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</div><div>he's really good at leveraging mann?, time, Hansen</div><div>
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</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><div>no lnx</div><div>On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare</div><div>The author in Maranhão, Brazil, 1995]</div><div>
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</div><div>Lire en français ici.  Leer en español aquí.</div><div>On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem. </div><div>
</div><div>I may seem like a strange person to be saying all of this. I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30. </div><div>
</div><div>But as an energy expert asked by Congress to provide objective expert testimony, and invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to serve as Expert Reviewer of its next Assessment Report, I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public.</div><div>
</div><div>Here are some facts few people know:</div><div>
</div><div>Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction” </div><div>
</div><div>The Amazon is not “the lungs of the world”</div><div>
</div><div>Climate change is not making natural disasters worse</div><div>
</div><div>Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003</div><div>
</div><div>The amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska</div><div>
</div><div>The build-up of wood fuel and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more, and more dangerous, fires in Australia and California</div><div>
</div><div>Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s </div><div>
</div><div>Netherlands became rich not poor while adapting to life below sea level </div><div>
</div><div>We produce 25% more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter</div><div>
</div><div>Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change</div><div>
</div><div>Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels</div><div>
</div><div>Preventing future pandemics requires more not less “industrial” agriculture</div><div>
</div><div>I know that the above facts will sound like “climate denialism” to many people. But that just shows the power of climate alarmism. </div><div>
</div><div>In reality, the above facts come from the best-available scientific studies, including those conducted by or accepted by the IPCC, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and other leading scientific bodies. </div><div>
</div><div>Some people will, when they read this imagine that I’m some right-wing anti-environmentalist. I’m not. At 17, I lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with the Sandinista socialist revolution. At 23 I raised money for Guatemalan women’s cooperatives. In my early 20s I lived in the semi-Amazon doing research with small farmers fighting land invasions. At 26 I helped expose poor conditions at Nike factories in Asia. </div><div>
</div><div>I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for Rainforest Action Network. At 27 I helped save the last unprotected ancient redwoods in California. In my 30s I advocated renewables and successfully helped persuade the Obama administration to invest $90 billion into them. Over the last few years I helped save enough nuclear plants from being replaced by fossil fuels to prevent a sharp increase in emissions </div><div>
</div><div>But until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare. Partly that’s because I was embarrassed. After all, I am as guilty of alarmism as any other environmentalist. For years, I referred to climate change as an “existential” threat to human civilization, and called it a “crisis.” </div><div>
</div><div>But mostly I was scared. I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresent it I suffered harsh consequences. And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalists terrified the public.</div><div>
</div><div>I even stood by as people in the White House and many in the news media tried to destroy the reputation and career of an outstanding scientist, good man, and friend of mine, Roger Pielke, Jr., a lifelong progressive Democrat and environmentalist who testified in favor of carbon regulations. Why did they do that? Because his research proves natural disasters aren’t getting worse. </div><div>
</div><div>But then, last year, things spiraled out of control. </div><div>
</div><div>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said “The world is going to end in twelve years if we don’t address climate change.” Britain’s most high-profile environmental group claimed “Climate Change Kills Children.” </div><div>
</div><div>The world’s most influential green journalist, Bill McKibben, called climate change the “greatest challenge humans have ever faced” and said it would “wipe out civilizations.” </div><div>
</div><div>Mainstream journalists reported, repeatedly, that the Amazon was “the lungs of the world,” and that deforestation was like a nuclear bomb going off.</div><div>
</div><div>As a result, half of the people surveyed around the world last year said they thought climate change would make humanity extinct. And in January, one out of five British children told pollsters they were having nightmares about climate change.</div><div>
</div><div>Whether or not you have children you must see how wrong this is. I admit I may be sensitive because I have a teenage daughter. After we talked about the science she was reassured. But her friends are deeply misinformed and thus, understandably, frightened. </div><div>
</div><div>I thus decided I had to speak out. I knew that writing a few articles wouldn’t be enough. I needed a book to properly lay out all of the evidence. </div><div>
</div><div> And so my formal apology for our fear-mongering comes in the form of my new book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All. </div><div>
</div><div>It is based on two decades of research and three decades of environmental activism. At 400 pages, with 100 of them endnotes, Apocalypse Never covers climate change, deforestation, plastic waste, species extinction, industrialization, meat, nuclear energy, and renewables.</div><div>
</div><div>Some highlights from the book:</div><div>
</div><div>Factories and modern farming are the keys to human liberation and environmental progress </div><div>
</div><div>The most important thing for saving the environment is producing more food, particularly meat, on less land </div><div>
</div><div>The most important thing for reducing air pollution and carbon emissions is moving from wood to coal to petroleum to natural gas to uranium </div><div>
</div><div>100% renewables would require increasing the land used for energy from today’s 0.5% to 50% </div><div>
</div><div>We should want cities, farms, and power plants to have higher, not lower, power densities</div><div>
</div><div>Vegetarianism reduces one’s emissions by less than 4%</div><div>
</div><div>Greenpeace didn’t save the whales, switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did</div><div>
</div><div>“Free-range” beef would require 20 times more land and produce 300% more emissions</div><div>
</div><div>Greenpeace dogmatism worsened forest fragmentation of the Amazon</div><div>
</div><div>The colonialist approach to gorilla conservation in the Congo produced a backlash that may have resulted in the killing of 250 elephants</div><div>
</div><div>Why were we all so misled?</div><div>
</div><div>In the final three chapters of Apocalypse Never I expose the financial, political, and ideological motivations. Environmental groups have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests. Groups motivated by anti-humanist beliefs forced the World Bank to stop trying to end poverty and instead make poverty “sustainable.” And status anxiety, depression, and hostility to modern civilization are behind much of the alarmism</div><div>
</div><div>Once you realize just how badly misinformed we have been, often by people with plainly unsavory or unhealthy motivations, it is hard not to feel duped. </div><div>
</div><div>Will Apocalypse Never make any difference? There are certainly reasons to doubt it. </div><div>
</div><div>The news media have been making apocalyptic pronouncements about climate change since the late 1980s, and do not seem disposed to stop. </div><div>
</div><div>The ideology behind environmental alarmsim — Malthusianism — has been repeatedly debunked for 200 years and yet is more powerful than ever.</div><div>
</div><div>But there are also reasons to believe that environmental alarmism will, if not come to an end, have diminishing cultural power. </div><div>
</div><div>The coronavirus pandemic is an actual crisis that puts the climate “crisis” into perspective. Even if you think we have overreacted, Covid-19 has killed nearly 500,000 people and shattered economies around the globe.</div><div>
</div><div>Scientific institutions including WHO and IPCC have undermined their credibility through the repeated politicization of science. Their future existence and relevance depends on new leadership and serious reform.</div><div>
</div><div>Facts still matter, and social media is allowing for a wider range of new and independent voices to outcompete alarmist environmental journalists at legacy publications. </div><div>
</div><div>Nations are reverting openly to self-interest and away from Malthusianism and neoliberalism, which is good for nuclear and bad for renewables.</div><div>
</div><div>The evidence is overwhelming that our high-energy civilization is better for people and nature than the low-energy civilization that climate alarmists would return us to. </div><div>
</div><div>The invitations from IPCC and Congress are signs of a growing openness to new thinking about climate change and the environment. Another one has been to the response to my book from climate scientists, conservationists, and environmental scholars. "Apocalypse Never is an extremely important book,” writes Richard Rhodes, the Pulitzer-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb. “This may be the most important book on the environment ever written,” says one of the fathers of modern climate science Tom Wigley.</div><div>
</div><div>“We environmentalists condemn those with antithetical views of being ignorant of science and susceptible to confirmation bias,” wrote the former head of The Nature Conservancy, Steve McCormick. “But too often we are guilty of the same.  Shellenberger offers ‘tough love:’ a challenge to entrenched orthodoxies and rigid, self-defeating mindsets.  Apocalypse Never serves up occasionally stinging, but always well-crafted, evidence-based points of view that will help develop the ‘mental muscle’ we need to envision and design not only a hopeful, but an attainable, future.”</div><div>
</div><div>That is all I hoped for in writing it. If you’ve made it this far, I hope you’ll agree that it’s perhaps not as strange as it seems that a lifelong environmentalist, progressive, and climate activist felt the need to speak out against the alarmism. </div><div>
</div><div>I further hope that you’ll accept my apology.</div></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">=</div></div><div>=</div><div>pro nuke grifter? XR EX? "eco-prag"</div><div>
</div><div><a href="http://www.zionlights.co.uk/">http://www.zionlights.co.uk/</a></div><div></div><div><p class="" style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.83px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(19, 19, 22); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0px !important;">Paris Ortiz-Wines, Director of Outreach and former analyst, oversees all the organization’s outreach and engagement efforts. <p class="" style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.83px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(19, 19, 22); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); white-space: pre-wrap;">During her time as an analyst, she assisted in the energy analysis’ of countries around the world, including Argentina, France, South Korea, and South Africa. Her work is frequently used in Michael’s presentations and her infographics have been used by the South African government.<p class="" style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.83px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(19, 19, 22); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2019, she organized the first global pro-nuclear movement called <a href="https://standupfornuclear.org/" target="" style="color: rgb(13, 179, 201); text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Stand Up for Nuclear</a>. This global day of clean energy action in collaboration with activists was held in over 30 different cities and 19 countries around the world. <p class="" style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.83px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(19, 19, 22); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); white-space: pre-wrap; margin-bottom: 0px !important;">Paris received her Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Santa Cruz </div><div>---</div><div><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/812714086/09_2019_prefixes_75-81%2F812714086_201712_990_2019091116637724">https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/812714086/09_2019_prefixes_75-81%2F812714086_201712_990_2019091116637724</a></div><div>
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</div><div>JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF S F MARIN PENINSULA & SONOMA COUNTIES</div><div>SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105-1236 | TAX-EXEMPT SINCE APRIL 1938</div><div>jill davis matt younger</div><div>--</div><div>2017  NORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 6K$</div><div>--</div><div><table border="1" align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 529px; width: 1144px; border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-style: hidden;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 279px; vertical-align: top;">Latest Form 990 Return:</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 865px; vertical-align: top;">April 2019</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 279px; vertical-align: top;">Filing Requirement:</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 865px; vertical-align: top;">990 (all other) or 990EZ return</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 279px; vertical-align: top;">Fiscal Year End:</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 865px; vertical-align: top;">April</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 279px; vertical-align: top;">Asset Amount ($):</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 865px; vertical-align: top;">301,058</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 279px; vertical-align: top;">Income Amount ($):</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 865px; vertical-align: top;">916,042</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 279px; vertical-align: top;">Revenue Amount (Form 990) ($):</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 865px; vertical-align: top;">916,042</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div><div>=</div><div><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/02/07/green-new-deal-excludes-nuclear-and-would-thus-increase-emissions-just-like-it-did-in-vermont/#753481cb9afd">https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/02/07/green-new-deal-excludes-nuclear-and-would-thus-increase-emissions-just-like-it-did-in-vermont/#753481cb9afd</a></div><div>
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</div><div>the Green New Deal proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) today <a href="https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5729035-Green-New-Deal-FAQ" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5729035-Green-New-Deal-FAQ" aria-label="excludes" style="font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">excludes</a> nuclear energy from the proposed mix. If it were ever actually attempted nationally, it would increase greenhouse gas emissions — just as a similar effort did in Vermont.</div>The written statement distributed by the office of Ocasio-Cortez says "the plan is to transition off of nuclear."Vermont is home to Ocasio-Cortez allies, and Green New Deal advocates, Senator Bernie Sanders and climate activist Bill McKibben. Both insist the world can be powered on renewables alone. But consider what’s actually happened in their own state.In 2005, Vermont legislators promised to reduce emissions 25% below 1990 levels by 2012, and 50% below 1990 levels by 2028, through the use of renewables and energy efficiency only.What’s happened since? Vermont’s emissions rose <a href="https://dec.vermont.gov/sites/dec/files/aqc/climate-change/documents/Vermont_Greenhouse_Gas_Emissions_Inventory_Update_1990-2015.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://dec.vermont.gov/sites/dec/files/aqc/climate-change/documents/Vermont_Greenhouse_Gas_Emissions_Inventory_Update_1990-2015.pdf" aria-label="16.3%" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">16.3%</a>. That’s more than <a href="https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions" aria-label="twice as much" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">twice as much</a> as national emissions rose during the same period.When you account for the U.S.’s far faster growth in population, Vermont’s per capita emissions rose 5% while U.S. per capita emissions declined by 17%.<div class="recirc-unit recirc-unit-open" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Businesses Can Tackle Air Pollution While Recovering From COVID-19</a>]</h3></li></ul></div>Did Vermont fail to do energy efficiency, which the Green New Deal and green groups like Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/mark-szybist/nrdc-pa-legislators-make-transition-your-nuke-position" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.nrdc.org/experts/mark-szybist/nrdc-pa-legislators-make-transition-your-nuke-position" aria-label="claim" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">claim</a> is the most important way to reduce emissions?Nope. In 2018, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy <a href="https://aceee.org/press/2018/10/aceee-2018-state-energy-efficiency" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://aceee.org/press/2018/10/aceee-2018-state-energy-efficiency" aria-label="ranked" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">ranked</a> Vermont among the top five states for aggressive action on energy efficiency — for the fifth year in a row.Did Vermont’s electric utility block access to distributed renewable energy sources, like rooftop solar panels? On the contrary. The state’s main electric utility has been a pioneer in <a href="https://greenmountainpower.com/about/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://greenmountainpower.com/about/" aria-label="helping" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">helping </a>customers go “off-grid” with solar and batteries.What’s going on? If Vermont did everything that Ocasio-Cortez, McKibben, Sanders, and other Green New Deal advocates wanted, why have its emissions risen so sharply?Vermont YankeeIn 2012, the operator of Vermont’s sole nuclear plant, Vermont Yankee, was trying to decide whether to keep it operating. One option was to seek a small subsidy like the kind state legislatures in Illinois and New York have awarded nuclear plants for their climate benefits. But that would have required local support.One influential local voice loudly opposing continued operation of the nuclear plant belonged to the climate activist Bill McKibben. “I've been opposed to Vermont Yankee for a long time,” McKibben <a href="http://yesvy.blogspot.com/2012/07/carbon-dioxide-and-nuclear-energy-great.html#.XFMShc8zYXo" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://yesvy.blogspot.com/2012/07/carbon-dioxide-and-nuclear-energy-great.html#.XFMShc8zYXo" aria-label="wrote" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">wrote</a> in 2012. “I believe Vt. is completely capable of replacing (and far more) its power output with renewables, which is why my roof is covered with solar panels.”Pro-nuclear environmentalists disagreed. In a <a href="http://www.coalitionforenergysolutions.org/vt_elec_pwr_in_transitionpr.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://www.coalitionforenergysolutions.org/vt_elec_pwr_in_transitionpr.pdf" aria-label="highly-detailed 2010 analysis" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">highly-detailed 2010 analysis</a> they warned that the closure of Vermont Yankee would increase emissions.McKibben was unmoved. In a 2013 debate at Vermont’s Middlebury College with pro-nuclear filmmaker Robert Stone, McKibben told the crowd, “We don’t need nuclear power.”Vermont’s rising emissions prove that it did. Had Vermont’s utilities supplied its customers with power from Vermont Yankee instead of from out-of-state fossil electricity, nearly half of the state’s increase in emissions since 1990 could have been avoided.I reached out to McKibben to ask if he regretted his anti-nuclear advocacy. He responded that Vermont Yankee’s closure “didn't, I think, lead to big increases in emissions from Vermont electricity.”He pointed <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/24/climate/how-electricity-generation-changed-in-your-state.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/24/climate/how-electricity-generation-changed-in-your-state.html" aria-label="to a New York Times data tool," style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">to a New York Times data tool, </a>which he said showed “the state replaced the [nuclear] power by buying lots and lots more hydro from Quebec.”But that’s not what the data actually show. In reality, Vermont’s utilities couldn’t replace with in-state generation the lost electricity from Vermont Yankee, instead turning to electricity imports from the New England power pool, primarily from natural gas.McKibben points to rising emissions from transportation, arguing that “Vermont has done nothing to change the transportation system that is by far the main source of carbon emissions, followed by home heating.”It’s true that emissions from transportation are the largest source of the state’s emissions. But Vermont’s emissions from transportation were <a href="https://dec.vermont.gov/sites/dec/files/aqc/climate-change/documents/Vermont_Greenhouse_Gas_Emissions_Inventory_Update_1990-2015.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://dec.vermont.gov/sites/dec/files/aqc/climate-change/documents/Vermont_Greenhouse_Gas_Emissions_Inventory_Update_1990-2015.pdf" aria-label="higher" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">higher</a> in 2005 than in 2015 and the long distances driven by Vermonters comes with the territory in this rural state.And it’s not true that Vermont “has done nothing” on transportation, as McKibben claims. In fact, Vermont has <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/hannah-robinson/burlington-vt-recognized-united-nations-model-sustainability" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.nrdc.org/experts/hannah-robinson/burlington-vt-recognized-united-nations-model-sustainability" aria-label="won awards" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">won awards</a> from the United Nations and NRDC for addressing “environmental and air pollution problems spurred primarily by traffic” by putting in place “design-oriented strategies” so that it “does not rely solely on automobiles.”Why did McKibben, who describes climate change as a grave threat to human civilization, call for the closure of the single largest source of clean energy, Vermont Yankee, in his home state?McKibben told me that it was because its owner “misled (a polite word) the state about everything, including (the final blow) whether or not they had underground pipes carrying nuclear waste.”I asked a former Nuclear Regulatory Commission officer who studied the issue, Chuck Casto, if that’s what happened.Casto was the top official in charge of the U.S. government’s response to the 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, and someone who even anti-nuclear activists <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/01/22/former-u-s-nuclear-safety-regulator-withheld-vital-aid-during-fukushima-crisis-says-top-official/" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/01/22/former-u-s-nuclear-safety-regulator-withheld-vital-aid-during-fukushima-crisis-says-top-official/" aria-label="say" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">say</a> is a straight-shooter on nuclear safety.According to Casto, who oversaw a major study on the issue, the pipes in question were normal pipes carrying discharge water, not “nuclear waste.” At one point, their water carried tiny amounts of tritium, a hydrogen isotope, at levels so low that the water could be safely drank (which it wasn’t).McKibben isn’t the only Vermonter against nuclear. Senator Sanders <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/12/bernie-sanders-climate-plan-calls-for-end-to-nuclear-energy.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/12/bernie-sanders-climate-plan-calls-for-end-to-nuclear-energy.html" aria-label="wants to deny new licenses" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">wants to deny new licenses</a> to nuclear plants, which would drastically increase carbon emissions in the electricity sector.The same is true for the <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/sierra-club" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/sierra-club" aria-label="Sierra Club" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Sierra Club</a>, <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/mark-szybist/nrdc-pa-legislators-make-transition-your-nuke-position" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.nrdc.org/experts/mark-szybist/nrdc-pa-legislators-make-transition-your-nuke-position" aria-label="NRDC" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">NRDC</a> and <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/edf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/edf" aria-label="Environmental Defense Fund" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Environmental Defense Fund</a>. All are actively advocating the closure of nuclear plants throughout the country, including in New York, California, Ohio, and <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/mark-szybist/nrdc-pa-legislators-make-transition-your-nuke-position" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.nrdc.org/experts/mark-szybist/nrdc-pa-legislators-make-transition-your-nuke-position" aria-label="Pennsylvania" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Pennsylvania</a>, while <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/the-war-on-nuclear/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/the-war-on-nuclear/" aria-label="openly taking money from, and investing in" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">openly taking money from, and investing in</a>, oil, gas, and renewable energy interests.Together with McKibben’s 350.org, those groups <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/4/28/please-dont-climate-march" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/4/28/please-dont-climate-march" aria-label="sponsored" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">sponsored</a> a 2017 climate march that called for the closure of nuclear plants.McKibben says he favored closing Vermont Yankee because he thought it would be replaced by renewables. “One of the reasons that it made sense to shut [Vermont Yankee] down was the promise that it would be replaced with renewable energy,” McKibben wrote.In so saying, McKibben betrays an inconsistency — and ulterior motive. If climate change were his primary motivation then he would advocate that renewables replace fossil fuels, not nuclear.Instead of acknowledging the reality that unreliable solar and wind can’t replace baseload nuclear, McKibben blamed the politicians. Vermont’s governor and energy regulator, he told me, “bowed to opponents of wind power, and imposed a de facto moratorium on new wind turbines. I thought that was a mistake.”The War on NuclearIn the 1950s and 1960s, nuclear energy was hugely popular, and was supported by large majorities of the public. In response, electric utilities <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Three-Mile-Island-Samuel-Walker/dp/0520246837" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.amazon.com/Three-Mile-Island-Samuel-Walker/dp/0520246837" aria-label="committed to build" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">committed to build</a> over 200 nuclear reactors between 1966 and 1973. As late as 1975, there were plans to build 1,000 reactors.But, starting in the late 1960s, anti-nuclear weapons activists joined forces with misanthropic conservationists to block the deployment of America’s largest source of clean energy.