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Climate Attack Dogs Target Michael Moore for Exposing Green Energy Myths
Townhall.com ^ | April 30, 2020 | H. Sterling Burnett

Posted on 04/30/2020 11:45:03 AM PDT by Kaslin

Leftist leaders of the environmental movement are attacking far Left filmmaker and Bernie Sanders supporter Michael Moore, trying to destroy the progressive documentarian for honestly pointing out the green energy scam is nothing more nor less than crony capitalism disguised as the planet’s salvation in his new film, “Planet of the Humans,” released on YouTube for free viewing on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.

Produced by Moore and directed by his long-time collaborator Jeff Gibbs, the film exposes the facts that green energy can’t prevent climate change, and those saying it can are profiting handsomely from government green energy subsidies and mandates.

The movie shows, for example, solar panels are made with metallurgical coal and require 16 times more materials in the form of cement, glass, and steel than do nuclear plants, and create 300 times more waste.

Renewable fuels are produced using tractors that run on diesel, use water pumped by electricity, most often from fossil fuel power plants, and are delivered to distilleries powered by electricity with trucks fueled by diesel. And the crops used to make bio-fuels use millions of gallons of water annually and require the conversion of 400 to 750 times more land—depending upon the crop grown to produce the fuel—to produce an equivalent amount of petroleum.

Aside from showing the green energy emperor has no clothes, Moore and Gibbs also skewer green energy profiteers. For instance, billionaire Elon Musk, whose company has benefited greatly from millions of dollars in federal tax credits for electric cars and state property tax abatements for his factories, brags his Gigafactory battery manufacturing plant in Nevada is powered 100 percent by renewables. Gibbs shows it is hooked up to the electric grid, relying on natural gas for much of its power.

The film shows Al Gore, the political godfather of climate alarmism, raked in approximately $100 million when he and his co-owner of Current TV sold the channel to Al Jazeera, a network funded by the government of Qatar, whose operations are largely funded by oil and gas revenues and whose citizens have the largest per capita carbon footprint in the world. Simultaneously, Gibbs shows Gore, his billionaire corporate investment fund cronies, and environmental groups including the Sierra Club, promote and are profiting from biomass burning—cutting down and burning trees often mixed with used tires—to replace coal for electric power generation. This emits as much or more carbon dioxide and even worse toxic pollutants into the atmosphere than coal.

When Gibbs examined a supposed green energy investment fund, the Green Century Fund recommended by Bill McKibben’s 350.org, he “found less than one percent solar and wind and 99 percent things like mining, oil and gas infrastructure, a tar sands exploiter....”

Gibbs explained in an interview with Breitbart, neither Moore nor he had intended to challenge the effort to replace fossil fuels with renewable power. Instead, they wanted to understand why it hasn’t been more successful. Instead of dark forces and moneyed interests suppressing green energy, they found corporate interests were behind and profiting from policies subsidizing and mandating renewables, and renewables actually require the use of fossil fuels.

“It turned out the wakeup call was about our own side,” Gibbs told Breitbart. “It was kind of crushing to discover that the things I believed in weren’t real, first of all, and then to discover not only are the solar panels and wind turbines not going to save us … these technologies were just another profit center.”

For the sin of telling the truth about the Left’s green energy fantasies, environmental leaders are attempting to undermine “Planet of the Humans” and halt its viewing.

Climate realists have long described the tremendous virtues of fossil fuels when compared to renewable energy sources, including in the authoritative Climate Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels. Realists have also repeatedly pointed out the high environmental and human health costs produced by green energy, as in a recent paper by The Heartland Institute, “Policy Brief: How The Green New Deal's Renewable Energy Mining Would Harm Humans And The Environment,” which examines the horrendous toll on human health and the environment produced during the mining and refining of minerals critical for wind, solar, and battery power. Coming from conservatives, the mainstream media has largely ignored this research—it goes against their liberal bias. That’s why Moore’s “Planet of the Humans” is dangerous; it comes from one of their own.

Although I haven’t often agreed with the messages Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs have promoted in their past films, “Planet of the Humans” is spot on. Green energy is bad for the environment, the economy, and human freedom. To Moore and Gibbs, in the immortal words of celluloid hero John McClane, I say, “Welcome to the party, pal!”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: climatechange; greenenergy; michaelmoore; planetofthehumans
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To: brownsfan

Two thumbs up for Michael Moore. Never thought I’d say that, but the documentary (after 10 minutes of watching) is a straight-shooter.


21 posted on 04/30/2020 12:38:49 PM PDT by poconopundit (Joe Biden has long been the Senate's court jester. He's 24/7 malarkey and more corrupt than Hunter.)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

***I never knew about burning trees for “green energy” that was new to me***

Back in the 1970s MOTHER EARTH NEWS proposed power plants that burned wood. They figured it would take 25 square miles of trees to keep a power plant going.
Wonder if they figured in the cost of cutting, chipping and hauling the wood, along with replanting fast growing trees.


