Resources from Alex Epstein

Below are some resources to help you become a Climate Thinker. And here are a few bonuses that will help you increase your energy knowledge and influence even faster:

(1) In my Energy Clarity and Energy Influencer newsletters, which you’re already subscribed to, I’ll share my best material on how to understand and communicate energy issues.

(2) This video will teach you one of the most powerful persuasion tactics I know: opinion stories.

Increase your energy clarity

Framework: How to think about our energy choices using a pro-human framework

• Alex Epstein – Talks at Google
• Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

Facts: The full context of facts that should inform our energy choices

• 2 page summary of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
• Alex Epstein on The Rubin Report
• ‘97% Of Climate Scientists Agree’ Is 100% Wrong
• The Truth About Sea Levels
• The Unscientific Consensus
• The Church Of Climate Scientology: How Climate Science Became A Religion
• Power Hour: Richard Lindzen on Climate Change
• Power Hour: Steve Goreham on Climate Change
• Power Hour: Dr. William Happer on Climate Science and Global Warming
• Power Hour: Dr. Richard Lindzen on Questioning Climate Science
• Power Hour: Paul Driessen on Superstorm Sandy
• Power Hour: Joanne Nova on Catastrophic Global Warming
• Power Hour: Myron Ebell on the Rise and Fall of Cap and Trade
• Power Hour: Donna Laframboise on the IPCC’s Politicization of Science
• Power Hour: Eric Dennis on How to Think About Climate Change
• Power Hour: Patrick Michaels on Global Warming and the IPCC
• Power Hour: The Man Who Debunked the Hockey Stick
• Power Hour: Craig Idso on the Benefits of CO2
• Power Hour: John Christy on What Climate Scientists Know and Don’t Know
• Power Hour: Judith Curry on The State Of Climate Science
• Power Hour: Dr. Denis Rancourt on the True Physics of CO2
• Power Hour: Dr. Patrick Frank on the Accuracy of Climate Models
• Power Hour: Craig and Sherwood Idso on the Failures of Climate Predictions
• Power Hour: Marc Morano on the Evolution of the Climate Debate
• Power Hour: Tim Ball on the Corruption of Climate Science

Positions: The pro-human choice on vital energy issues

• CIP on the issues
• The Energy Liberation Plan

Increase your energy influence

Framework: Why and how to reframe all energy communication in pro-human terms (“Arguing to 100”)

• How to debate climate change
• Pro-human, whole-picture reframing
• Alex Epstein on Arguing to 0 vs. arguing to 100
• How Republicans Can Make Energy a Winning Issue

Strategy: How to get clarity on your persuasive objectives and the highest leverage drivers to achieve them

• Constructive Conversation Scorecard

Messaging: Persuasive, pro-human content that is at the heart of positive influence

• Sample Master Messaging
• Alex Epstein on The Aaron Harber Show

Conversation: How to positive influence others in one-on-one conversation

• Introduction to the constructive conversation formula
• Step 1 – Create openness and friendliness
• Step 2 – Clarify and isolate the issue
• Step 3 – Propose the ground rules of the conversation
• Step 4 – Summarize your full-context opinion
• Step 5 – Recommend a great resource
• Basic principles for applying the constructive conversation formula

Communication: How to positively influence your peers and colleagues

• Alex Epstein on Intellectual Persuasion
• Alex Epstein on Thaddeus Russell’s Unregistered Podcast

Shareable resources: Usually the best way to positively influence others is to give them a preexisting resource that is pro-human and persuasive.

• Alex Epstein’s senate testimony on energy, fossil fuels, and climate
• Do 97% of Climate Scientists Really Agree?
• Alex Epstein Debates a Climate Scientist on the Aaron Harber Show
• Can we rely on wind and solar energy? video