Climate Changeby staff - 2023-02-22 01:41:52 ( in education, research, emails, conspiracies) [php version] rebuildMost importantly, those "scientists" need federal grants to survive, so they figure it's life or death and "life" comes with the requirement to sell their souls to demonic people. On Monday, February 20, 2023 at 09:33:15 PM PST: What makes this particularly interesting is how the actual fraud happens. In a nutshell, someone with a particular agenda decides whatever they want and hands it over to "scientists" to find the facts to support their conclusion. In other words, we have corporations creating science that probably enriches the shareholders. And the prostitute media dutifully parrots what their masters say, denigrating anyone who dares to disagree as a quack or conspiracy theorist. Sent: Monday, February 20, 2023 9:18 PM Climate change without looking at the video (which is likely great in how informing it is), I know that most people are ignorant about science so it's so easy to bamboozle them On Monday, February 20, 2023 at 08:51:18 PM PST: Ever wondered exactly how the climate change hoax came to be? This Corbett Report covers it well. And surprise, surprise, it's just the same as how most (fake) science today becomes the latest religion unthinking people blindly follow. Yes, it's sort of all BS to begin with. And now he wants to sell his new book to convince you that he lied. Seems like he just continues to lie. Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 11:48 AM To: Subject: Re: That's nice, but he still assumes the world is getting hotter and wants MORE, not less, industrial agriculture. So, I take him with a grain of salt.
Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 9:11 PM Subject: Award-Winning Climate Activist Apologizes For Misleading The Public On Climate Change Scare Award-Winning Climate Activist Apologizes For Misleading The Public On Climate Change Scare: Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DjaRAA0mOYIE Forbes has decided to unpublish an article by award-winning climate activist Shellenberger, in which he apologizes "for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years." [ https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/shellen.jpg] Schellenberger, a progressive, was named one of TIME's "Heroes of the Environment," while his book Break Through was heralded by WIRED as potentially "the best thing to happen to environmentalism since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring." His bookApocalypse Never was widely praised as an 'eye-opening, fact-based approach' to climate science and 'engaging and well-researched.' Now that he's apologized for three-decades of climate alarmism, Forbes has now blocked Shellenberger's article without NEVER MISS THE NEWS THAT MATTERS MOST Authored by Shellenberger via Environmental Progress (emphasis ours) On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare 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. 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. 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. Here are some facts few people know: * Humans are not causing a "sixth mass extinction" * The Amazon is not "the lungs of the world" * Climate change is not making natural disasters worse * Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003 * The amount of land we use for meat -- humankind's biggest use of land -- has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska * 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 * Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s * Adapting to life below sea level made the Netherlands rich not poor * We produce 25% more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter * Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change * Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels * Preventing future pandemics requires more not less "industrial" agriculture I know that the above facts will sound like "climate denialism" to many people. But that just shows the power of climate alarmism. 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. 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. 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 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." 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. 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. But then, last year, things spiraled out of control. 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." The world's most influential green journalist McKibben, called climate change the "greatest challenge humans have ever faced" and said it would "wipe out civilizations." Mainstream journalists reported, repeatedly, that the Amazon was "the lungs of the world," and that deforestation was like a nuclear bomb going off. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Some highlights from the book: * Factories and modern farming are the keys to human liberation and environmental progress * The most important thing for saving the environment is producing more food, particularly meat, on less land * The most important thing for reducing air pollution and carbon emissions is moving from wood to coal to petroleum to natural gas to uranium * 100% renewables would require increasing the land used for energy from today's 0.5% to 50% * We should want cities, farms, and power plants to have higher, not lower, power densities * Vegetarianism reduces one's emissions by less than 4% * Greenpeace didn't save the whales, switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did * "Free-range" beef would require 20 times more land and produce 300% more emissions * Greenpeace dogmatism worsened forest fragmentation of the Amazon * The colonialist approach to gorilla conservation in the Congo produced a backlash that may have resulted in the killing of 250 elephants Why were we all so misled? 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 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. Will Apocalypse Never make any difference? There are certainly reasons to doubt it. The news media have been making apocalyptic pronouncements about climate change since the late 1980s, and do not seem disposed to stop. The ideology behind environmental alarmsim -- Malthusianism -- has been repeatedly debunked for 200 years and yet is more powerful than ever. But there are also reasons to believe that environmental alarmism will, if not come to an end, have diminishing cultural power. 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. 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. 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. Nations are reverting openly to self-interest and away from Malthusianism and neoliberalism, which is good for nuclear and bad for renewables. 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. 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. "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 McCormick. "But too often we are guilty of the same. Shellenberger offers =91tough 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 =91mental muscle' we need to envision and design not only a hopeful, but an attainable, future." 