climatechangedispatch--2020-07-02--Sen. Cruz Signs Pledge To Keep U.S. Dominant Natural Gas Producer

Written by Chris White on .
Posted in Latest news Sen. Ted Cruz is among 141 political leaders in a pledge to keep the United States ’ energy industry dominant amid the coronavirus pandemic and the consequential economic downturn .
The Texas Republican , as well as seven additional senators , three governors , and 15 attorneys general are among those who signed The Empowerment Alliance ’ s Declaration of Energy Independence , promising to take steps to establish the United States ’ energy independence .
“ American energy producers have ushered in an energy renaissance and made the United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and gas in the world , ” Cruz said in a joint statement with The Empowerment Alliance .
“ Maintaining our energy dominance is key to ensuring American families have access to affordable energy and it ’ s imperative for our national security.
” Other signatories include Republican Sens .
Rob Portman of Ohio , John Cornyn of Texas , and Joni Ernst of Iowa .
The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained an exclusive copy of the pledge , which says it represents a commitment to “ four principles that will help power @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the next century and beyond.
” Those principles listed are affordable energy for families ; clean energy for the environment ; abundant energy for the future ; and domestic energy for national security .
The principles list benefits of energy independence , which include decreasing utility bills , cleaner air , “ a continuous 100-year supply of natural gas .
They also note that ensuring energy dominance would make certain that the U.S. “ is no longer dependent on rapidly changing global markets and unstable or hostile countries.
” The Empowerment Alliance is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to oppose supporters of the Green New Deal , a proposal crafted that year that sought to shift the U.S. entirely away from fossil fuels within a decade .
Senate Republicans defeated the proposal shortly after it was introduced , but Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats are hoping to bring it back .
“ For too long , Americans have spent their hard-earned dollars on energy that is produced overseas , risking our nation ’ s security and stability and shunning millions of family-supporting jobs , ” Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Declaration of Energy Independence is “ something all Americans can agree on.
” The pledge comes nearly a year after the U.S. first became a net exporter of gas .
The U.S. exported roughly 89,000 barrels of fossil fuels per day during September 2019 , according to Energy Information Administration data .
That ’ s the first full month the U.S. has exported more than it imported since the U.S. began tracking such data in 1949 .
Government officials began locking down their economies in March to slow the spread of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 127,000 people in the U.S. Their orders resulted in a significant downturn in the economy and an oversupply of oil , which caused crude prices to collapse .
Several shale companies filed bankruptcy to avoid ruin .
“ In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic , it ’ s become even more important to support America ’ s energy producers to spur economic growth , lower energy costs , help employ thousands of hardworking men and women , and increase America ’ s energy independence , ” Cruz said in the statement @

Written by Chris White on Jul 2, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
Sen. Ted Cruz is among 141 political leaders in a pledge to keep the United States’ energy industry dominant amid the coronavirus pandemic and the consequential economic downturn.
The Texas Republican, as well as seven additional senators, three governors, and 15 attorneys general are among those who signed The Empowerment Alliance’s Declaration of Energy Independence, promising to take steps to establish the United States’ energy independence.
“American energy producers have ushered in an energy renaissance and made the United States the number one producer of oil and gas in the world,” Cruz said in a joint statement with The Empowerment Alliance.
“Maintaining our energy dominance is key to ensuring American families have access to affordable energy and it’s imperative for our national security.”
Other signatories include Republican Sens. Rob Portman of Ohio, John Cornyn of Texas, and Joni Ernst of Iowa.
The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained an exclusive copy of the pledge, which says it represents a commitment to “four principles that will help power America’s economy for everyone over the next century and beyond.”
Those principles listed are affordable energy for families; clean energy for the environment; abundant energy for the future; and domestic energy for national security.
The principles list benefits of energy independence, which include decreasing utility bills, cleaner air, “a continuous 100-year supply of natural gas. They also note that ensuring energy dominance would make certain that the U.S. “is no longer dependent on rapidly changing global markets and unstable or hostile countries.”
The Empowerment Alliance is a nonprofit that was formed in 2019 to oppose supporters of the Green New Deal, a proposal crafted that year that sought to shift the U.S. entirely away from fossil fuels within a decade.
Senate Republicans defeated the proposal shortly after it was introduced, but Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats are hoping to bring it back.
“For too long, Americans have spent their hard-earned dollars on energy that is produced overseas, risking our nation’s security and stability and shunning millions of family-supporting jobs,” Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said in the statement alongside Cruz. The Declaration of Energy Independence is “something all Americans can agree on.”
The pledge comes nearly a year after the U.S. first became a net exporter of gas. The U.S. exported roughly 89,000 barrels of fossil fuels per day during September 2019, according to Energy Information Administration data.
That’s the first full month the U.S. has exported more than it imported since the U.S. began tracking such data in 1949.
Government officials began locking down their economies in March to slow the spread of a coronavirus, which has killed a reported 127,000 people in the U.S.
Their orders resulted in a significant downturn in the economy and an oversupply of oil, which caused crude prices to collapse. Several shale companies filed bankruptcy to avoid ruin.
“In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, it’s become even more important to support America’s energy producers to spur economic growth, lower energy costs, help employ thousands of hardworking men and women, and increase America’s energy independence,” Cruz said in the statement.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-07-02--Canada’s Supreme Court Blocks Appeal To Trans Mountain Pipeline

Written by Mia Rabson on .
Posted in Latest news The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear a new appeal from British Columbia First Nations over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion .
The court on Thursday dismissed the appeal from the Squamish Nation , Tsleil-Waututh Nation , the Ts ’ elxweyeqw Tribes , and Coldwater Indian Band , effectively ending the years-long legal battle over the project .
As is customary , the court did not give reasons for its decision .
First Nations leaders were planning a news conference later Thursday to respond to the court ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first approved in 2016 but stopped by the Federal Court of Appeal two years later after First Nations and environmental groups successfully argued the approval process was flawed .
Ottawa approved the project a second time in June 2019 after undergoing additional consultation with the affected communities , but the bands still felt the government did not fulfill its duty to consult and again appealed the decision .
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled in February the approval would stand , saying the government had made a genuine effort to hear and accommodate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disagreed and asked the Supreme Court to hear the case .
The bands still have outstanding concerns about the impact the pipeline could have on drinking water as well as ongoing concerns about the effect on marine life , particularly the highly endangered Southern Resident killer whales — off the B.C .
coast .
Thursday ’ s decision would appear to be the end of the road for legal arguments aimed at stopping construction on the pipeline .
In January , the Supreme Court said the B.C .
government had no authority to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the pipeline , which as an interprovincial project sits in federal jurisdiction .
The court also declined in March to hear a challenge from environmental groups who had been denied the right to appeal the second approval .
The expanded pipeline will nearly triple the amount of diluted bitumen flowing between Alberta ’ s oilsands and a marine port in Burnaby , B.C .
Initially proposed by Kinder Morgan Canada to twin the existing pipeline that carries both refined products and diluted bitumen , the pipeline became a political symbol for the fight @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and sell fossil fuels and combat climate change .
In 2019 , the company ’ s shareholders got cold feet about proceeding with the multibillion-dollar expansion , worried that legal challenges from Indigenous communities , environmental groups , and the B.C .
government would delay construction too long .
The federal Liberal government was unable to convince the company it could overcome the legal hurdles , and in May 2018 , bought the existing pipeline for $ 4.4 billion with a promise to get the expansion done and then sell everything back to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dealt a significant blow just months later when the Federal Court of Appeal overturned the approval , halting construction .
Building began anew last summer after the second approval and continued despite the new legal challenges .
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has consistently tried to sell the project as his government ’ s compromise between the economy and environment , arguing Canada can only pay for the transition to a cleaner , greener future if it takes the most advantage of its natural resources , which remain in demand around the world .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ at a discount because Canada is so heavily reliant on the United States as its customer .
The hope is that this pipeline will carry more Canadian oil to the Pacific , where it can make its way to Asia , raising the price companies can get for the oil .
Read more at Financial Post

