Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Arnold Schwarzenegger has joined an unprecedented group of politicians, celebrities and faith leaders gathered at the summit of conscience meeting Paris, who have demanded immediate action on climate change.
According to the Guardian (quoting Schwarzenegger);
“I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.
“I believe the science is in. The debate is over and the time for action is now,” he told an invited audience of intellectuals and spiritual leaders from all faiths. “This is bigger than any movie, this is the challenge of our time. And it is our responsibility to leave this world a better place than we found it, but right now we are failing future generations.”
“This year alone we will dump 40bn tonnes of carbon emissions into our atmosphere. The World Health Organization says that air pollution causes over 7 million premature deaths every year and all over the world we can see flooding, monster storms, droughts and wild-fires that are completely out of control.”
I’m an Arnie fan, but this doesn’t mean I’ll defer my reason to Schwarzenegger’s authority as a climate expert. I don’t doubt Schwarzenegger is sincere, but the grouping now gathered in Paris, whether individual members know it or not, in my opinion represents part of an unprecedented attempt to shackle the global economy, to provide rent seeking renewable corporatists with an open opportunity to enslave and plunder the poor, by driving up the price of food and energy. To drive up prices to the point that some poor people will begin to starve to death.
If there was a climate emergency, the appropriate response would be to decarbonise the economy with nuclear reactors, not to push for renewables which even top Google engineers admit simply don’t work. Since nobody can demonstrate any global warming whatsoever since 1997, without overcooking the numbers, there clearly isn’t a problem urgent enough to justify inflicting unspeakable horror and starvation on the most vulnerable people of the world.
If you want to exercise your conscience Arnold Schwarzenegger, do some more research. Do what Bill McKibben recently did, take a short drive down the road to Chico, CA, and listen to another side to the story. Anthony might or might not persuade you – but at least you will have made an effort, to hear both sides of the story. Don’t blindly place your credibility and good faith into the hands of people who, in my opinion, knowingly or unknowingly represent the interests of unscrupulous rent seeking corporatists.
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No, it most certainly is not. At best, the anthropogenic global warming contention is fantasy; in fact, it’s fraud.
To quote Robert A.Heinlein – one of the writers who can be said to have defined the field of science fiction –
Perhaps we ought to be talking about fictional science rather than science fiction. Arnie A. apparently doesn’t have time to read the vast amount of fictional science presented by the IPCC. Fictional science presents selected facts. mishandled data, and unfounded hypotheses in the form of a published paper or a purported science article in the popular press or blog that draws the desired conclusions out of thin air. When ever you see “may” or “not inconsistent with” you know you are reading or seeing fictional science.
What he’s saying is: It’ll be back. The warming.
climate change is not science fiction,
However, the notion that climate change has anything to do with burning fossil fuels is.
Anthony might or might not persuade you – but at least you will have made an effort, to hear both sides of the story.
And that sword cuts all ways. We need the other side. It is important to remember that. I nearly always learn more in discussion with those with whom I don’t agree.
Also bear in mind that our paper on surface stations involves a feedback mechanism, itself: that of Heat Sink Effect (HSE). And as in Willis’ example, it is a trend amplifier, it does not create a trend (unless local conditions change significantly, in which case we simply drop the station anyway).
Therefore we agree that global warming (“A” or not, “C” or not) is not only a reality, but absolutely required for our hypothesis to be tested (and it tests very well indeed). The question is, as usual is not of of those “how” things, but a “how much” things. Most alarmists think that skeptics insist that either it is not warming or that warming is 110% natural. But the responsible skeptics I have seen in the journals universally concede that humans can and do have some effect the climate. But by how much?
When the Great Dork cannot even mentally distinguish the difference between emitting an odourless, colourless, harmless gas and smoke , NOx and particulate emissions in the third world then you can ignore everything else he says. Perhaps he should have just jumped to his feet and crooned “Ah’ll be Baack” like he usually does.
Reblogged this on ajmarciniak and commented:
I’m an Arnie fan, but this doesn’t mean I’ll defer my reason to Schwarzenegger’s authority as a climate expert. I don’t doubt Schwarzenegger is sincere, but the grouping now gathered in Paris, whether individual members know it or not, in my opinion represents part of an unprecedented attempt to shackle the global economy, to provide rent seeking renewable corporatists with an open opportunity to enslave and plunder the poor, by driving up the price of food and energy. To drive up prices to the point that some poor people will begin to starve to death.
