Lucy Biggers
@LLBiggers • 39,969 subscribers
former climate activist. now at @theFP Email: [email protected]
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This clip gave me chills. Former Obama DOE Under Secretary Steve Koonin explains that many climate models ran 2–4x too hot. The scientific community knew it. The public was never told. Those exaggerated models fueled a “climate crisis” narrative that rushed decarbonization, drove up energy prices, weakened the grid, hollowed out manufacturing, scared a generation of kids, and shipped jobs to China.
Lucy Biggers195,352 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
So many people—myself included—are drawn to the climate movement because they want to help people. They care, want to help the poor, and save the planet. But what they don't understand is that the climate movement is doing the exact opposite of what these well-meaning activists want to accomplish. The movement vilifies reliable energy—the single biggest driver of getting people out of poverty. Over the past several decades, we’ve spent trillions on an energy transition away from fossil fuels. The result? We’ve made our energy system less reliable and more expensive. Western countries have also practiced climate colonialism by preventing Africa from developing with natural gas, coal, and oil. (This goes against everything climate activists claim to stand for!) This is the most morally inverted movement ever. Right now, a billion people don't have access to reliable energy. That means women are spending their entire day figuring out how to get fuel to cook their food. Children in these settings are not going to school, they’re spending hours collecting wood or walking to get water. All of that is a symptom of energy poverty. This is when climate activists will say “but the planet is burning!” Just no. The planet is not burning. Yes, we've added CO2 to the atmosphere and seen about ~1°C of warming over 150 years. But 95% of CO2 is naturally occurring and historically, warming periods are when humans flourish. The Medieval Warm Period (900–1300 AD) is a great example. It was 0.7-1°C warmer and populations boomed. They then collapsed during the Little Ice Age. Takeaway the climate hysteria and objectively you would choose to live during a warming period over a cooling period. The rest of the data is reassuring: ✅Globally hurricanes rates are slightly declining ✅Tornadoes are down ✅Sea level rise is a manageable ~3mm/year ✅Global greening is up 15–40% since the 1980s ✅10x people still die from cold than from heat In the West the first time students hear about our energy system is within the context of “fossil fuels are burning the planet.” They’re never taught that it’s an amazing technology that has lifted billions out of poverty. I considered this a huge injustice. We need to pivot away from climate hysteria toward one goal: ending energy poverty and expanding access to energy. If you’re still gripped by climate fear and anxiety, I’m sorry you are a victim of this fear narrative. But it's time to get out.
Lucy Biggers31,322 Aufrufe • vor 24 Tagen
I will die on this hill. I would rather live in a world with mild climate change and reliable energy from fossil fuels than in a world where climate activists win, our energy system is unreliable and expensive, and we have less choice and opportunity as humans. Weigh these tradeoffs honestly, and I think you will come out on the same side I have.
Lucy Biggers137,277 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
The facts I learned that made me stop fearing climate change. 1. Deaths from natural disasters are down 95%. 2. 10x more people die from cold than from heat. 3. Global greening has increased. 4. Growers add up to 1,500 ppm of CO2 to their greenhouses. 5. Extreme weather has not gotten worse.
Lucy Biggers94,501 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
Polar bears aren’t dying off. Coral reefs aren’t collapsing. Extreme weather isn’t getting worse. More people die from cold than heat. Warming has coincided with unprecedented human prosperity. Meanwhile, we’ve spent trillions of taxpayer dollars on solar and wind, driving up energy costs, pushing jobs out of Europe, and making power less reliable. At the same time, we scold developing countries and tell them they can’t use oil and gas, the same fuels the West used to get rich. Climate alarmism and the policies that followed have, without a doubt, done more harm than good.
Lucy Biggers104,323 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
I used to think as a climate activist I was saving the world. Now I realize I was destroying it.
Lucy Biggers85,701 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
The commonly repeated phrase “97% of scientists agree on climate change” is false.
Lucy Biggers68,002 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
