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I Have Been Censored By Facebook For Telling The Truth About Climate Change And Extinctions

I Have Been Censored By Facebook For Telling The Truth About Climate Change And Extinctions

I am writing to inform you that Facebook has inappropriately censored a scientifically accurate article that I wrote and Zero Hedge, Quillette, Environmental Progress, and other web sites reprinted.

I am formally requesting an investigation of this action by Facebook. Climate Feedback got it wrong, and thus Facebook got it wrong.

Many people only get their news from Facebook, which exercises extraordinary market power, and power over how people decide what is true and false. I am confident that you take your extraordinary powers extremely seriously.

Michael ShellenbergerJuly 7, 2020Comment

Climate Feedback Unscientifically Confuses "Disasters" & Weather Events & Endorses Pseudoscientific Claim That We Are in A "Sixth Mass Extinction"

Climate Feedback Unscientifically Confuses "Disasters" & Weather Events & Endorses Pseudoscientific Claim That We Are in A "Sixth Mass Extinction"

An organization calling itself “Climate Feedback” is falsely claiming that humankind is causing a “Sixth Mass Extinction” and unscientifically confusing “disasters” with weather events:

Michael ShellenbergerJuly 6, 2020Comment

My Invitation to Become an Expert Reviewer to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Michael ShellenbergerJuly 6, 2020Comment

On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

Climate change is real, but it’s not the end of the world. It’s not even our most important environmental problem.

Michael ShellenbergerJune 29, 2020Comment

Announcing "Apocalypse Never"

Announcing "Apocalypse Never"

On June 30, HarperCollins will publish Michael Shellenberger’s Apocalypse Never, which has received strong pre-publication reviews from scientists and scholars who represent a wide diversity of disciplines and viewpoints.

Michael ShellenbergerJune 14, 2020Environmental ProgressComment

Interview with Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Program

Interview with Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Program

The Executive Director of United Nations Environment Program argues that coronavirus pandemic is a consequence of the breakdown of humankind’s relationship with nature. “We have ignored the balance of nature’s web for far too long, and we are now seeing the impacts of our actions.”

Michael ShellenbergerMay 28, 2020Comment

Should We Domesticate Wild Animals to Prevent Disease Pandemics? An Interview with Peter Daszak

Should We Domesticate Wild Animals to Prevent Disease Pandemics? An Interview with Peter Daszak

Should we farm wild animals to prevent disease pandemics? Do we need more intensified agriculture, or less?

Michael ShellenbergerMay 21, 2020Comment

Should We Intensify Farming to Prevent Disease Epidemics like Coronavirus? An Interview with Josef Settele

Should We Intensify Farming to Prevent Disease Epidemics like Coronavirus? An Interview with Josef Settele

Do we need more or less intensified farming to prevent future pandemics?

Michael ShellenbergerMay 21, 2020Comment

Why Atomic Humanism Will Triumph Over Climate Apocalypse

Why Atomic Humanism Will Triumph Over Climate Apocalypse

The positive, peaceful, and humanistic “Stand Up for Nuclear” events last Sunday stood in contrast to the violent protests by apocalyptic Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists who blocked the London subway system three days earlier.

Michael ShellenbergerOctober 22, 2019Comment

California Needs the Courage To Change for Climate Change

California Needs the Courage To Change for Climate Change

Like many Californians, I was anti-nuclear for most of my life. In the late 1990s, I helped to save California’s last ancient redwoods still in private hands, kill a proposed radioactive waste repository at Ward Valley, and advocate for renewables.

I changed my mind about nuclear energy after experiencing the limitations of renewables and learning the facts, including from two of my idols, the climate scientist James Hansen and Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand, who over 10 years ago declared that we needed nuclear energy to prevent global warming.

Guest UserAugust 28, 2019Comment

An Interview with Earth Innovation Founder, Dan Nepstad

An Interview with Earth Innovation Founder, Dan Nepstad

Michael ShellenbergerAugust 25, 2019Comment

Open Letter to President Rodrigo R. Duterte

Environmental ProgressJanuary 22, 2019Comment

Save French Nuclear Power! Meeting to Plan Spring Action in Paris

Save French Nuclear Power! Meeting to Plan Spring Action in Paris

Paris WinesJanuary 8, 2019Comment

A Big Year for Pro-Nuclear Victories!

A Big Year for Pro-Nuclear Victories!

Thank you for all of your help making Environmental Progress’s third year (!) a huge success!

Can you believe all that EP and the pro-nuclear movement accomplished in 2018?

Michael ShellenbergerDecember 28, 2018Comment

Open Letter to Heads of Government of the G-20 from Scientists and Scholars on Nuclear for Climate Change

Open Letter to Heads of Government of the G-20 from Scientists and Scholars on Nuclear for Climate Change

We are writing as scientists, scholars, and concerned citizens to warn you of a persistent anti-nuclear bias in the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on keeping global temperatures from rising 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.

Michael ShellenbergerOctober 25, 2018Comment

Be Like Marie: Why Women are the Breakthrough Nuclear Needs

Be Like Marie: Why Women are the Breakthrough Nuclear Needs

Nuclear power is in trouble. What should be done? The conventional wisdom holds that a techno-fix, like a radically new design, or new construction techniques, will save nuclear. But such a view assumes that nuclear’s underlying problems are technical. They’re not. Public acceptance remains the main obstacle to the future of nuclear. How can public acceptance be addressed? And what role in particular might women have to play? In this talk to Women in Nuclear, Canada, EP President Michael Shellenberger offers suggestions.

Michael ShellenbergerOctober 3, 2018Comment

台灣政府拒絕以核養綠公投後點燃絕食運動 ( “Taiwanese Government Sparks Hunger Strike After Rejecting Signatures For Pro-Nuclear Referendum” )

台灣政府拒絕以核養綠公投後點燃絕食運動 ( “Taiwanese Government Sparks Hunger Strike After Rejecting Signatures For Pro-Nuclear Referendum” )

Chinese translation of Forbes article, “Taiwanese Government Sparks Hunger Strike After Rejecting Signatures For Pro-Nuclear Referendum”

Michael ShellenbergerSeptember 18, 2018Comment

Sweeping Civil Rights Lawsuit Alleges Racial Bias In Implementation Of California Climate Policies

Michael ShellenbergerSeptember 13, 2018Comment

With Nuclear Instead of Renewables, California & Germany Would Already Have 100% Clean Electricity

With Nuclear Instead of Renewables, California & Germany Would Already Have 100% Clean Electricity

California and Germany could have mostly or completely decarbonized their electricity sectors had their investments in renewables been diverted entirely to new nuclear instead, a new Environmental Progress analysis finds.

Guest UserSeptember 11, 2018Comment

Pro-Nuclear “Fest” in Munich, Germany on October 21!

Pro-Nuclear “Fest” in Munich, Germany on October 21!

Friends!

I’m very happy to invite you to attend a historic, pro-nuclear power demonstration in Munich, Germany, on Sunday, October 21, from 10 am to 4 pm!

The official name of the event is the “Nuclear Pride Fest,” and its founding purpose is to save and expand nuclear energy in Europe. The Fest will be held in Marienplatz, Munich’s central plaza.

Michael ShellenbergerSeptember 10, 2018Comment