“Historically, the antinuclear movement didn’t emerge from environmental concerns, which is why arguments for nuclear’s environmental advantages often fall on deaf ears,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/books/review/bright-future-joshua-s-goldstein-staffan-a-qvist.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/books/review/bright-future-joshua-s-goldstein-staffan-a-qvist.html" aria-label="noted" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">noted</a> the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Richard Rhodes, in The New York Times last Sunday.“The movement originated out of a panic among European and American intellectuals in the 1950s and ’60s about overpopulation.”Around the same time, as it became clear to most everyone that nations would never ban the bomb, anti-weapons groups like Union of Concerned Scientists switched their <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Three-Mile-Island-Samuel-Walker/dp/0520246837" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.amazon.com/Three-Mile-Island-Samuel-Walker/dp/0520246837" aria-label="focus" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">focus</a> to halting the spread of nuclear energy.Anti-nuclear groups had already demonized nuclear weapons as not merely dangerous but also evil and immoral. It was an easy pivot for them to demonize nuclear energy.Psychologists described the transference of fear, anger, and hatred from one object or person to another as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacement(psychology)" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacement(psychology)" aria-label="“displacement,”" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">“displacement,”</a> one of the ego’s defense mechanisms. We may hate the boss but he’s too powerful to confront so we kick the dog instead. Nuclear energy was the scapegoat for the persistence of weapons.Those who most hated nuclear energy, the ultimate symbol of modernity, were those who most hated — or at least said they hated — modern life.In 1973 a former German coal executive turned New Age guru named E.F. Schumacher published a book called Small is Beautiful, which exalted the lifestyles of destitute Indian farmers and demonized nuclear plants as “the most serious agent of pollution of the environment and the greatest threat to man’s survival on earth.”Media-savvy activists claimed a nuclear power accident would be like Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "A nuclear accident could wipe out Cleveland and the survivors would envy the dead,” consumer advocate Ralph Nader told credulous journalists and hysterical crowds <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/3/28/why-the-war-on-nuclear-threatens-us-all" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/3/28/why-the-war-on-nuclear-threatens-us-all" aria-label="in the early 1970s" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">in the early 1970s</a>.Their efforts worked. Researchers in the mid-1970s <a href="https://www.princeton.edu/_{ota/disk3/1984/8421/842111.PDF}" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.princeton.edu/_{ota/disk3/1984/8421/842111.PDF}" aria-label="found" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">found </a>that “distrust of nuclear power is… rooted in the fear of nuclear weapons.”Their explicit goal was to make nuclear expensive. "Our campaign stressing the hazards of nuclear power will supply a rationale for increasing regulation,” <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Masses-Opposition-Nuclear-California/dp/0299158500" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Masses-Opposition-Nuclear-California/dp/0299158500" aria-label="wrote" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">wrote</a> the Sierra Club Executive Director in a 1975 memo to the board of Directors, “and add to the cost of the industry.”Anti-nuclear campaigners managed to kill all but roughly 100 reactors. What got built in their place? <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/3/28/why-the-war-on-nuclear-threatens-us-all" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/3/28/why-the-war-on-nuclear-threatens-us-all" aria-label="Coal plants." style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Coal plants.</a>Had just 400 of the promised 1,000 reactors been built, the U.S. would today be producing nearly 100 percent of its electricity from zero-emissions sources, obviating the need for a climate crusade to clean up electricity.Apocalypse RenewedIn the early 1990s, the Soviet Union dissolved along with communist regimes throughout Eastern Europe. The threat of nuclear war between great powers faded.Environmentalists needed new justification for renewables. They found it in climate change. Those who had advocated renewables as an alternative to nuclear energy now argued for renewables as an alternative to fossil fuels.But there was a problem. Leading climate scientists including NASA’s James Hansen <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/03/world/nuclear-energy-climate-change-scientists-letter/index.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/03/world/nuclear-energy-climate-change-scientists-letter/index.html" aria-label="started" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">started</a> speaking out for nuclear power. By 2016, more of them were <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/sign-the-letter/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/sign-the-letter/" aria-label="advocating" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">advocating </a>the continued operation of nuclear plants than renewables.In response, activists like McKibben <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-scientists-debate-best-path-forward-for-clean-energy/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-scientists-debate-best-path-forward-for-clean-energy/" aria-label="distanced themselves" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">distanced themselves</a> from Hansen and instead <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-scientists-debate-best-path-forward-for-clean-energy/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-scientists-debate-best-path-forward-for-clean-energy/" aria-label="heaped praise" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">heaped praise</a> on a Stanford professor who claimed to have proven that the world could be powered on renewables alone.“I’m convinced by the careful work of Mark Jacobson and others that [100% renewables] is possible,” McKibben <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-scientists-debate-best-path-forward-for-clean-energy/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-scientists-debate-best-path-forward-for-clean-energy/" aria-label="said" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">said</a> in 2016.But in 2017, a <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/06/16/1610381114.full" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/06/16/1610381114.full" aria-label="major study" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">major study</a> found that Jacobson’s modeling had rested upon the false assumption that the U.S. could increase the power from its hydroelectric dams ten-fold. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/06/19/a-bitter-scientific-debate-just-erupted-over-the-future-of-the-u-s-electric-grid/?utm_term=.d4fdbbf01f8f" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/06/19/a-bitter-scientific-debate-just-erupted-over-the-future-of-the-u-s-electric-grid/?utm_term=.d4fdbbf01f8f" aria-label="Their real potential" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Their real potential</a> turned out to be just one percent of that.Without all that extra dam power, Jacobson’s house of cards falls apart. That’s because there’s no other practical way to store large quantities of energy.As a result, every time anti-nuclear climate campaigners succeed in closing a nuclear plant, whether in <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/09/11/had-they-bet-on-nuclear-not-renewables-germany-california-would-already-have-100-clean-power/" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/09/11/had-they-bet-on-nuclear-not-renewables-germany-california-would-already-have-100-clean-power/" aria-label="California, Germany," style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">California, Germany,</a> or Vermont, the burning of fossil fuels, and carbon emissions, go up.As such, the world’s climate advocates have for 30 years misled the world into thinking their main concern is reducing emissions when in reality it is shutting down nuclear plants and scaling up renewablesBeyond increasing pollution, the anti-nuclear agenda degrades natural environments in another way: by blanketing wild and bucolic landscapes with gigantic solar and wind farms in direct violation of their own small-is-beautiful ethos. The result is <a href="http://www.windaction.org/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://www.windaction.org/" aria-label="increasing grassroots environmental resistance" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">increasing grassroots environmental resistance</a>.Consider Vermont. The only wind farm to be built in the entire state over the last 10 years was the Deerfield Wind Project. According to Lisa Linowes of Wind Action, it took from 2009 to 2017 for the project to be completed.Why the long delay? Because of litigation stemming from the fact that the giant wind farm “is sited in the middle of critical black bear habitat.”Can you guess how many wind farms the size of Deerfield would be needed in order to replace the annual quantity of electricity from Vermont Yankee, one of the smallest nuclear plants remaining in the U.S. when it was closed? The answer is 59.At the Deerfield rate of deployment, Vermont will make up for the clean energy lost from the closure of Vermont Yankee some time around the year 2104.<div></div><div>ref to himself:</div><div>
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</div><div><h2 style="letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); white-space: pre-wrap;">Corporate & Energy Interest Funding for Anti-Nuclear Groups</h2><a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/sierra-club" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sierra Club</a> :: Has taken $136 million from nat gas/ renewables interests that stand to profit from the closure of nuclear plants. <a href="https://environmentalprogress.org/sierra-club">https://environmentalprogress.org/sierra-club</a><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-15bc1341f21514a3f325" style="position: relative; height: auto; padding: 0px 17px 12px; outline: none; box-shadow: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0) 0px 0px 0px 1px inset; transition: box-shadow 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; clear: none; letter-spacing: 0.83px;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summary</h2>Sierra Club is one of the most effective anti-nuclear environmental organizations in the world, with gross revenues in 2015 of $122 million and <a href="https://www.sierraclubfoundation.org/sites/sierraclubfoundation.org/files/2016%20Annual%20Report.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">$75 million in revenues</a> for Sierra Club Foundation in 2016. <h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">War on Nuclear</h2>Sierra Club has long advocated replacing nuclear plants with coal, natural gas, and renewables, from <a href="http://www.environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2016/9/20/sierra-club-says-closing-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant-could-move-california-backwards-on-climate-are-the-clubs-efforts-sincere-or-just-public-relations" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">California</a> to <a href="http://www.environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/3/28/why-the-war-on-nuclear-threatens-us-all" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Ohio</a>, a strategy it continues to employ <a href="https://environmentalprogress.org/s/Sierra_Nat_Gas.png" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">today</a>. "Our campaign stressing the hazards of nuclear power,” the then-Executive Director of the Sierra Club <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/3/28/why-the-war-on-nuclear-threatens-us-all" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">wrote in a confidential 1974 memo</a> to the Board of Directors, “will supply a rationale for increasing regulation... and add to the cost of the industry.”An anti-nuclear Sierra Club leader later <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Critical_Masses.html?id=4zigZvQ1wm8C&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q=playing%20dirty&f=false" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">confessed to a historian</a>, “I think playing dirty if you have a noble end is fine.”<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conflicts of Interest</h2>In 2012, the <a href="https://theredphoenixapl.org/2012/02/25/the-sierra-club-took-millions-from-fracking-industry/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sierra Club admitted</a> it had taken $26 million from natural gas companies — but only after Club activists took the information public.Sierra Club has taken an additional <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-coal-bloomberg/bloombergs-charity-donates-64-million-to-war-on-coal-idUSKBN1CG2M5" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">$110 million</a> from Michael Bloomberg, a <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/michael-bloomberg-backs-fracking-and-invests-in-fossil-fuels/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">major investor in oil and natural gas</a>.Sierra Club Foundation board members <a href="http://biggreenradicals.com/the-sierra-club-foundation-has-a-bright-shining-conflict-of-interest/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">currently include — or have included in the recent past — the following individuals</a>:<ul data-rte-list="default" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; letter-spacing: 0.83px; line-height: 1.55em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The manager of Barclays’ renewable energy investment banking;</li><li style="list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">A Director and Assistant General Counsel for solar company SolarCity;</li><li style="list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The founder and manager of environmental investment funds Walden Capital Management and Boston Common Asset Management;</li><li style="list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">A managing Partner at renewable energy company EcoPower;</li><li style="list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/lynn-jurich" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">founder and CEO </a>of solar company Sun Run;</li><li style="list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">A partner at renewable energy company Healthy Planet Partners;</li><li style="list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The CEO of solar company Solaria.</li></ul></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1522958373751_10419" style="position: relative; height: auto; padding: 12px 17px; outline: none; box-shadow: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0) 0px 0px 0px 1px inset; transition: box-shadow 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; clear: none; letter-spacing: 0.83px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><ul data-rte-list="default" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; letter-spacing: 0.83px; line-height: 1.55em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sierra Club openly takes money from solar energy companies including Sungevity that benefit from its lobbying for renewables subsidies and the closure of nuclear plants.</li><li style="list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[more on hist 70's]</li></ul></div></div>----red phoenix (labor? commie?!) ref time magBrune, we are not and we will not [in future]The headline: <a href="http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2012/02/02/exclusive-how-the-sierra-club-took-millions-from-the-natural-gas-industry-and-why-they-stopped/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; border-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">How the Sierra Club Took Millions from the Natural Gas Industry – and Why They Stopped.</a><p style="margin: 20px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; outline: none; line-height: 1.5;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Turns out, Sierra Club didn’t want the story to break in Corporate Crime Reporter.<p style="margin: 20px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; outline: none; line-height: 1.5;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The millions from frackers.<p style="margin: 20px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; outline: none; line-height: 1.5;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">And how as late as Tuesday, Sierra Club tried to mislead it’s own members about the money.<p style="margin: 20px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; outline: none; line-height: 1.5;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">According to the Time report, between 2007 and 2010 the Sierra Club accepted over $25 million in donations from the gas industry, mostly from Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy – one of the biggest gas drilling companies in the U.S. and a firm heavily involved in fracking.<p style="margin: 20px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; outline: none; line-height: 1.5;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Time reported that the group ended its relationship with Chesapeake in 2010 – and the Club says it turned its back on an additional $30 million in promised donations.---refsuports nuke and frack as bridge<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/michael-bloomberg-backs-fracking-and-invests-in-fossil-fuels/">https://truthout.org/articles/michael-bloomberg-backs-fracking-and-invests-in-fossil-fuels/</a>--<a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/nrdc" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)</a> :: Has minimum of $70 million directly invested in oil and gas renewable energy interests that stand to profit from the closure of nuclear plants.<a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/edf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Environmental Defense Fund</a> :: Has received minimum of $60 million from oil, gas, & renewables investors who would directly benefit from EDF's anti-nuclear advocacy.<a href="https://environmentalprogress.org/wise-international" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">WISE International</a> :: Funded by renewable energy interests that stand to profit from the closure of nuclear plants.<a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/elpc" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC)</a> Funded by natural gas and renewable energy interests that stand to profit from the closure of nuclear plants.<a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/7/25/greenpeaces-dirty-war-on-clean-energy-part-i-south-korean-version" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Greenpeace</a> :: Works to kill nuclear power around the world and refuses to disclose its donors.<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" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Friends of the Earth</a> :: Works to kill nuclear power around the world and refuses to disclose its donors</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>
</div><div>ted mcD</div><div>
</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 field__item" 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>site news 720 grab no lnx
Michael Shellenberger talks with Nick O’Malley, National Editor of Climate and the Environment, Sydney Morning HeraldJuly 09, 2020Michael Shellenberger talks with Nick O’Malley, National Editor of Climate and the Environment, Sydney Morning HeraldEP President Michael Shellenberger speaks with Sydney Morning Herald National Climate and Environment Editor Nick O’Malley about why climate change is not making disasters worse and other topics
READ MOREMichael Shellenberger/  1 Comment I Have Been Censored By Facebook For Telling The Truth About Climate Change And ExtinctionsJuly 07, 2020I Have Been Censored By Facebook For Telling The Truth About Climate Change And ExtinctionsI am writing to inform you that Facebook has inappropriately censored a scientifically accurate article that I wrote and Zero Hedge, Quillette, Environmental Progress, and other web sites reprinted.
I am formally requesting an investigation of this action by Facebook. Climate Feedback got it wrong, and thus Facebook got it wrong.
Many people only get their news from Facebook, which exercises extraordinary market power, and power over how people decide what is true and false. I am confident that you take your extraordinary powers extremely seriously.
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july 2, 2020Mark ZuckerbergFacebookVia Facebook, Twitter, and emailDear Mr. Zuckerberg,I am writing to inform you that Facebook has inappropriately censored a scientifically accurate article that I wrote and Zero Hedge, Quillette, Environmental Progress, and other web sites reprinted. It is called, “On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare.” The article now comes with a warning, which is a form of censorship, as it leads — or, in this case, misleads — the reader to believe that what they are about to read is false.As background, my new book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts/dp/0063001691/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?encoding=UTF8&qid=1590609394&sr=1-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Apocalypse Never</a>, is a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence on climate change, deforestation, plastic waste, species extinction, and other major environmental topics. It has been <a href="https://environmentalprogress.org/praise-for-apocalypse-never" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">praised</a> by a large number of the world’s leading climate and environmental scientists and scholars.My article made claims that are based directly on the content and references in Apocalypse Never. The article is accurate, as is my book, which is one of the most thorough reviews of the scientific evidence to date.However, Facebook has <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/12/20/155040/the-limits-of-fact-checking-facebook/" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">apparently deferred</a> its science fact-checking to an organization called “Climate Feedback,” which is misrepresenting the science examining climate change’s impact, or lack thereof, on natural disasters, and other major questions.For example, my article said, “Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction,” which is true. All major scientific bodies, including the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)  reject strongly the idea that humankind is creating a “sixth mass extinction.” I review this science in Apocalypse Never.As recently as May 4, 2020, I asked directly Josef Settle, the co-chair of IPBES),  “Is it scientifically accurate to say humans are causing a sixth great extinction?”<a href="https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2020/5/21/coronavirus-wildlife-and-farming-an-interview-with-josef-settele" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> </a><a href="https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2020/5/21/coronavirus-wildlife-and-farming-an-interview-with-josef-settele" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">His answer was</a>, “It’s not; we don’t say that; it’s rather a popular catchy expression… It’s not helpful for all of these activities to come across as being alarmist — that’s also a matter of credibility. You have to look at the evidence. Sixth mass extinction shows up in the media, but not because we said so, rather because certain circles prefer using this term.”However, Climate Feedback falsely repeats the myth that we are in a sixth great extinction.Second, the evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible that the deaths from natural disasters have declined 90% in 100 years and over 80% in the last 40 years. Nobody denies this.Similarly, nobody denies that the economic cost of natural disasters generally and weather disasters specifically have remained flat when the data is normalized to account for much higher levels of wealth. A peer-reviewed review of the scientific literature concludes that there is “little evidence to support claims that any part of the overall increase in global economic losses documented on climate time scales can be attributed to human-caused changes in climate, reinforcing conclusions of recent assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.” Climate Feedback is expressing opinions contrary to the latest scientific, peer reviewed literature. Climate Feedback is not the first organization to misrepresent the science on species extinctions or disasters. In Apocalypse Never, I describe the history of such misinformation. And in <a href="https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2020/7/6/climate-feedback-unscientifically-confuses-disasters-amp-weather-events-amp-endorses-pseudoscientific-claim-that-we-are-in-a-sixth-mass-extinction" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">a longer document</a>, I have summarized the many more scientific errors that Climate Feedback made in its review of my article.These issues are important. Climate change disasters are not killing more people or making disasters more expensive, and yet many people have been misled to believe that is the case. In January, one out of five British children surveyed told pollsters they were having nightmares about climate change. And climate alarmism is being used by the international development banks to justify diverting funding from cheap and reliable energy sources for poor nations to expensive and unreliable ones.I am formally requesting an investigation of this action by Facebook. Climate Feedback got it wrong, and thus Facebook got it wrong. Many people only get their news from Facebook, which exercises extraordinary market power, and power over how people decide what is true and false. I am confident that you take your extraordinary powers extremely seriously.Sincerely,Michael ShellenbergerFounder and President---ref
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no lnxAn organization calling itself “Climate Feedback” is falsely claiming that humankind is causing a “Sixth Mass Extinction” and unscientifically confusing “disasters” with weather events:Climate Feedback incorrectly claims that climate change is making natural disasters worse.The IPCC defines disaster as "Severe alterations in the normal functioning of community or society due to hazardous physical events interacting w/ vulnerable social conditions leading to widespread adverse human, material, economic, or environment effects…"
Climate Feedback’s Daniel Swain claims, “there is a long and growing list of extreme event/disasters types regarding which the scientific literature strongly supports links to climate change. These include, but are not limited to: extreme heatwave intensity and frequency, drought intensity, wildfire extent and severity, and the flood hazards associated with tropical cyclones/hurricanes”
Swain is inappropriately conflating weather events like heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires with "disaster." He is using the word "disaster" differently than the IPCC.