Written by Mia Rabson on Jul 2, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear a new appeal from British Columbia First Nations over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
The court on Thursday dismissed the appeal from the Squamish Nation, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, the Ts’elxweyeqw Tribes, and Coldwater Indian Band, effectively ending the years-long legal battle over the project.
As is customary, the court did not give reasons for its decision.
First Nations leaders were planning a news conference later Thursday to respond to the court’s decision.
The Trans Mountain project was first approved in 2016 but stopped by the Federal Court of Appeal two years later after First Nations and environmental groups successfully argued the approval process was flawed.
Ottawa approved the project a second time in June 2019 after undergoing additional consultation with the affected communities, but the bands still felt the government did not fulfill its duty to consult and again appealed the decision.
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled in February the approval would stand, saying the government had made a genuine effort to hear and accommodate concerns raised. But the First Nations disagreed and asked the Supreme Court to hear the case.
The bands still have outstanding concerns about the impact the pipeline could have on drinking water as well as ongoing concerns about the effect on marine life, particularly the highly endangered Southern Resident killer whales — off the B.C. coast.
Thursday’s decision would appear to be the end of the road for legal arguments aimed at stopping construction on the pipeline.
In January, the Supreme Court said the B.C. government had no authority to try and regulate what could flow through the pipeline, which as an interprovincial project sits in federal jurisdiction.
The court also declined in March to hear a challenge from environmental groups who had been denied the right to appeal the second approval.
The expanded pipeline will nearly triple the amount of diluted bitumen flowing between Alberta’s oilsands and a marine port in Burnaby, B.C.
Initially proposed by Kinder Morgan Canada to twin the existing pipeline that carries both refined products and diluted bitumen, the pipeline became a political symbol for the fight over whether Canada can continue to extract and sell fossil fuels and combat climate change.
In 2019, the company’s shareholders got cold feet about proceeding with the multibillion-dollar expansion, worried that legal challenges from Indigenous communities, environmental groups, and the B.C. government would delay construction too long.
The federal Liberal government was unable to convince the company it could overcome the legal hurdles, and in May 2018, bought the existing pipeline for $4.4 billion with a promise to get the expansion done and then sell everything back to the private sector.
That decision was dealt a significant blow just months later when the Federal Court of Appeal overturned the approval, halting construction. Building began anew last summer after the second approval and continued despite the new legal challenges.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has consistently tried to sell the project as his government’s compromise between the economy and environment, arguing Canada can only pay for the transition to a cleaner, greener future if it takes the most advantage of its natural resources, which remain in demand around the world.
Most oil produced in Alberta is sold at a discount because Canada is so heavily reliant on the United States as its customer. The hope is that this pipeline will carry more Canadian oil to the Pacific, where it can make its way to Asia, raising the price companies can get for the oil.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-07-02--Facebook Oversight Board Asked To Censor Climate Skeptic Posts

Written by Ben Geman on .
Posted in Latest news Prominent environmentalists and Democratic activists say Facebook is “ allowing the spread of climate misinformation to flourish , unchecked ” and urging the company ’ s external oversight board to intervene .
Driving the news : A new open letter with signatories including Stacey Abrams , Tom Steyer , and John Podesta ( pictured ) takes aim at the distribution of content from a group called the CO2 Coalition without warning labels or restrictions .
• The coalition argues more carbon emissions are a “ net benefit ” and rejects @ @ @ @ @ @ @ matters : The letter , organized by the recently launched group Climate Power 2020 , could provide an early test for how the recently established oversight board deals with the topic .
The state of play : The letter to Helle Thorning-Schmidt , co-chair of the board , centers on recent reports about how Facebook addressed a CO2 Coalition post .
• “ Instead of heeding the advice of independent scientists and approved fact-checkers from [ the nonpartisan fact-checking group ] Climate Feedback , Facebook sided with fossil fuel lobbyists by allowing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ giant loophole for ‘ opinion ’ content , ” it states .
• “ The loophole has allowed climate denial to fester by labeling it ‘ opinion , ’ and thus , avoiding the platform ’ s fact-checking processes , ” the letter adds .
What ’ s next : It ’ s hard to say !
Scott Rosenberg , the Axios managing editor for tech , notes that the oversight board hasn ’ t formally begun operating yet and will have discretion about which complaints to take on .

Written by Ben Geman on Jul 2, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
Prominent environmentalists and Democratic activists say Facebook is “allowing the spread of climate misinformation to flourish, unchecked” and urging the company’s external oversight board to intervene.
Driving the news: A new open letter with signatories including Stacey Abrams, Tom Steyer, and John Podesta (pictured) takes aim at the distribution of content from a group called the CO2 Coalition without warning labels or restrictions.
The coalition argues more carbon emissions are a “net benefit” and rejects consensus science on warming.
Why it matters: The letter, organized by the recently launched group Climate Power 2020, could provide an early test for how the recently established oversight board deals with the topic.
The state of play: The letter to Helle Thorning-Schmidt, co-chair of the board, centers on recent reports about how Facebook addressed a CO2 Coalition post.
“Instead of heeding the advice of independent scientists and approved fact-checkers from [the nonpartisan fact-checking group] Climate Feedback, Facebook sided with fossil fuel lobbyists by allowing the CO2 Coalition to take advantage of a giant loophole for ‘opinion’ content,” it states.
“The loophole has allowed climate denial to fester by labeling it ‘opinion,’ and thus, avoiding the platform’s fact-checking processes,” the letter adds.
What’s next: It’s hard to say! Scott Rosenberg, the Axios managing editor for tech, notes that the oversight board hasn’t formally begun operating yet and will have discretion about which complaints to take on.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-07-02--How Greed And Corruption Are Destroying South Africa’s Energy Giant

Written by Ioannis Kessides , GWPF on .
Posted in Latest news The energy security of millions of South Africans has been jeopardized by mismanagement and corruption in the country ’ s electricity utility Eskom , according to a new report published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation .
According to the report ’ s author , energy economist Ioannis Kessides , the last 20 years have seen a rapid decline in the company ’ s performance .
“ At the turn of the millennium , Eskom was regarded as the crown jewel of South Africa ’ s state-owned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reliable electricity companies in the world .
But nowadays , the performance of the grid is starting to resemble that of a typical developing country.
” Dr. Kessides ’ research has shown that the decline can be explained by a combination of mismanagement and corruption , with executive jobs handed out to the politically connected rather than the technically competent .
He argues that the only hope is some form of privatization , taking the utility out of the reach of politicians .
“ It is clear that the attempts at reform so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is required , and have allowed politicians to continue to interfere in Eskom ’ s operations.
” “ The only hope now is for radical competitive restructuring and privatization .
It needs to happen soon before South Africans have to suffer any further decline in the reliability of their electricity supply.
” Ioannis Kessides : The decline and fall of Eskom : A South African tragedy ( PDF ) For more information on the GWPF ’ s Energy for Africa Week , go to our Energy Justice website

Written by Ioannis Kessides, GWPF on Jul 2, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
The energy security of millions of South Africans has been jeopardized by mismanagement and corruption in the country’s electricity utility Eskom, according to a new report published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
According to the report’s author, energy economist Ioannis Kessides, the last 20 years have seen a rapid decline in the company’s performance.
“At the turn of the millennium, Eskom was regarded as the crown jewel of South Africa’s state-owned enterprises and among the most efficient and reliable electricity companies in the world. But nowadays, the performance of the grid is starting to resemble that of a typical developing country.”
Dr. Kessides’ research has shown that the decline can be explained by a combination of mismanagement and corruption, with executive jobs handed out to the politically connected rather than the technically competent.
He argues that the only hope is some form of privatization, taking the utility out of the reach of politicians.
“It is clear that the attempts at reform so far have fallen far short of what is required, and have allowed politicians to continue to interfere in Eskom’s operations.”
“The only hope now is for radical competitive restructuring and privatization. It needs to happen soon before South Africans have to suffer any further decline in the reliability of their electricity supply.”
Ioannis Kessides: The decline and fall of Eskom: A South African tragedy (PDF)
For more information on the GWPF’s Energy for Africa Week, go to our Energy Justice website
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climatechangedispatch--2020-07-02--XR Climate Crazies Block Airplane At Swedish Airport

Written by Chris Tomlinson on .
Posted in Latest news Just days after storming an airport runway in Paris , Swedish members of the extremist climate change group Extinction Rebellion blocked a SAS airlines flight at Sweden ’ s Ängelholm–Helsingborg Airport .
Just as European airlines are starting to recommence services after being wiped out by Coronavirus lockdowns , radical greens seem determined to prevent the industry from recovering .
Several activists took to the runway on Monday at around 7:30 pm and got in front of a SAS Airlines aircraft that was making a domestic flight .
The protest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bailouts for the airline .
“ SAS flights blocked by rebels .
No crisis packages for dirty industries !
Activists physically block a domestic flight and demand that no taxpayers ’ money will be spent on saving the aviation industry , ” the group said .
Swedish police reported that at least ten activists were present at the scene and cleared them away shortly after 8 pm .
One of the protesters is even said to have glued his hands to the airplane .
“ About ten people manifested at the site , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plane and the others in the terminal building , ” police said .
The police press statement added that those who blocked the plane had tickets for the flight and were not on the runway illegally , but added it was a crime to prevent the airplane from taking off .
The incident comes just days after Extinction Rebellion members in France stormed a runway at Paris ’ s Orly airport and blocked a passenger flight to Corsica .
The group demanded that all domestic flights in France be ended , a position @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of President Emmanuel Macron who made canceling domestic flights a requirement for Air France to receive coronavirus bailout cash .
As Breitbart London ’ s James Delingpole noted at the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown , radical greens in Europe celebrated the destruction of the economy as a template for a new world order dominated by the green policy .
One television scientist enthused over the mass house arrest of millions of people and enforced business shutdown as showing “ what a future with less pollution and more active wildlife could be like.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ for its past radicalism , also has links to Swedish climate change activist teen Greta Thunberg .
Earlier this year , a British regional counter-terrorism police unit was criticized for placing the group on a list of extremist organizations in a youth safeguarding guidance document .
Following an expose by the left-liberal Guardian , Counter Terrorism Policing South East ( CTPSE ) backed down from the move , saying that they do not believe Extinction Rebellion is an extremist organization and will be reviewing its inclusion in the guidance document .

