From the “weepy Bill McKibben” department.
Climate alarmists were out rattling their doomsday sandwich boards again, repeating their absurd claim that a few degrees of warming, even if it occurs, may wipe out the human race.
According to the Washington Post;
What it’s like when your job is to predict the end of humanity
As recently as 2009, Camille Parmesan had a career that most scientists can only dream of.
That year, the University of Texas professor was named one of Atlantic Monthly’s 27 “Brave Thinkers” for her efforts to save species whose habitats are threatened by climate change.
The distinction — which placed Parmesan on a list alongside Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Barack Obama — arrived two years after she shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore for serving as a lead author of the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Camille Parmesan. (Plymouth University) Camille Parmesan. (Plymouth University)
But beneath the acclaim, Parmesan recalls, her work left her “professionally depressed” and panicked — so much so that she eventually abandoned her life in the United States for a new one on the other side of the Atlantic, according to the environmental news website Grist.
“To be honest, I panicked 15 years ago — that was when the first studies came out showing that Arctic tundras were shifting from being a net sink to being a net source of CO2,” she told Esquire’s John H. Richardson for a recent piece about the emotional toll of climate science. “That along with the fact this butterfly I was studying shifted its entire range across half a continent — I said this is big, this is big. Everything since then has just confirmed it.”
If you make it past Parmesan’s sharing of her angst, without losing your lunch, and through the middle of the article, the final obstacle to your digestive equilibrium is an appearance by Nobel Laureate Michael Mann, who provides readers with a detailed description of his personal multiple climate nightmares and depressive breakdowns.
Mann and Parmesan probably hope that baring their souls to the world will stir feelings of empathy, amongst people who haven’t warmed to their science. However I suspect that repeatedly revealing in depth, just how alien and strange the leaders of the climate alarmist movement are, will have the opposite effect to what they intend. People who can’t enjoy a pleasant sunny day, without experiencing intense depression, are in a mental state pretty far removed from what I think most people would consider “normal”.
Note: Parmesan might also be depressed because her work claiming extinction of the Edith’s Checkerspot butterfly was found to be horribly wrong.
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Then there are the Climate ostriches with their heads buried in the sand to protest lack of government action.
Makes me wonder if Mann, Parmesan and others have ‘problems’ to start with and their approach to ‘climate change’ stems from that.
Ref the article photo, the gut in the gray puffy jacket to the right of the sign holder…. who the hell walks like that? Typically, normal people walk with their arms acting as a counter balance to their leg motion…
The guy on the right is off-stride, too, and Gaia only knows what the fella on the left is up to.
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I think they are keeping their hands on their wallets or double checking to make sure they still have them.
I would check too.
Plus, they’re all breathing easier that eye contact was avoided.
I think the fella on the left is miming his commitment to the cause by pedaling an imaginary bicycle. Or maybe he’s really comic and it’s a tricycle.
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Seems she has a mental illness. Perhaps a few years in a straight jacket and padded cell would do her good and keep the rest of us safe.
Josh! Where are you? We need a very small violin and a little pixie standing on fairy dust to play it.
She was so panicked about global warming that she moved from the US to Europe.
What, Europe isn’t gong to be hit by global warming? Which model predicted that?
And another climate scientist who moved to Europe because, well, there’s just too damn must skepticism in the US. It’s so uncomfortable not to have supportive company when you’re in a climate panic attack.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a36228/ballad-of-the-sad-climatologists-0815/
Many people in this generation have been taught by their public schools and the media to rely on their feelings and emotions rather than on objective logic and reason to form their worldview. They’ve also been taught to abandoned any concept of individualism and that one must sacrifice and be subservient to the good of the collective.
This is a very dangerous and destructive epistemology, as an individual’s worldview isn’t formed by logic and reason, but rather by whatever the prevailing collective “consensus” happens to be. If one doesn’t conform to the “collective consensus”, the person feels emotional dissonance and isolation. That’s why CAGW’s “97% consensus” meme is such an effective tool used by the gatekeepers.
It’s my hope that CAGW’s imminent demise will show people their epistemology is fatally flawed, and that “A” does, in fact, equal “A” and that one’s own worldview must be derived based on objective logic, reason, thought and empirical evidence and not on some subjective “consensus” based feelings, emotions and the need for self-sacrifice to the collective.
We’ll see soon enough whether people will start examining their flawed philosophical and moral premises.
This journalist has a good response: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/plotting-a-graph-through-danger/story-fni0cwl5-1227439087270
These kind of articles are very helpful in understanding why alarmists, even the scientists, prefer to ignore anything and everything that contradicts their ideas about climate: they have an emotional, not to say neurotic, attachment to those ideas.