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. I further hope that you'll accept my apology. Shellenberger https://www.infowars.com/posts/nothing-to-do-with-man-astrophysicist-says-climate-cultists-are-on-a-gravy-train-to-make-money/ On 9/10/22 17:49: Finally the truth coming through from the gaslight media. https://www.bitchute.com/video/RzPS5FJ6ohYZ/ I'm giving this a title that everyone will accept -- the people who believe the TV and the people who know it's a scam. The news today is that a TV station meteorologist shows a plane that injects silver oxide into the air to change the weather. Wait! This is supposed to be just a conspiracy theory! So, another one is proven true. Looks like conspiracy theorists are batting 1000 (perfect score, not even one proven wrong). Maybe people need to ask "if people were trying to hide this fact, what else are they trying to hide?" And "can we believe anything else they say?" (Correct answer is "NO!") Plus, you might want to ask "why are they trying to hide this from people?" But then you have to begin to think and we all know how dangerous that would be... https://www.bitchute.com/video/aGpWoHWcTI0/ Yes, it's sort of all BS to begin with. And now he wants to sell his new book to convince you that he lied. Seems like he just continues to lie. Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 11:48 AM To: Subject: Re: That's nice, but he still assumes the world is getting hotter and wants MORE, not less, industrial agriculture. So, I take him with a grain of salt.
Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 9:11 PM Subject: Award-Winning Climate Activist Apologizes For Misleading The Public On Climate Change Scare Award-Winning Climate Activist Apologizes For Misleading The Public On Climate Change Scare: Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DjaRAA0mOYIE Forbes has decided to unpublish an article by award-winning climate activist Shellenberger, in which he apologizes "for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years." [ https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/shellen.jpg] Schellenberger, a progressive, was named one of TIME's "Heroes of the Environment," while his book Break Through was heralded by WIRED as potentially "the best thing to happen to environmentalism since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring." His bookApocalypse Never was widely praised as an 'eye-opening, fact-based approach' to climate science and 'engaging and well-researched.' Now that he's apologized for three-decades of climate alarmism, Forbes has now blocked Shellenberger's article without NEVER MISS THE NEWS THAT MATTERS MOST Authored by Shellenberger via Environmental Progress (emphasis ours) On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare 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. 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. 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. Here are some facts few people know: * Humans are not causing a "sixth mass extinction" * The Amazon is not "the lungs of the world" * Climate change is not making natural disasters worse * Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003 * The amount of land we use for meat -- humankind's biggest use of land -- has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska * 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 * Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s * Adapting to life below sea level made the Netherlands rich not poor * We produce 25% more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter * Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change * Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels * Preventing future pandemics requires more not less "industrial" agriculture I know that the above facts will sound like "climate denialism" to many people. But that just shows the power of climate alarmism. 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. 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. 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 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." 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. 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. But then, last year, things spiraled out of control. 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." The world's most influential green journalist McKibben, called climate change the "greatest challenge humans have ever faced" and said it would "wipe out civilizations." Mainstream journalists reported, repeatedly, that the Amazon was "the lungs of the world," and that deforestation was like a nuclear bomb going off. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Some highlights from the book: * Factories and modern farming are the keys to human liberation and environmental progress * The most important thing for saving the environment is producing more food, particularly meat, on less land * The most important thing for reducing air pollution and carbon emissions is moving from wood to coal to petroleum to natural gas to uranium * 100% renewables would require increasing the land used for energy from today's 0.5% to 50% * We should want cities, farms, and power plants to have higher, not lower, power densities * Vegetarianism reduces one's emissions by less than 4% * Greenpeace didn't save the whales, switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did * "Free-range" beef would require 20 times more land and produce 300% more emissions * Greenpeace dogmatism worsened forest fragmentation of the Amazon * The colonialist approach to gorilla conservation in the Congo produced a backlash that may have resulted in the killing of 250 elephants Why were we all so misled? 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 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. Will Apocalypse Never make any difference? There are certainly reasons to doubt it. The news media have been making apocalyptic pronouncements about climate change since the late 1980s, and do not seem disposed to stop. The ideology behind environmental alarmsim -- Malthusianism -- has been repeatedly debunked for 200 years and yet is more powerful than ever. But there are also reasons to believe that environmental alarmism will, if not come to an end, have diminishing cultural power. 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. 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. 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. Nations are reverting openly to self-interest and away from Malthusianism and neoliberalism, which is good for nuclear and bad for renewables. 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. 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. "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 McCormick. "But too often we are guilty of the same. Shellenberger offers =91tough 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 =91mental muscle' we need to envision and design not only a hopeful, but an attainable, future." 