{"id":62886,"date":"2022-06-14T19:32:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T00:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62886"},"modified":"2022-06-14T19:32:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T00:32:01","slug":"why-the-biden-admin-wants-censorship-of-renewable-energy-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62886","title":{"rendered":"Why The Biden Admin Wants Censorship Of Renewable Energy Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why The Biden Admin Wants Censorship Of Renewable Energy Critics<\/a><\/h3>\n

National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy calls on Big Tech to censor renewable energy critics in the name of “public health”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Biden Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy last week demanded that Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies crack down on those who are \u201cseeding doubt about the costs associated with [green energy] and whether they work or not\u201d in the name of public health.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

In the face of widespread public outrage, the Biden Administration last month\u00a0backed away from a proposal<\/a>\u00a0to create a disinformation board at the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n

But now it\u2019s back with new demands to censor its critics, this time using a tactic that has worked in the recent past: by framing them as a threat to public health.<\/p>\n

In a talk with Axios, Biden Administration Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy said, \u201cThe tech companies have to stop allowing specific individuals over and over again to spread disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

After an Axios reporter asked, \u201cIsn’t misinformation and disinfo around climate a threat to public health itself?\u201d McCarthy responded, \u201cOh, absolutely\u2026 We are talking, really, about risks that no longer need to be tolerated to our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCarthy pointed specifically to those who criticized the failure of weather-dependent renewables during the blackouts in Texas in February 2021. But many of those criticisms were factual. Over the last decade in Texas, investors\u00a0sunk<\/a>\u00a0over $53 billion on weather-dependent energy sources, mostly wind turbines, which alongside frozen fossil fuel plants were largely unavailable during the cold snap in February. That was only partly because of the cold and mostly because of low wind speeds.<\/p>\n

McCarthy claimed that the critics of renewables are funded by \u201cdark money\u201d fossil fuel companies, which she compared to Big Tobacco…<\/p>\n

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