Written by Chris Tomlinson on Jul 2, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
Just days after storming an airport runway in Paris, Swedish members of the extremist climate change group Extinction Rebellion blocked a SAS airlines flight at Sweden’s Ängelholm–Helsingborg Airport.
Just as European airlines are starting to recommence services after being wiped out by Coronavirus lockdowns, radical greens seem determined to prevent the industry from recovering.
Several activists took to the runway on Monday at around 7:30 pm and got in front of a SAS Airlines aircraft that was making a domestic flight. The protest group stated that they were opposed to bailouts for the airline.
“SAS flights blocked by rebels. No crisis packages for dirty industries! Activists physically block a domestic flight and demand that no taxpayers’ money will be spent on saving the aviation industry,” the group said.
Swedish police reported that at least ten activists were present at the scene and cleared them away shortly after 8 pm. One of the protesters is even said to have glued his hands to the airplane.
“About ten people manifested at the site, five of them in connection with the plane and the others in the terminal building,” police said.
The police press statement added that those who blocked the plane had tickets for the flight and were not on the runway illegally, but added it was a crime to prevent the airplane from taking off.
The incident comes just days after Extinction Rebellion members in France stormed a runway at Paris’s Orly airport and blocked a passenger flight to Corsica.
The group demanded that all domestic flights in France be ended, a position that is backed by the French government of President Emmanuel Macron who made canceling domestic flights a requirement for Air France to receive coronavirus bailout cash.
As Breitbart London’s James Delingpole noted at the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown, radical greens in Europe celebrated the destruction of the economy as a template for a new world order dominated by the green policy.
One television scientist enthused over the mass house arrest of millions of people and enforced business shutdown as showing “what a future with less pollution and more active wildlife could be like.”
Extinction Rebellion, which is known for its past radicalism, also has links to Swedish climate change activist teen Greta Thunberg.
Earlier this year, a British regional counter-terrorism police unit was criticized for placing the group on a list of extremist organizations in a youth safeguarding guidance document.
Following an expose by the left-liberal Guardian, Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) backed down from the move, saying that they do not believe Extinction Rebellion is an extremist organization and will be reviewing its inclusion in the guidance document.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-07-02--Climate Activists Exiting The Doomsday Cult

Written by Michael Walsh on .
Posted in Latest news One by one , prominent members of the Doomsday Cult of Climate Annihilation are beginning to defect to the side of reason and rationality .
First came filmmaker Michael Moore and his heretical movie , Planet of the Humans , which castigated the “ environmental movement ” for selling out to corporate America .
Next up was Michael Shellenberger , whose new book , Apocalypse Never : Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All , is currently setting the kat among the klimate konformist pigeons by daring to argue that — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
— in fact , we ’ re not all going to die and that there is a sane alternative to Thunbergianism .
• 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 .
“ I know that the above facts will sound like “ climate denialism ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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.
” Shellenberger made these points in a piece he wrote the other day for Forbes… which of course yanked it from its website within hours , thus proving Moore ’ s point about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So he reposted it on the Australian-based website , Quillette ; have a look for yourself : 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 .
In the final three chapters of Apocalypse Never I expose the financial , political , and ideological motivations .
Environmental groups have accepted hundreds of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
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 .
Shellenberger calls out the impractical Ludditism of the “ Green Movement ” Neanderthals , and offers policy recommendation that will turn the Greenies purple with rage , including a defense of clean nuclear energy : • Factories and modern farming are the keys to human liberation and environmental progress .
• The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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 .
• Vegetarianism reduces one ’ s emissions by less than 4 percent .
Well , as Barnum said , there ’ s a sucker born every minute , including some very famous ones , among them chimp conservationist Jane Goodall , 86 , who ’ s moved on from general monkeyshines to the weighty issues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and — of course — Why Everything Now Must Change : With a background in primatology , Jane Goodall became well known in the 1960s through films about her work studying chimpanzees in Tanzania .
She famously gave the animals human names .
Her discovery that chimps in Tanzania and elsewhere were threatened by habitat destruction due to human activity informed her view about the interdependency of the natural world .
She founded the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977 , and it ’ s now a leading voice for nature conservation .
Dr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ true to her beliefs .
Speaking at an online event held by the group Compassion in World Farming , Goodall said our global food production system is in need of urgent reform .
“ Our disrespect for wild animals and our disrespect for farmed animals has created this situation where disease can spill over to infect human beings .
We have come to a turning point in our relationship with the natural world.
” Talk about hostility to modern civilization : here we are : after more than half a century of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ likes of the Frankfurt School and their bastard children in academe , there are suckers aplenty in the West , who will go to their graves convinced that everything modern man has done to improve his life is wrong and bad , and that a prelapsarian state of nature is the way forward .
Such is the suicide cult of Leftism as articulated by Rousseau and then passed down by Marx and Marcuse .
And yet , some common sense is beginning to reassert itself .
In addition to Shellenberger , the Danish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the “ skeptical environmentalist , ” has a new book out as well , False Alarm : How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions , Hurts the Poor , and Fails to Fix the Planet .
As Richard Trzupek , an environmental consultant and analyst at the Heartland Institute , notes in his review : Lomborg addresses his core mission statement early on : “ [ W ] e ’ re scaring kids and adults witless , which is not just factually wrong but morally reprehensible .
If we don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ climate alarm , despite its good intentions , is likely to leave the world much worse off than it could be.
” Everyone knows the meme : “ Catastrophic global warming is real and it ’ s man-made.
” It ’ s a simple statement of the perceived problem , one that would surely earn an “ A ” in Marketing 101 .
Whatever else it is , that simple statement is not science .
The issue of climate change can not be explained by any one statement , but must be addressed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This is what Lomborg bravely attempts to do in “ False Alarm.
” And now along comes a lady with the felicitous sobriquet of Zion Lights , a spokeswoman for Britain ’ s lunatic Extinction Rebellion movement .
When last seen , she was being memorably eviscerated by the BBC ’ s Andrew Neil in October : Extinction Rebellion ’ s spokeswoman has quit the protest group to become a nuclear power campaigner .
Zion Lights , 36 , has left the climate change cause , which brought London to a standstill last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Progress .
The former XR communications head said she had felt ‘ duped ’ after being surrounded by anti-nuclear campaigners until she read more into the radioactive fuel .
Mother-of-two Zion said : ‘ The facts didn ’ t really change , but once I understood them I did change my mind.
’ The switch took non-campaigners by surprise given her new role seems entirely at odds with her old position .
Zion , who was born in the West Midlands and given her unusual name as a baby , said : ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on environmental issues , most recently as a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion UK .
‘ Surrounded by anti-nuclear activists , I had allowed fear of radiation , nuclear waste and weapons of mass destruction to creep into my subconscious .
I realised I had been duped into anti-science sentiment all this time .
Now , I have quit the organisation to take up a position as a campaigner for nuclear power.
’ It ’ s easy to laugh , but pay attention to the statement above : I had allowed fear… to creep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hallmark of all zealous crackpotism , along with an urgent insistence that the world change right now in order to accommodate what is manifestly a form of mental illness akin to aliens sending you messages through the fillings in your teeth .
The environmentalist Left needs more people like Moore , Shellenberger , and Lights , struggling out the darkness of their former irrational anxieties and obsessions and joining the community of the sensible , and fewer deluded children like poor exploited Greta , shamelessly manipulated by the “ movement ” for malicious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t want the best for Mother Earth ?
There are many paths to conservation and civilization .
We need not let fear prevent us from seeing the solution , and the light .
Read more at The Pipeline