I figure the climate is much like the weather. Climate is in a constant state of flux and will be whether we humans exist or not. These alarmists are nothing but fear mongering opportunists, using a natural event and blaming man kind for the change to support their own livelihood…. no different than say, religious leaders. This has been turned into a religion.
This is all pretty rich from a man with the carbon footprint of a small African country. Apart from actively promoting the development of the Humvee for civilian use his other cars are a Bugatti Veyron, Bentley, Ferrari 360 Spider, a Porsche 911 Turbo, a Dodge Challenger, and a Mercedes SLS. No Chevy Volt for Arnie. He also has his own Gulfstream III private jet but of course you must not catch a charter flight for your annual holidays or go anywhere except by bus or bicycle.
Is there anything more vain and hypocritical than a Hollywood environmentalist ?
almost makes one wonder how much he was paid
But thinking that all the roids you took would not have made a difference in how things turned out is NOT fiction? Seriously. Here is a guy who’s amazing rise to the top was aided by steroids, and he would have never been that great. ( he still may have won, but on a non steroidal playing field, he would not have been the extreme outlier he was, and likely not garnered the attention that launched his career. its easily a 20-40 lb advantage for him, it allows you to work harder and recover quicker) And then he says it was a “mistake” A mistake my bicep.. He is a smart man, but he knows darn well that winning a show without drugs and winning it with them are 2 different things. I get on stage and have to try to shred opponents to win, by that I mean so cut at 5-9 170 that guys 20-40 lbs heavier than me dont look as cut. If they are, I get blown off the stage, and it has happened. Not fun being 0-37 before you won even a state show. , What is very surprising though is his trashing of foundational facts. If equated with lifting, the climate fight is the old free weights vs machine argument. It takes big powerful movements to create big powerful muscles. Most of the guys you see out there did the big power movements to grow sqauts, powercleans, alot of heavy free weight work. Arnold railed against machine work when he was winning. His squat routines were legendary. Franco Columbo, same way. The foundational evidence is the actual data now, the modeling the machines And even though that modeling has been dead wrong, you still see it being pushed. Its like the guy getting a gym membership thinking 3 days a week with a trainer on machines, many of whom got that way lifting heavy weights, will make him look like that trainer. Nonsense But you know something, maybe there is something in him that likes the easier way out. I hold nothing against him for using steroids, it was a calculated decision and it clearly helped him, Though I have not taken them, and my competition weight was never over 175, even now if I go in masters, its down to 165 and I never was 7x Mr Olympia either, and can not even dream of that level ( even with drugs) But then to piss down our back and tell us its raining ( it was a mistake to take them???) is basically what he is up to now with this stand to try to keep him relevant. And by the way, I always wondered how Bush 1 could have possibly appointed him the head of the presidents council on physical fitness. So what do you tell kids with that.. take roids and you can be like Arnold? Do us a favor Arnold, deal with reality. What you did was great, but dont tell us the aids you had were a mistake. And while your at it, why dont you actually challenge yourself to look at foundational facts on climate the way you did when you were training. You dont need roids to do that, just a lick of common sense
One other thing. I make no judgement on what a person does and does not do as far as his personal life I think if I was a cop for instance , with the way things are today, I would darn sure get as strong as I could physically to make sure I can protect myself. And while everyone sits there ( I get a kick out of sports writers, like none of them never smoked something illegal or taken something to help get rid of writers block, or study for a test) that go after the 240 lb back that got caught, cause he was trying to level a playing field against 4 300 lb defensive line man that want to face plant him) and criticizes guys.. MY BEEF IS NOT THAT HE TOOK THEM.. BUT THAT HE TELLS US IT WAS A MISTAKE. and the link I tried to show is that he will say things he knows not to be true, I cant believe he believes that, and that he is really violating something he should have learned in the gym about big foundational methods. So his stance to me is like arguing the sun the oceans stochastic events and the design of the system are overcome by the weather equal of a yoga mat. But as far as what he did, fine, just dont tell us it was a mistake. It does I think reveal the same kind of attitude that would have him buy into all this, in spite of what he should know.
Hey Arnold,
Let’s make a deal: I’ll start believing what you’re spouting when you start living like you actually believe it too.