22 posted on 04/30/2020 12:55:46 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: woodbutcher1963

I was going to ask if that was a Freudian slip, to be sure I the context exactly right I did a search, check out the Wikipedia entry on the right hand side of the screen
https://www.bing.com/search?q=freudian+slip&form=QBLH&sp=-1&pq=&sc=0-0&qs=n&sk=&cvid=95B0D7513E594772B549E7AD6C063E02


23 posted on 04/30/2020 1:04:23 PM PDT by radmanptn
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To: Kaslin

bkmk


24 posted on 04/30/2020 1:17:00 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: woodbutcher1963
The limbs, not libs.

I prefer the original. What a great typo!

25 posted on 04/30/2020 1:29:43 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

The great hope is that he’ll be spit in the face and kicked around so bad by tge Left, that he’s spend the rest of his life exposing them and retaliating against their global-crony-creep backers. Good. Bring it on.


26 posted on 04/30/2020 1:33:14 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: woodbutcher1963
The limbs, not libs.

The latter would be more beneficial to the environment... and society.

27 posted on 04/30/2020 1:41:29 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Kaslin
I'm amazed Moore has had this brief encounter with the truth. Proves that even a blind pig can find an acorn occasionally.

Sooner or later fossil fuels are going to run out. That will drive up the price as it happens so the alternatives will then become profitable. It's a problem that will solve itself , no grand government controlled scheme is necessary.

28 posted on 04/30/2020 1:49:52 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: HangnJudge

lol

he has lost quite a bit of star power over the years.

Attention and money, even from those on the right, he will take.


29 posted on 04/30/2020 2:04:47 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dloont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: woodbutcher1963
"The libs and smaller branches of the trees go through a chipper and blow into a chip van."

Oh, don't I wish.

30 posted on 04/30/2020 2:14:06 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Kaslin

If the greenies really wanted to get us off “fossil fuels,” they would support nuclear energy. It’s the only thing that can even begin to replace these fuels and maintain the power supply we need, while preserving energy independence.

Instead, Reactor 2 at Indian Point was turned off today.


31 posted on 04/30/2020 2:23:45 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Crony capitalism isn’t capitalism; it’s a form of socialism.


32 posted on 04/30/2020 2:24:27 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Kaslin
Kaslin: “Green energy is bad for the environment, the economy, and human freedom.”

Is ANYTHING promoted by liberals/marxists good for anything, except enriching themselves or controlling other people?

33 posted on 04/30/2020 2:25:51 PM PDT by Tahoe3002
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Does anyone remember when one of his movies premiered in DC and the DC Chapter FReeped it? He actually came over and talked to us for a couple of minutes.


34 posted on 04/30/2020 2:26:04 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: TBP

Exactly

That is why the author falsely blames capitalism where cronyism is what was at fault here.

All of those wood burning/junk burning power plants were paid for by tax payers for cronies to generate power that they profit from. That is cronyism, because capitalism said it was a dumb idea and wasn’t profitable.


35 posted on 04/30/2020 2:59:20 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: TBP

Does anyone remember when one of his movies premiered in DC and the DC Chapter FReeped it? He actually came over and talked to us for a couple of minutes.


That is actually kind of cool of him to do that.


36 posted on 04/30/2020 3:00:56 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: TBP

Instead, Reactor 2 at Indian Point was turned off today.


I have no problem with old nuclear plants going off line, there has to be a life span to a plant

I have a problem that we are not building new modern safer cleaner plants to replace them


37 posted on 04/30/2020 3:03:02 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Nateman

“Sooner or later fossil fuels are going to run out.”

Can’t be too soon. First should go are the wind mills, then the Solar panels (except for roof tops). Both take too much of productive fields and make America ugly for no good reason. We need that land to feed our expanding population.


38 posted on 04/30/2020 3:06:26 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Magic Fingers

Most of the true forest management companies like Weyerhaeuser are in it for the long haul. So, yes they plant 3 trees for every one they cut down.
Then they go back in 15-20 years and selectively cut to leave the trees that are growing faster and straighter.
They also take the seeds from the biggest fastest growing trees. These seeds are used to replant the “crop”.
The difference is the crop take anywhere from 35-65 years to grow to a harvestable size.

FYI, the Southern Yellow Pines species of trees(there are technically four) are the fastest growing commercially harvestable timber resource in the wood. They grow from VA south to Florida and west to Texas/Oklahoma and Arkansas.
This SYP is the least expensive wood fiber on the planet.
This is why many of the southern sawmill companies have been purchased by the large North American softwood corporations like Canfor, West Fraser, Interfor, Potlatch/Deltic, Resolute and Tolko. The industry is consolidating.
The medium size companies are getting bought by the big corporations that have sawmills, paper mills, osb plants and other engineered wood products.


39 posted on 04/30/2020 3:35:26 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963 (carpe diem)
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To: Magic Fingers

In the world, not wood.

I really need to proof read, before I hit post.


40 posted on 04/30/2020 3:37:29 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963 (carpe diem)
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