By contrast, I am defining disasters as IPCC does, as "Severe alterations in the normal functioning of community or society," not hurricane strength of fire season length.
Recall that I claimed, "The build-up of wood fuel and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more, and more dangerous, fires in Australia and California."
And that's true. In Apocalypse Never I note that higher temps increase the risks of fires in Australia and California — but that those risks are outweighed by the build-up of wood fuel & new development.
Swain must justify a) why he is conflating weather events and disasters and b) why he is using disasters differently from IPCC
Climate Feedback falsely claims humans are causing a “sixth great extinction.”Claims that the extinction rate is accelerating and that “half a million terrestrial species . . . may already be doomed to extinction” rest upon something called species area model. Conservation biologists Robert H. MacArthur and E. O. Wilson created the model in 1967. This model rests on the assumption that the number of new species that migrate to an island would decline over time. The idea was that as more species competed for declining resources, fewer would survive.
Fortunately, the assumptions of the species area model proved to be wrong. In 2011, the British scientific journal Nature published an article titled “Species-Area Relationships Always Overestimate Extinction Rates from Habitat Loss.” It showed that extinctions “require greater loss of habitat than previously thought.” 
Around the world, the biodiversity of islands has actually doubled on average, thanks to the migration of “invasive species.” The introduction of new plant species has outnumbered plant extinctions one hundred fold. The “invaders” didn’t crowd out “natives,” as Wilson and MacArthur feared. 
“More new plant species have come into existence in Europe over the past three centuries than have been documented as becoming extinct over the same period,” noted a British biologist.
Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Sixth Extinction, acknowledges the failure of the species area model in her book. “Twenty-five years later it’s now generally agreed that Wilson’s figures . . . don’t match observation,” she writes. 
Kolbert says the model’s failure “should be chastening to science writers perhaps even more than to scientists.” And yet it was not chastening enough for her to modify her book’s title claim. 
In truth, nobody needed to know the model’s fine workings to know it was wrong. If the species area model were true, then half of the world’s species should have gone extinct during the last two hundred years. 
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)  says 6 percent of species are critically endangered, 9 percent are endangered, and 12 percent are vulnerable to becoming endangered. 
The IUCN has estimated that 0.8 percent of the 112,432 plant, animal, and insect species within its data have gone extinct since 1500. That’s a rate of fewer than two species lost every year, for an annual extinction rate of 0.001 percent.
The huge increase in biodiversity during the last 100 million years massively outweighs the species lost in past mass extinctions. The number of genera, a measure of biodiversity more powerful than species count alone, has nearly tripled over the course of this time period.15 After each of these past five mass extinctions, the biodiversity in the fossil record dips between 15 to 20 percent, but each extinction is followed by much larger growth.
On May 4, 2020, I asked directly Josef Settle, the co-chair of The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES),  “Is it scientifically accurate to say humans are causing a sixth great extinction?” His answer was, “It’s not; we don’t say that; it’s rather a popular catchy expression… It’s not helpful for all of these activities to come across as being alarmist — that’s also a matter of credibility. You have to look at the evidence. Sixth mass extinction shows up in the media, but not because we said so, rather because certain circles prefer using this term.”
Some conservationists say the erroneous claims of a sixth mass extinction undermine conservation efforts. “To a certain extent they’re claiming it as a way of frightening people into action when in fact, if it’s actually true that we’re in a sixth mass extinction, then there’s no point in conservation biology,” noted one scientist. “People who claim we’re in the sixth mass extinction don’t understand enough about mass extinctions to understand the logical flaw in their argument.” 
Conservationists, it turns out, are skilled at maintaining small populations of animals, from yellow-eyed penguins of New Zealand to mountain gorillas of central Africa. The real challenge is expanding the size of their populations. 
Climate Feedback authors introduce false information and non sequiturs about whaling, fires, and other topicsThe authors of the Climate Feedback post introduce other errors, which I have documented in my responses to an annotated version of the article to which its authors are replying. 
One author, Zeke Hausfather, suggests I was not invited by the IPCC to be an expert reviewer. I was, and I have published the invitation.
Two authors, Daniel Swain and Hausfather, admit my claim, “Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003,” is accurate, but somehow misleading. In reality, they are imagining me to be making claims I didn’t make. 
Hausfather admits may claim is accurate but then claims it is "misleading" and claims I'm "conflating all fires with forestland wildfires" but that is false. Nowhere do I do that either in this article or Apocalypse Never. Hausfather is attributing things to me that I simply did not claim.
Hausfather admits my claim — “The amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska,” — is correct, but once again appears determined to attribute claims to me that I have not made, saying "as Shellenberger seems to suggest," but, again, I say no such thing in this article or in my book.
Hausfather admits my claim, “The Amazon is not “the lungs of the world,” is correct, but similarly suggests it is somehow misleading. And, again, he imagines me to be saying something I am not saying.
Hausfather admits my claim, “Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s” —  is true, but then adds that it "overstate[s] the long-term success that rich countries have had"? But the only way "my" claim could do that is for Hausfather to interpret me as saying something I'm not saying. There is a pattern here. Hausfather admits my facts are correct but is apparently so triggered by them that he has to attribute to me things I have never claimed.
Hausfather admits I am correct that wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels but then adds that biomass "is quite controversial and opposed by most environmental advocates." However, in Apocalypse Never I point to significant evidence of continued environmentalist support for biomass. Had Hausfather bothered to read Apocalypse Never, he might have been less prone to attributing things to me that I didn't say.
Hausfather admits that my claim that “Preventing future pandemics requires more not less ‘industrial agriculture’”  is correct but goes on to say, "However interesting, this argument has little to do with climate impacts." This is the fourth time Hausfather has misattributed claims to me that I did not make. I never said that fact had anything to do with climate change.
Hausfather and Swain say that my claim, “The build-up of wood fuel and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more, and more dangerous, fires in Australia and California,” is wrong, but it’s not. Wood fuel and more houses do indeed explain why there are more and more dangerous fires in Australia and California.
For Apocalypse Never, upon which this article is based, we reviewed all the best available science, and interviewed the top forest scientists. Here is the full passage that explains the science.
Economic development outweighs climate change in the rich world, too. Consider the case of California, the fifth-largest economy in the world.
California suffers from two major kinds of fires. First, there are wind-driven fires on coastal shrubland, or chaparral, where most of the houses are built. Think Malibu and Oakland. Nineteen of the state’s twenty most deadly and costly fires have taken place in chaparral. The second type is forest fires in places like the Sierra Nevada where there are far fewer people.
Mountain and coastal ecosystems have opposite problems. There are too many fires in the shrublands and too few prescribed burns in the Sierras. Keeley refers to the Sierra fires as “fuel-dominated” and the shrubland fires as “wind-dominated.” The only solution to fires in the shrubland is to prevent them and/or harden homes and buildings to them.
Before Europeans arrived in the United States, fires burned up woody biomass in forests every 10 to 20 years, preventing the accumulation of wood fuel, and fires burned the shrublands every 50 to 120 years. But during the last 100 years, the United States Forest Service (USFS) and other agencies extinguished most fires, resulting in the accumulation of wood fuel.
Keeley published a paper in 2018 finding that all ignition sources of fires had declined in California except for electric power lines. “Since the year 2000 there’ve been a half-million acres burned due to powerline-ignited fires, which is five times more than we saw in the previous twenty years,” he said. “Some people would say, ‘Well, that’s associated with climate change.’ But there’s no relationship between climate and these big fire events.
What then is driving the increase in fires? “If you recognize that 100 per- cent of these [shrubland] fires are started by people, and you add six million people [since 2000], that’s a good explanation for why we’re getting more and more of these fires,” said Keeley.
What about the Sierra? “If you look at the period from 1910 to 1960,” said Keeley, “precipitation is the climate parameter most tied to fires. But since 1960, precipitation has been replaced by temperature, so in the last fifty years, spring and summer temperatures will explain 50 percent of the variation from one year to the next. So temperature is important.”
But isn’t that also the period when the wood fuel was allowed to accumulate, I asked, due to suppression of forest fires? “Exactly,” said Keeley. “Fuel is one of the confounding factors. It’s the problem in some of the reports done by climatologists who understand climate but don’t necessarily understand the subtleties related to fires.”
Would we be having such hot fires in the Sierra, I asked, had we not allowed wood fuel to build up over the last century? “That’s a very good question,” said Keeley. “Maybe you wouldn’t.” He said it was something he might look at. “We have some selected watersheds in the Sierra Nevadas where there have been regular fires. Maybe the next paper we’ll pull out the watersheds that have not had fuel accumulation and look at the climate fire relationship and see if it changes.”
Fires in Australia are similar. Greater fire damage in Australia is, as in California, due in part to greater development in fire-prone areas, and in part to the accumulation of wood fuel. One scientist estimates that there is ten times more wood fuel in Australia’s forests today that when Europeans arrived. The main reason is that the government of Australia, as in California, refused to do controlled burns, for both environmental and human health reasons. As such, the fires would have occurred even had Australia’s climate not warmed.
The news media depicted the 2019–2020 fire season as the worst in Australia’s history but it wasn’t. It ranked fifth in terms of area burned, with about half of the burned acreage as 2002, the fourth-place year, and about a sixth of the burned acreage of the worst season in 1974–1975. The 2019–2020 fires ranked sixth in fatalities, about half as many as the fifth-place year, 1926, and a fifth as many fatalities as the worst fire on record in 2009. While the 2019–2020 fires are second in the number of houses destroyed, they razed about 50 percent less than the worst year, the 1938–39 fire season. The only metric by which this fire season appears to be the worst ever is in the number of non-home buildings damaged.
Climate alarmism, animus among environmental journalists toward the current Australian government, and smoke that was unusually visible to densely populated areas, appear to be the reasons for exaggerated media coverage.
The bottom line is that other human activities have a greater impact on the frequency and severity of forest fires than the emission of greenhouse gases. And that’s great news, because it gives Australia, California, and Brazil far greater control over their future than the apocalyptic news media suggested.
Hausfather claims that solar energy only requires 3.6x more land and wind 5.8x more land than fossil fuels, but those numbers are incorrect, and Hausfather has cherry-picked them, while ignoring better data. 
The estimate that 50% of US land would be needed — up from just 0.5% today — to generate 100% of our energy from renewables, comes from multiple real-world studies by Vaclav Smil, David MacKay, and many others.
The dilute nature of sunlight means that solar farms require large amounts of land and thus come with significant environmental impacts. This is true even for the world’s sunniest places. California’s most famous solar farm, Ivanpah, requires 450 times more land than its last operating nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon.
Solar panels can become more efficient and wind turbines can become larger, but solar and wind have hard physical limits.
The achievable power density of a solar farm is up to 50 watts of electricity per square meter. By contrast, the power density of natural gas and nuclear plants ranges from 2,000 to 6,000 watts per square meter.
The 100x number of increasing land use needs if the US were to be 100% renewables comes from the book Power Density by Vaclav Smil. We checked Smil's calculations and confirmed them. And they are aligned with the two orders of magnitude difference found between solar and wind plants and natural gas and nuclear plants.
Hausfather claims, “Neither restrictions nor substitutes were the primary factor in the decline in industrial whaling during the 20th century.”
This is false.  Hausfather simply doesn't know what he's talking about. I have a whole chapter in Apocalypse Never that draws on the best-available science. Had he read the book before commenting, he would have avoided embarrassing himself into making false claims in a supposed fact check.
Here the key passage:
A series of breakthroughs made whale oil newly useful for different products. In 1905, European chemists invented a way to turn liquid oil into solid fat for making soap. The process was called hydrogenation because it involved blowing hydrogen gas over nickel fillings into the oil. Then, in 1918, chemists discovered how to solidify whale oil while eliminating the smell and taste, allowing it to be used for the first time as margarine.
But then, industrial chemists succeeded in making margarine almost entirely from palm oil, eliminating the need for whale oil. By 1940, palm oil, much of it coming from the Congo, had become cheaper than whale oil. Between 1938 and 1951, the use of vegetable oils used for margarine quadrupled, while the use of whale and fish oil declined by two-thirds. The share of whale oil as an ingredient in soap fell from 13 percent to just 1 percent. Whale oil as a share of global trade in fats declined from 9.4 percent in the 1930s to 1.7 per- cent in 1958, resulting in declining whale oil prices in the late 1950s.
Journalists realized what was going on. In 1959, The New York Times reported that “the growing output of vegetable oils . . . has forced down the market value of whale oil and may, in the end, save the whales.” By 1968, Norwegian whalers were reduced to selling whale meat to pet food manufacturers. The Times reported that “the market for once-prized whale oil has slipped from $238 a ton in 1966 to $101.50. It has lost out to Peruvian fish oil and African vegetable oils.”
This time, rising scarcity of whales did incentivize their replacement with vegetable oil. A group of economists concluded that “economic growth brought with it a declining demand for whale products, whilst decreasing stock levels fed back into more and more expensive harvesting effort . . .”
Whaling peaked in 1962, a full thirteen years before Greenpeace’s heavily publicized action in Vancouver, and declined dramatically during the next decade. The United Nations called for a ten-year moratorium in 1972, and the United States banned whaling under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. By 1975, the year of Greenpeace’s celebrated Vancouver action, an international agreement between forty-six nations, which prohibited all hunting of the humpback, the blue whale, the gray whale, and some species of right, fin, and sei whales, was already in place.
It was vegetable oil, not an international treaty, that saved the whales. Ninety-nine percent of all whales killed in the twentieth century had occurred by the time the International Whaling Commission (IWC) got around to imposing a moratorium in 1982. The Commission’s moratorium on whaling in the 1980s, according to the economists who did the most careful study, was a “rubber stamp” on a “situation that had already emerged. . . . Regulation was not important in stabilizing populations.”
The International Whaling Commission set whaling quotas, but they weren’t low enough to prevent over-whaling. “In theory, the IWC was meant to regulate the killing of whales; in practice, the IWC functioned more like an international hunting club.” Concludes the leading historian of the period, “The thirty years of work by the IWC have proven a fiasco.”
Those nations that thundered the loudest against whaling after the Greenpeace action didn’t themselves hunt whales. “Strong anti-whaling positions became a rather convenient way of portraying a green image as virtually no material costs were involved for nations without whaling interests.”
Rising prosperity and wealth created the demand for the substitutes that saved the whales. People saved the whales by no longer needing them, and they no longer needed them because they had created more abundant, cheaper, and better alternatives.
Today, the populations of blue whales, humpback whales, and bowheads, three species for which there is great concern, are all recovering, albeit slowly, as is to be expected due to their large size and thus slow rate of reproduction. Not a single whale species is at risk of extinction. Nations harvest fewer than two thousand whales annually, an amount that is 97 percent less than the nearly seventy-five thousand whales killed in 1960. The moral of the story, for the economists who studied how vegetable oil saved the whales, was that, “to some extent, economies can ‘outgrow’ severe environmental exploitation.” 
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READ MOREMichael Shellenberger/  0 Comments My Invitation to Become an Expert Reviewer to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeJuly 06, 2020On January 6, 2020, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) invited me to become an Expert Reviewer of its Sixth Assessment Report.
The invitation read, “You have been identified as having relevant expertise and we would like to invite you to review and comment.”
I accepted the invitation and submitted my comments in mid-March, before the deadline.
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READ MOREMichael Shellenberger/  0 Comments Should We Domesticate Wild Animals to Prevent Disease Pandemics? An Interview with Peter DaszakMay 21, 2020Should We Domesticate Wild Animals to Prevent Disease Pandemics? An Interview with Peter DaszakShould we farm wild animals to prevent disease pandemics? Do we need more intensified agriculture, or less?
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READ MOREMichael Shellenberger/  1 Comment Why Atomic Humanism Will Triumph Over Climate ApocalypseOctober 22, 2019Why Atomic Humanism Will Triumph Over Climate ApocalypseThe positive, peaceful, and humanistic “Stand Up for Nuclear” events last Sunday stood in contrast to the violent protests by apocalyptic Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists who blocked the London subway system three days earlier.
READ MOREMichael Shellenberger/  0 Comments Unwilling To Address Homelessness Crisis, California Governor Instead Seeks To Blame OthersSeptember 17, 2019Unwilling To Address Homelessness Crisis, California Governor Instead Seeks To Blame OthersNewsom’s gubernatorial campaign slogan was “Courage for a Change.” Does anybody think he’s displaying courage on homelessness? 
READ MOREMichael Shellenberger/  29 Comments California Needs the Courage To Change for Climate ChangeAugust 28, 2019California Needs the Courage To Change for Climate ChangeLike many Californians, I was anti-nuclear for most of my life. In the late 1990s, I helped to save California’s last ancient redwoods still in private hands, kill a proposed radioactive waste repository at Ward Valley, and advocate for renewables.
I changed my mind about nuclear energy after experiencing the limitations of renewables and learning the facts, including from two of my idols, the climate scientist James Hansen and Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand, who over 10 years ago declared that we needed nuclear energy to prevent global warming.
READ MOREMadison Czerwinski/  1 Comment An Interview with Earth Innovation Founder, Dan NepstadAugust 25, 2019Dan Nepstad, Founder, Earth InnovationDAN NEPSTAD, FOUNDER, EARTH INNOVATION
By Michael D. Shellenberger
Michael D. Shellenberger: Can you give me an overview of what’s been going on over the last 10 years?
Dan Nepstad: Sure! Maybe a little bit longer than 10 years ago was a real inflection point. From 2002 - 2004 there was a string of really high deforestation years. It was sort of the perfect storm. Soybeans started coming into the Amazon. Cattle ranching was getting more profitable. But it was this huge soy boom fed by exports to China, the EU prohibiting carcasses in animal meal, raising the demand for soybeans. 
