I was going to make this a “Friday Funny”, but there’s really nothing funny about it.
Really, you can’t make this up. Eric Holthaus, the guy who said he’d get a vasectomy to solve climate change, cried about it after reading the AR5 IPCC report and gave up flying to save the planet, because that would somehow prevent hurricanes, is now hoping the Caribbean will get whacked by one.
His rationalization?
It will solve the drought.
From the Slate article titled: Folks in the Caribbean Should Be Hoping for a Hurricane
Most Caribbean economies are closely tied to the tourist trade, and hurricane season is traditionally the time when the influx of beachgoers slows.
So while the tourists are at home, folks in the Caribbean are welcoming a deluge. As Atlantic hurricane season enters its peak August-to-October phase, the best bet for relief at this point is a direct hit by a tropical storm or hurricane.
Let’s see…what’s easier to manage and less destructive to an island economy?
a. water shortage
b. massive hurricane damage
The stupid from this guy, it burns white hot like magnesium.
I am all for greenies willing to neuterize themselves. Let’s think of it as “voluntary eugenics”.
Very similar to the Peter Arnett-ism “We found that we had to destroy the village to save it”
I wonder what the people in the Caribbean think about this twits tweet?
If they get a hurricane, blame global warming. If they get a drought, rinse and repeat.
l would have thought that a hurricane would pollute the current water supply!
Is that Eric in the photo? Since he gave up flying, does he live in the Caribbean or did he just swim ashore?
It goes to the old adage – misery loves company. They are miserable, so they want everyone to be miserable.
It is sick. But no one should be surprised.
Perhaps someone should suggest to him that he can help save the planet by getting a prefrontal lobotomy.
Gee, since one of Slate Magazines Meteorologist Eric’s various companies promises:
“crowdsourcing the most accurate weather forecasts the world has ever seen…) he would know when it is coming.
On the other hand, as President and co founder of Atmospherics Inc., his ” Full-service weather consulting company focusing on extreme weather and climate change adaptation for cities, hospitals, universities and for small farms and organic agriculture in the US and abroad.” he is conjuring up business ?
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/eric-holthaus/1b/280/5a7
Useful idiots as Lenin would say
#GreeniesAreStupid
only someone who had never been in a hurricane would say something so stupid.
A relative who was living through a four-year drought in central South Carolina once told me that an occasional hurricane producing heavy inland rains was necessary to periodically recharge their supply of groundwater.
Don’t want a vasectomy?
Have smaller children instead!
I kid you not. Some Professor of Bioethics (whatever that is!) at New York University is seriously suggesting we need to look at ways to make humans smaller “to fight climate change”
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/munchkins-to-save-us-from-global-warming/
Amongst his other proposals is
to modify people’s minds, using drugs or other means, “to enhance our moral decisions by making us more altruistic and empathetic,” in a way that would cause us to mitigate our climate-changing activities.
Where the hell do these fruitloops get their funding from?
Somebody should call him an ignorant f*******
Beta Blocker says: “”
Tropical systems that produce rain are helpful in many cases, as long as it doesn’t flood. It’s the winds, tornadoes, and storm surge that are the problems. Many years here in Florida we are helped greatly by gentle tropical systems.
Currently interrupting the US TV networks, there’s a SPECIAL REPORT where Obama was to talk about the Ukraine, and so far he’s pointed to the numbers pulled out of his shiny butt as proof the economy has had a more ROBUST recovery than ever seen in about any developed country anywhere ever, showing the wisdom of his doing whatever the hell he wants, as we’ll see on immigration, and those foolish Republicans are daring to sue HIM for doing what has clearly worked so well?!
This must be the only way he can get people to listen to him, pretend to address a humanitarian crisis to get attention for what would otherwise be a primetime Presidential Address 97% would completely ignore.
Okay, now he’s already on to the questions, and first one involves foreign policy. So the SPECIAL REPORT on a foreign crisis was nothing more than domestic boasting based on puffed-up deception.
At least he hasn’t mentioned climate change, yet.
But I just KNOW he’ll point to the excellently-recovered economy as proof we can withstand higher energy costs and still do well. As if HE will ever have to worry about paying for gas for his car ever again.
“This has to be the last flight I ever take” – typical green hypocrite, he should have got off.
His sentiment is wonderful, “it is for their good”.
Sadly I can’t lash him to the mast of my sail boat when Bertha comes through. It would do him a world of good.
shshshshshsh!!!!! Don’t tell them that hurricanes are getting less and less! The watermelons will be putting hurricanes and tornadoes on the endangered species list!!!! When it comes to the current political environment, SS&S!
DanDaly:
“Perhaps someone should suggest to him that he can help save the planet by getting a prefrontal lobotomy.”
A second one to correct his first? Is that ethical? Oh wait, I forgot. 😀 The ends always justify the means with these adorable rubes. When in Rome…
Scalpel.
If he has had a vasectomy i reckon it was not to save the planet, i reckon either his wife told him to or he may have thought that idiocy is genetic.
Gee, which makes more sense for the Caribbean, vacation destination for the jet-setters to the cruise ship tourists?
1. Hope for a drenching hurricane.
2. Hit up wealthy celebrities for funds to build solar-powered desalination facilities.
Tough call. However, thankfully, at least the well-intentioned helpful important people will be able to decide what makes them feel good and incidentally helps them best without bothering the locals for whom they are only acting in those locals’ own best interest, as always.
Perhaps TS Bertha will oblige him
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/07/31/tropical-storm-bertha-forms/
HGW xx/7, DanDaly,
A paddle bit and a cordless drill are faster. We can ensure the same accuracy as their forecasts and models.
After reading about the “crying” incident last year, I read a few of Holthaus’ opinion pieces (impartial reporting they are not) to get a grip on where he was coming from. It astonished me then and astonished me now that someone like him is given such a high profile platform and taken seriously.
Why so serious? Well, for starters, he apparently “was shocked to discover” that flying 75,000 miles added up to enormous carbon emissions and that as a result his carbon footprint was much higher than the average american household.
It took him until October 2013 to work this out.
Then there was his interpretation of AR5. He found that “the world has already experienced warming of up to 2.5°C over nearly its entire surface since the start of the 20th century”. Something that has yet to be discovered in AR5 by anyone. As far as I can tell hee got this information from eyeballing a visual representation of GISS with lots of nasty red in it.
Seriously, sometimes I just want to give up, dig myself a hole and sit in it.