Guest post by David Middleton
Meteorologist opens up about the struggle with fighting climate change
Eric Holthaus revealed his emotional and psychological battle with trying to save the planet.
@EricHolthaus
I’m starting my 11th year working on climate change, including the last 4 in daily journalism. Today I went to see a counselor about it.
@EricHolthaus
I’m saying this b/c I know many ppl feel deep despair about climate, especially post-election. I struggle every day. You are not alone.
@EricHolthaus
There are days where I literally can’t work. I’ll read a story & shut down for rest of the day. Not much helps besides exercise & time
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As nearly as I can tell, this meteorologist’s “job” is to blog alarmist propaganda… This and the election of Donald Trump have apparently put him into therapy and is making it difficult fro him to go to “work.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji9qSuQapFY
At least he doesn’t “work” for the EPA or DOE…
FEDERAL AGENCIES
Tears, angst as workforce braces for Trump takeover
Robin Bravender and Kevin Bogardus, E&E News reporters
Greenwire: Friday, November 11, 2016
U.S. EPA employees were in tears. Worried Energy Department staffers were offered counseling. Some federal employees were so depressed, they took time off. Others might retire early.
And some employees are in downright panic mode in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory.
“People are upset. Some people took the day off because they were depressed,” said John O’Grady, president of American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, a union that represents thousands of EPA employees. After Election Day, “people were crying,” added O’Grady, who works in EPA’s Region 5 office in Chicago. “They were recommending that people take sick leave and go home.”
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Having gone through four M&A’s since 2001, I can attest that anyone who felt the need to “take sick leave and go home” because they were upset about the new management, would probably find that “leave” to be permanent.
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I would suggest a nice relaxing vacation to northern Iraq to get away from it all.
Preferably Mosul, if not there, Syria. Messes all created by Obama
Whenever this “saving the planet” nonsense comes up, I ask two simple questions:
1) What do we have to do to save the planet?
2) How do we know when it’s been saved?
If they can’t answer these questions then “saving the planet” is just a cliche with no meaning.
George Carlin had something to say about “saving the planet”; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
The hubris and self-importance, let alone the insanity of it speaks volumes for where the priorities of these people are.
I pity the counselor.
A long term guaranteed job is not bad.
Which is worse, a faulty world view or depression over being challenged to abandon a faulty world view ?
Short-term depression is often necessary for building the strength to move through and conquer life’s hardships. You get a divorce, you get over it and move on. You get fired, you move on and try to find another job. Your house gets foreclosed on, you take steps to recover. Bankruptcy, death of a spouse or loved one, …….. There are so many crises in life that challenge us to get stronger.
My advice to all those feeling depressed over Trump’s election is to examine WHY you feel depressed, and make an assessment of whether the problem is with Trump or with YOU.
Be honest now. [maybe asking too much]
Teddy Roosevelt said, “If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
[maybe asking too much] -> [maybe asking to much]
Poor guy’s work on climate change is in jeopardy. I hope the climate change can survive without him.
I can see why Eric Holthaus is so upset……. because he was blindly following the climate alarmists. Therefore he abandoned his own ability to think things through and instead lived in a world of unreality. When living in a world of unreality crashes with reality, it can cause a psychotic break. That is what the election did for many people. It exposed their blind following. That is can be very upsetting. I blindly followed the Vietnam war advocates and have been sorry ever since. I know the feeling of reality crashing against unreality.
The politically run, climate alarmist blind following has been weaseling its way onto my college students and they thought Eric’s world was real. They too started blindly following climate alarmists, and then they too got depressed when the newly elected Republicans said,
“Hey wait, lets evaluate where we are spending environmental money and not throw it away, lets have a well thought out non political environmental policy.”
Eric went to therapy and my college students skipped classes when Trump won because they were told by leftists he was going to pollute the earth, end all gay marriages and send all people from Mexico home. They felt unsafe. They were just as depressed as Eric. So they decided to do nothing, like Eric.
Scientist, physicist and philosopher Buckminster Fuller in his book “The Critical Path” said the only way humanity will stay on this planet is if humans each think for themselves. He believes that to get caught up in emotional political movements will end humanity on the planet. Eric’s political reaction of depression and withdrawal from life demonstrates what happens when it is an emotional movement you are blindly following and not your own heart and mind.
Thanks Eric for showing my students now while they are young enough to change, to get their own facts, not blindly follow a political movement. Your article will inadvertently help them make their own decisions, and not have to be a blind follower. This is how we save the planet, one human at a time.
41 great comments everyone above
I loved this from the article:
Umm … dude … there’s a REASON your colleagues don’ do ‘dat …
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“It impossible to reason a person out of a position that was not reasoned into” – idk
I hope Trump ultimately makes it difficult for any of them to ‘work’.
This joker is hilarious. Here are some of his headlines:
From mid-2016:
“HOLLYWOOD IS FINALLY TAKING ON CLIMATE CHANGE. IT SHOULD GO EVEN FURTHER.”
… dang … late to the party much? Hollywood has been making lousy climate change movies and gushing over Leonardo’s climate antics for a long time.
And from June:
“CLIMATE ACTIVISTS: ITS TIME TO JOIN HILLARY”
We can see how much good that did.
Then there is plenty of obligatory “It’s worse than we thought!” nonsense, like this one:
UH OH: ANTARCTICA MIGHT MELT MUCH FASTER THAN WE THOUGHT.