Written by Michael Walsh on Jul 2, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
One by one, prominent members of the Doomsday Cult of Climate Annihilation are beginning to defect to the side of reason and rationality.
First came filmmaker Michael Moore and his heretical movie, Planet of the Humans, which castigated the “environmental movement” for selling out to corporate America.
Next up was Michael Shellenberger, whose new book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, is currently setting the kat among the klimate konformist pigeons by daring to argue that — hold on to your Greta baseball caps! — in fact, we’re not all going to die and that there is a sane alternative to Thunbergianism.
Among his findings:
Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction.”
Climate change is not making natural disasters worse.
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.
“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.”
Shellenberger made these points in a piece he wrote the other day for Forbes… which of course yanked it from its website within hours, thus proving Moore’s point about the corporate hijacking of climate alarmism.
So he reposted it on the Australian-based website, Quillette; have a look for yourself:
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. 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.
Shellenberger calls out the impractical Ludditism of the “Green Movement” Neanderthals, and offers policy recommendation that will turn the Greenies purple with rage, including a defense of clean nuclear energy:
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 .
. Vegetarianism reduces one’s emissions by less than 4 percent.
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.
Well, as Barnum said, there’s a sucker born every minute, including some very famous ones, among them chimp conservationist Jane Goodall, 86, who’s moved on from general monkeyshines to the weighty issues of climate, diet, the coronavirus and — of course — Why Everything Now Must Change:
With a background in primatology, Jane Goodall became well known in the 1960s through films about her work studying chimpanzees in Tanzania. She famously gave the animals human names. Her discovery that chimps in Tanzania and elsewhere were threatened by habitat destruction due to human activity informed her view about the interdependency of the natural world. She founded the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977, and it’s now a leading voice for nature conservation. Dr. Goodall’s analysis of COVID-19 stays true to her beliefs. Speaking at an online event held by the group Compassion in World Farming, Goodall said our global food production system is in need of urgent reform. “Our disrespect for wild animals and our disrespect for farmed animals has created this situation where disease can spill over to infect human beings. We have come to a turning point in our relationship with the natural world.”
Talk about hostility to modern civilization: here we are: after more than half a century of the relentless battering of Western civilization by the likes of the Frankfurt School and their bastard children in academe, there are suckers aplenty in the West, who will go to their graves convinced that everything modern man has done to improve his life is wrong and bad, and that a prelapsarian state of nature is the way forward.
Such is the suicide cult of Leftism as articulated by Rousseau and then passed down by Marx and Marcuse.
And yet, some common sense is beginning to reassert itself. In addition to Shellenberger, the Danish author and climate-hysteria skeptic, Bjorn Lomborg, the “skeptical environmentalist,” has a new book out as well, False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet.
As Richard Trzupek, an environmental consultant and analyst at the Heartland Institute, notes in his review:
Lomborg addresses his core mission statement early on: “[W]e’re scaring kids and adults witless, which is not just factually wrong but morally reprehensible. If we don’t say stop, the current, false climate alarm, despite its good intentions, is likely to leave the world much worse off than it could be.” Everyone knows the meme: “Catastrophic global warming is real and it’s man-made.” It’s a simple statement of the perceived problem, one that would surely earn an “A” in Marketing 101. Whatever else it is, that simple statement is not science. The issue of climate change cannot be explained by any one statement, but must be addressed by answering a series of questions. This is what Lomborg bravely attempts to do in “False Alarm.”
And now along comes a lady with the felicitous sobriquet of Zion Lights, a spokeswoman for Britain’s lunatic Extinction Rebellion movement.
When last seen, she was being memorably eviscerated by the BBC’s Andrew Neil in October:
Today, however, she’s singing a different tune.
Extinction Rebellion’s spokeswoman has quit the protest group to become a nuclear power campaigner. Zion Lights, 36, has left the climate change cause, which brought London to a standstill last year, to join pro-nuke outfit Environmental Progress. The former XR communications head said she had felt ‘duped’ after being surrounded by anti-nuclear campaigners until she read more into the radioactive fuel. Mother-of-two Zion said: ‘The facts didn’t really change, but once I understood them I did change my mind.’ The switch took non-campaigners by surprise given her new role seems entirely at odds with her old position. Zion, who was born in the West Midlands and given her unusual name as a baby, said: ‘I have a long history of campaigning on environmental issues, most recently as a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion UK. ‘Surrounded by anti-nuclear activists, I had allowed fear of radiation, nuclear waste and weapons of mass destruction to creep into my subconscious. I realised I had been duped into anti-science sentiment all this time. Now, I have quit the organisation to take up a position as a campaigner for nuclear power.’
It’s easy to laugh, but pay attention to the statement above: I had allowed fear… to creep into my subconscious.
Fear is a hallmark of all zealous crackpotism, along with an urgent insistence that the world change right now in order to accommodate what is manifestly a form of mental illness akin to aliens sending you messages through the fillings in your teeth.
The environmentalist Left needs more people like Moore, Shellenberger, and Lights, struggling out the darkness of their former irrational anxieties and obsessions and joining the community of the sensible, and fewer deluded children like poor exploited Greta, shamelessly manipulated by the “movement” for malicious ends.
After all, who doesn’t want the best for Mother Earth? There are many paths to conservation and civilization. We need not let fear prevent us from seeing the solution, and the light.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-07-02--More WaPo Alarmism: Now Lying About Climate Change, Floods

Written by H. Sterling Burnett on .
Posted in Latest news Among the climate click-bait articles getting Google attention today is a piece in the Washington Post , ‘ Millions of homeowners face flood risks without realizing it , and climate change is making it worse.
” The article describes a new study by the First Street Foundation , which claims millions of more properties are at risk of flooding than are counted in the Federal Emergency Management Agency ’ s ( FEMA ) Special Flood Hazard Areas ( SFHAs ) .
Being in a FEMA SFHA allows homeowners to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( NFIP ) .
While federal flood maps may be flawed , meaning some properties at risk of flooding currently don ’ t quality for subsidized flood insurance , there is no evidence flooding is actually increasing across the United States due to climate change The Post hypes the study , relying on speculative climate model projections .
However by claiming in its title that “ climate change is making it worse , ” the Post lies about objective scientific evidence and even the findings of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Street Foundation is undoubtedly correct the federal government ’ s flood maps are inadequate , failing to count possibly millions of properties at risk of flooding .
Indeed , reports by SaferSmarter.org , the Cato Institute , and the Heritage Foundation , using government and private insurance data , have long pointed out federal flood zone maps are fundamentally flawed and merit significant revisions and updates .
But while federal flood maps are flawed , meaning some properties at risk of flooding currently don ’ t quality for NFIP , there is no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United States due to climate change .
As discussed Climate at a Glance : Floods , IPCC admits having “ low confidence ” in any climate change impact regarding the frequency or severity of floods , going so far as to say it has “ low confidence ” in even the “ sign ” of any changes—in other words , it is just as likely that climate change is making floods less frequent and less severe .
And a 2017 study in the Journal of Hydrology discoing climate impact on flooding for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ … the number of significant trends [ concerning floods ] was about the number expected due to chance alone , ” and “ [ c ] hanges in the frequency of major floods are dominated by multidecadal variability.
” Costs from flood events , as with hurricanes , have increased dramatically in recent years .
However , research demonstrates that is due to changes in landscapes and demographics .
More people are moving to coastal areas and along rivers .
Also , as human societies have urbanized , they have changed the landscape @ @ @ @ @ @ @ areas along coasts , lakeshores , and rivers .
The conversion of floodplains and wetlands to urban development increases the amount of impervious surface , leading to ever greater runoff during storms .
The rapid draining of shallow aquifers , stream channelization , and land subsidence , also exacerbate flooding .
Finally , flood insurance policies encourage construction in flood-prone areas .
Neither the Washington Post nor the First Street Foundation provides any evidence showing that any increase in flooding in recent decades is due to climate change , as opposed to documented @ @ @ @ @ @ @ IPCC agrees with that .

