Michael Shellenberger: Climate-change hysteria costs lives — but activists want to keep panic alive

Last month, I published a book, “Apocalypse Never,” which debunks popular environmental myths. Among them: that humans are causing a sixth mass extinction and that climate change is making natural disasters worse.

While I expected my book to be controversial, I didn’t expect CNN’s top climate reporter to compare it to an advertisement for cigarettes. Or to have an environmental journalist with nearly half a million followers on Twitter ­accuse me of promoting “white supremacy.”

NZCPR Weekly: Alarmism

Dear NZCPR Reader,   

This week, we look into the danger of alarmism in public policy with reference to New Zealand’s harsh lockdown and the most stringent carbon restrictions in the world, our NZCPR Guest Commentator Michael Shellenberger apologises for the climate alarmism that he and his fellow environmentalists have created, and our poll asks whether you believe that the Government should put New Zealand’s climate response on hold so it doesn’t undermine our economic recovery. 

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Matthew Sheahan: Prize-Winning Green Author Defects From Climate Cult

“On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologise for the climate scare we created over the past 30 years.

“I feel an obligation to apologise for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public.”

These are the words of Michael Shellenberger – a climate activist of 20 years and renowned environmentalist of 30 years. 

A prize-winning green author, Shellenberger acknowledges that the fact bombs he’s now dropping “will sound like ‘climate denialism’ to many people”.