Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Arnold Schwarzenegger has received over 100,000 likes, for a Facebook post about the alleged benefits of renewables, which included a fantasy about people who choose petrol powered cars spending an hour with the car of their choice, locked in a sealed room with the engine running, without a gas mask.
From Arnold’s post;
I don’t give a **** if we agree about climate change.
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Renewable energy is great for the economy, and you don’t have to take my word for it. California has some of the most revolutionary environmental laws in the United States, we get 40% of our power from renewables, and we are 40% more energy efficient than the rest of the country. We were an early-adopter of a clean energy future.
Our economy has not suffered. In fact, our economy in California is growing faster than the U.S. economy. We lead the nation in manufacturing, agriculture, tourism, entertainment, high tech, biotech, and, of course, green tech.
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There are two doors. Behind Door Number One is a completely sealed room, with a regular, gasoline-fueled car. Behind Door Number Two is an identical, completely sealed room, with an electric car. Both engines are running full blast.
I want you to pick a door to open, and enter the room and shut the door behind you. You have to stay in the room you choose for one hour. You cannot turn off the engine. You do not get a gas mask.
I’m guessing you chose the Door Number Two, with the electric car, right? Door number one is a fatal choice – who would ever want to breathe those fumes?
Read more: https://www.facebook.com/notes/arnold-schwarzenegger/i-dont-give-a-if-we-agree-about-climate-change/10153855713574658
Schwarzenegger is wrong about renewables being “great for the economy” – as WUWT reported back in May, the cost of energy in California is having a significant impact on jobs, and is contributing to decisions by many businesses to relocate to Texas. This has become such an issue, that Californian Democrats who represent poor, working class areas recently mutinied against Governor Brown’s efforts to introduce tougher CO2 emissions targets, and sided with Republicans to defeat the bill.
But its the fantasy about people being gassed which really bothers me. The green movement has a growing track record of utterly grotesque, even murderous fantasies, and hysterical calls for their opponents to be persecuted. It seems sad that someone of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s stature felt a need to add to this perversity.
Note from Anthony:
It appears the great musclehead mind has confused Carbon Monoxide, and Carbon Dioxide, something I’m no stranger to via threat from one of my own local nuts eco-activists, Sherri Quammen: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/22/letters-i-get-letters/
Ahnold and Sherri, they are both of the same caliber of thought.
“Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Gas Chamber Fantasy for Climate Skeptics”
Poor sad climatephobes. Their climate models have failed, there has been no global warming for over 18 years and they have no credible science. This is what they have degenerated to.
Arnold is desperate to revive his career in Hollywood so it not surprising to see him exploiting the biggest point of paranoia that exists in the closed world in which he lives. What he’s actually going to do is alienate the people that once actually liked him while sucking up to these Hollywood elites. Oh well, his father was a Nazi, and he’s expressed admiration for Hitler, so I guess he’s got a lot in common with the eco-fascists and their tactics. He was a disaster as Governor, and a low-life as a man and a husband. So enjoy the bed you’ve made, Arnold, because you deserve your fall from grace. I could not possibly respect you less.
Arnold is desperate to revive his floundering career, so it’s not unexpected to see him exploiting the biggest point of paranoia that exists within his closed environment. What he’s actually going to do is alienate the people who once actually liked him as he’s sucking up to these Hollywood elites. Oh well, his father was a Nazi, so it’s not surprising that he has so much in common with the eco-fascists and their tactics. He was a disaster as a governor, and a low-life as a husband and as a man. So Arnold, enjoy the bed you’ve made, because you deserve your fall from grace. I could not possibly respect you less.
Interesting comments coming from a man who injected steroids for many years. That’s way worse than breathing CO2. Oh wait…humans have always breathed CO2. Plants too.
Please take a moment next time this comes up at a cocktail party to explain to people that CO2 is not at all pollution, regardless, or irregardless, of what the EPA says.
I’m usually on the same page with you and yours on this blog, Anthony, but in this case Worrall gets it wrong. Schwarzenegger makes it clear that he cares not for either side in the great climate debate. The point he’s making concerns, first, pollution — the old fashioned kind, NOT the carbon kind – and second, the importance of developing renewable energy, regardless of how anyone might feel about the climate, one way or the other.
His argument makes sense because even if CO2 emissions are not a concern, we will one day run out of fossil fuels and when that time comes, the only alternative will be renewables. The comparison he makes with the two cars in the two garages has to do with the usual sort of pollution generated by internal combustion engines, NOT CO2 “pollution,” which he never mentions. The comparison is apt, because cars that run on gas DO emit harmful pollutants, no question, while electrics do not. It’s a simple, reasonable argument and it amazes me that no one commenting here seems to get it. I see a lot of paranoia on both sides of this argument and at this point I don’t know where to turn.
