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Michael Shellenberger - Wikipedia

"A 2020 Forbes article by Shellenberger, in which he promoted Apocalypse Never, was analyzed by seven academic reviewers and one editor from the Climate Feedback fact-checking project. The reviewers conclude that Shellenberger "mixes accurate and inaccurate claims in support of a misleading and overly simplistic argumentation about climate change."[5] Zeke Hausfather, Director of Climate and Energy for The Breakthrough Institute, wrote that Shellenberger "includes a mix of accurate, misleading, and patently false statements. While it is useful to push back against claims that climate change will lead to the end of the world or human extinction, to do so by inaccurately downplaying real climate risks is deeply problematic and counterproductive."[5] The Forbes article was later deleted for violating Forbes' policy against self-promotion. In response, Shellenberger called the deletion censorship and The Daily Wire, Quillette, and Breitbart News re-published all or parts of the article."​

 

If someone is interested in Sri Lanka it seems that reading some news reports would be preferable to reading an opinion piece from a guy with questionable motivation and a poor record of separating fact from fiction.

 

No, not like that marketing material. Try a real news source.

 

Of course you did - you don't know what real news is. I linked about Shellenberger and the Wiki shows how his viewpoints have been widely scorned. It would seem that you, of all people, would know how to treat links. Do you really not know that opinion is not news?

 

You have proven time and time again that you are dumb enough to copy links here almost daily that you believe support some kind of stance you want to take when all they do is prove that you are too naive to understand that they do not represent news at all but rather the opinions and lies of screwballs.

Even now you continue to call your linked item an "article" rather than what it is, an essay. The difference is apparently one of those things you don't understand because you quit school because then, like now, you thought you had all the answers. Wrong then, still wrong now.

 

You should change your name to RalebirdBait. You post something and he's on you like white on rice! Wait, is that racist? I can never tell what expressions have been cancelled.

 

I didn't need to point to anything. The writer has been repeatedly indicted by those who run the very foundation he cofounded and by many others according to the Wiki I linked. They know better than I do and better than you do that his writing is not to be relied upon.

Now, to the bigger question - what was your purpose in starting the thread and linking the article to begin with? You even admitted that you don't know "jackshit" about Sri Lanka. If you really wanted to start a discussion about something you know nothing about why use an opinion piece by such a goofball to do so? I mean the guy was one of dozens who did try to run for governor of California - that's a goofball. It's not like reforming agriculture in Sri Lanka is on the top of anyone's "must do" list here on TGG.

 

Those truckers in Canada were child's play compared to this.

 

If only he held himself to the same standards

 

Who said I had no interest in the topic? And you certainly don't get to decide what I have a need to comment on.

Instead of trying to figure out what I'm doing, and usually getting it wrong, you may want to ask yourself why you expose yourself so frequently.

 

Prepare to be Ralebirded!