Written by H. Sterling Burnett on Jul 2, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
Among the climate click-bait articles getting Google attention today is a piece in the Washington Post, ‘Millions of homeowners face flood risks without realizing it, and climate change is making it worse.”
The article describes a new study by the First Street Foundation, which claims millions of more properties are at risk of flooding than are counted in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAs).
Being in a FEMA SFHA allows homeowners to enroll in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
While federal flood maps may be flawed, meaning some properties at risk of flooding currently don’t quality for subsidized flood insurance, there is no evidence flooding is actually increasing across the United States due to climate change
The Post hypes the study, relying on speculative climate model projections. However by claiming in its title that “climate change is making it worse,” the Post lies about objective scientific evidence and even the findings of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The First Street Foundation is undoubtedly correct the federal government’s flood maps are inadequate, failing to count possibly millions of properties at risk of flooding.
Indeed, reports by SaferSmarter.org, the Cato Institute, and the Heritage Foundation, using government and private insurance data, have long pointed out federal flood zone maps are fundamentally flawed and merit significant revisions and updates.
But while federal flood maps are flawed, meaning some properties at risk of flooding currently don’t quality for NFIP, there is no evidence flooding is actually increasing across the United States due to climate change.
As discussed Climate at a Glance: Floods, IPCC admits having “low confidence” in any climate change impact regarding the frequency or severity of floods, going so far as to say it has “low confidence” in even the “sign” of any changes—in other words, it is just as likely that climate change is making floods less frequent and less severe.
And a 2017 study in the Journal of Hydrology discoing climate impact on flooding for the USA and Europe, concluded: “… the number of significant trends [concerning floods] was about the number expected due to chance alone,” and “[c]hanges in the frequency of major floods are dominated by multidecadal variability.”
Costs from flood events, as with hurricanes, have increased dramatically in recent years. However, research demonstrates that is due to changes in landscapes and demographics.
More people are moving to coastal areas and along rivers. Also, as human societies have urbanized, they have changed the landscape, no more so than in waterfront areas along coasts, lakeshores, and rivers.
The conversion of floodplains and wetlands to urban development increases the amount of impervious surface, leading to ever greater runoff during storms.
The rapid draining of shallow aquifers, stream channelization, and land subsidence, also exacerbate flooding. Finally, flood insurance policies encourage construction in flood-prone areas.
Neither the Washington Post nor the First Street Foundation provides any evidence showing that any increase in flooding in recent decades is due to climate change, as opposed to documented other factors.
Even the United Nations IPCC agrees with that.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-07-03--Lake Erie Wind Turbine Project Lethal Threat To Migratory Birds

Written by Bonner Cohen , Ph.D. on .
Posted in Latest news The steady improvement in the water quality of the Great Lakes represents one of the real environmental success stories of recent decades .
But the giant inland seas ’ ecosystem now faces a new threat , this one coming from advocates of renewable energy .
For over a decade , the Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. ( LEEDCo ) , a non-profit , has sought approval for its Icebreaker Wind project that would eventually place hundreds of turbines with spinning blades on the lake .
It would be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United States .
The project ’ s developers say the turbines will help combat climate change , but opponents point out that it is situated on a north-south flyway for millions of birds that migrate over Lake Erie every spring and fall .
Indeed , Lake Erie is a renowned passageway for migratory birds that migrate between nesting grounds in Canada and winter homes in Central and South America .
Conservationists are also worried about the threat that Icebreaker poses to waterfowl that flock to the lake in winter .
Andy Jones @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Museum of Natural History told the Washington Post ( June 21 ) that Lake Erie has served as a stopover for as many as a quarter of North America ’ s red-breasted mergansers , a diving duck , and for delicate songbirds such as wood thrush and cerulean warbler .
He adds that the turbines wouldn ’ t just be a hazard , they would be an attraction .
When the lake is frozen in winter , waterfowl would be drawn to the open water created by the heat-generating turbines , he explains @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trouble , he told the Post .
“ The whole ecosystem is declining .
Let ’ s not add another threat on top of that.
” The Ohio Power Siting Board gave its approval for LEEDCo to go ahead with a pilot project that would allow six turbines in a north-northwest line to go up eight to ten miles offshore from Cleveland .
But as concerns mount over the project ’ s impact on birds , the board now says Icebreaker must conduct radar studies of bird and bat traffic over the proposed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s more , it wants nighttime operations of the turbines suspended during the months-long migration period , unless and until studies conclude that is unnecessary .
Lawsuits against Icebreaker have already been filed , and one of the project ’ s developers , Norway ’ s Fred Olsen Renewables , is reported to be losing interest .
Meanwhile , Canadian officials are keeping a close eye on Icebreaker ’ s six-turbine pilot project .
Canada banned wind turbines on Lake Ontario in 2011 pending the outcome of Icebreaker .
If Icebreaker ultimately @ @ @ @ @ @ @ turbines on Lake Erie , Canadian authorities could allow hundreds more to go up on Lake Ontario .
Birds are by no means the only avian creatures threatened by wind power .
In a new study , “ Relating Bat Passage Rates to Wind Turbine Fatalities , ” Shawn Smallwood and Douglas Bell report that the estimated 1.7 to 3.7 million bats killed by wind turbines in the U.S. each year could be greatly understating the carnage .
They note that many injured bats can recover enough to fly away from the collision @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Additionally , scavengers can quickly collect the injured and dead bats before humans and dogs can recover them .
Smallwood and Bell estimate that the real kill rate may be 4 to 7 times than conventional estimates .
“ At this rate , the extinction clock for North American bats may not be 50 years off , but only a decade or two away , ” writes Kenneth Richard in notrickszone.com ( June 25 ) .

Written by Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. on Jul 3, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
The steady improvement in the water quality of the Great Lakes represents one of the real environmental success stories of recent decades.
But the giant inland seas’ ecosystem now faces a new threat, this one coming from advocates of renewable energy.
For over a decade, the Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. (LEEDCo), a non-profit, has sought approval for its Icebreaker Wind project that would eventually place hundreds of turbines with spinning blades on the lake.
It would be the first such facility on freshwater in the United States.
The project’s developers say the turbines will help combat climate change, but opponents point out that it is situated on a north-south flyway for millions of birds that migrate over Lake Erie every spring and fall.
Indeed, Lake Erie is a renowned passageway for migratory birds that migrate between nesting grounds in Canada and winter homes in Central and South America.
Conservationists are also worried about the threat that Icebreaker poses to waterfowl that flock to the lake in winter.
Ecosystem Already Declining
Andy Jones, chair of ornithology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History told the Washington Post (June 21) that Lake Erie has served as a stopover for as many as a quarter of North America’s red-breasted mergansers, a diving duck, and for delicate songbirds such as wood thrush and cerulean warbler.
He adds that the turbines wouldn’t just be a hazard, they would be an attraction. When the lake is frozen in winter, waterfowl would be drawn to the open water created by the heat-generating turbines, he explains.
The warbler population is already in trouble, he told the Post. “The whole ecosystem is declining. Let’s not add another threat on top of that.”
The Ohio Power Siting Board gave its approval for LEEDCo to go ahead with a pilot project that would allow six turbines in a north-northwest line to go up eight to ten miles offshore from Cleveland.
But as concerns mount over the project’s impact on birds, the board now says Icebreaker must conduct radar studies of bird and bat traffic over the proposed site before and after construction.
What’s more, it wants nighttime operations of the turbines suspended during the months-long migration period, unless and until studies conclude that is unnecessary.
Lawsuits against Icebreaker have already been filed, and one of the project’s developers, Norway’s Fred Olsen Renewables, is reported to be losing interest.
Meanwhile, Canadian officials are keeping a close eye on Icebreaker’s six-turbine pilot project. Canada banned wind turbines on Lake Ontario in 2011 pending the outcome of Icebreaker.
If Icebreaker ultimately gets the green light for hundreds of turbines on Lake Erie, Canadian authorities could allow hundreds more to go up on Lake Ontario.
Undercounting Wind Turbine Bat Fatalities
Birds are by no means the only avian creatures threatened by wind power.
In a new study, “Relating Bat Passage Rates to Wind Turbine Fatalities,” Shawn Smallwood and Douglas Bell report that the estimated 1.7 to 3.7 million bats killed by wind turbines in the U.S. each year could be greatly understating the carnage.
They note that many injured bats can recover enough to fly away from the collision sites before dying from their wounds.
Additionally, scavengers can quickly collect the injured and dead bats before humans and dogs can recover them. Smallwood and Bell estimate that the real kill rate may be 4 to 7 times than conventional estimates.
“At this rate, the extinction clock for North American bats may not be 50 years off, but only a decade or two away,” writes Kenneth Richard in notrickszone.com (June 25).
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climatechangedispatch--2020-07-03--Ex-Alarmist Disputes So-Called ‘Climate Crisis’ In New Book

