>
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text-decoration-line: none;">Stop Letting Your Ridiculous Fears Of Nuclear Waste Kill The Planet</a></h3>
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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Jun 19, 2018 - Michael Shellenberger Contributor ... 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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"> =</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ymxt16UzFnQJ:https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/853/exposing-misinformation-michael-shellenberger-and-environmental-progress+&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:Ymxt16UzFnQJ:https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/853/exposing-misinformation-michael-shellenberger-and-environmental-progress%2B%26cd%3D18%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjJ6rGnwOHfAhVGnq0KHfexBzUQIDARegQICRAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/nuclear-power-cost-renewables-2625524662.html">https://www.ecowatch.com/nuclear-power-cost-renewables-2625524662.html</a><h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.ecowatch.com/nuclear-power-cost-renewables-2625524662.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 31px;">Nuclear Power Is Economically Obsolete</a></h1><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url css-listicle-body-2625524662 expanded" data-elid="2625524662" data-authors="Environmental Working Group" data-headline="Nuclear Power Is Economically Obsolete" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description"><div class="widgetbrief">By Grant SmithLast year the <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Trump</a> administration's Energy Department announced the launch of a <a href="https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2018/03/06/stories/1060075577" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">media campaign</a> to counter what an official called "misinformation" about <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/nuclear" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">nuclear</a> power. We haven't noticed an upsurge in pro-nuclear news—because there is none to report.</div><div class="js-appear-on-expand" style="transition: all 350ms ease 0s; height: auto; overflow: hidden; opacity: 1;">On the first day of 2019, the energy industry trade journal <a href="https://www.powermag.com/debate-continues-can-new-technology-save-nuclear-power/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Power</a> asked whether new technology can save nuclear power by making new reactors economically feasible—not only to replace <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/coal" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">coal</a> and natural gas but also to compete with the rapidly dropping cost of <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy/" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">renewable energy</a>. The verdict from Peter Bradford, a former member of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission:<blockquote style="margin: 1em 0px 1em 25px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(82, 149, 70); padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px;">. . . [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.
</blockquote>His bleak outlook is shared by the authors of a recent article in the <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326140294_US_nuclear_power_The_vanishing_low-carbon_wedge" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</a>. 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.They concluded that no new designs can possibly reach the market before the middle of the century. They cite the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">breeder reactor</a> that, according to <a href="https://www.princeton.edu/sgs/publications/articles/Time-to-give-up-BAS-May_June-2010.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists</a>, received $100 billion in public development funds worldwide over six decades and still did not get off the ground.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."Despite the past failure and poor future outlook, support for more nuclear funding persists. In a recent <a href="https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2018/11/f57/Examination%20of%20Federal%20Financial%20Assistance%20in%20the%20Renewable%20Energy%20Mark...1.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">study</a>, the Energy Department pointed to the $50 billion in federal incentives provided to renewables like <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/solar" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">solar</a> and <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/wind" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">wind</a>power 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 <a href="https://www.lazard.com/media/450784/lazards-levelized-cost-of-energy-version-120-vfinal.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">compete</a> with that of existing coal and nuclear power plants.The bigger question is whether nuclear power is needed at all.Nuclear advocates' claims that nuclear power is required to fight <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/climate-change" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">climate change</a> falls short. <a href="https://www.ewg.org/news-and-analysis/2018/07/california-years-ahead-schedule-cutting-global-warming-causing-pollution" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">California</a> 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.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.<a href="https://www.ewg.org/news-and-analysis/2018/04/renewables-not-natural-gas-should-replace-shuttered-nuclear-plants" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Recent studies</a> 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.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 <a href="https://www.ewg.org/news-and-analysis/2019/01/economic-viability-nuclear-power-only-going-down" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Environmental Working Group</a>.