The Huffington Post thinks we’ve all been keeping our climate alarmist views in the closet. Apparently we’re all quietly worried, but we lack the courage to face our friends, and admit our guilty secret.
…if the vast majority of Americans are still not even talking about climate change, we will never break through these obstacles and put irresistible pressure on Congress and every other opponent to stop fighting all reasonable actions to combat climate change and finally take positive action-for the sake of their own children and grandchildren if no one else’s.
So how does this change? How do we change it?
As I have written elsewhere, the model of gay and lesbian Americans “coming out” is a good one. Not perfect but we don’t need perfect. We need action. And what gays and lesbians proved is that one-on-one communication is a deeply powerful tool for creating social change.
The teenager, the mother, the husband, the actress, the Congressman, the Olympian, the football star-all the many people who said simply, “I’m gay,” changed the world. Their world, and our world. By making their issue personal, and taking one small brave step, they moved hearts and minds that may never have opened and changed in any other way.
That is what I believe all of us who are concerned about climate change need to do–in addition to all the other necessary political and practical actions.
For once I’m at a bit of a loss to know what to say. The Huff Post article, which conflates sexual freedom and climate alarmism, has got to be one of the strangest and most desperate theories I have ever read, for why nobody talks about climate change.
Huffington Post is the worst. You really can’t even get anymore unethical and bias in your journalism. Every climate change article is completely made up and aimed to shame skeptics as a schoolyard bully would. It is a true rag. Its an embarrassment that people would believe anything they type regardless of their political standing.
Forget gays and lesbians; they’re doing fine.
The real closet cases around here are the wusses — physical and intellectual. I don’t know what it’s like for you readers in other countries, but here in the US great swaths of men have become total &%$*#! sissies. It’s absolutely appalling. What happened?
Putting aside their food fussiness, nail polish, three hour bathroom runs, girlie voices, shopping hysteria, I-want-to-be-different-just-like-everyone-else tattoos, manscaping, broga, … (I could go on and on) … American men have become doormats whose only concern is not to upset anyone. Go along to get along. They have a defeatist “Well, what can you do about it?” … “it” being anything that would require them sport a pair.
MEMBERS ONLY.
LEAVE YOUR BALLS
AT THE DOOR.
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I don’t have any data, but I strongly suspect that there is a very strong correlation between climate alarmism and being a fembot, between being a groupthinker and having a bumpersticker that reads: VaGaia!
At some level I really admire the men in the middle east; piss them off and they’re not afraid to mount a .50 cal on a Toyota and come teach you a little respect.
Can you imagine what the “men” at the Huffington Puss are like?
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“At some level I really admire the men in the middle east; piss them off and they’re not afraid to mount a .50 cal on a Toyota and come teach you a little respect.”
Those ones usually get the Toyota and the machine gun from a friendly Western agency. For whom they’re peddling Heroin.
Yikes. Must be bad surf today.
I’ll just shallowly add – and here I thought coming out of the closet was about finding better sex.
Well if HuffPo wants people out of the closet, I’ve never been it the closet. And I have read enough and studied enough about CAGW to know that that crowd of nut jobs should do the world and humanity a favor and crawl back into there hole. And further if they want a piece of me come and try to get it.
What if yoy are a warm-monger in a sceptic’s body? Could you get a ‘sex-change’ kind operation?
What a bunch of kooks. Actually what never occurs to these idiots is that most adults are not alarmists and have a rather measured view about the environment in general and climate change in particular. You have be an immature bonehead to run around screaming “the sky is falling “especially when the overwhelming evidence says it isn’t.
Arrogant, delusional and stupid is no way to go through life (variant on the Animal House line). It’s the ones who are most ignorant about math and science that are the most sure of themselves, and can only fathom that it is another “communication problem”. These people are committed to the cause of world socialism, so sadly I think things have to get much worse before they get better.
I’m in favour of world socialism. A true socialist believes that a society should be designed for the benefit of not just a few of its members. The alternative is international anarchy, which is just what we’ve got. It is held in check only by the realisation that the consequence of all out war could easily be everybody, but especially me and you, dead. It is a comfortable superstition to imagine that to have been born where I was born makes me superior to those born elsewhere.
Literal patriotism is rubbish.
Now for my alarmist piece. Since I was born, world poulation has more than doubled. My fair share of the Sun’s output is therefore less than half what it used to be. Not only is global wrming real, but the solar origin “renewables” cannot cure it.
Here’s the good news, almost. The Chinese People’s Republic, which of course is the world’s biggest capitalist conglomerate, is going to fix the problem with energy from a technology that the USA abandoned in Nixon’s reign.
I’m willing to try it: “Down with global warming! Long live Chairman Pachauri! Paris or bust! Keep the temperature down! … ⛄️
Max, it’s a silent progressive agenda. Emasculate men, and wars & violence will be a thing of the past….
Excellent idea. I have been consumed by the great secret within me. It has been a heavy burden to carry but now I have decided to “come out”. So I’ll just say it…
I’m a skeptic!
[There is a 12-step program for that.
You start by waking up every day in January, living your life, then going to sleep and waking up again the next day.
Then you do the same in February.
Repeat in March.
April, May … until the end of December.
Then you do it all over again. .mod]
Brilliant Mod!
Ah – the henpecking, harpy piranhakeets at the Huffington Post. Or the Yahoo front page – I can’t tell the difference. It’s like listening to the cast of Mean Girls in mid-tantrum.