Written by Valerie Richardson on .
Posted in Latest news Environmentalist Michael Shellenberger got off to a rocky start with his book launch when Forbes deactivated his column apologizing for the “ climate scare , ” but the magazine may have done him a favor .
The backlash prompted a host of feisty contrarian websites , including Quillette , Zero Hedge , and Watt ’ s Up With That [ plus other sites ] , to reprint his Monday column , providing a spate of publicity in advance of Tuesday ’ s release of “ Apocalypse Never : Why Environmental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) .
“ Forbes apparently doesn ’ t want you to know that team climate has lost Michael Shellenberger , ” said the free-market Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow ( CFACT ) , which runs the Climate Depot website .
That said , the word is out .
Already climbing the Amazon bestseller charts , “ Apocalypse Never ” threatens to hit the climate movement harder than a wind turbine colliding with a bald eagle .
“ Apocalypse Never ” represents a rarity , a major release by a prestigious publisher that refutes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ climate activists of misleading the public , and contends that policy solutions such as green energy are making matters worse .
“ I actually argue that renewables are worse than fossil fuels , ” Mr. Shellenberger told The Washington Times .
“ It ’ s a physical manifestation of lower power densities .
More land , more materials , more mining , more metals , more waste .
This is very well understood in the scholarly literature.
” Among activists , however , the strategy is to win over people with what he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which is the idea that some things are more natural than other things , and by being more natural , they ’ re better.
” In the case of energy , he said , so-called natural solutions are worse for the environment .
Solar and wind energy require vast amounts of land and play havoc with bird and wildlife species .
Biomass essentially means burning wood and other plants , which chews up forests and produces carbon emissions .
For the last five years , Mr. Shellenberger , 49 , has been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heads a group called Environmental Progress — but before that , he was a self-described “ radical , ” moving to Nicaragua when he was 17 to show support for the Sandinistas , then fighting to save the California redwoods and championing renewables .
A Time magazine “ Hero of the Environment , ” he has testified before Congress and was enlisted as an expert reviewer for the U.N. International Panel on Climate Change .
“ Until last year , I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare , ” Mr. Shellenberger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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 mainly , he said , “ I was scared , ” worried about losing his friends and his funding .
What helped change his mind was the impact of rising climate alarmism on children and teens .
“ Definitely a big part of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health of adolescents is being harmed by this apocalyptic alarmism , but it ’ s also hurting other things , ” said Mr. Shellenberger , who has two children and lives in Berkeley , California .
The climate movement is “ obviously anti-nuclear , even though nuclear is the only way to reduce emissions significantly , ” he said .
“ And it ’ s being used to deprive poor countries of fossil fuels and frankly hydroelectricity and nuclear because it comes from this Malthusian agenda that says there are too many people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ massively become much poorer.
” Mr. Shellenberger said climate activists have the cash advantage : The two biggest green groups , the National Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense Fund , have a combined annual budget of $ 384 million , dwarfing that of the two largest skeptic groups — the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heartland Institute , which combine for about $ 13 million , according to the book .
“ Climate activists massively outspend climate skeptics , ” Mr. Shellenberger said .
He traces the climate-change uproar to the zero-population @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of theories promoted by Thomas Malthus , the 18th-century economist who warned that population growth would lead to starvation .
“ It ’ s the same people , the same movement , ” said Mr. Shellenberger .
“ Climate emerges at exactly the moment when it was clear that overpopulation wasn ’ t going to be the big concern everybody thought it was .
When the climate goes away as an apocalyptic concern , something else will emerge .
No doubt about it.
” He said the “ demands are the same : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fossil fuels , for heaven ’ s sake .
Don ’ t let them industrialize .
How terrible .
Don ’ t let them move to cities , keep them in the villages , let ’ s give them a solar panel and a battery , that ought to be good enough .
It ’ s pretty dark stuff.
” The apology column met with some snark from climate activists .
“ I had a couple of guys say ‘ you don ’ t speak on my behalf.
’ Okay , sure .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of environmentalists ?
” said Mr. Shellenberger .
Despite the blackout , he remains a columnist for Forbes and was back at it Tuesday with an article alleging that the House Democrats ’ Climate Crisis Action Plan would be a disaster for endangered species .
Forbes said that Mr. Shellenberger ’ s apology column failed to follow the magazine ’ s editorial guidelines without offering details .
“ Forbes requires its contributors to adhere to strict editorial guidelines , ” said a Forbes spokesperson in an email.
” “ This story did not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Like Patrick Moore , the former Greenpeace leader who was vilified after turning against the movement , Mr. Shellenberger will undoubtedly make some enemies — he anticipates an “ intensely negative reaction ” to the book — but he believes the time is right for a fresh take on the climate .

Written by Valerie Richardson on Jul 3, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
Environmentalist Michael Shellenberger got off to a rocky start with his book launch when Forbes deactivated his column apologizing for the “climate scare,” but the magazine may have done him a favor.
The backlash prompted a host of feisty contrarian websites, including Quillette, Zero Hedge, and Watt’s Up With That [plus other sites], to reprint his Monday column, providing a spate of publicity in advance of Tuesday’s release of “Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All” (HarperCollins).
“Forbes apparently doesn’t want you to know that team climate has lost Michael Shellenberger,” said the free-market Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), which runs the Climate Depot website.
That said, the word is out. Already climbing the Amazon bestseller charts, “Apocalypse Never” threatens to hit the climate movement harder than a wind turbine colliding with a bald eagle.
“Apocalypse Never” represents a rarity, a major release by a prestigious publisher that refutes widely repeated environmental talking points; accuses climate activists of misleading the public, and contends that policy solutions such as green energy are making matters worse.
“I actually argue that renewables are worse than fossil fuels,” Mr. Shellenberger told The Washington Times. “It’s a physical manifestation of lower power densities. More land, more materials, more mining, more metals, more waste. This is very well understood in the scholarly literature.”
Among activists, however, the strategy is to win over people with what he calls the “appeal to nature fallacy, which is the idea that some things are more natural than other things, and by being more natural, they’re better.”
In the case of energy, he said, so-called natural solutions are worse for the environment. Solar and wind energy require vast amounts of land and play havoc with bird and wildlife species.
Biomass essentially means burning wood and other plants, which chews up forests and produces carbon emissions.
For the last five years, Mr. Shellenberger, 49, has been a prominent nuclear energy advocate — he heads a group called Environmental Progress — but before that, he was a self-described “radical,” moving to Nicaragua when he was 17 to show support for the Sandinistas, then fighting to save the California redwoods and championing renewables.
A Time magazine “Hero of the Environment,” he has testified before Congress and was enlisted as an expert reviewer for the U.N. International Panel on Climate Change.
“Until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare,” Mr. Shellenberger said in his column. “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 mainly, he said, “I was scared,” worried about losing his friends and his funding. What helped change his mind was the impact of rising climate alarmism on children and teens.
“Definitely a big part of this is that my concern that the mental health of adolescents is being harmed by this apocalyptic alarmism, but it’s also hurting other things,” said Mr. Shellenberger, who has two children and lives in Berkeley, California.
The climate movement is “obviously anti-nuclear, even though nuclear is the only way to reduce emissions significantly,” he said.
“And it’s being used to deprive poor countries of fossil fuels and frankly hydroelectricity and nuclear because it comes from this Malthusian agenda that says there are too many people in the world and everyone has to massively become much poorer.”
Mr. Shellenberger said climate activists have the cash advantage: The two biggest green groups, the National Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense Fund, have a combined annual budget of $384 million, dwarfing that of the two largest skeptic groups — the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heartland Institute, which combine for about $13 million, according to the book.
“Climate activists massively outspend climate skeptics,” Mr. Shellenberger said. He traces the climate-change uproar to the zero-population movement, which was itself an outgrowth of theories promoted by Thomas Malthus, the 18th-century economist who warned that population growth would lead to starvation.
“It’s the same people, the same movement,” said Mr. Shellenberger. “Climate emerges at exactly the moment when it was clear that overpopulation wasn’t going to be the big concern everybody thought it was. When the climate goes away as an apocalyptic concern, something else will emerge. No doubt about it.”
He said the “demands are the same: Don’t let poor countries have fossil fuels, for heaven’s sake. Don’t let them industrialize. How terrible. Don’t let them move to cities, keep them in the villages, let’s give them a solar panel and a battery, that ought to be good enough. It’s pretty dark stuff.”
The apology column met with some snark from climate activists. “I had a couple of guys say ‘you don’t speak on my behalf.’ Okay, sure. Well, do you speak on behalf of environmentalists?” said Mr. Shellenberger.
Despite the blackout, he remains a columnist for Forbes and was back at it Tuesday with an article alleging that the House Democrats’ Climate Crisis Action Plan would be a disaster for endangered species.
Forbes said that Mr. Shellenberger’s apology column failed to follow the magazine’s editorial guidelines without offering details.
“Forbes requires its contributors to adhere to strict editorial guidelines,” said a Forbes spokesperson in an email.” “This story did not follow those guidelines, and was removed.”
Like Patrick Moore, the former Greenpeace leader who was vilified after turning against the movement, Mr. Shellenberger will undoubtedly make some enemies — he anticipates an “intensely negative reaction” to the book — but he believes the time is right for a fresh take on the climate.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-07-03--Enviros Fear Dems’ New Climate Plan Will Kill Endangered Species