<div class="around-the-web" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="around-the-webheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;">RELATED ARTICLES AROUND THE WEB</div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy-us-2535432605.html" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px; 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Credit: Gabriel Harber.California is on the cusp of environmental progress. Or is it? 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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Nov 30, 2017 - Michael Shellenberger, the 46-year-old founder of the Breakthrough Institute think tank, announced his candidacy for governor Thursday afternoon during a panel conversation at the ClimateTech conference in San Francisco. Shellenberger, who in an interview called himself a lifelong Democrat, plans to ...</a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="78" data-ved="0ahUKEwiAzOWClYbaAhWN3oMKHSpQBCIQFQhOKAUwBQ"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger&ved=0ahUKEwiAzOWClYbaAhWN3oMKHSpQBCIQFghPMAU" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Michael Shellenberger - Wikipedia</a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><div class="f hJND5c TbwUpd" style="height: 18px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger</cite><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="GHDvEf ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=mikeshellenberger+governor+califinia&oq=mikeshellenberger+governor+califinia&aqs=chrome..69i57.11016j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b5" aria-label="Result details" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="0ahUKEwiAzOWClYbaAhWN3oMKHSpQBCIQ7B0IUDAF" style="border-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none; user-select: none; background-image: none; border: 0px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; filter: none; width: 13px; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block;"><span class="mn-dwn-arw" style="border-color: rgb(0, 102, 33) transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 4px 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin-left: 3px; top: 7.5px; margin-top: -4px; position: absolute; left: 0px;" /></a><div class="action-menu-panel ab_dropdown" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="0ahUKEwiAzOWClYbaAhWN3oMKHSpQBCIQqR8IUTAF" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xk6D_JBTRKgJ:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:xk6D_JBTRKgJ:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger%2B%26cd%3D6%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=0ahUKEwiAzOWClYbaAhWN3oMKHSpQBCIQIAhSMAU" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></li><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger+mike+shellenberger+governor+california&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAzOWClYbaAhWN3oMKHSpQBCIQHwhTMAU" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></li></ol></div></div></div><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger+mike+shellenberger+governor+california&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAzOWClYbaAhWN3oMKHSpQBCIQHwhTMAU" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Michael Shellenberger is an American author, environmental policy expert, cofounder of Breakthrough Institute and founder of Environmental Progress. He was named a Time magazine Heroes of the Environment (2008), winner of the 2008 Green Book Award, co-editor of Love Your Monsters (2011) and co-author of Break ...</a></div></div></div></div><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger+mike+shellenberger+governor+california&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAzOWClYbaAhWN3oMKHSpQBCIQHwhTMAU" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">==</a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger+mike+shellenberger+governor+california&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAzOWClYbaAhWN3oMKHSpQBCIQHwhTMAU" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">2.23.2016 </a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger+mike+shellenberger+governor+california&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAzOWClYbaAhWN3oMKHSpQBCIQHwhTMAU" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">re jacobson hit: UCLA debate video:</a><a href="https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/event/powering-earth-2050/">https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/event/powering-earth-2050/</a>Dale BrykDirector of Programs, National Resources Defense Council
Mark Z. Jacobson Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Michael ShellenbergerCo-founder and Senior Fellow, Breakthrough Institute
Ken CaldeiraClimate Scientist, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University
Moderator: Oliver MortonOliver Morton, Briefings Editor for The Economist, specializing in energy business, climate science and policy, and other green issues; author of “The Planet Remade”<div style="">"briefings: ed?</div>

==<div style="">abandon brkthru for this? why?</div><div style="">end 33 min</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">ucla debate guy suggest he's the only one there?</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">wood/dung --> nuke</div><div style="">phobias</div><div style="">cape wind "viewshed" like to sail; vaccine (on bd w/ _) ucla debate</div><div style="">says he USED to be into solar/wind 20 yrs? w/ dale nrdc</div><div style="">all one basket</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">equalize subsidy; put nuke in RTS</div><div style="">2 mil cars == if we shut down diablo cyn</div><div style="">
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</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JFutZygLTJ0J:https://www.eenews.net/tv/videos/2134/transcript+&cd=15&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">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:</a>

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