Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
2M acres of California have burned so far this year

But *4.4 - 12M* acres (!) burned each year in *pre-industrial* times

It is gross misinformation to blame climate change for our fires twitter.com/GavinNewsom/st…
Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
Hi Greta,

Thanks for making clear your opposition to our systems of representative democracy & regulated capitalism

However, it is wrong to state that they can't solve our greatest ecological problems

Indeed, when it comes to climate change, they already are

THREAD twitter.com/GretaThunberg/…
Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
The doc film that should be canceled isn't "Planet of the Humans," it's "Gasland"

The person who should apologize is you, @joshfoxfilm

You *deliberately* mislead millions of people into believing fracking for natural gas caused that sensational fire

Here's the proof

THREAD twitter.com/joshfoxfilm/st…
Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
This @washingtonpost attack on a young German woman as a "climate skeptic" is inaccurate, unfair, and should be immediately corrected.

Authors @eilperin & @desmondbutler admit she is she not a climate skeptic & yet lead readers to believe she is

THREAD

washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
Top scientists criticize apocalyptic climate rhetoric

-Koalas aren't "functionally extinct"

-Non-climate causes of Australia fires outweigh climate

-Natural disaster deaths down 99%

-Crop yields to rise 30% by 2050

Here's why we're speaking out now

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
Everything they say about California's fires is wrong

- Coast shrublands distinct from forests

- 1st needs less fire 2nd needs more

- Powerlines, wood fuel more important than climate change

My latest @Forbes — please share!

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
forbes.com/sites/michaels…
Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
Don't believe what they say about Calif. blackouts

They result from *political* failure to hold PG&E accountable after $21 BILLION bail-out

Failure stems from decades-long focus on climate/renewables instead of fortifying electric grid & a weak, distracted governor

THREAD twitter.com/ShellenbergerM…
Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
The photos you saw weren't of today's fires in Brazil

Amazon isn't the "lungs of the world"

Deforestation is 75% below 2004 peak

*Forest* fires not increasing

Fires 7% more than decadal ave.

Here's why everything they say about the Amazon is wrong

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
Renewables bubble popping

- Germany installs fewest wind turbines since 2000
- Tesla lost $2.6B in bail-out of Solar City
- SoftBank has built or has deals for just 1.6% of solar farms promised
- Subsidies ending in US, UK, Germany
- Local & eco opposition to renewables growing
Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
Germany’s renewables experiment is over.

By 2025 it will have spent $580B to make electricity nearly 2x more expensive & 10x more carbon-intensive than France’s.

The reason renewables can’t power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. forbes.com/sites/michaels…
Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
1. This is the story of how natural gas companies & environmentalists have for 50 years used renewables to greenwash anti-nuclear advocacy & lock in fossil fuels to the detriment of the climate, and their consciences. twitter.com/shellenbergerm…
Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
1. This is the story of how voters around the world are embracing nuclear power in response to the high cost of renewables, the inadequacy of solar & wind for solving climate change, and a growing grassroots pro-nuclear movement. twitter.com/ShellenbergerM…

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