Oops, sorry about the climate alarmism, I was wrong

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Renowned author, environmentalist, and climate activist Michael Shellenberger has formally apologized to the public for the “climate scare” he says climate alarmists have forced on the public over the last 30 years.

“I am as guilty of alarmism as any other environmentalist,” Shellenberger writes in his article. “For years, I referred to climate change as an ‘existential’ threat to human civilization, and called it a ‘crisis.’” However, Shellenberger now says climate change is “not even our most serious environmental problem.”

According to Shellenberger, “Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world.” For that matter, human activity is not causing mass extinction, and neither is climate change making natural disasters worse, he says.

Shellenberger claims that contrary to the assertions of “the climate disinformation campaign,” wildfires have been declining worldwide for the past 17 years, and that the actual cause of forest fires in California and Australia is the buildup of wood fuel in forests. He says that just as in the United States, carbon emissions are declining in most wealthy nations, and that France, Germany, and the UK have watched their emissions fall since the 1970s.

Moreover, the most critical factor for human survival on earth—producing enough food to feed mankind as the population continues to grow—will get easier as temperatures slowly rise. The biggest threat to the wide variety of animal species on earth is habitat loss and hunting, he says.

Shellenberger says that these assertions come from the best scientific studies available, including studies accepted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the IPCC, among others.

Shellenberger’s book, “Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All” says that the ideology behind climate alarmism is a modern version of Malthusianism, named after the 19th-century British economist Thomas Malthus. And that’s a bad thing.

Read the whole article at The Epoch Times. They are terrific!


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Dee Dee
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Dee Dee
3 years ago

When I was in high school in the early 1970s we were warned about the impending ice age. Then, just a couple of decades later, it was the global warming scare. Now they just call it “Climate Change” since they couldn’t prove either one, They were wrong then, and they’re wrong now. Can’t believe a scientist finally admitted it.

billybob texas
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billybob texas
3 years ago
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DD – wasn’t;t there a year certain in there somewhere ?- 1978 ? 1985? ? ) where Florida was going to be under water and all the US coastal cities would be submerged….

Dee Dee
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Dee Dee
3 years ago

When I was in high school in the early 1970s we were warned about the impending ice age. Then, just a couple of decades later, it was the global warming scare. Now they just call it “Climate Change” since they couldn’t prove either one. They were wrong then, and they’re wrong now. Can’t believe a scientist finally admitted it.

billybob texas
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billybob texas
3 years ago

Now…..ya’ think the gazillionaire Al Gore will also backtrack on the bullish!t he has been spewing for a couple decades that made him, personally, (like I said…) a gazillionaire..

..what a fraud….

herbert r richmond
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herbert r richmond
3 years ago

Welcome the truth finally, after people have made millions with false news, now Congress is putting forth new Green Deal based on same fake news.