Climate Quote by Michael Shellenberger

I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal…

— Ted Turner

If solar and wind farms are needed to protect the natural environment, why do they so often destroy it?

— Michael Shellenberger

If you want to save the natural environment, you just use nuclear. You grow more food on less land, and people live in cities.…

— Michael Shellenberger

The idea that we're going to replace oil and natural gas with solar and wind, and nothing else, is a hallucinatory delusion.

— Michael Shellenberger

Both solar and wind produce too much energy when societies don't need it, and not enough when they do.

— Michael Shellenberger

Neither solar nor wind are actually substitutes for coal or natural gas or oil.

— Michael Shellenberger

Solar makes electricity expensive for two inherently physical reasons. Sunlight is dilute, requiring 10 to 15 times as much materials and mining, and up…

— Michael Shellenberger

Sunlight and wind are inherently unreliable and energy-dilute. As such, adding solar panels and wind turbines to the grid in large quantities increases the…

— Michael Shellenberger

You cannot power the world on wind and solar.

— Michael Shellenberger

Most people think of solar and wind as new energy sources. In fact, they are two of our oldest.

— Michael Shellenberger

Humankind has never transitioned to energy sources that are more costly, less reliable, and have a larger environmental footprint than the incumbent - and…

— Michael Shellenberger

The underlying problem with solar and wind is that they are too unreliable and energy-dilute.

— Michael Shellenberger