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A Winning Trifecta for Climate Science and Rationality
American Thinker.com ^ | June 27, 2020 | Charles Battig

Posted on 06/27/2020 6:41:02 AM PDT by Kaslin

First there was Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans, then came Bjorn Lomborg’s False Alarm, and now Michael Schellenberger’s Apocalypse Never. All three authors sound the common theme that the hyper-green environmental activists who have captured, politicized, and monetized the concern for the environment have, as Lomborg explains, created a false climate alarm which has “costs us trillions, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet.” To varying degrees, all three authors come from a strong environmental activist background, which observation makes their public revelations even more noteworthy.

Planet of the Humans, the recent film produced by Michael Moore, caused consternation and a considerable backlash from the green activists and their allied backers by pointing out how traditional energy companies had co-opted the environmental movement by donning a green alter-ego and embracing renewable energy. By doing so, the corporations gained access to government funding/subsidies for wind turbine and commercial solar power installations and created a public relations victory for their vociferous eco-shareholders. Moore’s revelation that the reality of needing to provide 24/7 reliable electricity to consumers ensures that fossil fuel plants will remain the primary energy sources because of the failure of wind or solar to provide power if there is no wind or sufficient sun. Renewables do not displace reliable fossil-fuel power plants. Consumers energy bills do not go down, but go up, when renewables are imposed.

Planet of the Humans, the recent film produced by Michael Moore, caused consternation and a considerable backlash from the green activists and their allied backers by pointing out how traditional energy companies had co-opted the environmental movement by donning a green alter-ego and embracing renewable energy.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: apocalypsenever; apocsalypsenever; bjornlomborg; climatescience; energy; environmentalism; falsealarm; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hydrocarbons; lomborg; maga; michaelmoore; michaelshellenberger; mikeschellenberger; opec; pages; planetofthehumans; religion

1 posted on 06/27/2020 6:41:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Is Michael Moore getting redpilled?


2 posted on 06/27/2020 6:55:55 AM PDT by silverleaf (Great Things Never Come from Comfort Zones)
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To: Kaslin

From the comments on Schellenberg’s book comes a description of the root of the problem:

“He reflects upon his early devotion to environmentalism as a manifestation of an “underlying anxiety and unhappiness in my own life that had little to do with climate change or the state of the natural environment.” It became a quasi-religion offering “emotional relief” and “spiritual satisfaction” for those, like him, who may have lost the guidance of traditional spiritual faiths.

“Schellenberg concludes with the observation that “the trouble with the new environmental religion is that it has become increasingly apocalyptic, destructive, and self-defeating.”

How many people on this board have pointed out that environmental extremism is just a false religion, basically a form of Neo-paganism?


3 posted on 06/27/2020 7:06:43 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Kaslin

Bookmark


4 posted on 06/27/2020 7:14:04 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: Kaslin

Howie is a Russian asset just like Jill Stein was kids...

5 posted on 06/27/2020 7:19:49 AM PDT by Geronimo (God Bless America and President Donald J. Trump...)
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To: silverleaf
"Is Michael Moore getting redpilled?"

If MM says it, it has to be wrong.

6 posted on 06/27/2020 7:33:51 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (No Longer Tolerating Trolls!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
I'd suggest starting with the Lomborg, and skip the Moore. Selections from the Michael Moore keyword (he has 229 six-digit topic numbers):

7 posted on 06/27/2020 11:31:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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8 posted on 06/27/2020 11:32:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: silverleaf
Moore’s revelation that the reality of needing to provide 24/7 reliable electricity to consumers ensures that fossil fuel plants will remain the primary energy sources because of the failure of wind or solar to provide power if there is no wind or sufficient sun. Renewables do not displace reliable fossil-fuel power plants. Consumers energy bills do not go down, but go up, when renewables are imposed. Moore also documented that renewables require large amounts of rare earths, cement, and fossil fuel energy in their production. They are both notoriously inefficient in land use, and impose destruction of large areas of native habitats.

Michael Moore was first... and he knew exactly the dangers of taking on 'environmentalists'... My hat's off to him on this one... Took courage Moore... nice film. Even stronger ideas.

9 posted on 06/27/2020 12:52:20 PM PDT by GOPJ (No one is above the law UNLESS you're black or a white Antifa - then you can burn, loot and destroy.)
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To: Stosh

For 10 years now, I’ve called Industrial Wind Turbines, “500 foot-tall spinning blinking Monuments to Gaia


10 posted on 06/27/2020 4:01:55 PM PDT by digger48
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11 posted on 06/30/2020 4:13:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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12 posted on 06/30/2020 4:20:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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