You’re missing the point. He’s pointing out obvious pollution issues under the banner of Climate Change – with the deliberate effort to let the public confuse the two. Another common propaganda trick, frequently used by climate alarmists – state an obvious fact that no reasonable person would argue with, but not relevant to the topic of climate change – which is the whole point of this manipulative display. It’s called the bait and switch. It’s also a cheap (and phony) way of claiming the moral high ground while avoiding getting caught in an outright lie.
He says he doesn’t care, but tries to guilt you into man made climate change any ways! These climate activists are just plain liars, and of course debate dishonestly.
It’s only bad when the “extreme right” say that:
=> 3 months of prison (suspended) + 10000 € sentence for “pour contestation de crime contre l’humanité” (for disputing a “crime against humanity”)
Source: http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2013/06/19/le-pen-definitivement-condamne-pour-ses-propos-sur-l-occupation_912149
The pro-palestinian extreme left can do it:
Stéphane Hessel
=> It was suggested after his death that his body would be transferred to the Panthéon.
Source: http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/chronique/2011/03/16/hessel-et-petain-ou-la-lecon-d-histoire_1492034_3232.html
(But then we know the French Justice is captured by the extreme left.)
Several years ago I saw something about Arnold. It included an interview where he said what he goals were when he came to the US.
1. Win the Mr. Universe contest.
2. Marry a Kennedy.
3. Become President of the US.
I guess achieving 1 1/2 ain’t bad. 😎
The terminator is terminally stupid. According to the state website, 32% of its electricity is imported from WA, OR and the 4-corners area. Another 52% is imported in the form of other peoples’ natural gas, 10% is “domestic” hydro, 3% local nuke. That leaves 3% for solar, wind and geothermal.
Reblogged this on pattikellar and commented:
Now this is just plain funny.
“Note from Anthony:
It appears the great musclehead mind has confused Carbon Monoxide, and Carbon Dioxide, something I’m no stranger to via threat from one of my own local nuts eco-activists, Sherri Quammen: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/22/letters-i-get-letters/
Ahnold and Sherri, they are both of the same caliber of thought.”
Gergen der Dumheit kampfen die Gotten selbst vergebens. I probably got that wrong, but it accurately expresses the futility of actually dismantling Arnold’s abortion of logic here.
Stupidity has reached critical mass in this country and the bureaucrats mistakenly believe they can manage a welfare state of micro-regulated populace with an ever shrinking ratio of productive to unproductive citizens. If that weren’t enough, they’re perpetually insistent that we import more ignorance for the sheer purpose of maintaining a large enough voting block.
I guess we’ll never know the answer to WWATD ?
(What Would A Terminator Do).
Maybe there will be a sequel.
I think Arnold confused himself with the AH nazi guy.
Schwarznegger shouldn’t make fun of gas chambers because the Austrians are just as culpable as the Germans of gassing millions of Jews!
CA gets 40% of it’s power from renewables?
I do believe Arny is off by an order of magnitude.
What a childish, naive metaphor. A garage vs the entire planet? Mixing apples and asteroids? Doesn’t work, for me. Another rich person telling us poor folk how to live, think and vote? Nope!
And as usual, the science is utterly broken in what he proposes anyway. Why? Because carbon monoxide kills you within an hour. So the carbon dioxide isn’t even the villain in his silly anecdote.
A technicality caution – while the CO in exhaust of a typical engine would get you first, a very high proportion of CO2 would stop lung function (even before displacement of oxygen by CO2 would.
It’s amazing how types like Schwarzenegger “get religion” on Chicken Little ideas and keep on trying harder instead of thinking.
Oh, right, that’s the person who was elected governor on a promise to straighten out the finances of California but didn’t? Full of hot air I’d say.
Heil Hitler!
And David Suzuki compares oilsands people to slave traders: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/its-a-moral-issue-david-suzuki-compares-oilsands-defenders-to-slave-traders.
You have to understand that he’s a neo-Marxist to begin to grasp why he would say that. (Marxism and its Post-Modernist derivative uses a complicated theory of power, does not have a clue about individual rights, and values contradictions , thinks that words make reality.
Unfortunately others listen to the horsefeathers – a former premier of B.C., who I refer to as Gordo, got his climate alarmist views in substantial part from Schwarzenegger (and from a perfessor who buttonholed him at a reception one day). Gordo proved to be incompetent in finances as well, having presided over a major error in forecasting income tax revenue then implementing a combined federal-provincial sales tax that his regime had at least strongly inferred they had no interest in. (Sadly, the integrated approach is better as more efficient for businesses to administer, but voters were so ticked off they forced a referendum that reversed the decision.)
Gordo’s successor as premier, Ms. PPCC I call her, likely got her climate alarmist beliefs from her religion – the Anglican offshoot of the Catholic church, both quite alarmist these days. (Very similar churches of course, similar rituals.)
Who started the planet onto owning Gas Guzzling Hummers? Maybe he should have thought of that when he just had to own one making them so popular…??
And the IDIOT GENE is going VIRAL