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. I further hope that you'll accept my apology. Shellenberger I'm giving this a title that everyone will accept -- the people who believe the TV and the people who know it's a scam. The news today is that a TV station meteorologist shows a plane that injects silver oxide into the air to change the weather. Wait! This is supposed to be just a conspiracy theory! So, another one is proven true. Looks like conspiracy theorists are batting 1000 (perfect score, not even one proven wrong). Maybe people need to ask "if people were trying to hide this fact, what else are they trying to hide?" And "can we believe anything else they say?" (Correct answer is "NO!") Plus, you might want to ask "why are they trying to hide this from people?" But then you have to begin to think and we all know how dangerous that would be... https://www.bitchute.com/video/aGpWoHWcTI0/ Yes, it's sort of all BS to begin with. And now he wants to sell his new book to convince you that he lied. Seems like he just continues to lie. Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 11:48 AM To: Subject: Re: That's nice, but he still assumes the world is getting hotter and wants MORE, not less, industrial agriculture. So, I take him with a grain of salt.
Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 9:11 PM Subject: Award-Winning Climate Activist Apologizes For Misleading The Public On Climate Change Scare Award-Winning Climate Activist Apologizes For Misleading The Public On Climate Change Scare: Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DjaRAA0mOYIE Forbes has decided to unpublish an article by award-winning climate activist Shellenberger, in which he apologizes "for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years." [ https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/shellen.jpg] Schellenberger, a progressive, was named one of TIME's "Heroes of the Environment," while his book Break Through was heralded by WIRED as potentially "the best thing to happen to environmentalism since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring." His bookApocalypse Never was widely praised as an 'eye-opening, fact-based approach' to climate science and 'engaging and well-researched.' Now that he's apologized for three-decades of climate alarmism, Forbes has now blocked Shellenberger's article without NEVER MISS THE NEWS THAT MATTERS MOST Authored by Shellenberger via Environmental Progress (emphasis ours) On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare 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. 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. 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. Here are some facts few people know: * Humans are not causing a "sixth mass extinction" * The Amazon is not "the lungs of the world" * Climate change is not making natural disasters worse * Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003 * The amount of land we use for meat -- humankind's biggest use of land -- has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska * 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 * Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s * Adapting to life below sea level made the Netherlands rich not poor * We produce 25% more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter * Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change * Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels * Preventing future pandemics requires more not less "industrial" agriculture I know that the above facts will sound like "climate denialism" to many people. But that just shows the power of climate alarmism. 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. 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. 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 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." 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. 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. But then, last year, things spiraled out of control. 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." The world's most influential green journalist McKibben, called climate change the "greatest challenge humans have ever faced" and said it would "wipe out civilizations." Mainstream journalists reported, repeatedly, that the Amazon was "the lungs of the world," and that deforestation was like a nuclear bomb going off. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Some highlights from the book: * Factories and modern farming are the keys to human liberation and environmental progress * The most important thing for saving the environment is producing more food, particularly meat, on less land * The most important thing for reducing air pollution and carbon emissions is moving from wood to coal to petroleum to natural gas to uranium * 100% renewables would require increasing the land used for energy from today's 0.5% to 50% * We should want cities, farms, and power plants to have higher, not lower, power densities * Vegetarianism reduces one's emissions by less than 4% * Greenpeace didn't save the whales, switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did * "Free-range" beef would require 20 times more land and produce 300% more emissions * Greenpeace dogmatism worsened forest fragmentation of the Amazon * The colonialist approach to gorilla conservation in the Congo produced a backlash that may have resulted in the killing of 250 elephants Why were we all so misled? 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 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. Will Apocalypse Never make any difference? There are certainly reasons to doubt it. The news media have been making apocalyptic pronouncements about climate change since the late 1980s, and do not seem disposed to stop. The ideology behind environmental alarmsim -- Malthusianism -- has been repeatedly debunked for 200 years and yet is more powerful than ever. But there are also reasons to believe that environmental alarmism will, if not come to an end, have diminishing cultural power. 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. 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. 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. Nations are reverting openly to self-interest and away from Malthusianism and neoliberalism, which is good for nuclear and bad for renewables. 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. 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. "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 McCormick. "But too often we are guilty of the same. Shellenberger offers =91tough 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 =91mental muscle' we need to envision and design not only a hopeful, but an attainable, future." 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. I further hope that you'll accept my apology. Shellenberger Yes, it's sort of all BS to begin with. And now he wants to sell his new book to convince you that he lied. Seems like he just continues to lie.
Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 11:48 AM To: Subject: Re: That's nice, but he still assumes the world is getting hotter and wants MORE, not less, industrial agriculture. So, I take him with a grain of salt.
Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 9:11 PM Subject: Award-Winning Climate Activist Apologizes For Misleading The Public On Climate Change Scare Award-Winning Climate Activist Apologizes For Misleading The Public On Climate Change Scare: Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DjaRAA0mOYIE Forbes has decided to unpublish an article by award-winning climate activist Shellenberger, in which he apologizes "for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years." [ https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/shellen.jpg] Schellenberger, a progressive, was named one of TIME's "Heroes of the Environment," while his book Break Through was heralded by WIRED as potentially "the best thing to happen to environmentalism since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring." His bookApocalypse Never was widely praised as an 'eye-opening, fact-based approach' to climate science and 'engaging and well-researched.' Now that he's apologized for three-decades of climate alarmism, Forbes has now blocked Shellenberger's article without NEVER MISS THE NEWS THAT MATTERS MOST Authored by Shellenberger via Environmental Progress (emphasis ours) On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare 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. 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. 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. Here are some facts few people know: * Humans are not causing a "sixth mass extinction" * The Amazon is not "the lungs of the world" * Climate change is not making natural disasters worse * Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003 * The amount of land we use for meat -- humankind's biggest use of land -- has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska * 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 * Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s * Adapting to life below sea level made the Netherlands rich not poor * We produce 25% more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter * Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change * Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels * Preventing future pandemics requires more not less "industrial" agriculture I know that the above facts will sound like "climate denialism" to many people. But that just shows the power of climate alarmism. 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. 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. 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 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." 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. 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. But then, last year, things spiraled out of control. 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." The world's most influential green journalist McKibben, called climate change the "greatest challenge humans have ever faced" and said it would "wipe out civilizations." Mainstream journalists reported, repeatedly, that the Amazon was "the lungs of the world," and that deforestation was like a nuclear bomb going off. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Some highlights from the book: * Factories and modern farming are the keys to human liberation and environmental progress * The most important thing for saving the environment is producing more food, particularly meat, on less land * The most important thing for reducing air pollution and carbon emissions is moving from wood to coal to petroleum to natural gas to uranium * 100% renewables would require increasing the land used for energy from today's 0.5% to 50% * We should want cities, farms, and power plants to have higher, not lower, power densities * Vegetarianism reduces one's emissions by less than 4% * Greenpeace didn't save the whales, switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did * "Free-range" beef would require 20 times more land and produce 300% more emissions * Greenpeace dogmatism worsened forest fragmentation of the Amazon * The colonialist approach to gorilla conservation in the Congo produced a backlash that may have resulted in the killing of 250 elephants Why were we all so misled? 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 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. Will Apocalypse Never make any difference? There are certainly reasons to doubt it. The news media have been making apocalyptic pronouncements about climate change since the late 1980s, and do not seem disposed to stop. The ideology behind environmental alarmsim -- Malthusianism -- has been repeatedly debunked for 200 years and yet is more powerful than ever. But there are also reasons to believe that environmental alarmism will, if not come to an end, have diminishing cultural power. 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. 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. 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. Nations are reverting openly to self-interest and away from Malthusianism and neoliberalism, which is good for nuclear and bad for renewables. 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. 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. "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 McCormick. "But too often we are guilty of the same. Shellenberger offers =91tough 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 =91mental muscle' we need to envision and design not only a hopeful, but an attainable, future." 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. I further hope that you'll accept my apology. Shellenberger https://www.infowars.com/posts/nothing-to-do-with-man-astrophysicist-says-climate-cultists-are-on-a-gravy-train-to-make-money/ On 9/10/22 17:49: Finally the truth coming through from the gaslight media. https://www.bitchute.com/video/RzPS5FJ6ohYZ/ similar posts here ... and elsewhere
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