And Lula had just started as president. He had come in with great aspirations of being an international president and really building Brazil’s credibility as a global leader and his own. He brought in Marina Silva from Acre, one of Chico Mendes’s understudies, as his Minister, and in 2004 they launched the EPCDAM, a long name in Portuguese, and basically organized across 13 agencies of the federal government this massive strategy to take on deforestation. That was really his top environmental priority. ...<a href="https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2018/4/4/zero-dark-nuclear">https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2018/4/4/zero-dark-nuclear</a>many lnc graf
zero Dark Nuclear[dramntic pixfrom movie]April 04, 2018Seven nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania produce 30 percent more power than all of the solar in the United States. If they are closed, the future of our largest source of clean energy is dark.  SEVEN NUCLEAR PLANTS IN OHIO AND PENNSYLVANIA PRODUCE 30 PERCENT MORE POWER THAN ALL OF THE SOLAR IN THE UNITED STATES. IF THEY ARE CLOSED, THE FUTURE OF OUR LARGEST SOURCE OF CLEAN ENERGY IS DARK.  
By Michael Shellenberger
If lawmakers fail to act soon, four nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania will be replaced with fossil fuels and emissions will rise the equivalent of adding six million cars to the road.
Three additional nuclear plants in Pennsylvania could be forced to close shortly after.
How much electricity is produced by the seven nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania? Thirty percent more than all of the solar energy produced in the United States in 2017.
The loss of those plants would constitute the single worst blow to nuclear energy since Germany decided to phase out its plants following the Fukushima accident in 2011.
Around the world, nuclear energy rests on a knife’s edge. Over the last two years, pro-nuclear advocates prevented nuclear phase-outs in South Korea, Illinois, New York, Connecticut, and France. But nuclear phase-outs are continuing elsewhere:
Germany will likely see its emissions rise again this year thanks to its shuttering of a nuclear plant last December;California’s Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom led the secret effort to prematurely close the state’s last nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon — something even anti-nuclear advocates now admit will increase carbon emissions;In Japan and Taiwan, there are slow and halting efforts to re-open nuclear plants constantly frustrated by fear-mongering campaigns sometimes financed by renewable energy interests.The U.S. has long been the global leader of nuclear energy. If we continue to allow nuclear plants to close, then we will cede nuclear energy globally to Russia and China and allow future energy demand to be met by fossil fuels.
A Dirty WarThe anti-nuclear movement began its war on America’s largest source of clean energy by inciting a moral panic.
With the public confidence in government shaken by the Vietnam War and Watergate, anti-nuclear groups gained traction by claiming there was a conspiracy by electric utilities and government regulators to cover up the true dangers of nuclear plants.
Ohio v4.002.jpegThe Sierra Club threw its full weight behind a fear-mongering campaign in Ohio where elected officials sought nuclear energy as a way to reduce deadly coal pollution. The San Francisco-based club sued, lobbied, twisted arms, and targeted mothers with hysterical fear-mongering.
"A nuclear accident could wipe out Cleveland,” Sierra Club ally Ralph Nader told an Ohio newspaper — lying flamboyantly — in 1974, “and the survivors would envy the dead."
"Our campaign stressing the hazards of nuclear power,” the then-Executive Director of the Sierra Club wrote in a confidential 1974 memo to the Board of Directors, “will supply a rationale for increasing regulation... and add to the cost of the industry.” [nb clinton lost ark gov in no small part to raise dmv 19-36 bucks/]
The groups all claimed at the time that rising energy efficiency meant electric utilities didn’t need to build new power plants of any kind.
But when electricity demand rose throughout the 1980s at nearly the same rate it had in the 1970s, anti-nuclear groups stood by and watched as coal plants were built instead.
An anti-nuclear Sierra Club leader later confessed to a historian, “I think playing dirty if you have a noble end is fine.”
Ohio and Pennsylvania today suffer from some of the worst air pollution in the country — pollution that will worsen if nuclear plants are closed.
Nuclear plants today provide 89 percent of Ohio’s electricity from clean energy sources, and 93 percent of Pennsylvania’s.
Today, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Sierra Club are working alongside the American Petroleum Institute (Big Oil & Natural Gas) to lobby against proposals to save nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
As such, EDF, NRDC, and Sierra Club have revealed themselves to be utterly unconcerned about increasing air pollution — and totally obsessed with killing our largest source of clean energy.
Subsidies.001.jpegFrom Movement to RacketEDF, NRDC, and Sierra Club denounce modest subsidies proposed to keep nuclear plants alive as a “bail-out” while quietly lobbying for far larger subsidies for wind and solar.
Consider that later this month, New Jersey’s legislature and governor may pass legislation to keep that state’s nuclear plants operating. If that happens, it will be the biggest victory for pro-nuclear forces since Connecticut’s governor and legislature took similar action late last year.
But it would come at a shockingly high price. Under the sway of NRDC, New Jersey’s newly elected governor is asking for $150 million more in subsidies per year by 2022 by increasing solar’s required contribution to New Jersey electricity from 4.1% to 5.1%.
In 2017, New Jersey ratepayers spent almost $600 million to generate just 2.8 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity from solar. By contrast, the proposed nuclear subsidy would cost $300 million per year to generate 28 TWh of electricity. And while the nuclear plants are paid only if market conditions require it, solar investors get paid no matter what.
New Jersey is not unique. In Illinois, ratepayers have been spending fifteen times more per unit of energy for Solar Renewable Energy Certificates than for nuclear’s new Zero Emission Certificates.
Subsidy IL.001.jpegUnder Illinois’s new program, a nuclear subsidy was combined with a much more costly renewables program. Compare nuclear’s $235 million per year for 24 TWh of electricity from nuclear to at least $200 million per year for just four TWh of electricity by 2020 from wind and solar under the new Renewable Portfolio Standard.
In New York, ratepayers will spend $482 million per year for 27 TWh of electricity from nuclear, at a rate of $17.48 per MWh. By contrast, New York and federal subsidies for rooftop solar are more than 10 times higher: $190 per MWh.
Indian Point, New York’s largest nuclear plant, needs no subsidy. It produces power for under $40 per MWh. And yet Gov. Cuomo has sought to shut it down at the urging of — you guessed it — the Sierra Club, NRDC, EDF, and a natural gas company implicated in the federal criminal prosecution of a Cuomo aide.
Indian Point’s replacement power is expected to come from new gas plants and renewables that typically cost $100 per MWh —  and increase carbon emissions from electricity production by nearly 30 percent.
Never before has the famous quip — “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket” — seemed more true than it does today of the behavior of NRDC, EDF, and the Sierra Club.
Consider that:
Sierra Club Foundation had on its board the founder and CEO of Sunrun, a company which stands to make windfall profits from the New Jersey subsidy;NRDC is directly and heavily invested in both natural gas and renewable energy companies;EDF’s board of directors is thick with investors in fossil fuels and renewable energy, including a director for Sunrun.EDF, NRDC, and Sierra Club vacuum up $158 million, $184 million, and $77 million annually — including from donors whose identities are kept secret.
But secrets have a way of getting out. Thanks to disgruntled Sierra Club members, we now know that the organization secretly took $26 million from natural gas interests.
The greed on display by Sierra Club, EDF, and NRDC in no way takes away from their deeply ideological motivation. On the contrary: the huge financial stakes have only served to reinforce it.
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Making Energy ExpensiveThe longstanding goal of anti-nuclear campaigners has been to make energy expensive as a strategy for kicking away the ladder of opportunity.
“If a doubling of the state’s population in the next 20 years is encouraged by providing the power resources for this growth,” Sierra Club’s anti-nuclear Executive Director wrote in 1966, California’s “scenic character will be destroyed.”
This anti-humanism was embraced in countries like Germany and Denmark, which deployed significant renewables and have seen their electricity rates skyrocket as a consequence.
In Germany, electricity rates rose 50 percent over the last decade. In wind-heavy Denmark, electricity prices are now the highest in all of Europe. In California, electricity rates rose five times more than they did on average in the rest of the nation since 2011.
Unreliable forms of renewable energy like solar and wind make electricity expensive because they require:
The continued operation of fossil fuel plants. Where nuclear plants generate power for over 90 percent of the year, solar and wind farms do so for 20 - 40 percent of the year.
Expensive new transmission lines to disparate and remote areas. Replacing California’s last nuclear plant Diablo Canyon with solar would require 18 solar farms the size of one of the state’s largest — and thus 18 times more transmission.
Vast amounts of electricity storage, which is extremely expensive, inefficient, and — in eco-conscious places like California — near-impossible to build at scale.
Large payments to industrial customers to use electricity when uncontrollable surges of solar and wind energy threaten to blow-out the electrical grid.
California Deck.036.jpegEconomists are beginning to quantify how the cost of solar and wind rise as they become a larger share of the electrical grid. A top German economist found that the value of wind to the European grid drops 40 percent once it becomes 30 percent of electricity, while the value of solar drops by half when it gets to just 15 percent.
It’s not just that renewables make electricity expensive but also that they transfer wealth from the poor to the rich.
Between 2007 and 2014, the 40 percent of California households with the highest incomes received three times more in solar subsidies — a whopping $10,000 and $20,000 per household — than the 40 percent of Californians with the lowest incomes.
Where solar homeowners receive retail rates for the solar electricity they produce, all of the other costs of producing and delivering electricity — about two-thirds of the total  — are borne by those who don’t have solar roofs.
Energy efficiency subsidies similarly benefit the wealthy. California households with over $100,000 in annual income benefitted from energy efficiency subsidies at twice the rate of households whose income was under $50,000.
And a growing body of high-quality scholarly research finds that subsidies for efficiency cost twice as much as their benefits — a finding that NRDC and its allies actively seek to deny with junk science.
Time to Shine a Light on CorruptionIt’s not too late to save the nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania. But for that to happen, pro-nuclear forces will need to up our game in both states — and soon.
Now that Ohio-based utility First Energy has declared bankruptcy, there is the possibility that its three nuclear plants could be purchased by Exelon, which has proven capable of operating its plants at a cost that is roughly one-quarter less than other nuclear operators. 
But Exelon testified in Ohio last year that it would still need a subsidy — one representing a small fraction of the ones given to solar and wind — for the plants’ continued operation to be worthwhile.
Having twice testified in front of the Ohio legislature, I found that the state’s conservative legislators were most alarmed by the prospects of becoming wholly dependent on natural gas producers who could use their market power to raise rates.
Just this week that argument was made by another former opponent of nuclear energy — the former Ohio congressman and current Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Dennis Kucinich.
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“Ohio’s economy cannot absorb the shock of taking existing nuclear utilities off-line in a deregulated market,” he told a local paper earlier this week.
Kucinich is further proof that even far-left Democrats can change their mind. In 2007 he told Grist, “Nuclear has to be phased out.” Today, Kucinich sees it as essential to preventing market manipulation. 
“Out-of-state energy interests, particularly in gas, have used deregulation of power generation to game the market,” Kucinich said, “and have developed price points to undercut Ohio’s largest energy company.” 
To date, Ohio Gov. John Kasich has shown little concern for preventing the closure of his state’s nuclear plants even as he supports subsidies for solar and wind.
But Kasich is leaving office, and in November, a new legislature and governor will be elected. As such, Kucinich’s remarks create a new opportunity: making the closure of the nuclear plants an election issue.
 We can do so the same way we did in South Korea, Illinois, New York, Connecticut, and France: exposing the paranoid motivations and deceitful tactics behind anti-nuclear campaigns waged by the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC), Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Food and Water Watch.
Where Sierra Club, NRDC, and EDF wage their war on clean energy under the cover of darkness — out of recognition that they are destroying whatever legitimacy they once had — pro-nuclear advocates must shine a bright light. 
The stakes couldn’t be any higher.
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</div><div>For more information on Michael Shellenberger, please visit www.tedxberlin.de. Michael Shellenberger is co-founder and Senior Fellow at the Breakthrough Institute, where he was president from 2003 to 2015, and a co-author of the Ecomodernist Manifesto.

Over the last decade, Michael and his colleagues have constructed a new paradigm that views prosperity, cheap energy and nuclear power as the keys to environmental progress. </div><div>
</div><div>A book he co-wrote (with Ted Nordhaus) in 2007, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism

to the Politics of Possibility, was called by Wired magazine “the best thing to happen to environmentalism since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring,” while Time Magazine called him a “hero of the environment.” In the 1990s, he helped protect the last signi cant groves of old-growth redwoods still in private hands and bring about labor improvements to Nike factories in Asia. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" spellcheck="false" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?redir_token=D_m1fIdmV8Tvayn_vgMPZoo8gUt8MTU2MzU3NjkwNEAxNTYzNDkwNTA0&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ted.com%2Ftedx&v=ciStnd9Y2ak&event=video_description" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block; cursor: pointer; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.ted.com/tedx</a></div><div>
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</div><div>Over the last two years, Elon Musk has been lionized as a climate hero for creating a high-performance electric car (Tesla) and a fast-growing solar panel company (Solar City).Critics have noted that both companies have depended heavily on taxpayer subsidies — <a target="blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">$4.9 billion, to be precise</a>.Elon's defenders have rightly noted that nuclear, too, has received government funding.But now, Tesla, which absorbed Solar City last year, <a target="blank" href="http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M201/K923/201923970.PDF" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">has come out in favor of closing Diablo</a> Canyon nuclear plant, California's largest source of clean energy.Imagine the outcry if a nuclear energy company tried not just to kill solar subsidies but actually remove Solar City panels from rooftops in order to build more nuclear plants.In Tesla's comments to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), Tesla makes a transparently self-serving argument in favor of closing Diablo Canyon: it can be replaced by solar panels and batteries."Energy storage resources paired with solar generation," Tesla's attorney chirps, "can take advantage of federal tax credits..."This is appalling — and symptomatic of the corruption of the CPUC, which is <a target="blank" href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2016/9/8/future-of-californias-largest-nuclear-plant-diablo-canyon-should-not-be-decided-by-a-california-public-utilities-commission-that-is-hiding-emails-under-an-active-criminal-investigation" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">currently under federal and state criminal investigation</a> for closing our second to last nuclear plant, San Onofre.For the record, <a target="blank" href="http://environmentalprogress.org/technology-innovation-economics/" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">renewables received about 100x more in subsidies</a> than nuclear did last year</div><div></div><div><a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2016/11/3/the-climate-scientist-james-hansen-calls-food-water-watch-the-most-anti-environmental-of-all-the-anti-nuclear-groups-in-new-york">http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2016/11/3/the-climate-scientist-james-hansen-calls-food-water-watch-the-most-anti-environmental-of-all-the-anti-nuclear-groups-in-new-york</a></div><div>
</div><div>“It’s sad to see the effort by Food and Water Watch to close New York’s largest source of clean power, nuclear energy," said climate scientist James Hansen in a statement today. "If their efforts succeed, they will increase fossil fuel burning, pollution, asthma, and premature deaths. With its campaign, Food and Water Watch has established itself as the most anti-environmental of all of the anti-nuclear groups operating in New York state. Thank goodness Governor Cuomo is exhibiting good common sense on this matter.”Added Michael Shellenberger, President of Environmental Progress: "The hypocrisy of Food and Water Watch is breathtaking. They claim to care about the environment but they are advocating greater fossil fuel use which will result in more pollution, asthma and premature death. They lobby for renewables subsidies that are twice as high as the nuclear subsidies and then claim to be against subsidies. The loss of the New York nuclear plants at risk of closure would create five times more emissions than the state must reduce to comply with the EPA Clean Power Plan."The real problem isn't the existence of tin foil hat anti-nuclear groups but that the media refer to them as "environmentalists." Journalists don't cal anti-vaxxer groups public health groups — why do they call Food and Water Watch an "environmental group"? I am confident the people of New York will see through Food and Water Watch's anti-vaxxer style fear-mongering." ---</div><div>
</div><div>Despite its radical position on carbon emissions, Food and Water Watch and its associated groups have attacked reliable zero-emission energy supplies. <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/person/james-hansen/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">James Hansen</a>, who served as senior science advisor for Environmental Progress, called Food and Water Watch “the most anti-environmental of all of the anti-nuclear groups operating in New York state.” <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/food-and-water-watch-action-fund/#note-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[8]</a></div><div>
</div><div><ol class="profile-references expandable expanded" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; max-height: 100%; overflow: hidden; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li class="profile-reference profile-reference--highlighted" id="note-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; margin-bottom: 15px; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; background-color: rgb(254, 235, 182);">Shellenberger, Michael. “Dark Money Behind Food & Water Watch As Blitz Attacking Clean Energy in New York.” Environmental Progress. June 9, 2017. Accessed October 9, 2017. <a class="profile-referenceback-link" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/food-and-water-watch-action-fund/#ref-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">↩</a></li></ol><div>crypto: <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/food-and-water-watch-action-fund/">https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/food-and-water-watch-action-fund/</a></div></div><div></div><div>
</div><div>funding but no specific srcs?</div><div>
</div><div><a href="https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/853/exposing-misinformation-michael-shellenberger-and-environmental-progress">https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/853/exposing-misinformation-michael-shellenberger-and-environmental-progress</a></div><div>
</div><div>N<div class="field field-name-field-issue field-type-text field-label-above field-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 10px 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline-block;"><div class="field-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; display: inline;">uclear Monitor Issue: </div>#853</div><div class="field field-name-field-number field-type-number-integer field-label-hidden field-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 10px 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline-block;">4689</div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden field-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; display: inline-block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2017-10-30T00:00:00+01:00" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; float: none; display: inline !important;">30/10/2017</div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden field-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jim Green ‒ Nuclear Monitor editor, and national nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth Australia</div><div class="field field-name-field-content field-type-list-text field-label-hidden field-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; display: inline-block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Article</div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden field-wrapper body field" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Michael Shellenberger's pro-nuclear lobby group 'Environmental Progress' (EP) is celebrating the decision to proceed with two partially-built reactors in South Korea. A citizens jury appointed by the government voted almost 60% in favor of completing the reactors. President Moon Jae-in said the government would allow construction of the reactors to proceed but "we will completely stop all plans for the construction of new nuclear reactors."1It's doubtful that Shellenberger's California-based organization could have significantly swayed the citizens jury in South Korea, but EP was very active in the debate and presumably had some effect in shifting opinions. Here is a summary of the work EP carried out in South Korea this year:2<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: inside;"><li style="background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" wise="wise" images="images" bullit.png="bullit.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" margin="margin" padding="padding" direction="direction" ltr="ltr" list-style="list-style" none="none">EP published a 62-page pro-nuclear report ‒ 'The High Cost of Fear: Understanding the Costs and Causes of South Korea's Proposed Nuclear Energy Phase-Out'.3</li><li style="background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" wise="wise" images="images" bullit.png="bullit.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" margin="margin" padding="padding" direction="direction" ltr="ltr" list-style="list-style" none="none">Shellenberger visited South Korea four times between April and October 2017, giving speeches, holding press conferences on collaborating with nuclear advocates. He claims that dozens of media outlets reported on EP's visits, that a press conference in Seoul was "packed"4, and that he enjoyed "a crush of media attention".5</li><li style="background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" wise="wise" images="images" bullit.png="bullit.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" margin="margin" padding="padding" direction="direction" ltr="ltr" list-style="list-style" none="none">EP sent a sign-on letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in in July 2017 and another in August 2017.</li><li style="background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" wise="wise" images="images" bullit.png="bullit.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" margin="margin" padding="padding" direction="direction" ltr="ltr" list-style="list-style" none="none">In October, EP wrote to the citizens jury tasked with deciding the fate of the two partially-built reactors (Shin Kori 5 and 6).6</li><li style="background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" wise="wise" images="images" bullit.png="bullit.