Apocalypse Never summarizes the best-available science and debunks the myths repeated by scientists, journalists, and activists.

Some of those activists, scientists, and journalists have now responded to Apocalypse Never to defend those myths, including that humans are causing a sixth mass extinction and that climate change is making natural disasters worse.

Anyone who hopes to seriously evaluate Apocalypse Never for its scientific accuracy must read Apocalypse Never, including its over 1,100 endnotes, which comprise 100 pages of the 400 page book.

No book about the environment in recent memory has been praised by a wider and more prestigious group of scientists than Apocalypse Never. It cannot be dismissed. And yet that is what many of the critics of Apocalypse Never appear to want potential readers to do.

But in their haste to misrepresent the contents of Apocalypse Never, and make personal attacks, critics reveal that they fear people will read the book and discover the truth for themselves. I hope curious people do.

Responses

Snopes' Alex Kasprak Makes 17 False And Misleading Claims About Apocalypse Never and Misrepresents the Best-available Science. August 08, 2020.

“Snopes has published an article that claims that Apocalypse Never is being ‘challenged by scientists he cites.’ In fact, the author, Alex Kasprak, quotes scientists who confirm several key claims of Apocalypse Never. Elsewhere, Kasprak quotes scientists in ways that seem designed to be misleading. In the end, Kasprak’s article is an opinion piece by an activist journalist quoting the opinions of activist scientists. And even Snopes itself does not brand Krasprak’s article as a “Fact Check,” and instead put the opinion article in its ‘News>Science’ section…” Continue reading

Malthusian scientist Peter Gleick misrepresents contents of Apocalypse Never, misrepresents climate science, and defends bad ethics at Yale Climate Connections. August 3, 2020.

“Gleick writes, “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.” Continue reading.

Democrats on a House Committee made false accusations and then didn’t let me respond. July 29, 2020.

“On July 28, shortly after giving expert testimony to Congress about energy policy, I had the startling experience of being smeared by sitting members of the United States House of Representatives. The context was a special House Committee hearing to evaluate a Democratic proposal similar to the one proposed by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, which would spend $2 trillion over four years on renewables and other climate programs. Congressional interest in my testimony stems in part from the fact that I advocated for a Democratic energy proposal very similar to Biden’s between 2002 and 2009 …” Continue reading.

Activist scientists writing for Climate Feedback falsely claim humans are causing a “sixth mass extinction” and that climate change is making natural disasters worse. July 6, 2020.

Apocalypse Never shows that the science is overwhelming that a) humans are NOT causing a sixth mass extinction, and that b) natural disasters are NOT getting worse. And yet the web site Climate Feedback solicited scientists to response to Apocalypse Never who support the fringe claims, which is rejected the United Nations and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and by both of the world’s main two biodiversity organizations, that humans are causing a “sixth mass extinction” and that natural disasters are getting worse. Continue reading.

A Guardian Australia reporter emailed accusatory questions. I offered to record a video interview. He chose to smear my character instead. July 3, 2020.

A Guardian Australia reporter, Graham Readfern, emailed me a series of accusatory questions based on false and slanderous premises. I responded by publicly offering to video record a Zoom interview with him. He instead published his article falsely claiming he “received no response” from me. He claimed, wrongly, that climate change is making disasters worse. And he smeared me by insinuating imaginary improprieties.

In the process of responding, I discovered that The Guardian is actively soliciting advertising revenue from renewable energy companies, which I criticize at length in Chapter Nine, “Destroying the Environment to Save It,” in Apocalypse Never.