If you really believe that CO2 is killing the planet, shouldn’t you be walking everywhere, living in one of those trendy “tiny” houses, eschewing private (or even commercial) aviation, etc?
Hmm. I wonder how much carbon is created in the production, marketing and delivery of one of those 400 million dollar movies that pay your bills? Why do we need such lavish entertainment in the face of the end of the world as we know it?
Yea…I’m not buying that you really believe the tripe your spouting, because if you really believed that modern life is killing the planet you wouldn’t just be railing at everyone else in the world to clean up their act, you’d be cleaning up your own.
If you’re not willing to give up your own lavish, jet-setting lifestyle, energy sucking mansions, and profligate consumerism, I’m thinking you don’t really believe it’s that big of deal after all now do you?
I just tell people I’m green. I must be – my carbon footprint is a fraction of Arnies, and Leo’s and Al’s.
Unfortunately the MSM is pounding [every] airwave with this message. Our side of the argument is not getting a look in
I make sense of all this by estimating the brain-to-ego ratio of people who take a position on hypothetical catastrophes and, in my opinion, the brain factor is not that variable among members of our species who have managed to survive to maturity.
My local weather bureau recently revamped its website and led me into the global warming blog, ran by the senior scientific officer, where he rants on about “climate deniers…bleating”, not ‘climate change deniers’, but ‘climate deniers’, a Freudian slip for sure. I took no time at all in pointing out to the local newspaper that the only “climate deniers” we’re the scientific officers of our weather bureau, who deny repeatedly that it is nothing more sinister than climate.
Thanks indeed to E.W. for bringing this motley crew to our attention.
The link to the so-called “summit of conscience” is buttock-clenchingly vile.
It shows happy faces of fifty-one (51) so-called personalities who support their trendy, green nonsense. If only they knew; CONSCIENCE cannot be communal.
Their heading should read … “CON-science !” – Be a Parasite and Join the Gravy Train – we’ll show you how to milk the tax-payers with the help of the EPA.
They also show four “organisers”, they are:-
ARC / Bayard – for the youth / Conseil Economique Social et Environnemental / R20 – Regions of Climate Action.
Partners are:-
Auberge Advoniat (Paris) / Fondation Prince Albert II de Monaco / Fondation Iris / ihemer / Revue Ultreia / Semaines sociales de france / Village des Pruniers (Plum Village).
Press partners are:-
France Inter / La Croix / UbrainTV.
I just can’t wait to see the special, hard-hitting antidote when it, the special film by CMofBr., comes out later this year. I just hope he gets the funding for it: perhaps we could all chip in what we can afford and help to make it a real firecracker of a film. Any thoughts E.W. ?
Arnie’s science fiction experience is not from the film industry. It’s from his time as California’s Guv.
Arnie the same [Governor] of California that blocked hundreds of irrigation [reservoirs] and a fresh water pipeline projects and now in periodic [drought] California is [rationing] water.
When I go to the gym I can’t escape Arnie and a bunch of meerkats trying to sell me insurance for fossil-fuel automobiles.
Where’s Kristanna Loken when you need her?
How did Arnie and his friends get from his home in sunny California to Paris to make his pronouncement that we should all use less jet fuel.
Kindergarten talk.
So why is he driving such a big gas guzzler?
Because he is so challenged in other areas……
Singers want to be actors, actors want to be politicians, politicians want to be supreme overlord.
Was Arnie ever a singer?
I just wish I could sing in tune……
Let people like Arnie make all the fuss they want, it will in no short order come back to haunt them, the coming decade on top of nearly two decades of no warming, will be like egg on face.
The somnolent sun in his fading decades will show him as a fool, actors and body builders do not always equate to wisdom or scientific acumen. Arnie grow up and smell the roses.
There is no tomorrow. What’s important is the face time you have today.
Here’s how his clean, green, renewable state fared in 2012:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/garyshapiro/2012/09/05/broken-california-wasting-money-and-hurting-business/
Anthony isn’t the other side of the story, merely a G rated version of it. Fiction it all remains. The atmosphere and our Oceans smooth the extremes of temperature between night and day, they do not make the mean temperature any hotter.
Have they locked up all the nannies in Paris?
Politicians and global warming:
Thanks for that. Saw the Arnie thing on Facebook the other day. Just posted Mr. Minister. I love that show. It’s funny because it is so true. My “political” friends agree.