Written by Michael Shellenberger on .
Posted in Latest news Congressional Democrats today unveil a “ Climate Crisis Action Plan ” similar to the Green New Deal proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last year , which sounded like a dream to many progressives and climate activists .
At the heart of the proposal are billions in new subsidies and a federal mandate to achieve 100 % renewables .
The top item on the Democrats ’ plan is , “ Support rapid deployment of wind , solar , energy efficiency , and other zero-carbon energy sources and construction of new transmission @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” There has already been widespread attention to the high economic cost of renewable energy mandates .
University of Chicago economists found that “ consumers in the twenty-nine states paid $ 125.2 billion more for electricity ” because of them .
But now , in response to a growing number of lawsuits and regulations , and a new Michael Moore documentary about the environmental impacts of renewables , the wind industry increasingly finds itself on the defensive .
“ Birds have evolved over hundreds of years to fly certain paths to migrate , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ You can ’ t throw a turbine up in the way and expect them to adapt .
It ’ s not happening.
” “ Democrats have been sold a false narrative by the industrial wind industry , ” said Kevon Martis , a Michigan-based environmentalist and co-founder of the Energy and Wildlife Coalition with Linowes .
“ Many Democrats somehow imagine that industrial wind farms , which take hundreds of times more land than a natural gas plant , are better for the environment , ” he added .
Martis and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ farms across the US .
• Last December , environmentalists on California ’ s northern coast successfully blocked industrial wind turbines that they said would have killed an endangered sea bird , the marbled murrelet , which nests in nearby ancient redwood trees ; • Earlier this month , Ohio regulators demanded wildlife protections for endangered migratory bird species , including the Kirtland ’ s warbler , for an industrial wind project proposed for Lake Erie .
The lake is a critical habitat for birds migrating between their nesting grounds in Canada to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A federal judge two weeks ago blocked a transmission line , called the R-Line , proposed to be built straight through a whooping crane habitat in Nebraska .
Transmission lines are the number one cause of mortality among whooping cranes .
Industrial wind developers needed the transmission line to expand their turbines across the fragile Sand Hills ecosystem ; • Two weeks ago , environmentalists in Hawaii urged the state ’ s Supreme Court to overturn a decision by the state to approve an industrial wind project that threatened seven endangered native bird @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a ‘ o , koloa maoli , ae ‘ o , ‘ alae ke ‘ oke ‘ o , and ‘ alae ‘ ula .
In their plan , Democrats identify as a high priority the creation of a “ super grid ” consisting of transmission lines like the one proposed for the largely pristine Sand Hills of Nebraska , which would have a 3.5-mile buffer and cross 600 individual wetlands .
The wind industry claims house cats kill more birds than wind turbines .
But cats mainly kill small , common birds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , whereas wind turbines kill large , threatened , slow-to-reproduce species like hawks , eagles , owls , and condors .
The rapidly spinning blades of wind turbines act like an apex predator that big birds never evolved to deal with .
And because big birds have much lower reproductive rates than small birds , their deaths have a far greater impact on the overall population of the species .
For example , golden eagles will have just one or two chicks in a brood , and usually , less than once a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ robin could have up to two broods of three to seven chicks each year .
The renewable industry claims technical innovations will improve solar and wind — but in reality , nothing can change the lower power density of sunlight and wind .
Even a 10 % improvement in the efficiency of solar panels would only slightly reduce the staggering amount of land required to produce the same amount of energy : from 400 times more land than nuclear to 360 times more .
And over the last decade , the vast majority @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2-3 % more efficient .
Solar and wind farms around the world require at least 300-400 times more land on average than natural gas or nuclear plant to produce the same quantity of energy , a calculation easy to make using Google maps .
Vaclav Smil , a widely-respected energy scholar praised by Bill Gates ( among others ) , concluded that it would take 25-50 % of all land in the US to go 100 % renewable .
Today , the US uses just 0.5 % of its land for energy .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ showed that providing all the UK ’ s energy with 100 % renewables would require a greater area than the landmass of the entire country .
By occupying large areas of migratory habitat , wind turbines have also emerged as one of the greatest threats to large , threatened , and high-conservation value birds .
In May , two wind industry workers in Ohio watched in horror as a wind turbine sliced off the wing of a bald eagle , instantly killing it .
“ I was opposed to those windmills from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have on wildlife , ” said a local activist .
“ I had been out to California about twenty years ago and saw the carcasses on the ground under the wind turbines.
” Now , wind energy threatens one of America ’ s most iconic birds .
“ Look at the whooping crane , ” said Linowes .
“ With just 235 whooping cranes in the wild , their gene pool is very limited .
A rule of thumb is that you need at least a thousand individuals to make sure the gene @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t get inbreeding and lose diversity.
” “ The Nebraska Sandhills are the most beautiful and environmentally fragile area of the state , ” said Tony Baker , a legislative aide to State Sen. Tom Brewer , an opponent of the R-Line project .
” It would leave a scar that you can see from space .
You can not fix things that you do to the Sandhills.
” Save the Sandhills is fighting the R-Line while another group , Preserve the Sandhills , is fighting the expansion of hundreds of industrial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one thing but this is not just a take , ” said the attorney for the conservationists , Bill Eubanks , who temporarily halted the R-Line .
“ We ’ re talking about the project impacting the species ’ entire existence , impeding their recovery .
It ’ s a scary proposition.
” Conservationists express fear and even grief at the prospects of industrial wind being imposed on local ecosystems .
“ The whole ecosystem is declining , ” said a Lake Erie ornithologist about the scuttled project .
“ Let ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that.
” “ Killing these manu [ birds ] would deprive current and future generations of a necessary part of their natural environment and , for native Hawaiians , a vital resource for traditional and customary practices .
That is deeply troubling , ” said Dr. Tēvita O. Ka ‘ ili , a Hawaiian professor of cultural anthropology .
“ The environmental impacts are largely irrelevant to wind developers , ” said Kevon Martis .
“ How else can one explain Pattern Energy ’ s attempt to build twenty-four turbines on the banks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americas ’ plan to construct turbines overlooking Lake Superior ’ s Keweenaw Bay ?
” As the ecological impacts of industrial wind energy become more visible , renewable energy promoters are pushing industrial solar farms .
But the achievable power density of a solar farm is up to 50 watts of electricity per square meter , with solar farms in northern nations like Germany achieving about a tenth of that .
By contrast , the power density of natural gas and nuclear plants ranges from 2,000 to 6,000 watts per square meter And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like building any other kind of industrial facility .
You have to clear the whole area of wildlife .
In some places such as Texas , where white-nose syndrome , a deadly fungus , has only recently arrived , wind turbines are the single greatest threat to bats .
“ There are no other well-documented threats to populations of migratory tree bats that cause mortality of similar magnitude to that observed at wind turbines , ” one scientist wrote .
“ The wind industry is well aware of the problem yet vigorously resists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mortality at operating wind facilities , ” said Linowes .
“ The result is that many of our bat species are on a path to extinction.
” In many cases , environmentalists find themselves fighting groups like the Sierra Club , which accept funding from natural gas and renewable interests and advocate industrial wind projects like the one proposed for Lake Erie .
But some local activists are hopeful , in part based on past successes .
“ In the cases of the Yellowstone River and Keweenaw Bay , ” Martis said , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those wild places from industrial wind encroachment .
Absent those efforts , those wild places would be despoiled.
” “ If we stop the R-Project , ” said Nebraska conservationist Tyler Rath , “ we will stop a lot of wind development , especially in sensitive areas , and save a lot of habitat for endangered species.
” It is notable that many of the conservationists defending wildlife from industrial wind turbines and transmission lines view the Democrats ’ refurbished Green New Deal and its call for the “ rapid deployment ” of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ climate dream but rather as an ecological nightmare .
This isn ’ t the first time Democrats have shown a willingness to sacrifice wildlife for the wind industry .
In 2013 , the Obama administration gave the wind industry permission to kill condors , an endangered species .
No other industry is allowed to kill condors .
Will such concerns move Congressional Democrats ?
It ’ s hard to say .
Climate change has completely overshadowed the conservation concerns that used to be so important to the Democratic Party .
Michael Shellenberger was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Environment , ” Green Book Award Winner , and President of Environmental Progress , a research and policy organization .
He is also the author of several bestselling books.
, his latest being Apocalypse Never .

