Germany is expected to increase its fossil fuel consumption for electricity generation in 2022, if its weather conditions and electricity demand are similar to 2021, a new analysis from Environmental Progress finds.
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Six years ago I helped debunk Earth Overshoot Day and the Ecological Footprint calculation it's based upon in a paper for the peer-reviewed scientific journal, PLOS Biology called "Does the Shoe Fit? Real vs. Imagined Footprints."
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Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce For a hearing on “Power Struggle: Examining the 2021 Texas Grid Failure”
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Are we so confident that reducing energy diversity while pushing more variable energy onto electrical grids is the best path forward in terms of reliability, affordability, and sustainability? The Senate can play a constructive role by taking action now to prevent the closure of nuclear plants that have proven essential to maintaining a diversity, reliability, and affordability of supply.
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Key findings: Emissions peaking and declining; Impact of climate declining; American farmers are world leaders; Low-efficiency farming bad for environment; American farmers can help farmers in poor nations; Climate change compared to other problems
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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger to Congress
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Activist journalist Alex Kasprak makes 17 false or misleading claims about Apocalypse Never and mispresents the best-available science. Kasprak either didn’t read Apocalypse Never, didn’t understand it, or chose to deliberately misrepresent it.
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Peter Gleick claims, “if Malthusians are wrong, all they would have done is made the world a better place.” But in Apocalypse Never I show that, for Malthusians, making the world a “better place” has meant letting the poor starve, keeping poor nations dependent on wood fuel, and diverting World Bank funding from dams, roads, and fertilizer for development to charitable endeavors like solar panels for rural villagers aimed at making poverty sustainable.
Read MoreI am writing to express my concern over my interaction with members of the Democratic caucus during yesterday’s hearing on “Solving the Climate Crisis” by the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. I was called to testify as an expert witness. Two members of your caucus, Congressman Jared Huffman and Congressman Sean Casten, publicly impugned my motives. Chairwoman Castor then denied me an opportunity to defend myself and instead gaveled the hearing to a close.
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In the face of nuclear energy’s leadership vacuum in the U.S., I urge Congress to consider creating a Green Nuclear Deal as a revision to the Atomic Energy Act that would restore America’s nuclear leadership at a global level. The goal should be nuclear energy dominance. The U.S. government should encourage the building of large, standardized nuclear plants at home, and export its natural gas abroad. Doing this would require identifying a national champion company to compete with the state-owned companies of Russia and China, and the president working to sell U.S. nuclear plants abroad, just as the leaders of China and Russia do.
But similar programs over the last decade did not result in the benefits being promised.
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EP President Michael Shellenberger speaks with Sydney Morning Herald National Climate and Environment Editor Nick O’Malley about why climate change is not making disasters worse and other topics
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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.
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An organization calling itself “Climate Feedback” is falsely claiming that humankind is causing a “Sixth Mass Extinction” and unscientifically confusing “disasters” with weather events:
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