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1/10 A thread about Michael Shellenberger ( @ShellenbergerMD): nuclear lobbyist and climate science denier, for those of you who aren't aware of him OR the #disinformation he spreads on the #ClimateCrisis.
First, as Dr. Mann points out, look who's backing him: the #DenialMachine! https://twitter.com/MichaelEMann/status/1285917880886996993
First, as Dr. Mann points out, look who's backing him: the #DenialMachine! https://twitter.com/MichaelEMann/status/1285917880886996993
2/10 Michael Shellenberger is NOT a 'climate activist' OR environmentalist OR scientist but rather a pro-nuclear climate DENIER posing as an environmentalist:
https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg24532710-200-editors-pick-you-simply-couldnt-build-enough-nuclear-reactors/
He's also an anthropologist, NOT versed in physics yet presents himself as a nuclear expert?
https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg24532710-200-editors-pick-you-simply-couldnt-build-enough-nuclear-reactors/
He's also an anthropologist, NOT versed in physics yet presents himself as a nuclear expert?
3/10 Shellenberger is a nuclear lobby cheerleader, whose HUGE budgets are an EASY place to hide graft.
He uses backhanded denial of ANY climate change or other environmental solutions to boost nuclear:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/27/1760304/-No-Solar-and-Wind-Aren-t-Raising-Electricity-Prices
https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/853/exposing-misinformation-michael-shellenberger-and-environmental-progress https://www.scientistswarning.org/2020/06/04/nuclear-power-a-risk-analysis/
He uses backhanded denial of ANY climate change or other environmental solutions to boost nuclear:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/27/1760304/-No-Solar-and-Wind-Aren-t-Raising-Electricity-Prices
https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/853/exposing-misinformation-michael-shellenberger-and-environmental-progress https://www.scientistswarning.org/2020/06/04/nuclear-power-a-risk-analysis/
4/10 Climate denial and nuclear lobbying makes him money:
"The Breakthrough people and their allies... are not asking for the technologically impossible. They are asking merely for the technologically possible at an economically impossible cheap price."
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Talk:Breakthrough_Institute
"The Breakthrough people and their allies... are not asking for the technologically impossible. They are asking merely for the technologically possible at an economically impossible cheap price."
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Talk:Breakthrough_Institute
5/10 Check his Desmog page to see how he often dismisses climate change science, as well as who's really backing him:
https://www.desmogblog.com/michael-shellenberger
Shellenberger smears a thin green veneer of 'environmental activism' atop the soft glow of his nuclear-driven core to appeal the public.
https://www.desmogblog.com/michael-shellenberger
Shellenberger smears a thin green veneer of 'environmental activism' atop the soft glow of his nuclear-driven core to appeal the public.
6/10 Shellenberger's recent book 'Apocalypse Never' is being heavily promoted by the #DenialMachine, yet it's FULL of #misinformation and outright lies.
Sam Bliss examines the book's major points in detail here, with peer-reviewed science as rebuttals: https://twitter.com/ii_sambliss/status/1278796324301942784
Sam Bliss examines the book's major points in detail here, with peer-reviewed science as rebuttals: https://twitter.com/ii_sambliss/status/1278796324301942784
7/10 @PeterGleick reviews the book, pointing out how it's packed with flaws and omissions about #ClimateScience:
https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/07/review-bad-science-and-bad-arguments-abound-in-apocalypse-never/
It's VITAL to make the public aware of 'softcore' deniers like Shellenberger, who PRETEND to have 'The One True Answer' to the #ClimateCrisis
https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/07/review-bad-science-and-bad-arguments-abound-in-apocalypse-never/
It's VITAL to make the public aware of 'softcore' deniers like Shellenberger, who PRETEND to have 'The One True Answer' to the #ClimateCrisis
8/10 Six scientists review 'Apocalypse Never' and point out many of the fallacies, problems and more:
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/
The point of ANY honest book review is to alert the public to when they're being lied to, and Shellenberger commits all kinds of such in his book often.
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/
The point of ANY honest book review is to alert the public to when they're being lied to, and Shellenberger commits all kinds of such in his book often.
9/10 FYI, nuclear power is slow to build AND costly, so it's NOT a solution fitting within the ten-year window we have left:
ON costs: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/why-does-electricity-cost-so-much-in-ontario/article33453270/
France costs: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/The_True_Costs_of_French_Nuclear_Power.php
World costs: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421516300106
Future of nuclear: http://energybc.ca/nuclear.html
ON costs: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/why-does-electricity-cost-so-much-in-ontario/article33453270/
France costs: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/The_True_Costs_of_French_Nuclear_Power.php
World costs: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421516300106
Future of nuclear: http://energybc.ca/nuclear.html
10/10 Lastly, Shellenberger's NO friend of #ClimateAction 
His nuclear 'solution' to the #ClimateCrisis is a cash grab and a farce: it will leave us poorer and NO better off.
Read more about the spin used to beat his nuclear energy drum:
https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/a-radioactive-wolf-in-green-clothing-dissecting-the-latest-pro-nuclear-spin,10735
#BeAware, folks!
His nuclear 'solution' to the #ClimateCrisis is a cash grab and a farce: it will leave us poorer and NO better off.
Read more about the spin used to beat his nuclear energy drum:
https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/a-radioactive-wolf-in-green-clothing-dissecting-the-latest-pro-nuclear-spin,10735
#BeAware, folks!
