I had a tough time deciding if this should be “Quote of the Week” or “Climate Craziness of the Week”. The quote is from 350.org’s founder Bill McKibben, who says:
I, as you can tell, am the furthest thing from an activist leader. I’m a writer.
One might believe that…. except for right above that statement is this photo and headline:
You can read the entire essay here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-26/is-a-leaderless-climate-movement-like-al-qaeda-.html
(h/t to Ryan Maue)
A simple search of Bill McKibben and protest yields many photos like this:
Source: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20110823/NEWS02/110822034/McKibben-out-jail-encourages-more-protests
I used to think Bill McKibben was simply a misguided visionary.
But now with his self image delusion in the face of his own actions, I think maybe he’s just in denial, perhaps even afflicted with some sort of personality disorder.
He’s just a liar in the pay of the Rockefeller Foundation.
The Bloomberg.com link is a 404 page not found. Delete this after reading…
REPLY: Nope, it is some sort of browser sensitivity to a poorly designed URL. Try different browser. – Anthony
Who was that guy that started the environmental activist organization 350.org? Hmmm…
Bill, meet Bob Filner. Go to therapy together.
I love the photograph – people demonstrating for action on global warming all wearing cold weather clothing.
This link works.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-26/is-a-leaderless-climate-movement-like-al-qaeda-.html
Looks like Anthony’s post contains debris from an encoded question mark.
Done up like a bunch of Eskimos, mittens and all. Oh that horrible global warming!
OT – Former Penn State President Spanier, who featured in the internal investigation “exonerating” Penn prof Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann of wrongdoing after the “Climategate” emails scandal, is now up on charges in relation to pedophile Jerry Sandusky. The charges include perjury.
Actually, there’s an extra space at the end of the link. If you remove that, the link will work in any browser. 🙂
What is truly sad (and equally scary) about McKibben’s statement is that he TRULY believes he is a writer and NOT an activist. There is no meaningful discussion with person such as this.
of course he’s no leader, otherwise he’d have to take responsibility for the total lack of any success for 350.org
rayvandune says:
July 31, 2013 at 12:26 pm
OT – Former Penn State President Spanier, who featured in the internal investigation “exonerating” Penn prof Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann of wrongdoing after the “Climategate” emails scandal, is now up on charges in relation to pedophile Jerry Sandusky. The charges include perjury.
At least he’s consistent.
Perhaps he is just trying to position himself outside the Mann-sphere. In other words, when he sues he wants the argument that he is NOT a public person.
Y’all have obviously completely misjudged Bill McKibben. If you look at the fine print on the sign that’s invisible to the naked eye, y’all would see that Bill is actually anti-climate-action via UN style regulation.
Mr. President, FORWARD on climate.
Which, of course, means:
Mr. President, Forgo Organized Rigid Wealth / Autonomy Redistribution Designs on climate.
(/sarc)
Mikeyj says:
July 31, 2013 at 12:56 pm
rayvandune says:
July 31, 2013 at 12:26 pm
OT – Former Penn State President Spanier, who featured in the internal investigation “exonerating” Penn prof Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann of wrongdoing after the “Climategate” emails scandal, is now up on charges in relation to pedophile Jerry Sandusky. The charges include perjury.
At least he’s consistent.
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Lawsuit! Coming to a town near you!
(although I can’t fault your logic 😛 )
The disadvantaged in society (and they’re usually but not always the minority) ultimately acquire their unalienable rights by raising their voices and demanding them. Unfortunately, many have no voice with which to demand that: women in the MiddleEast, the elderly, and children. They need voices for them.
McKibben and his allies apparently wish to give voice to something that is also voiceless. But it’s not those sentient groups. Instead it’s for something non sentient, vague, largely undefined and therefore open to contention.
Sorry Mr. McKibben, you and your allies have taken the easy way out on your false path as champions of the good. You’re not. Quite the opposite really.
McKibben .What a strange person
Tom G(ologist) says:
July 31, 2013 at 12:25 pm
I love the photograph – people demonstrating for action on global warming all wearing cold weather clothing.
Ha Ha Ha HA HA HA. Remember to wrap up warm for those global warming protests. Oh the ironing!!
Anthony said,
“. . . [this] quote is from 350.org’s founder Bill McKibben, who says:”
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Bill McKibben,
I have applied a remedy to your quote as follows:
John
I heard him speaking on a segment of NPR’s “This American Life.” It was a clip from his speech to an audience. What he meant by it was that he has no charisma (or “presence”) and has a poor speaking voice.
They may not be much like al-Qaeda, but I’m sure al-Qaeda appreciates what the carbon cultists do for them.
That’s right. And they never fly as they fight to tackle ‘climate change’.
OHHHHHHH and what’s this Anthony?????
Ohhhhh and what’s this?
Bill McKibben is not an activist or a leader of any sort. /sarc
350.org — 10 degrees short of a complete zero.
I’ll just Godwin up this thread by pointing out that “AUTHOR” was the occupation listed for one Adolf Hitler for the entire time he was blitzkrieging his way across Europe.
Steve Milloy flagged this article on junkscience.com on the day it was published. It is full of juicy quotes illustrating McKibben’s looniness. A particular favourite of mine:
“I’m confident this movement will continue to grow and reshape things. I’m not completely confident it will happen in the time frame that physics allows us. That’s why it’s a really interesting contest, and a contest with by far the highest stakes that human beings have ever played for. Ever. ”
Wow!
In photos like this, you can tell the naive useful idiots by the carnival smiles on their faces. You can round this kind of crowd up from any university, especially students who don’t have a demanding curriculum in their field. In Montreal last year, student protests paralyzed downtown, shutting down most of the university departments for months. I was managing an industry project at the engineering physics department of the Ecole Polytechnique at the University of Montreal and worried that we would be missing deadlines, etc. When I got to the University, I found the engineering folks and science faculties all busy at their work. Probably other serious faculties were also at work.
It’s definitely the cotton candy departments that supply and probably incite their students to take an opportunity to be “useful”. The fact that guys like McKibben surround themselves with such unquestioning mannikins speaks oodles about the cynicism and emptiness of the movement.
“I, as you can tell, am the furthest thing from an activist leader. I’m a [science fiction] writer. ”
There, fixed.
Wow he really is delusional if he thinks the Arab Spring was non-violent!
Wikipedia has an estimate of over 120,000 deaths. Bill McKibben is as out of touch on the Arab Spring as he is about climate change.
beat to me it, Jeff Alberts!
Hillarious photo – here they are all protesting about global warming, wrapped up in furs and duvets against the cold.
Glad to be of service! 😉
I would say that McDrivel, Leandowski, Hansen and Ehrlich are all personality disordered, with a good splash of Narcissism in there.
Unfortunately, narcissists have a way of attracting a following . . . [snip]
I’d be curious to know what sort of correlation there is between diagnosable narcissism and global warming alarmism. Plenty, I would guess.
If I refer to Bill McKibben as the Al Sharpton of climate change will I be sued? And if so, which one is going to claim he has been defamed by comparison to the other? Maybe both?
Hanson and McGibbon both have that sociopath’s smirk, the glee at doing their thing.
In order to analyse this properly, you must consider what the speaker was thinking as he used the words, not what you thought he meant by the words he used.
For example, he may have been thinking, “I wouldn’t call myself an activist, or even an advocate. What I am engaged in is economic warfare on the US.”
So, Bill McKibben’s statement that he is “not an activist” could in fact be qualified as truthful self-reporting. 😉 😀 You know, for a progressive.
What’s frightening is all those people behind him that believe the climate nonsense….