I wonder if they even have any inkling about what people with good memories are going to do to them in the future. I’m planning on at least 10 years of vitriol and ridicule. In fact, I’m quite looking forward to it.
There are many scientists in the world . Those in the West and in the traditional mainstream disciplines of physics, chemistry , materials science and engineering have seen their depts disappear , potential employers move production and development to China and Govt research funding dry up . Only in the field of climate science has the opposite happened – yet these are the one who are weeping .
Amazing.
Every time Camille pops her head over the parapet should be an opportunity to remind her she has a pending request to share her data with Jim Steele.
Cognitive dissonance is the cause of the anxiety. The only resolution for that is openness and honesty. Mainly with yourself.
In Australia, this is similar to a two part article over the past couple of days in The Conversation by celebrity professor Clive Hamilton titled The Banality of Ethics in the Anthropocene …
https://theconversation.com/the-banality-of-ethics-in-the-anthropocene-part-1-44568
https://theconversation.com/the-banality-of-ethics-in-the-anthropocene-part-2-44647
The first sentence gives a hint at the hilarity written within …
“Among the great crimes of the 20th century the most enduring will surely prove to be human disruption of the Earth’s climate.”
One might assume that all generations over the past 100 years stand guilty with heads bowed in the docks, but fortunately within a few sentences Hamilton makes clear who has to take the rap …
“Corporations causing harm to people through their emission of greenhouse gases may be subject to tort law and may be sued for damages. The Principles observe that States are obliged to protect human life and the integrity of the biosphere through an existing network of national and international obligations.
“Looking back on the last two decades of denial, delay and obstruction, there have been perhaps two hundred individuals who should be held most culpable, if not by the courts then by history, for failing to prevent harm or of obstructing others from taking measures to prevent harm.”
And I’ll betcha while he was figuring out the 200 criminals, Anthony Watts was on his list.
Hamilton is fearful of the 30% increase in ocean acidity and still rising, the unstoppable melting ice masses and the tectonic plate movements, earthquakes and volcanoes that are happening because of CO2, which is also suppressing the next ice age that we were all looking forward to in 50,000 years.
His morbid ramblings again prove that fear is borne of ignorance.
This is the same Parmisan that Jim Steele proved wrong in his excellent book “Landscapes and Cycles”. Hope she hasn’t come to the UK we have enough climate kooks already.
It appears that the UK, where I live, has now taken in both of the world’s climate refugees – Parmesan and Lewandowski. This is most unfair. Surely other countries should share the burden of responsibility and take in their own quotas?
Ah ha, so that’s what the UN meant by “climate refugees”! But, my god, I didn’t know there were 50 million of these people.
WAclimate , Your links contain some comments of his , amusing for their pomposity , but also questionable in terms of fact :
eg:
“With modern technology humans have become so powerful that we now rival the great forces of nature, so much so that we have diverted the planet from its natural course, taking it out of the Holocene’s 10,000 years of climatic stability and clemency into a new, unstable and dangerous geological epoch, the Anthropocene”
10000 years of climate stability and clemency ? is that really so? Not what i have gathered from general reading of prehistory.
I can only imagine , never having been in that position , that if you are a professor pomposity is allowed , and if you are a celebrity professor it is almost compulsory, but disseminating arguable facts from your position of authority ? Not so pretty.
Emotionalism is a cultural tool of the socialists & media. Every issue, no matter what, has a weepy angle applied. It’s nauseating.
Apparently the Washington Post article was entitled “Parmesan Cheesed Off”
How did the family get named after a cheese, that’s what I want to know.
Michael Mann “He has broken down in front of his students and can’t shake the fears he has about his daughter living in an alien planet that no longer resembled the one she was born into.
“I don’t want her to have to be sad,” Mann told Esquire. “And I almost have to believe we’re not yet there, where we are resigned to this future.”
My Grandmother was born in 1898. As a 4 year old she travelled by stage coach from Christchurch to Otira, West Coast New Zealand. She grew up in a house that used a wood/coal stove, no running water, long hole toilet.
She died in 1996.
She saw – Motorcars, aeroplanes, trains, electricity, space travel to the moon, 2 world wars, several smaller wars, vast improvements in food.
Nothing of what she saw resembled the world into which she was born. Would she have returned to the world she was born into? Hell no.
So, what is your problem Michael?
Parmesan will hardly enhance ANY standing that Plymouth may have. Yet another poor appointment funded by the poor uk taxpayer.
Plymouth University oh dear an ex poly where you can take a degree course which includes surfing studies.
Looks like quite a march/protest.
Humm….. A cut out holding a sign and three individuals with both feet on the ground posing for the camera. Other pedestrians were making tracks/time going around this massive three person demonstration. LOL