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" margin="margin" padding="padding" direction="direction" ltr="ltr" list-style="list-style" none="none">EP produced a video promoting nuclear power in South Korea.</li><li style="background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" wise="wise" images="images" bullit.png="bullit.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" transparent="transparent" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" margin="margin" padding="padding" direction="direction" ltr="ltr" list-style="list-style" none="none">Shellenberger has been talking and writing about his bizarre plan to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula by supporting the development of nuclear power in North Korea.</li><li style="background-image: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" wise="wise" images="images" bullit.png="bullit.png" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-size="background-size" initial="initial" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" margin="margin" padding="padding" direction="direction" ltr="ltr" list-style="list-style" none="none">And, according to Shellenberger, EP countered the "lies" of Friends of the Earth (FOE) and Greenpeace in "two investigative pieces and three separate open letters to President Moon and the citizens jury that were signed by climate scientists and environmentalists from around the world."6</li></ul>EP's campaign has involved a blizzard of misinformation and relentless, dishonest attacks against environment groups, particularly Friends of the Earth (FOE) and Greenpeace. Shellenberger claims4 that the "greatest coup" of the two groups was the "Hollywood-style anti-nuclear disaster movie" called Pandora7 which was released last year and has been watched by millions, mostly on Netflix. But FOE and Greenpeace had nothing to do with the production of the Pandora film!Shellenberger states: "After it was accused of secretly financing the film, Greenpeace insisted it had merely funded the screenings ..."8 To translate and correct Shellenberger's misinformation: Greenpeace was falsely accused of secretly financing the film (it isn't clear why funding an anti-nuclear film would be objectionable, any more than EP's funding of a pro-nuclear film). The source of the accusation isn't named ‒ perhaps it was Shellenberger himself! Greenpeace merely hosted a screening of the film (or at most a few screenings) and spoke at Q&A sessions at a few film screenings.9Shellenberger claims the Pandora film must have cost tens of millions of dollars to make (although the film-makers say the budget was half a million) but that "amount is peanuts to an organization like Greenpeace International and natural gas interests".8 He seems to be insinuating that Greenpeace and/or natural gas interests funded the film but provides no evidence in support of his claims.The funding of the Pandora film isn't an important issue but it neatly illustrates Shellenberger's M.O. of relentless repetition of falsehoods in the hope that some mud sticks.The Pandora film "propelled to the presidency an anti-nuclear candidate, Moon Jae-in", Shellenberger claims.4 Seriously? Moon Jae-in would not have been elected if not for a Netflix film?!Shellenberger himself featured in the dishonest and wildly inaccurate 'Pandora's Promise' film a few years ago.10,11South Korea's 'nuclear mafia'Arguably the main reason Moon Jae-in was elected to the presidency in May 2017 was to clean up widespread corruption ‒ including corruption in the nuclear industry.12EP describes the nuclear corruption scandal as a "paperwork scandal".3 But it wasn't just a "paperwork scandal" ‒ it involved serious incidents such as a power failure in May 2012 which led to a rapid rise in the Kori-1 reactor core temperature, and a cover-up up of that incident.13 That was followed by revelations of an industry-wide scandal involving fake safety certificates ("paperwork") for reactor parts, sub-standard reactor parts, and bribery.13 The sub-standard reactor parts included safety-critical components such as defective control cabling that triggered shutdowns at two nuclear plants.14 According to a whistleblower, equipment failed under Loss-Of-Coolant-Accident conditions during at least one concealed test.15 Another whistleblower revealed that control cables supplied to four reactors with faked certificates had failed safety tests.16EP argues that the nuclear corruption scandal "demonstrated the independence of the Korean safety regulator". But the corruption dated back to 200414 and possibly earlier and went undetected for at least seven years. Public revelation of the scandal was a triumph for a small number of whistleblowers; it was deeply embarrassing for the regulator.EP asserts that "suppliers as well as senior executives were held accountable" for their corruption. But a 2014 parliamentary audit revealed that some officials fired from KEPCO Engineering and Construction were rehired.17 And the New York Times reported that despite the government's pledge to impose a 10-year ban on suppliers found to have falsified documents, KHNP imposed a six-month ban.18 The New York Times continued: "And nuclear opponents say that more fundamental changes are needed in the regulatory system, pointing out that one of the government's main regulating arms, the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety, gets 60 percent of its annual budget from Korea Hydro [& Nuclear]."18The scandal was still on the boil in 2014. Korea Times noted in June 2014 that more fake quality certificates had been uncovered and that government testing facilities were found to have failed to conduct adequate tests before issuing certificates.19Korea Times editorialized: "Most disheartening in the latest revelation of irregularities is that the state-run certifiers failed to detect fabrications by skipping the required double-testing. ... Given the magnitude of corruption in the nuclear industry arising from its intrinsic nature of being closed, the first step toward safety should be to break the deep-seated food chain created by the so-called nuclear mafia, which will help enhance transparency ultimately. With the prosecution set to investigate the suppliers, the certifiers will face business suspension. But it's imperative to toughen penalties for them, considering that light punitive measures have stood behind the lingering corruption in the nuclear industry."19South Korea's energy mixThe Moon Jae-in government plans to reduce reliance on coal (from 43% of electricity generation to 25% by 203020) and nuclear (from 30% to 18% by 203020, with long-term ambitions to phase-out nuclear power) in favour of gas (from 20% to 37% by 203020) and renewables (from 1.8%21 to 20% by 203020).In an August 2017 report, EP plugs in a bunch of false and arbitrary assumptions to concoct a scare-story in which the proposed changes to the power-generation mix cost a minimum of US$10 billion per year (to import gas and to build gas-fired power plants ... there is no costing for the replacement of aging reactors, apparently they will operate forever), result in thousands of avoidable deaths from air pollution, and increase carbon emissions by an amount equivalent to adding 15‒27 million cars.3Among other arbitrary, inexplicable assumptions is the assumption that gas replaces nuclear power.3 (That assumption is part of a broader EP propaganda campaign to convince people of the falsehood that "every time nuclear plants close they are replaced almost entirely by fossil fuels".22) If EP wants to arbitrarily assume that gas replaces nuclear under the 2030 targets, then it ought to assume that the planned 18% reduction in coal is replaced by the planned 18% increase in renewables ‒ but no such assumption is made.Instead, the EP report asserts that "replacing the nation's nuclear plants would require a significant increase in coal and/or natural gas".3 But the 2030 targets have the growth in renewable electricity generation comfortably ahead of the reduction in nuclear power.And the EP report falsely asserts that the "removal of nuclear plants from the grid would extend the life of coal plants"3 even though the government clearly plans to reduce reliance on coal plants and has already taken steps in that direction since the May 2017 election.The EP report asserts that replacing "South Korea's remaining nuclear plants with natural gas would produce carbon pollution the equivalent of adding 27 million U.S. cars to the road."3 But ... again ... the South Korean government isn't planning to replace nuclear with gas; it is planning to reduce reliance on coal and nuclear in favour of gas and renewables. The planned increase in gas nearly matches the decline in more carbon-intensive coal, and the growth of renewables more than compensates for the loss of nuclear.A sign-on letter organized by EP warns that a "significant expansion of natural gas could pose a significant threat to public safety" and cites two accidents in South Korea resulting in 83 deaths and 181 injuries.23 But it is silent about the costs, ill-health and deaths arising from nuclear disasters such as the Fukushima fires, meltdowns and hydrogen explosions. And it is silent about the myriad benefits of expanding renewable power generation.Peace on the Korean peninsulaShellenberger thinks that supporting the development of nuclear power in North Korea is the key to peace on the Korean peninsula. He claims that "a nuclear phase-out in South Korea would destroy one of the best means of creating peace with North Korea" because it would compromise South Korea's ability to promote the development of nuclear power in North Korea.4A sign-on letter initiated by EP advocates a new framework agreement involving US and South Korean support for the development of nuclear power in North Korea, in return for North Korea accepting IAEA inspections of its nuclear program, ending its missile tests and limiting its nuclear arsenal.24The "new framework" is much the same as the old 1994 Agreed Framework, which was a complete failure. If the power reactors proposed under the 1994 agreement had been completed before North Korea terminated IAEA safeguards during the collapse of the Agreed Framework, those reactors might now be used for weapons production in addition to North Korea's small 'experimental power reactor' and its enrichment program.There is no reason to believe the North Korean regime would limit let alone abandon its nuclear weapons program if other nations helped the regime develop nuclear power plants (or other types of power plants). Nor is there any reason to believe that the US and other nations would consider a "limiting" of the regime's nuclear arsenal (whatever that means) to be adequate.Another reason to be skeptical about the "new framework" is the possibility that reactors in both North and South Korea could be deliberately or inadvertently struck in the event of military conflict. According to Yonhap News, a report by South Korean energy utility KHNP noted that South Korea's power reactors have not been designed to deal with military attacks ‒ the outer protective walls were not designed to withstand a missile strike or other forms of concerted attacks.25 Kim Jong-hoon, a parliamentarian representing the conservative Liberty Korea Party, said earlier this year that Seoul was several years behind the US in coming up with safety measures to deal with military and terrorist attacks. "The fact that the country has not taken action in the past is a serious lapse, especially with North Korea's evolving missile threats," Kim said.25Nuclear power and weapons proliferationShellenberger states: "One of FOE-Greenpeace's biggest lies about nuclear energy is that it leads to weapons. Korea demonstrates that the opposite is true: North Korea has a nuclear bomb and no nuclear energy, while South Korea has nuclear energy and no bomb."4In fact, the connections between nuclear power (and associated industries such as enrichment and reprocessing) and weapons proliferation are well understood and there are countless real-world examples demonstrating the risks.26Prominent nuclear lobbyists are now openly talking about the connections between nuclear power (and related industries) and weapons production in order to boost the case for further subsidies to support the 'civil' nuclear industry, particularly in the US.27 It seems Shellenberger didn't get the memo.As for Shellenberger's claims about proliferation on the Korean peninsula, he ignores the fact that North Korea uses what is calls an 'experimental power reactor' (based on the UK Magnox power reactor design) to produce plutonium for weapons.28 He ignores the fact that North Korea acquired enrichment technology from Pakistan's A.Q. Khan network, who stole the blueprints from URENCO, the consortium that provides enrichment services for the nuclear power industry.28 He ignores the fact that North Korea's reprocessing plant is based on the design of the Eurochemic plant in Belgium, which provided reprocessing services for the nuclear power industry.28And Shellenberger ignores South Korea's history of covertly pursuing nuclear weapons, a history entwined with the country's development of nuclear power. For example, the nuclear power program provided a rationale for South Korea's pursuit of dual-use reprocessing technology.Chernobyl and FukushimaShellenberger says that at a recent talk in Berlin: "Many Germans simply could not believe how few people died and will die from the Chernobyl accident (under 200) and that nobody died or will die from the meltdowns at Fukushima. How could it be that everything we were told is not only wrong, but often the opposite of the truth?"4There's a simple reason that Germans didn't believe Shellenberger's claims about Chernobyl and Fukushima ‒ they are false.Shellenberger claims that "under 200" people have died and will die from the Chernobyl disaster. In fact, the lowest of the estimates of the Chernobyl cancer death toll is the World Health Organization's estimate of "up to 9,000 excess cancer deaths" in the most contaminated parts of the former Soviet Union.29 And of course there are higher estimates for the death toll across Europe.30,31Shellenberger claims that the Fukushima meltdowns "killed precisely no one" and that "nobody died or will die from the meltdowns at Fukushima".4 An EP report has this to say about Fukushima: "[T]he science is unequivocal: nobody has gotten sick much less died from the radiation that escaped from three meltdowns followed by three hydrogen gas explosions. And there will be no increase in cancer rates."3In support of those assertions, EP cites a World Health Organization report that directly contradicts EP's claims. The WHO report concluded that for people in the most contaminated areas in Fukushima Prefecture, the estimated increased risk for all solid cancers will be around 4% in females exposed as infants; a 6% increased risk of breast cancer for females exposed as infants; a 7% increased risk of leukaemia for males exposed as infants; and for thyroid cancer among females exposed as infants, an increased risk of up to 70% (from a 0.75% lifetime risk up to 1.25%).32Applying a linear-no threshold (LNT) risk factor to the estimated collective radiation dose from Fukushima fallout gives an estimated long-term cancer death toll of around 5,000 people.33 Nuclear lobbyists are quick to point out that LNT may overestimate risks from low dose and low dose-rate exposure. But LNT may also underestimate the risks. The 2006 report of the US National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR) states: "The committee recognizes that its risk estimates become more uncertain when applied to very low doses. Departures from a linear model at low doses, however, could either increase or decrease the risk per unit dose."34 And the BEIR report states that "combined analyses are compatible with a range of possibilities, from a reduction of risk at low doses to risks twice those upon which current radiation protection recommendations are based."34Fukushima evacuationShellenberger claims that the Fukushima evacuation was "entirely unnecessary and indeed counterproductive" and it was the "outcome of the kind of fear-mongering engaged in by Moon, FOE, and Greenpeace."4 But of course Moon Jae-in, FOE and Greenpeace had nothing to do with the evacuation of 160,000 people in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Evacuations were ordered not on the basis of fear-mongering by nuclear critics; they were ordered on the basis of multiple fires, hydrogen explosions and presumed meltdowns.EP states: "In 2013, the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) concluded that the vast majority of the Fukushima evacuation zone is safe and nearly all residents could have returned long ago ‒ indeed, most should never have left."3 But the UNSCEAR report didn't conclude that the vast majority of the Fukushima evacuation zone is safe or that nearly all residents could have returned long ago, and it didn't state that most evacuees should never have left.35 The UNSCEAR report states: "The actions taken to protect the public significantly reduced the radiation exposures that could have been received. This was particularly the case for settlements within the 20-km evacuation zone and the deliberate evacuation zones, where the protective measures reduced the potential exposures in the first year by up to a factor of 10."35An EP report berates the Japanese government for failing to follow "normal protocols" by ordering Fukushima residents to evacuate instead of sheltering in place.3 EP cites a 2015 IAEA report36 in support of that argument, but nowhere in the IAEA report (or any IAEA report) is there a proscription against evacuation in response to nuclear accidents. No IAEA report states that sheltering in place should be the "normal protocol" in the event of a nuclear accident ‒ the appropriate response depends entirely on the circumstances. A 2011 IAEA report points to the impracticality of sheltering in place as a long-term response to elevated radiation levels following nuclear accidents: "Lesson 12: The use of long term sheltering is not an effective approach and has been abandoned and concepts of 'deliberate evacuation' and 'evacuation-prepared area' were introduced for effective long term countermeasures using guidelines of the ICRP [International Commission on Radiological Protection] and IAEA."37The 2015 IAEA report notes that radiation levels were astronomical in some areas in the days after the Fukushima disaster ‒ even in some locations beyond the 20 km exclusion zone, dose rates of the order of a few hundred microsieverts per hour were measured from 15 March 2011 onward.36 Thus the annual public limit of 1 millisievert from anthropogenic sources would be reached in just a few hours, and the Japanese government's new limit of 20 millisieverts in Fukushima-contaminated regions would be reached in just a few days.Fake scientists and radiation quackeryEP's UK director John Lindberg is described as an "expert on radiation" on the EP website.38 In fact, he has no scientific qualifications whatsoever let alone specialist qualifications regarding the health effects of ionizing radiation. Likewise, a South Korean article39 reposted on the EP website (without correction) falsely claims that Shellenberger is a scientist; in fact, he has a degree in cultural anthropology.Lindberg is an 'Associate Member' of Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information (SARI)40, a group comprised mostly of quacks, cranks, non-scientists and conspiracy theorists whose views are directly at odds with those of scientific associations such as UNSCEAR.SARI is at war with the linear, no-threshold (LNT) model ‒ the group's short 'Charter & Mission' insists three times that LNT is "misinformation".41 Yet LNT enjoys heavy-hitting scientific support. For example the 2006 report of the US National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation states that "the risk of cancer proceeds in a linear fashion at lower doses without a threshold and … the smallest dose has the potential to cause a small increase in risk to humans."34 Likewise, a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences states: "Given that it is supported by experimentally grounded, quantifiable, biophysical arguments, a linear extrapolation of cancer risks from intermediate to very low doses currently appears to be the most appropriate methodology."42A 2010 UNSCEAR report isn't sold on the linear part of LNT but it is at odds with SARI (and EP) on the question of a threshold. The UNSCEAR report states that "the current balance of available evidence tends to favour a non-threshold response for the mutational component of radiation-associated cancer induction at low doses and low dose rates."43By contrast, SARI promotes hormesis ‒ the discredited view that low-dose radiation exposure is beneficial to human health.44Attacking environment groupsShellenberger reduces the complexities of environmental opposition to nuclear power to the claim that in the 1960s, an "influential group of conservationists within Sierra Club feared that cheap, abundant electricity from nuclear would result in overpopulation and resource depletion" and therefore decided to campaign against nuclear power.4If such views had any currency in the 1960s, they certainly don't now. Yet EP asserts that Greenpeace and FOE "oppose cheap and abundant energy"3 and Shellenberger asserts that "the FOE-Greenpeace agenda has never been to protect humankind but rather to punish us for our supposed transgressions."4 And Shellenberger suggests that such views are still current by asserting that the anti-nuclear movement has a "long history of Malthusian anti-humanism aimed at preventing "overpopulation" and "overconsumption" by keeping poor countries poor."8 Again we see Shellenberger's M.O. of relentless repetition of falsehoods in the hope that mud will stick.In an 'investigative piece' ‒ titled 'Enemies of the Earth: Unmasking the Dirty War Against Clean Energy in South Korea by Friends of the Earth (FOE) and Greenpeace' ‒ Shellenberger lists three groups which he claims have accepted donations "from fossil fuel and renewable energy investors, as well as others who stand to benefit from killing nuclear plants".4 FOE and Greenpeace don't feature among the three groups even though the 'investigative piece' is aimed squarely at them.Undeterred by his failure to present any evidence of FOE and Greenpeace accepting fossil fuel funding (they don't), Shellenberger asserts that the donors and board members of FOE and Greenpeace "are the ones who win the government contracts to build solar and wind farms, burn dirty "renewable" biomass, and import natural gas from the United States and Russia."4 Really? Where's the evidence? There's none in Shellenberger's 'investigative piece'.In an article for a South Korean newspaper, Shellenberger states: "Should we be surprised that natural gas companies fund many of the anti-nuclear groups that spread misinformation about nuclear? The anti-nuclear group Friends of the Earth ‒ which has representatives in South Korea ‒ received its initial funding from a wealthy oil man ..."45He fails to note that the donation was in 1969! And he fails to substantiate his false insinuation that FOE accepts funding from natural gas companies, or his false claim that natural gas companies fund "many of the anti-nuclear groups".Shellenberger's 'investigative piece' falsely claims4 that FOE keeps its donors secret, and in support of that falsehood he cites an article8 (written by Shellenberger) that doesn't even mention FOE. EP falsely claims that FOE has hundreds of millions of dollars in its bank and stock accounts.3EP has an annual budget of US$1.5 million, Shellenberger claims, and he asks how EP "can possibly succeed against the anti-nuclear Goliath with 500 times the resources."8An anti-nuclear Goliath with 500 times EP's budget of US$1.5 million, or US$750 million in annual expenditure on anti-nuclear campaigns? Shellenberger claims that Greenpeace has annual income of US$400 million to finance its work in 55 nations8 ‒ but he doesn't note that only a small fraction of that funding is directed to anti-nuclear campaigns. FOE's worldwide budget is US$12 million according to EP3 ‒ but only a small fraction is directed to anti-nuclear campaigns.References:1. Christine Kim, 22 oct 2017, 'South Korea's president says will continue phasing out nuclear power', <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-nuclear-moon/south-koreas-president-says-will-continue-phasing-out-nuclear-power-idUSKBN1CR04U" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit;">www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-nuclear-moon/south-koreas-presiden...</a></div><div><div>=</div><div>
</div><div>ucla debate</div><div>
</div><div>nrdc woman schools him, </div><div>
</div><div>17% of car used, rest waste heat</div><div>
</div><div>need coal for base to run fact 24/7</div><div>
</div><div>diablo does not need to be retrofit? cost billions? put $ in grn</div><div>
</div><div>nrdc: mature, 65 yrs, nuke needs subsidy; shut down b/c can't compete, not hippies</div><div>
</div><div>insulting to call phobia (nrdc lives near indian pt)</div><div>
</div><div>really only one buld nuke US b/c of captive ratepatyer devreed by regulator (nrdc)</div><div>
</div><div>purpose of sub is to get up to speed, able to compete in mky</div><div>
</div><div>140x subidy</div><div>
</div><div>RPS</div><div>
</div><div>emerson, HDT ~ wind solar plan</div><div>
</div><div>nrdec ~ MS: qual of life not = energy consumpt  b/c effic</div><div>
</div><div>will siri</div><div>
</div><div>misanthropic malthusians, anti-immigrant</div><div>cheap clen power enable --> FOE we don't want growth --></div><div>brnd, gates, jeff sachs, mark lynas, ken c, all changed minds GP UK</div><div>mark jacobson stanford  wants indians ppl to use less power</div><div>
</div><div>64 aud QA</div><div>=</div><div>Dale Bryk</div><div>Director of Programs, National Resources Defense Council</div><div>
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</div><div>Mark Z. Jacobson</div><div>
</div><div>Mark Z. Jacobson </div><div>Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University</div><div>
</div><div>Michael Shellenberger</div><div>