Wow, they’ve got the Whitehouse, all the university’s, all the NGOs, UN, Royal Society, K-12 brainwashed by their ‘educator’ keepers, all the major multi billion dollar foundations, the Gang Green platoons, Hollywood, nearly all the TV networks, nearly all the newspapers, all the scientific journals, tenure, World Bank, IMF, all but 3 or 4 governments out of 200+,…. They’ve seen us vilified, freedom trampled on and lives and livelihood threatened. What more could the writer at the HUFFPO want?!!? Gee we are only 3% and probably more in need to be part of this “diversity” thingy to recover from the marginalization. It might be becoming safer for gays and lesbians and all the other kinds to come out than it is for the 3%. I guess they could get more. The USSR, China and Burma didn’t have to put up much with dissenters like us. But gee, the climate warming proponents are victims? Surely it isn’t we few holding them up. Go ahead and come out – your safe from me.
Gary, can I use the “Gang Green” line? , good chuckle!
Well, let’s see – The US and Europe are about 1 billion people. Assuming they are all warmers which we know is incorrect, that leave 6 billion who are too busy trying to survive to actually care. I’m thinking the “Green Gang” is pretty small.
Applying the knowledge gained by gender mainstreaming researchers, this makes warmunism a social construct.
I decidedly agree with that.
It’s okay, you can run your Global Warming models if you want to. Just pay for them yourselves.
I’ll just shove this note out the closet door:
Those in authority telling
Of doom (and our “myths” dispelling),
Cast great dispersion
On skeptical version,
But; carbon indulgence they’re selling!
…strike the last line… let me try:
For fear of the public rebelling.
This strikes me as another “shotgun article”. That is, pull the trigger and hope you hit something close to the target.
The article is hoping to elicit “more noise” by identifying the absence of “noise” from the majority with the “noise” generated by the sexual minority. “If you don’t accept what’s wrong with us then there’s something wrong with you.”
I don’t talk about climate much because I have friends who have drunk the coolaide on climate alarm and I don’t want to argue with them. Apart from their irrationality on climate they are good friends.
It is the same reason I avoid talking about the history of the cosmos or evolution near my other friend who believes the world was created in 6000AD and fossils date from the great flood.
There is nothing to be gained by arguing with people holding irrational religious based beliefs.
OT. What happened to the “Daniels”. Haven’t seen them all day. Did they get banned (finally)?
OK, I admit it. I am worried about climate change. I am concerned that future generations might have a low quality of life if another ice age comes. And all historical records of climate through the ages on this planet indicate another ice age will come again. If man truly does have the ability to influence the climate, then for the sake of future generations we ought to at least make some effort to not leave them with a planet covered in a 30 foot thick sheet of ice that extends down to Kansas. If mass production of CO2 is the way we stop, or at least delay, the next ice age, then we ought to consider how we can help future generations live their lives in swim suits rather than in hooded winter coats and ski masks. Electric cars will not make that happen. Gasoline cars with your standard catalytic converter will produce CO2 and help keep pollution down. So come out of your closets, stop saving up to spend a crazy amount of money on a Tesla that will selfishly leave future generations to survive in a world of ice eating seal and walrus blubber, and get in your gas powered car and go cruising. Because you care.
Were the edges of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the US really only 30 feet thick, when its dome above Canada might well have been over 10,000 feet thick?
Seal and walrus blubber? Oh I forgot there would not be any more polar bears left to eat them, so more for us!
Who has time to read the Huffington Post? I don’t have time for their drivel.
All Huffington Post claims are bizarre. That is because they are the product of mentally ill minds, or “progressives” as they now like to be called…
ROFL….Huff Po is huffing and puffing! I’ll ‘come out’ and confirm that I am a full blown climate sceptic. Thank goodness for one good laugh today!
More evidence that parasitic statism is a progressive disease.
As others have observed, idiocy from the Huff& Puff is not news.
I have found that Huff Po and Yahoo News have both been working overtime cranking out the “global warming” alarmism stories. Because of that, I refuse to read anything from either of these “news” outlet. They’ve taken propagandism to an absurd level.
@gandhi come on now read and comment on Yahoo News I think it is so funny to scroll through the comments and see that even with professional trolls (histories of 8000 comments) the warmists can’t conjure up a majority batch of comment posts. Its refreshing to see that skeptics are posting the more informed, erudite, and civil comments and that they are in the majority if one can trust the little thumbs up or down vote tabulators.
Only 71 comments beneath the original article most from the same 5 people
Yet here on WUWT there are 112 comments.
So there are evidently fewer members of Climate religion, than the author thinks.
Her thinking seems to be “Yes ours is the one true religion, we are not a small band of cranks, magnitudes more secretly believe”
they don’t pay their own people for posting!
Her argument is the public are not vociferous about Climate Change
Yes you can see that from her Huffpo posting history, which is almost entirely about climate change and mostly ignored.
averaging a post every month since 2012 yet averaging only 0, 3, 5 comments
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bennett/
No need to ‘come out’ on my part. I’ve always been forthcoming, about my requirements for verifiable and reproducible science/physics/engineering claims…. as well as my predilections for the fairer gender, may God bless their curvacious souls!
As for the Huffington Post, it has been reduced to post modern psychobabble. Irrational drivel, ostensibly ‘supporting’ the climate catastrophe meme. I’m not a regular ‘reader’…. and even less likely to be so now.