Written by Michael Shellenberger on Jul 3, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
Congressional Democrats today unveil a “Climate Crisis Action Plan” similar to the Green New Deal proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last year, which sounded like a dream to many progressives and climate activists.
At the heart of the proposal are billions in new subsidies and a federal mandate to achieve 100% renewables.
The top item on the Democrats’ plan is, “Support rapid deployment of wind, solar, energy efficiency, and other zero-carbon energy sources and construction of new transmission infrastructure to deliver clean energy to homes.”
There has already been widespread attention to the high economic cost of renewable energy mandates.
University of Chicago economists found that “consumers in the twenty-nine states paid $125.2 billion more for electricity” because of them.
But now, in response to a growing number of lawsuits and regulations, and a new Michael Moore documentary about the environmental impacts of renewables, the wind industry increasingly finds itself on the defensive.
“Birds have evolved over hundreds of years to fly certain paths to migrate,” said New Hampshire-based environmentalist Lisa Linowes. “You can’t throw a turbine up in the way and expect them to adapt. It’s not happening.”
“Democrats have been sold a false narrative by the industrial wind industry,” said Kevon Martis, a Michigan-based environmentalist and co-founder of the Energy and Wildlife Coalition with Linowes.
“Many Democrats somehow imagine that industrial wind farms, which take hundreds of times more land than a natural gas plant, are better for the environment,” he added.
Martis and other environmentalists are successfully stopping industrial wind farms across the US.
Last December, environmentalists on California’s northern coast successfully blocked industrial wind turbines that they said would have killed an endangered sea bird, the marbled murrelet, which nests in nearby ancient redwood trees;
Earlier this month, Ohio regulators demanded wildlife protections for endangered migratory bird species, including the Kirtland’s warbler, for an industrial wind project proposed for Lake Erie. The lake is a critical habitat for birds migrating between their nesting grounds in Canada to South America for the winter;
A federal judge two weeks ago blocked a transmission line, called the R-Line, proposed to be built straight through a whooping crane habitat in Nebraska. Transmission lines are the number one cause of mortality among whooping cranes. Industrial wind developers needed the transmission line to expand their turbines across the fragile Sand Hills ecosystem;
Two weeks ago, environmentalists in Hawaii urged the state’s Supreme Court to overturn a decision by the state to approve an industrial wind project that threatened seven endangered native bird species: the nene, pueo, a‘o, koloa maoli, ae‘o, ‘alae ke‘oke‘o, and ‘alae ‘ula.
In their plan, Democrats identify as a high priority the creation of a “super grid” consisting of transmission lines like the one proposed for the largely pristine Sand Hills of Nebraska, which would have a 3.5-mile buffer and cross 600 individual wetlands.
The wind industry claims house cats kill more birds than wind turbines. But cats mainly kill small, common birds like sparrows, robins, and jays, whereas wind turbines kill large, threatened, slow-to-reproduce species like hawks, eagles, owls, and condors.
The rapidly spinning blades of wind turbines act like an apex predator that big birds never evolved to deal with.
And because big birds have much lower reproductive rates than small birds, their deaths have a far greater impact on the overall population of the species.
For example, golden eagles will have just one or two chicks in a brood, and usually, less than once a year, whereas a songbird like a robin could have up to two broods of three to seven chicks each year.
The renewable industry claims technical innovations will improve solar and wind — but in reality, nothing can change the lower power density of sunlight and wind.
Even a 10% improvement in the efficiency of solar panels would only slightly reduce the staggering amount of land required to produce the same amount of energy: from 400 times more land than nuclear to 360 times more.
And over the last decade, the vast majority of installed solar panels have only become 2-3% more efficient.
Solar and wind farms around the world require at least 300-400 times more land on average than natural gas or nuclear plant to produce the same quantity of energy, a calculation easy to make using Google maps.
Vaclav Smil, a widely-respected energy scholar praised by Bill Gates(among others), concluded that it would take 25-50% of all land in the US to go 100% renewable. Today, the US uses just 0.5% of its land for energy.
In 2009, Cambridge physicist David MacKay showed that providing all the UK’s energy with 100% renewables would require a greater area than the landmass of the entire country.
By occupying large areas of migratory habitat, wind turbines have also emerged as one of the greatest threats to large, threatened, and high-conservation value birds.
In May, two wind industry workers in Ohio watched in horror as a wind turbine sliced off the wing of a bald eagle, instantly killing it.
“I was opposed to those windmills from the start because of the impact they could have on wildlife,” said a local activist. “I had been out to California about twenty years ago and saw the carcasses on the ground under the wind turbines.”
Now, wind energy threatens one of America’s most iconic birds.
“Look at the whooping crane,” said Linowes. “With just 235 whooping cranes in the wild, their gene pool is very limited. A rule of thumb is that you need at least a thousand individuals to make sure the gene pool will grow and so you don’t get inbreeding and lose diversity.”
“The Nebraska Sandhills are the most beautiful and environmentally fragile area of the state,” said Tony Baker, a legislative aide to State Sen. Tom Brewer, an opponent of the R-Line project. ”It would leave a scar that you can see from space. You cannot fix things that you do to the Sandhills.”
Save the Sandhills is fighting the R-Line while another group, Preserve the Sandhills, is fighting the expansion of hundreds of industrial wind turbines.
“A take is one thing but this is not just a take,” said the attorney for the conservationists, Bill Eubanks, who temporarily halted the R-Line. “We’re talking about the project impacting the species’ entire existence, impeding their recovery. It’s a scary proposition.”
Conservationists express fear and even grief at the prospects of industrial wind being imposed on local ecosystems.
“The whole ecosystem is declining,” said a Lake Erie ornithologist about the scuttled project. “Let’s not add another threat on top of that.”
“Killing these manu [birds] would deprive current and future generations of a necessary part of their natural environment and, for native Hawaiians, a vital resource for traditional and customary practices. That is deeply troubling,” said Dr. Tēvita O. Ka‘ili, a Hawaiian professor of cultural anthropology.
“The environmental impacts are largely irrelevant to wind developers,” said Kevon Martis. “How else can one explain Pattern Energy’s attempt to build twenty-four turbines on the banks of the Yellowstone River? Or RES Americas’ plan to construct turbines overlooking Lake Superior’s Keweenaw Bay?”
As the ecological impacts of industrial wind energy become more visible, renewable energy promoters are pushing industrial solar farms.
But the achievable power density of a solar farm is up to 50 watts of electricity per square meter, with solar farms in northern nations like Germany achieving about a tenth of that.
By contrast, the power density of natural gas and nuclear plants ranges from 2,000 to 6,000 watts per square meter
And building a solar farm is a lot like building any other kind of industrial facility. You have to clear the whole area of wildlife.
In some places such as Texas, where white-nose syndrome, a deadly fungus, has only recently arrived, wind turbines are the single greatest threat to bats.
“There are no other well-documented threats to populations of migratory tree bats that cause mortality of similar magnitude to that observed at wind turbines,” one scientist wrote.
“The wind industry is well aware of the problem yet vigorously resists even modest mitigations known to reduce bat mortality at operating wind facilities,” said Linowes. “The result is that many of our bat species are on a path to extinction.”
In many cases, environmentalists find themselves fighting groups like the Sierra Club, which accept funding from natural gas and renewable interests and advocate industrial wind projects like the one proposed for Lake Erie.
But some local activists are hopeful, in part based on past successes.
“In the cases of the Yellowstone River and Keweenaw Bay,” Martis said, “locals had to intervene to protect those wild places from industrial wind encroachment. Absent those efforts, those wild places would be despoiled.”
“If we stop the R-Project,” said Nebraska conservationist Tyler Rath, “we will stop a lot of wind development, especially in sensitive areas, and save a lot of habitat for endangered species.”
It is notable that many of the conservationists defending wildlife from industrial wind turbines and transmission lines view the Democrats’ refurbished Green New Deal and its call for the “rapid deployment” of wind and transmission lines not as a climate dream but rather as an ecological nightmare.
This isn’t the first time Democrats have shown a willingness to sacrifice wildlife for the wind industry.
In 2013, the Obama administration gave the wind industry permission to kill condors, an endangered species. No other industry is allowed to kill condors.
Will such concerns move Congressional Democrats? It’s hard to say. Climate change has completely overshadowed the conservation concerns that used to be so important to the Democratic Party.
Michael Shellenberger was Time Magazine’s “Hero of the Environment,” Green Book Award Winner, and President of Environmental Progress, a research and policy organization. He is also the author of several bestselling books., his latest being Apocalypse Never.
Read more at Forbes
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