</div><div>Michael Shellenberger</div><div>Co-founder and Senior Fellow, Breakthrough Institute</div><div>
</div><div>Ken Caldeira</div><div>
</div><div>Ken Caldeira</div><div>Climate Scientist, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University</div><div>
</div><div>Oliver Morton</div><div>
</div><div>Moderator: Oliver Morton</div><div>Oliver Morton, Briefings Editor for The Economist, specializing in energy business, climate science and policy, and other green issues; author of “The Planet Remade”</div><div></div><div>hit on nrdc</div><div><a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/nrdc">http://environmentalprogress.org/nrdc</a></div><div>
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</div><div></div><div>EP BS reprint (complete?) E&E</div><div>
</div><div>Michael Shellenberger Profiled in E&E Climate Wire</div><div>May 19, 2016</div><div>Think tank founder dives into nuclear energy activism</div><div>
</div><div>Umair Irfan, E&E reporter</div><div>
</div><div>Published: Thursday, May 19, 2016</div><div>
</div><div>Last December, Michael Shellenberger crossed the threshold from analysis to activism.</div><div>
</div><div>The co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute, an Oakland, Calif.-based environmental think tank, concluded that the threat of climate change is severe and that one of the most potent weapons to combat it, nuclear energy, is in peril.</div><div>
</div><div>"I really wanted to dedicate myself to our largest source of clean energy," said Shellenberger, 44. "There's just really urgency everywhere."</div><div>
</div><div>In the United States, where 99 reactors provide 20 percent of the nation's electricity without emitting carbon dioxide, utilities are threatening to close down some plants, and the fear is that dirtier fossil energy will fill the void, rolling back the already slow progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions.</div><div>
</div><div>Now Shellenberger is barnstorming throughout the country under the banner of his new group, Environmental Progress, in the hope of pushing languishing nuclear power plants off the ropes and back into the fight against climate change, with ambitions of taking this message global.</div><div>
</div><div>"We actually have a double focus," he said. "It's basically a focus on nuclear for climate and the environment, and basically liberating all humans from wood fuel."</div><div>
</div><div>The thinking started from his work at the Breakthrough Institute, which he established with environmental policy analyst Ted Nordhaus in 2003.</div><div>
</div><div>"Breakthrough was needed originally because there was, and remains, a lot of unchallenged dogma in the traditional environmental movement," said Jessica Lovering, director of energy at the Breakthrough Institute, in an email.</div><div>
</div><div>"There are a lot of other environmental groups that start with their conclusion, and then do analysis to prove it," she added. "Our analysis starts with much broader questions like 'What are the main challenges to decarbonization of the power sector today?', 'Which countries have been most successful and decarbonizing?', 'What policy options are available to address this market failure?'"</div><div>
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</div><div>Making the case for Diablo Canyon</div><div>
</div><div>From Breakthrough's research, nuclear energy emerged as a potent solution to lethal air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as an important rung in the ladder out of poverty that many nations are struggling to climb.</div><div>
</div><div>That led to more analysis on next-generation nuclear reactors, ones that are cheaper, safer and more efficient to operate. However, fighting to keep current plants open is outside the wheelhouse of a policy research institute.</div><div>
</div><div>"The reason we've now focused on the advanced nuclear is that it needs much more thorough research, whereas keeping existing plants open is more of a movement building, or political coalition building, which is not the type of work we do," Lovering said.</div><div>
</div><div>But a problem like averting dangerous levels of climate change does not allow time for a solution that will materialize decades down the line. It demands drastic cuts in emissions over the next few years.</div><div>
</div><div>"Those advanced nuclear technologies are a lot farther away," Shellenberger said. "Molten salt [reactor designs] are not scheduled to be commercialized until 2040."</div><div>
</div><div>With funding from the Pritzker Innovation Fund, he launched a new group to tackle the more immediate problem of keeping existing nuclear plants online.</div><div>
</div><div>Pacific Gas and Electric Co., for example, has said it may not seek license renewals for the two reactors at Diablo Canyon, a 2.2-gigawatt nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo County, Calif.</div><div>
</div><div>The licenses are due to expire in 2024 and 2025, and Shellenberger wants a commitment from the utility to keep the plant that provides 8 percent of the state's electricity and 22 percent of the state's clean electricity running.</div><div>
</div><div>In January, Shellenberger co-signed a letter to California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) making the case to keep Diablo Canyon. James Hansen, a former NASA climate scientist who made a similar jump from research to climate activism, also co-signed the letter and has joined Shellenberger in many engagements laying out the case for nuclear energy.</div><div>
</div><div>Shellenberger is also organizing activists to defend Diablo Canyon. "We're talking a lot about Gandhi," he said. "You don't just write letters; you gotta march."</div><div>
</div><div>Many environmentalists call for a shutdown</div><div>
</div><div>One group, Mothers for Nuclear, has taken this to heart. On June 24, organizers plan to march with their families almost 100 miles from Sausalito, Calif., to the state capital, Sacramento, to attend a California State Lands Commission meeting that could decide the fate of Diablo Canyon.</div><div>
</div><div>"I felt for many years now that working there and being able to generate greenhouse gas-free electricity, that felt like my contribution to humankind," said Heather Matteson, a co-founder of Mothers for Nuclear and a veteran employee at Diablo Canyon.</div><div>
</div><div>She crossed paths with Shellenberger at a public debate on nuclear energy at California Polytechnic State University and joined forces with his group when she learned that her employer, PG&E, might not keep Diablo Canyon up.</div><div>
</div><div>"We're definitely not representing them in what we're doing," Matteson said. "They have even told us that they don't want our help."</div><div>
</div><div>She is raising funds for the march through personal donations as well as sales of $20 pendants in the shape of an atom made from uranium glass that glows under ultraviolet light.</div><div>
</div><div>"We're not necessarily pro-nuclear," she said. "We're pro- whatever tools can help us. We don't want people to discount nuclear due to irrational fears."</div><div>
</div><div>Concerns over accidents, long-term waste disposal and nuclear weapons proliferation pervade discussions on nuclear energy, and many environmental activists say these are completely rational apprehensions.</div><div>
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</div><div>Friends of the Earth described Diablo Canyon on their website as "a dangerous, destructive and expensive hangover from an outdated energy production process."</div><div>
</div><div>The Santa Lucia Chapter of the Sierra Club has opposed the license renewal for Diablo Canyon, arguing that the California Independent System Operator has shown it can operate the grid without the plant and that its baseload generation actually makes it difficult to accommodate intermittent renewable energy.</div><div>
</div><div>They also pointed to a report from energy research firm E3 that found that California could meet its emissions targets without the Diablo Canyon plant.</div><div>
</div><div>Michael Peck, a former senior resident inspector at Diablo Canyon for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, produced a differing professional opinion report on the plant that showed that three nearby fault lines could generate earthquakes stronger than the plant could safely withstand.</div><div>
</div><div>The plant also takes in 2.5 billion gallons of water a day to cool its reactors and discharges it back into the Pacific Ocean 20 degrees warmer. California decided to end this type of once-through cooling in 2011, but PG&E is lobbying for an exemption.</div><div>
</div><div>Mark Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, noted that many of the recent nuclear power plant shutdowns in the United States were not due to environmental opposition but due to high operating costs for utilities and low prices of competing energy sources.</div><div>
</div><div>Though nuclear power provides a steady baseload, it has a hard time keeping up with changes in demand, which yields similar load-matching problems to renewable energy.</div><div>
</div><div>"Nuclear doesn't help the grid to be stable," Jacobson said. "It's just flat. Nuclear does only partial load following."</div><div>
</div><div>Meanwhile, the United States still does not have a long-term solution for nuclear waste, which can remain hazardous for thousands of years.</div><div>
</div><div>These arguments don't sway Shellenberger. "The problem with nuclear is the same everywhere: They don't like it and fear it because they see it as something that it's not," he said.</div><div>
</div><div>As for the nuclear plants struggling to compete with cheap natural gas, and in some markets, renewables, Shellenberger said nuclear would fare much better on a level playing field. Solar gets 140 times the level of federal subsidy of nuclear, while wind get 17 times more, he noted. States also leave nuclear out of renewable energy portfolio standards and clean energy mandates.</div><div>
</div><div>But in his call to arms, one argument in particular seems to resonate more loudly and change minds.</div><div>
</div><div>"Climate," he said. "Climate."</div><div>
</div><div>Shellenberger and Lovering will both be speaking on Capitol Hill today at a Department of Energy summit on the nuclear fleet in the United States.</div></div><div>
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The mission of Environmental Progress is to build a movement of concerned citizens, scientists and conservationists to advocate ethical and practical energy solutions for nature & people.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">EP was founded to address the two most serious threats to environmental progress: continued dependence on wood & dung in poor countries, and climate change. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Core Values: Caring and Fairness</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Empowerment of women, Rising affluence, and jobs in the city lead women to choose fewer kids </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN, RISING AFFLUENCE, AND JOBS IN THE CITY LEAD WOMEN TO CHOOSE FEWER KIDS </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How do humans save nature? By caring for people.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Poor nations access cheap and reliable energy to grow more food on less land, create jobs in cities, and reduce fertility. All of this urbanization & increasing yields returns the countryside to grasslands, forests and wildlife. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In rich countries — where forests & wildlife are returning — the key to environmental progress is to move to ever-cleaner and safer forms of energy, including nuclear power.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Unfortunately, both of these strategies are increasingly opposed by powerful interests. Using a variety of policy and regulatory mechanisms, large NGOs, European governments, and financial institutions in rich countries are forcing the closure of our largest source of clean energy, nuclear power plants, all while diverting funding from cheap and reliable power to expensive and unreliable off-grid solutions incapable of lifting billions from poverty.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Our Goals & Strategy</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">pix of primate: </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Maisha's parents and family members were assassinated by charcoal traders — pointing to the threat to conservation from continued wood dependence</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MAISHA'S PARENTS AND FAMILY MEMBERS WERE ASSASSINATED BY CHARCOAL TRADERS — POINTING TO THE THREAT TO CONSERVATION FROM CONTINUED WOOD DEPENDENCE</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Our ambitions are immodest: we seek to double the rates of both a. electricity growth in poor nations and b. new clean energy generation globally by 2025. Our strategy is to build a grassroots social movement capable of changing minds and policies. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We seek first to stop the premature closure of nuclear plants, restart shuttered plants, and increase the rate at which nations build new nuclear plants, whether Generation III or Gen IV. Second, we seek to motivate policymakers, private banks and public financial institutions to significantly reduce the cost and increase the availability of credit for inexpensive baseload electricity in nations where people still rely on wood and dung as their primary energy.[~ stanford guy]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Environmental progress requires more than a few phone calls to politicians. We need a movement of scientists, conservationists and citizens. That means we need you. We need volunteers for simple and more complex tasks, from misinformation on Facebook to working with energy data in Excel and Keynote to organizing a chapter in your state or country. And we need your support so we can remain mission-focused and independent.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Our work is made possible by the volunteer labor and support of concerned citizens, including Rachel Pritzker and Roland Pritzker.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Think tank founder dives into nuclear energy activism</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Published: Thursday, May 19, 2016</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Last December, Michael Shellenberger crossed the threshold from analysis to activism.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute, an Oakland, Calif.-based environmental think tank, concluded that the threat of climate change is severe and that one of the most potent weapons to combat it, nuclear energy, is in peril.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"I really wanted to dedicate myself to our largest source of clean energy," said Shellenberger, 44. "There's just really urgency everywhere."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the United States, where 99 reactors provide 20 percent of the nation's electricity without emitting carbon dioxide, utilities are threatening to close down some plants, and the fear is that dirtier fossil energy will fill the void, rolling back the already slow progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Now Shellenberger is barnstorming throughout the country under the banner of his new group, Environmental Progress, in the hope of pushing languishing nuclear power plants off the ropes and back into the fight against climate change, with ambitions of taking this message global.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We actually have a double focus," he said. "It's basically a focus on nuclear for climate and the environment, and basically liberating all humans from wood fuel."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The thinking started from his work at the Breakthrough Institute, which he established with environmental policy analyst Ted Nordhaus in 2003.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Breakthrough was needed originally because there was, and remains, a lot of unchallenged dogma in the traditional environmental movement," said Jessica Lovering, director of energy at the Breakthrough Institute, in an email.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"There are a lot of other environmental groups that start with their conclusion, and then do analysis to prove it," she added. "Our analysis starts with much broader questions like 'What are the main challenges to decarbonization of the power sector today?', 'Which countries have been most successful and decarbonizing?', 'What policy options are available to address this market failure?'"</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Making the case for Diablo Canyon</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From Breakthrough's research, nuclear energy emerged as a potent solution to lethal air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as an important rung in the ladder out of poverty that many nations are struggling to climb.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That led to more analysis on next-generation nuclear reactors, ones that are cheaper, safer and more efficient to operate. However, fighting to keep current plants open is outside the wheelhouse of a policy research institute.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The reason we've now focused on the advanced nuclear is that it needs much more thorough research, whereas keeping existing plants open is more of a movement building, or political coalition building, which is not the type of work we do," Lovering said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But a problem like averting dangerous levels of climate change does not allow time for a solution that will materialize decades down the line. It demands drastic cuts in emissions over the next few years.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Those advanced nuclear technologies are a lot farther away," Shellenberger said. "Molten salt [reactor designs] are not scheduled to be commercialized until 2040."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">With funding from the Pritzker Innovation Fund, he launched a new group to tackle the more immediate problem of keeping existing nuclear plants online.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pacific Gas and Electric Co., for example, has said it may not seek license renewals for the two reactors at Diablo Canyon, a 2.2-gigawatt nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo County, Calif.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The licenses are due to expire in 2024 and 2025, and Shellenberger wants a commitment from the utility to keep the plant that provides 8 percent of the state's electricity and 22 percent of the state's clean electricity running.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In January, Shellenberger co-signed a letter to California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) making the case to keep Diablo Canyon. James Hansen, a former NASA climate scientist who made a similar jump from research to climate activism, also co-signed the letter and has joined Shellenberger in many engagements laying out the case for nuclear energy.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Shellenberger is also organizing activists to defend Diablo Canyon. "We're talking a lot about Gandhi," he said. "You don't just write letters; you gotta march."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Many environmentalists call for a shutdown</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One group, Mothers for Nuclear, has taken this to heart. On June 24, organizers plan to march with their families almost 100 miles from Sausalito, Calif., to the state capital, Sacramento, to attend a California State Lands Commission meeting that could decide the fate of Diablo Canyon.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"I felt for many years now that working there and being able to generate greenhouse gas-free electricity, that felt like my contribution to humankind," said Heather Matteson, a co-founder of Mothers for Nuclear and a veteran employee at Diablo Canyon.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She crossed paths with Shellenberger at a public debate on nuclear energy at California Polytechnic State University and joined forces with his group when she learned that her employer, PG&E, might not keep Diablo Canyon up.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We're definitely not representing them in what we're doing," Matteson said. "They have even told us that they don't want our help."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She is raising funds for the march through personal donations as well as sales of $20 pendants in the shape of an atom made from uranium glass that glows under ultraviolet light.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We're not necessarily pro-nuclear," she said. "We're pro- whatever tools can help us. We don't want people to discount nuclear due to irrational fears."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Concerns over accidents, long-term waste disposal and nuclear weapons proliferation pervade discussions on nuclear energy, and many environmental activists say these are completely rational apprehensions.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Friends of the Earth described Diablo Canyon on their website as "a dangerous, destructive and expensive hangover from an outdated energy production process."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Santa Lucia Chapter of the Sierra Club has opposed the license renewal for Diablo Canyon, arguing that the California Independent System Operator has shown it can operate the grid without the plant and that its baseload generation actually makes it difficult to accommodate intermittent renewable energy.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They also pointed to a report from energy research firm E3 that found that California could meet its emissions targets without the Diablo Canyon plant.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Michael Peck, a former senior resident inspector at Diablo Canyon for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, produced a differing professional opinion report on the plant that showed that three nearby fault lines could generate earthquakes stronger than the plant could safely withstand.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The plant also takes in 2.5 billion gallons of water a day to cool its reactors and discharges it back into the Pacific Ocean 20 degrees warmer. California decided to end this type of once-through cooling in 2011, but PG&E is lobbying for an exemption.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mark Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, noted that many of the recent nuclear power plant shutdowns in the United States were not due to environmental opposition but due to high operating costs for utilities and low prices of competing energy sources.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Though nuclear power provides a steady baseload, it has a hard time keeping up with changes in demand, which yields similar load-matching problems to renewable energy.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Nuclear doesn't help the grid to be stable," Jacobson said. "It's just flat. Nuclear does only partial load following."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Meanwhile, the United States still does not have a long-term solution for nuclear waste, which can remain hazardous for thousands of years.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These arguments don't sway Shellenberger. "The problem with nuclear is the same everywhere: They don't like it and fear it because they see it as something that it's not," he said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As for the nuclear plants struggling to compete with cheap natural gas, and in some markets, renewables, Shellenberger said nuclear would fare much better on a level playing field. Solar gets 140 times the level of federal subsidy of nuclear, while wind get 17 times more, he noted. States also leave nuclear out of renewable energy portfolio standards and clean energy mandates.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But in his call to arms, one argument in particular seems to resonate more loudly and change minds.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Climate," he said. "Climate."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Shellenberger and Lovering will both be speaking on Capitol Hill today at a Department of Energy summit on the nuclear fleet in the United States.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We are environmentalists, philanthropists and researchers united by our commitment to creating and advocating ethical and practical solutions for people and nature.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">John L. Crary, Secretary, Board of Directors</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">John L. Crary, Secretary, Board of Directors</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">John L Crary is Secretary of the Board of Directors of Environmental Progress. He is a full-time volunteer and philanthropist and has founded or been involved with the Sustainable Preservation Initiative, the Community Agroecology Network, in Santa Cruz, California, and At The Crossroads in San Francisco. John is a director of Scheid Vineyards Inc., a leading independent wine grower and vintner in Monterey County, California.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">John Lavine is Senior Advisor to EP on Digital & Data Journalism. Lavine is former Dean of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and is a professor of media management and strategy at Medill and the Kellogg School of Management.[1] He focuses on the emerging role and trends of media ranging from traditional and digital journalism and marketing communications to social networking, participatory media, the impact of new technologies, and how to increase audience engagement with the media. Read more >></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Norris is founder and president of the African American Environmentalist Association and the Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy. Listed by Ebony (magazine) in 2012 as one of America's top 100 most influential African Americans, McDonald has been recognized for his conservation work by Environment Magazine, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Green Room Energy and Environmental Leadership Award in 2012. Norris was one of the first environmentalists to change his mind about nuclear power, viewing it as essential for combatting air pollution, global warming and improving the lives of the poor. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alan Medsker is Coordinator of Environmental Progress - Illinois. He works as a technical solutions engineer, designing networks and solutions that allow people to communicate.  His  professional background includes electrical engineering, software development, network consulting, project management, sales engineering and management. He resides in Arlington Heights, IL.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="">Eric Meyer is Coordinator of Environmental Progress - California, and EP's Field Organizer. Previously a labor organizer with the nurses union, Eric is now overseeing all aspects of the March for Environmental Hope!, June 24 - 28, a joint effort by EP and Mothers for Nuclear. He recently moved from Minnesota to the San Francisco Bay Area to join EP. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cesar Penafiel is EP's Director of Analytics and Operations. Cesar served as CEO of Engineerica Systems, Inc, a software development company. He recently received his Master's in Policy from Columbia University where he concentrated in energy and the environment and was research assistant to Former IEA Executive Director, Nobuo Tanaka. Cesar's publications include a report on the New York electricity capacity markets for Bloomberg New Energy Finance and co-chaired the Columbia University Coalition for Sustainable Development student organization.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Michael Shellenberger is President and Chairman of Environmental Progress, and a leading energy and environmental researcher. He is a Time Magazine "Hero of the Environment" (2008), and coauthor of An Ecomodernist Manifesto (2015) and Nature Unbound (2105). Michael writes for publications including Scientific American, The New York Times, & the Washington Post. His 2015 TEDx talk was on "How Humans Save Nature." Read more >></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div>Robert Stone is New York Coordinator of Environmental Progress and the documentary filmmaker behind “PANDORA’S PROMISE,” which premiered at Sundance in 2013 broadcast on CNN. He is co-founder of Energy for Humanity based in London, and is a co-author of the Ecomodernist Manifesto. Stone has twice been nominated for Academy Awards, once for Best Feature Documentary, and twice for PrimeTime Emmys. His best known work includes “GUERRILLA: The Taking of Patty Hearst” (2004) OSWALD’S GHOST” (2007)  EARTH DAYS” (2009) He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, and the Television Academy.</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">John Asafu-Adjaye, University of Queensland, Australia</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">John Asafu-Adjaye is an environmental economist whose current research activities include investigating the relationships between trade liberalization, agriculture and the environment. His recent publications include Environmental Economics: An Introduction for the Non-Economist (World Scientific Publishing, 2nd Edition) and has published widely including in Journal of Environmental Management, Health Policy, Contemporary Economic Policy, Energy Economics, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Australian Economic Papers, Singapore Economic Review, and the International Journal of Social Economics.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stewart Brand is co-founder and president of The Long Now Foundation and co-founder of Global Business Network. He created and edited the Whole Earth Catalog (National Book Award), and co-founded the Hackers Conference and The WELL. His books includeThe Clock of the Long Now; How Buildings Learn; and The Media Lab. His most recent book, titled Whole Earth Discipline, is published by Viking in the US and Atlantic in the UK. He graduated in Biology from Stanford and served as an Infantry officer.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Barry William Brook, ARC Australian Laureate Professor and Chair of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Tasmania in the Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Barry Brook, an ecologist and modeller, is an ARC Australian Laureate Professor and Chair of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Tasmania. He is a highly cited scientist, having published three books, over 300 refereed papers, and many popular articles. His awards include the 2006 Australian Academy of Science Fenner Medal, the 2010 Community Science Educator of the Year and 2013 Scopus Researcher of the Year. His research focuses on the impacts of global change on biodiversity, ecological dynamics, forest ecology, paleoenvironments, energy, and simulation models.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kun Chen is a Professor and Director in the Reactor System Engineering Division at Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics where he is leading the licensing of China's Thorium Molten Salt Reactors. He focuses on developing advanced nuclear reactors to provide reliable and affordable energy to the world by overcoming technical and regulatory barriers. He holds a PhD in nuclear physics from Indiana University, Bloomington, and served as nuclear engineer at Argonne National Laboratory, in Chicago. He is a Chinese Academy of Sciences distinguished fellow and an adjunct professor of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Junji Jeff CAO, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Junji Jeff CAO, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Junji Jeff CAO is a Professor at the Institute of Earth Environment and President of Asian Aerosol Research Assembly (2011-2014). He is the winner of the Frank A. Chambers Excellence in Air Pollution Control Award for his contributions in the area of air pollution control technology research and development. Junji has conducted numerous air quality studies in China, and helped develop the technical basis for China's recent adoption of a nationwide PM2.5 Chinese National Ambient Air Quality Standard. His leadership on the joint panel of the U.S. and Chinese National Academies of Engineering/National Academies of Sciences resulted in the highly influential report, “Energy Futures and Urban Air Pollution Challenges for China and the United States.” He also drafted the consultant report about "Pollution Status and Control Strategy of Atmospheric PM2.5 in China" for the State Council of China.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Woody Epstein, B.J. Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences, UCLA</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Woody Epstein, B.J. Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences, UCLA</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Woody Epstein is a research affiliate at B.J. Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences, UCLA. Since 1983, Woody has worked as a mathematician and probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) professional. He joined PLG, Inc. in 1986, when he was on the team for the PRA of the NASA space shuttle (SST) after the Challenger disaster and was the lead author of RISKMAN®. PLG became part of the ABS Group in 2001. In 2009, he was the project manager for the Preliminary System Safety Assessment project to analyze Mitsubishi’s new regional jet type certification. He joined Lloyd’s Register Consulting (formerly Scandpower AB) in February, 2011. In April, 2011, Professor Ninokata of Tokyo Institute of Technology appointed Woody as Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar of Risk Assessment at the Ninokata Laboratory at the university. In November, 2014, Woody became the Director of Safety and Risk in Asia-Pacific at Curtiss-Wright, and the Japan Country Manager. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>James Hansen, Climate Science, Awareness, and Solutions</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">James Hansen, Climate Science, Awareness, and Solutions</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr. James Hansen, formerly Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, where he directs the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions. Dr. Hansen is best known for his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995 and was designated by Time Magazine in 2006 as one of the 100 most influential people on Earth. He has received numerous awards including the Carl-Gustaf Rossby and Roger Revelle Research Medals, the Sophie Prize and the Blue Planet Prize. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ning Li, Xiamen University</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ning Li, Xiamen University</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr. Ning Li is a distinguished professor and Dean of School of Energy Research, Xiamen University, China, and Associate Director for International Cooperation, Berkeley Nuclear Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is also the Director of Asia Development for TerraPower, a US company founded by Bill Gates to develop innovative nuclear energy technologies. He was formerly the Industrial Fellow for Civilian Nuclear Programs, a project leader and a technical staff member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the deputy coordinator of the US DOE GNEP/AFCI US-China civilian nuclear energy cooperation.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Joseph B. Lassiter, Harvard Business School</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Joseph B. Lassiter, Harvard Business School</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Joe Lassiter is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired at Harvard Business School. He focuses on developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy all around the world. On retiring in 2015, he was appointed as a Senior Fellow to continue his work on energy and climate change related issues at Harvard Business School as well as in supporting University-wide efforts as a Faculty Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP) and a Faculty Associate of the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE).    </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Michelle Marvier, Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Santa Clara University</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Michelle Marvier, Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Santa Clara University</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Michelle Marvier is professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Santa Clara University and coauthor of the pathbreaking textbook Conservation Science: Balancing the Needs of People and Nature. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Michelle has published widely in the fields of endangered species management, conservation investment, and environmental risk assessment, and she is on the editorial board of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Environment. "Science that illuminates public decisions, but does not prescribe those decisions," Michelle says, "is the vision that shapes my research, my classroom teaching, my one-on-one mentoring, and my professional service." This vision has translated into extensive research on ecosystem services and their benefits for humans, as well as the various bases for priority-setting in conservation and how public support for conservation can be increased. Michelle's engagement in these topics has put her at the cutting edge of the American and global conservation movement. An essay she co-wrote for the Breakthrough Journal, later followed up by a peer-reviewed article in BioScience, has stirred much debate and defined the possibilities and controversies surrounding emerging novel approaches to conservation.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Todd Moss, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Todd Moss, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Todd Moss is chief operating officer and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. His research focuses on U.S.-Africa relations, energy policy, and private investment. Moss is currently working on electrification in Africa, cash transfers in new oil economies, and ideas for upgrading US development policy. In the past he led the Center’s work on Nigerian debt, Zimbabwe, the future of the World Bank’s IDA, and the African Development Bank. Moss served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State 2007-2008 while on leave from CGD. Todd is the author of African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors (Lynne Rienner, 2nd ed., 2011), Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse with Cash Transfers (CGD, 2015) — and an international thriller series about a State Department crisis manager, The Golden Hour  (2014), Minute Zero (2015), and Ghosts of Havana (2016). </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Vijaya Ramachandran, Center for Global Development. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Vijaya Ramachandran, Center for Global Development.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Vijaya Ramachandran is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. She works on private-sector development, financial flows, food security, humanitarian assistance, and development interventions in fragile states. Most recently, she coauthored an essay titled "Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Africa's Missing Middle,” published in the Oxford Handbook on Economics and Africa. Currently, she is looking at the unintended consequences of rich countries’ anti-money laundering policies on poor countries, and at better ways to deliver humanitarian assistance. Ramachandran has published her research in various journals including World Development, Development Policy Review, Governance, Prism, and AIDS and is the author of a CGD book, Africa’s Private Sector: What’s Wrong with the Business Environment and What to Do About It. Prior to joining CGD, Ramachandran worked in the Africa Private Sector Group of the World Bank and in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. She also served on the faculty at Georgetown University and Duke University. Her work has appeared in several media outlets including the Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, Washington Post, New York Times, National Public Radio, and Voice of America.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Peter Raven, President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Peter Raven, President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Peter Raven is a botanist and environmentalist. He was longtime director and now President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden. In 2000, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists established the Peter Raven Award in his honor to be conferred to authors with outstanding contributions to plant taxonomy and "for exceptional efforts at outreach to non-scientists".  Raven is well-known for his work Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution published in the journal Evolution in 1964, and is also an author of the widely used textbook Biology of Plants, now in its eighth edition, coauthored with Ray F. Evert and Susan E. Eichhorn (both of University of Wisconsin, Madison).</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Burton Richter, Nobel Prize Winner, Physics, 1976</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Burton Richter, Nobel Prize Winner, Physics, 1976</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Burton Richter is the Paul Piggott Professor in the Physical Sciences Emeritus, Stanford University and Director Emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Richter received the Nobel Prize in Physics (1976), the E. O. Lawrence Medal of the Department of Energy (1976), the DOE’s Fermi Award for Lifetime Achievement (2012), and the National Medal of Science (2014). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society; a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of The American Physical Society (President, 1994). He was President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (1999-2002). Currently, he is a member of the DOE’s Nuclear Energy Advisory Board as well as the advisory boards of several corporations.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Joyashree Roy, Professor of Economics, Jadavpur University</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Joyashree Roy, Professor of Economics, Jadavpur University</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr. Joyashree Roy is Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata in India and a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research. She initiated and also coordinates the Global Change Programme at Jadavpur University, which focuses on climate change research and beyond. She was a Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Economics at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA. She is a IPCC Lead Coordinating Author among the network of scientists who shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rathin Roy, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rathin Roy, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prior to joining NIPFP, Rathin was been the Director of Asia Pacific Regional Centre, UNDP, Bangkok, and the Director, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), UNDP, Brazil. He has also served as the Public Resource Management Advisor, and the Acting Cluster Leader, Inclusive Development, in the Poverty Practice, Bureau for Development Policy (BDP), UNDP. He served as the Economic Advisor to the Thirteenth Finance Commission, a Constitutional body of the Government of India. He has worked in over 80 countries during and prior to his tenure with UNDP. Rathin holds a PhD in Economics and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, UK. Post-PhD, he was tenured in the Economics Faculty at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and an Economist with the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Samir Saran, Observer Research Foundation (ORF)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Samir Saran, Observer Research Foundation (ORF)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Samir Saran is a senior fellow and vice president at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), a Fellow at the Cambridge Sustainability Programme, and co-chair of the year-long Road to Paris Track-II initiative. A frequent commentator on issues of Global Governance, his areas of expertise include climate change and energy policy, global development architecture, cyber security and internet governance, and India's foreign policy. Apart from his academic publications, Samir is featured regularly in Indian and international print and broadcast media. His most recent publication on climate changes was "New Room to Manoeuvre: An Indian Approach to Climate Change " - an ORF-Global Policy.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...?</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">new</div><div style=""><div class="summary-title" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.83px;"><a href="http://www.environmentalprogress.org/advisors-gallery/dxnlg4qbhu3u38pyp0o645yh55ofv4" class="summary-title-link" style="text-decoration-line: none; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;"> Wakker, Clean Energy Expert</a></div><div class="summary-excerpt" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; letter-spacing: 0.83px;">Dr. André Wakker is a business professional with in-depth experience in clean energy sectors. He profoundly believes in nuclear technology for the good of society, global prosperity, and our environment. He’s business manager at the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG), the Netherlands. With over 60 years of experience, NRG has long-term relationships with customers and partners, providing them with a unique combination of extensive knowledge, experience and expertise in the field of nuclear engineering, and operations. From 2001 to 2008, André worked on hydrogen technologies and renewable energy policies at the Energy Research Centre (ECN) of the Netherlands. He engages in the public debate on clean energy wherever he can. “Many times small still remains small,” André explains, talking about solar, wind, biomass, and other options. “Whilst space and materials consumption, along with huge waste and recycling challenges, could raise pressure on our planet to unprecedented levels.” From 1987 to 2001, André worked for Shell International Chemicals. He holds a PhD in science and mathematics from the University of Amsterdam.</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">illinois spinoff org letter:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /><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;" /><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;">On April 4, 2016, a group of scientists, conservationists and philanthropists from Illinois and around the world urged Illinois' leaders and utilities to do all in their power to save Illinois' nuclear plants so they can provide clean energy for decades to come.</a></h1><h1 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.5em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.2em; font-weight: 400;">Signers include climate scientists James Hansen, Kerry Emanuel, Ken Caldeira, Tom Wigley, Raymond Pierrehumbert, and Frank Abbot; Whole Earth Catalog Founder, Stewart Brand; Nobel Prize winner Burton Richter; President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Center, Peter Raven; Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Richard Rhodes; former President of the Nature Conservancy; and many others.</h1>  April 4, 2016 The Honorable Bruce Rauner, Governor of IllinoisThe Honorable Michael Madigan, Speaker, Illinois House of RepresentativesThe Honorable John Cullerton, President, Illinois SenateThe Honorable Christine Radogno, Minority Leader, Illinois SenateThe Honorable Jim Durkin, Minority Leader, Illinois House of RepresentativesAttorney General Lisa MadiganMr. Christopher M. Crane, CEO, ExelonMr. Mauricio Gutierrez, CEO, NRG Dear Governor Rauner, Speaker Madigan, President Cullerton, Attorney General Madigan, Minority Leaders Radogno and Durkin, Mr. Crane, and Mr. Gutierrez, We are writing as scientists, conservationists and environmentalists to urge you to do everything in your power to keep all of Illinois’s nuclear power plants running for their full lifetimes. Illinois generates more zero-emissions electricity than any other state. Most of it comes from the state’s six nuclear power plants, which produce about half of Illinois’ total generation and 90 percent of its low-carbon generation. These plants are in their prime and could stay in service many more years and even decades. Unfortunately, Illinois is at risk of losing one or more of its nuclear plants and with them the progress the state has made in clean energy. If Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear plants were replaced by natural gas, carbon emissions would immediately increase the equivalent of adding two million cars to the road. If they were replaced by coal, the carbon emissions would more than double. <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;">The rise in conventional air pollutants from moving from nuclear to coal or natural gas will increase premature deaths.</a><a href="http://epillinois.org/read-the-letter/#edn1" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">[i]</a> One study found that world nuclear energy has prevented an average of 1.8 million premature deaths from fossil fuel pollution, and could prevent up to seven million additional ones in the future.<a href="http://epillinois.org/read-the-letter/#edn2" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">[ii]</a> Using the same methodology, Clinton and Quad prevented 18,640 premature deaths from coal pollution. And if they run their 60-year lives, Clinton and Quad nuclear plants will prevent between 2,468 and 5,474 deaths from coal.<a href="http://epillinois.org/read-the-letter/#edn3" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">[iii]</a>  If their licenses are extended to 80 years, a possibility the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is now considering for other plants, those numbers would double. Illinois’ nuclear plants are at risk of being closed prematurely in part because they are excluded from federal and state clean energy policies. First, the federal production tax credit subsidy for wind is not available to nuclear energy. This credit sometimes turns Illinois wholesale electricity prices negativeby encouraging wind farms to overproduce during periods of low demand when no one wants their electricity and it threatens to overload the grid. Nuclear plants must pay to supply the grid during temporary wind surges, while wind farms continue earning money from the credit. Second, the Illinois Renewable Portfolio Standard, which requires 25 percent renewable energy by 2025, excludes nuclear, further disadvantaging Illinois’ largest source of clean energy. It would take many years for the Illinois wind and solar sectors, which together comprise six percent of the state’s current generation, to grow enough to replace nuclear’s output. And because solar and wind cannot provide the reliable power of nuclear, much of the nuclear energy would have to be made up for with coal or natural gas. We encourage all of you to find a fair and reasonable solution to keep all Illinois nuclear plants running for many years to come. One solution might be to expand Illinois’ Renewable Portfolio Standard to include nuclear energy. Such a change would allow Illinois to be more ambitious, achieving 70 percent or more of its electricity from clean energy. The standard should be set so that renewable energy has plenty of room to grow while ensuring that Illinois does not go backwards. Illinois is at an urgent juncture. Failure to keep all of Illinois’ nuclear power plants running for the full lifetimes will result in more air pollution, and further cause Illinois to underperform on climate. Action now would establish all of you as leaders in safeguarding clean air today and the climate for future generations. Sincerely, Environmental Scientists Dorian Abbot, Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago Barry Brook, Professor and Chair of Environmental Sustainability, University of Tasmania Ken Caldeira, Carnegie Institution Dept of Global Ecology, Stanford University Jerry Coyne, Emeritus Professor of Ecology and Evolution, the University of Chicago F. Stuart Chapin III, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Ecology, University of Alaska Fairbanks David Dudgeon, Chair of Ecology & Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, China Erle C. Ellis, Ph.D, Professor, Geography & Environmental Systems Kerry Emanuel, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJoseph Fargione, Ph.D, ecologistJames Hansen, Climate Science, Awareness, and Solutions Program, Columbia University, Earth Institute, Columbia UniversityChris Johnson, Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Tasmania, AustraliaDavid W. Keith, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard UniversityPushker Kharecha, Climate Science, Awareness, and Solutions Program, Columbia University, Earth Institute, Columbia UniversityWilliam F. Laurance, PhD, FAA, FAAAS, FRSQ, Distinguished Research Professor & Australian Laureate, Prince Bernhard Chair in International Nature Conservation, Director of the Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS), James Cook University Cairns, Queensland 4878, Australia David W. Lea, Professor, Earth Science, University of CaliforniaJoe Mascaro, Program Manager for Impact Initiatives, Planet Labs Robert May, Oxford OM AC Kt FRS, Department of Zoology, University of OxfordMichelle Marvier, Professor, Environmental Studies and Sciences, Santa Clara UniversityRichard Muller, Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley; Co-Founder and Scientific Director, Berkeley EarthReed F. Noss, Provost's Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Biology, University of Central FloridaRaymond Pierrehumbert, Halley Professorship of Physics, University of OxfordPeter H. Raven, President Emeritus, Missouri Botanical Garden. Winner of the National Medal of Science, 2001 Frank M. Richter, Sewell Avery Distinguished Professor of Geophysics, The University of Chicago  Burton Richter, Nobel Prize Winner, Physics, 1976 Cagan H. Sekercioglu, professor of conservation ecology, Department of Biology, University of Utah; former senior scientist at the Stanford University Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Utah. Jeff Terry, Professor of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology  Tom Wigley, Climate and Energy Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO  Scholars, Conservationists and Environmentalists     Daniel Aegerter, Chairman, Armada InvestmentJohn Asafu-Adjaye, PhD, Senior Fellow, Institute of Economic Affairs, Ghana, Associate Professor of Economics, The University of Queensland, Australia Frank Batten Jr., President, The Landmark Foundation Stewart Brand, founder, Whole Earth Catalogue Gwyneth Cravens, author, Power to Save the World John Crary, Crary Family Foundation Christopher Foreman, author, The Promise & Peril of Environmental Justice, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland Valerie Gardner, President, Climate Coalition Joshua S. Goldstein, Prof. Emeritus of International Relations, American University Gene Grechek, Vice President, American Nuclear Society Garrett Gruener, Managing Director, Gruener Ventures Mel Guymon, Guymon Family Foundation Andrew Klein, President, American Nuclear Society Steve Kirsch, CEO, Token Joe Lassiter, Professor, Harvard Business School John Lavine, Professor and Medill Dean Emeritus, Northwestern University Martin Lewis, Department of Geography, Stanford University Jessica Lovering, Director of Energy, Breakthrough Institute Mark Lynas, author, The God Species, Six Degrees Steve McCormick, Former CEO, The Nature Conservancy Alan Medsker, Coordinator, Environmental Progress - Illinois Norris McDonald, President, Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy/African American Environmentalist Association Paul Robbins, Director, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Carl Page, President, Anthropocene Institute Steven Pinker, Harvard University, Better Angels of Our Nature Rachel Pritzker, Pritzker Innovation Fund Steve Rayner, James Martin Professor of Science & Civilization, Director, Institute for Science, Innovation & Society, Professorial Fellow, Keble College, University of Oxford Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize recipient, author of Nuclear Renewal and The Making of the Atomic Bomb Ray A. Rothrock, Partner Emeritus Venrock, venture capitalist Rathin Roy, Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Delhi, India Samir Saran, Vice President, Observer Research Foundation, Delhi, India Michael Shellenberger, President, Environmental Progress, Time Magazine Hero of the Environment Robert Stone, filmmaker, “Pandora’s Promise” Samuel Thernstrom, Executive Director, Energy Innovation Reform Project Stephen Tindale, Alvin Weinberg Foundation, former Executive Director, Greenpeace UK Barrett P. Walker, Alex C. Walker Foundation Mason Willrich, author, Modernizing America's Electricity Infrastructure. <a href="http://epillinois.org/read-the-letter/#ednref1" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">[i]</a>A. Markandya and P. Wilkinson, “Electricity generation and health,” <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17876910" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Lancet.</a> 2007 Sep 15;370(9591):979-90<a href="http://epillinois.org/read-the-letter/#ednref2" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">[ii]</a> Pushker A. Kharecha<a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es3051197?source=cen&#cor1" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">*</a> and James E. Hansen, “Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power,” Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47 (9), pp 4889–4895<a href="http://epillinois.org/read-the-letter/#ednref3" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">[iii]</a> Low-end value based on Clean Air Task Force assessment of 7500 deaths in 2014 from coal use (<a href="http://www.catf.us/fossil/problems/power_plants/" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">http://www.catf.us/fossil/problems/power_plants/</a>). High-end value based on EPA analysis for 2016 from N. Fann, C.M. Fulcher, and K. Baker, "The Recent and Future Health Burden of Air Pollution Apportioned Across U.S. Sectors", Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47 (8), pp 3580–3589.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">blase july 6 ltr ed</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ohio has the most competitive industrial electricity prices in the Midwest: 25 percent lower than in Indiana and a 40 percent lower than Michigan. These low prices are in large part due to the Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear plants, which have grown the state’s diverse energy infrastructure and provided Ohioans with clean, affordable nuclear energy.Without its nuclear plants, the people of Ohio will be more vulnerable to increases in electricity prices and air pollution that always occur whenever a nuclear plant closes. House Bill 6, which would provide necessary support to the Davis-Besse and Perry plants, gives Ohio lawmakers an opportunity to lead on clean energy for the sake of the environment, our local economies, and the health of all Ohioans.A 2017 analysis by the federal Congressional Budget Office finds that renewables received $10.7 billion more or 55 times what was given to nuclear in 2016. 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</a></div></div><div class="pgevoke-story-related-link-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: calc(100% - 110px); margin-left: 105px; padding: 5px 10px 5px 15px;"><div class="pgevoke-story-related-link-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tom Henry</div><div class="pgevoke-story-related-link-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.15;">FES: Time's running out for Davis-Besse refueling</div></div>If lawmakers fail to protect these plants and the thousands of good-paying jobs and affordable electricity that come with them, the state will have to import energy from Michigan or Indiana. This will drive up the typical Ohioan’s energy bill by about $35 annually beginning in 2022. I encourage Ohio lawmakers and Gov. Mike DeWine to embrace a common-sense framework that recognizes the benefits of nuclear energy plants.MICHAEL SHELLENBERGERpresident, Environmental Progress, an independent nonprofit research organization.Berkeley, Calif.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/07/24/big-pro-nuclear-victory-in-us-gives-momentum-to-global-nuclear-expansion/" style="">https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/07/24/big-pro-nuclear-victory-in-us-gives-momentum-to-global-nuclear-expansion/</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">lawmakers in Ohio yesterday took decisive action to save the state's nuclear power plants, giving momentum to efforts to defend and expand nuclear energy globally.On October 20, pro-nuclear activists will "Stand Up for Nuclear" in actions in capitals around the world, building on the momentum started with <a href="https://nuclear-pride.eu/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://nuclear-pride.eu/" aria-label="Nuclear Pride Fests" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Nuclear Pride Fests </a>in Munich last October and in Brussels this spring.Since 2016, pro-nuclear advocates have won major victories saving or expanding nuclear in <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2016/8/1/important-new-york-victory-shows-nuclear-still-has-a-long-way" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2016/8/1/important-new-york-victory-shows-nuclear-still-has-a-long-way" aria-label="New York" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">New York</a>, <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2016/12/1/big-illinois-nuclear-victory-shows-why-both-pro-anti-nuclear-groups-must-change" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2016/12/1/big-illinois-nuclear-victory-shows-why-both-pro-anti-nuclear-groups-must-change" aria-label="Illinois" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Illinois</a>, <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/10/19/victory-pro-nuclear-win-in-south-korea-gives-momentum-to-atomic-humanists-everywhere" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/10/19/victory-pro-nuclear-win-in-south-korea-gives-momentum-to-atomic-humanists-everywhere" aria-label="South Korea" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">South Korea</a>, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/11/24/pro-nuclear-activists-win-landslide-electoral-victory-in-taiwan/#4854d53829a0" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/11/24/pro-nuclear-activists-win-landslide-electoral-victory-in-taiwan/#4854d53829a0" aria-label="Taiwan" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Taiwan</a>, <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2018/4/12/pro-nuclear-victory-in-new-jersey-but-at-the-cost-of-a-hefty-new-subsidy-for-solar" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2018/4/12/pro-nuclear-victory-in-new-jersey-but-at-the-cost-of-a-hefty-new-subsidy-for-solar" aria-label="New Jersey" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">New Jersey</a>, <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/10/31/another-atomic-humanist-victory-this-time-in-connecticut-usa" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/10/31/another-atomic-humanist-victory-this-time-in-connecticut-usa" aria-label="Connecticut" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Connecticut</a>.A majority of lawmakers in the Netherlands <a href="https://nltimes.nl/2018/11/07/majority-dutch-parliament-supports-building-nuclear-plants" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://nltimes.nl/2018/11/07/majority-dutch-parliament-supports-building-nuclear-plants" aria-label="want" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">want</a> to build more nuclear plants, and Dilan Yesilgoz, the chairperson of the climate and energy committee for the VVD, the largest political party in the Netherlands, recently passed legislation that could open the door to more nuclear.voters in Taiwan <a href="http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201907030023.aspx" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201907030023.aspx" aria-label="will" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">will</a> likely to elect a new, pro-nuclear president next January, and pass pro-nuclear ballot initiatives, which would re-start closed nuclear power plants.In South Korea, a public opinion survey by Gallup <a href="https://pulsenews.co.kr/view.php?year=2018&no=724477" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://pulsenews.co.kr/view.php?year=2018&no=724477" aria-label="found" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">found</a> that 70% of voters now oppose the government's phase-out of nuclear energy, which has increased electricity prices, air pollution, and the country's use of coal and natural gas.Around the world, the public and lawmakers express growing concern that their nations will become too dependent on natural gas.I testified before the Ohio legislature four times since 2016 and each time found lawmakers worried that, with coal plants closing, their state might become wholly dependent on natural gas.“Our goal all along has been to save the nuclear plants, save the jobs but also to keep the cost of energy down for the ratepayer," Ohio's governor <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/23/ohio-nuclear-bailout-set-final-vote/1802640001/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/23/ohio-nuclear-bailout-set-final-vote/1802640001/" aria-label="said" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">said</a>.The worry is more acute in Asia and Europe, where nations must import their natural gas from abroad.When I visited Belgium in February, the leadership of the nation's largest political party forcefully <a href="https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/53964/the-n-va-is-open-to-the-idea-of-constructing-a-new-nuclear-power-station/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/53964/the-n-va-is-open-to-the-idea-of-constructing-a-new-nuclear-power-station/" aria-label="defended" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">defended</a> the continued operation of its nuclear plants and declared they were open to building new ones.Last month, Belgian energy authorities <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-nuclearpower/belgium-unprepared-for-phasing-out-nuclear-power-by-2025-grid-operator-idUSKCN1TT233" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-nuclearpower/belgium-unprepared-for-phasing-out-nuclear-power-by-2025-grid-operator-idUSKCN1TT233" aria-label="warned" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">warned</a> that the country will face electricity shortages if nuclear is phased out in 2025.In France, President Emanual Macron last year <a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-11-france-nuclear-reactors-macron.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://phys.org/news/2018-11-france-nuclear-reactors-macron.html" aria-label="delayed" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">delayed</a> efforts to phase out nuclear from 2025 to 2035, with a priority on closing coal plants first.Politicians and the public increasingly recognize that unreliable renewables like solar panels and industrial wind turbines <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to/#5a1f02b6ea2b" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to/#5a1f02b6ea2b" aria-label="cannot adequately power" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">cannot adequately power</a> modern societies.Where Germany used to be held up as a model, it is <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to/#5a1f02b6ea2b" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to/#5a1f02b6ea2b" aria-label="increasingly viewed" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">increasingly viewed</a> as having pursued the wrong approach to energy by phasing out nuclear plants and trying to rely on renewables.Germany <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/the-complete-case-for-nuclear/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/the-complete-case-for-nuclear/" aria-label="spends" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">spends</a> nearly twice as much for electricity that produces 10 times more carbon emissions as French electricity.As part of the legislation to save nuclear power, lawmakers in Ohio <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/23/ohio-nuclear-bailout-set-final-vote/1802640001/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/23/ohio-nuclear-bailout-set-final-vote/1802640001/" aria-label="ended" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">ended</a> renewable energy and energy efficiency mandates, recognizing that the efficiency programs <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/business/combating-climate-change-with-science-rather-than-hope.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/business/combating-climate-change-with-science-rather-than-hope.html" aria-label="haven't been cost-effective" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">haven't been cost-effective</a> while renewables <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/04/22/unreliable-nature-of-solar-and-wind-makes-electricity-much-more-expensive-major-new-study-finds/" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/04/22/unreliable-nature-of-solar-and-wind-makes-electricity-much-more-expensive-major-new-study-finds/" aria-label="increase" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">increase</a> the price of electricity. Ohio nuclear plants provide eight times more electricity than all of the state's solar and wind combined.Lawmakers around the world are increasingly taking note of the severe impact that industrial wind turbines have on wildlife. Industrial wind turbines today <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/06/26/why-climate-activists-threaten-endangered-species-with-extinction/" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/06/26/why-climate-activists-threaten-endangered-species-with-extinction/" aria-label="threaten" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">threaten</a> several bird and bat species with extinction.Conservationists and birders in Ohio have <a href="https://abcbirds.org/article/bird-conservation-groups-to-testify-against-icebreaker-wind-energy-project-in-lake-erie/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://abcbirds.org/article/bird-conservation-groups-to-testify-against-icebreaker-wind-energy-project-in-lake-erie/" aria-label="hotly opposed" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">hotly opposed</a> a proposal to build dozens of turbines on Lake Erie, which is home to dozens of threatened, endangered, and high-conservation value bird speciesThen there is the economics. It would have <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/ohio" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://environmentalprogress.org/ohio" aria-label="cost" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">cost</a> $25 billion to replace Ohio's nuclear plants with solar and $22 to replace them with wind — and taken 300 to 2,600 times more land.Meanwhile, Britain is moving forward with plans to expand nuclear energy, out of the recognition that wind energy is too unreliable<div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);">Thanks to progress being made building a new nuclear plant at Hinkley, Britain may opt to build more French reactors, known as the EPR. Experts anticipate the cost will be significantly less, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/06/21/if-innovation-makes-everything-cheaper-why-does-it-make-nuclear-power-more-expensive/" target="self" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/06/21/if-innovation-makes-everything-cheaper-why-does-it-make-nuclear-power-more-expensive/" aria-label="thanks to standardization and learning" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">thanks to standardization and learning</a>.While the replacement of coal with natural gas lowered air pollution in many nations over the last decade, increased use of natural gas resulted in higher emissions in the US and other countries in 2018. Emissions <a href="https://www.wuft.org/news/2019/07/17/why-us-carbon-dioxide-emissions-are-back-on-the-rise/" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.wuft.org/news/2019/07/17/why-us-carbon-dioxide-emissions-are-back-on-the-rise/" aria-label="rose" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">rose</a> over 3% in the US.<div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="generic-articlebody article-details-type--p content--p" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;">In Singapore, the chief executive of a major government investment fund and wife to the Prime Minister published a long pro-nuclear article.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Overall, for a greener earth and to reduce carbon emissions, we must master and adopt nuclear energy as a key solution,” she <a href="https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3019393/will-singapore-warm-nuclear-energy-combat-climate-change" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3019393/will-singapore-warm-nuclear-energy-combat-climate-change" aria-label="said" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">said</a>. “This will reduce the demand for fossil fuels, and lower the overall carbon emissions.”Support for nuclear in the US may be increasing out of recognition of its role in reducing global warming. "The latest results show a modest increase in support for nuclear power," <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/248048/years-three-mile-island-americans-split-nuclear-power.aspx" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://news.gallup.com/poll/248048/years-three-mile-island-americans-split-nuclear-power.aspx" aria-label="noted" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">noted</a> Gallup in April, "possibly in response to increased oil prices in 2019. Or perhaps some of the increase in support stems from the fact that nuclear energy generates emissions-free electricity -- 60% of Americans favor <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/248006/americans-support-reducing-fossil-fuel.aspx?g_source=link_newsv9&g_campaign=item_248048&g_medium=copy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://news.gallup.com/poll/248006/americans-support-reducing-fossil-fuel.aspx?g_source=link_newsv9&g_campaign=item_248048&g_medium=copy" aria-label="dramatically reducing the use of fossil fuels" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">dramatically reducing the use of fossil fuels</a> to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Apr 28, 2017 - Unfortunately, those mandates exclude nuclear power, which provides 90 percent of Ohio's clear energy. As a result, Ohio's nuclear plants are ...</a></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px;"><div class="rc" data-hveid="CAIQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwiavr3ctuvqAhUsgK0KHcByC1AQFSgAMAJ6BAgCEAA" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.58;"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/07/24/big-pro-nuclear-victory-in-us-gives-momentum-to-global-nuclear-expansion/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/07/24/big-pro-nuclear-victory-in-us-gives-momentum-to-global-nuclear-expansion/&ved=2ahUKEwiavr3ctuvqAhUsgK0KHcByC1AQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">
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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Jul 24, 2019 - Michael ShellenbergerContributor ... Lawmakers in Ohio yesterday took decisive action to save the state's nuclear power plants, giving ...</a></div><div jscontroller="m6a0l" id="eob_10" jsdata="fxg5tf;;A6GqVo" jsaction="rcuQ6b:npT2md" data-ved="2ahUKEwiavr3ctuvqAhUsgK0KHcByC1AQ2Z0BMAJ6BAgCEAg"><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px;"><div class="rc" data-hveid="CAEQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwiavr3ctuvqAhUsgK0KHcByC1AQFSgAMAN6BAgBEAA" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.58;"><a href="https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2019/07/07/nuclear-plants-keep-ohio-electricity-rates-down/stories/20190706010" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2019/07/07/nuclear-plants-keep-ohio-electricity-rates-down/stories/20190706010&ved=2ahUKEwiavr3ctuvqAhUsgK0KHcByC1AQFjADegQIARAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">
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