Finally, my all-time fave …
“THIS CLIMATE CHANGE DOCUMENTARY WANTS TO INSPIRE OPTIMISM—BUT IT JUST DEPRESSED ME MORE”
Bummer, man … Trump is harshing his vibe …
w.
I thought DiCaprio’s flick was almost as funny as Gore’s… I heard Gore is doing a prequel…
An Inconvenient Truth: The Phantom Menace
LOL!!!
Lacrymosity from a grown man.
How unsightly.
Ah well, he’s in touch with his feminine side. 😂
That’s an insult to all females!
My question is: what will be societies loss if he stops working. Will it be a plus or a minus to society? Everything I read hear it will be a big plus if he stops working and giving out false science.
So let’s all hope he stops working, it will be societies gain and we wish him well in his recovery from delusional science.
What will the world do with all the superfluous individuals?
Soylent Green
Give them all one-way plane tickets to China. Economy Class, Buy Your Own Carbon Credits.
A few weeks in the People’s Republic should disabuse them of their snowflakey attitudes pretty fast.
In an age where highly scripted realty shows proudly exhibit pretentious melodrama, it’s little wonder these self-proclaimed planetary saviors jockey for most aggrieved status.
A blowhard lacking imagination invites the contempt of reasonable minds; most notably with celebreties who fail to follow through on promises to leave the country.
Really…I’m STILL waiting for Alec Baldwin to leave…
BUT CANADA IF OFF LIMITS! We have enough self-righteous-save-the-planet “humans”‘ up here, unfortunately they work their way into politics and run the provinces and country!
The funny thing is I went to the polls on Nov 8th expecting a Clinton victory and another 4 or 8 years of loony policy on multiple fronts, including “climate change”. But it never would have occurred to me to boo hoo on social media a seek counseling had Clinton won; just to dig in and continue to support the causes I believe in.
After Trump’s victory I was warily cautious that we could avoid jumping over the cliff with the rest of the climate lemmings. After his cabinet announcement for EPA, DOE and Attorney General my confidence rose. I won’t say I’m ecstatic, because it is a very big swamp, but events so far are very encouraging.
But if all the AGW climate warriors are as fragile as this guy I’ll pop the champaign corks tomorrow. We won’t have to get rid of them all because they’ll do it to themselves. Sounds like he should try dating Leena Dunham so they could tweet their shared despair and depression together.
The swamp has begun draining on it’s own and the siphon will ensure more to follow.
He could have gone to Moscow, to celebrate the coldest Christmas night in 120 years and spread some of his global warming news. Apparently locals did not get the memo.
https://www.rt.com/news/372902-orthodox-christmas-frost-celebrate/
… or maybe it is just Urban Heat Island vortex weather effect- 😛
No, he can’t go to Moscow!!! For the first time in 70 years, Democrats and the left (but I repeat myself) are in universal agreement that Russia is the Source of All Evil.
(what, do they mean that Romney was right in 2012?)
Admitting one has a problem is the greater part of recovery.
Dead right, Roy. This has to be the most glaring case of cognitive dissonance I have ever seen. It’s classic’
Spot On!
He didn’t mention what sort of counselor he visited. Perhaps he ought to have spoken with a Guidance Counselor, and sought a more productive career. Unfortunately the guidance counselor might only recommend he attend a seminary.
David,
Thanks for this article. I am having trouble expressing much sympathy for these folks knowing how badly they would treat us if Hillary won the election.
Supporting climate change alarmism has a real appeal to those who want to elevate their sense of self importance. It makes you feel like you understand science better than others and gives you a Robinhood-like self image because you are advocating shutting down of the big bad oil companies and making them pay for the damage they are doing to “the planet” in the name of science. Labeling yourself as a climate change activists is a much more interesting answer to the question “What do you do?” than saying “I write comments on Twitter”.
A climate change alarmist is living in feel good bubble so they shut down anything that might burst it, “The discussion is over! The science is settled! I don’t want to hear anything that might disturb this great feeling I have about myself”
+97. In many cases it’s also the groupthink behaviour of siding with whichever gang you think will do you the most damage if you don’t agree with them. So there’s an element of cowardice involved as well.
too modern. -> to modern.
Huh? “. . . too modern” is correct.
Glen Beck and crew had some laughs over Holthaus this morning.
Eric Holthaus is an activist as opposed to a Journalist, part of the problem, not part of the solution.
There are logical standard steps to solving any problem: determine what is or is not the problem, prioritizing the problems, and determine solutions that work as opposed to throwing money away, and so on.
Fake Climate Science/Fake Journalism/Activism: See climate ‘science’ and reporting of climate science: Objective is to push propaganda, lying is forced/mandatory as the data/analysis does not support CAGW or even AGW.
Real science/real journalism: (asks and answers questions, acknowledges anomalies and paradoxes, looks at all the data, data is not manipulation, people are fired for lying, press helps keep the system honest)
http://notrickszone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/How-Attribution-Climate-Science-Works-2015-16.jpg
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/davis-and-taylor-wuwt-submission.pdf
Greenland ice temperature, last 11,000 years determined from ice core analysis, Richard Alley’s paper. William: As this graph indicates the Greenland Ice data shows that have been 9 warming and cooling periods in the last 11,000 years.
http://www.climate4you.com/images/GISP2%20TemperatureSince10700%20BP%20with%20CO2%20from%20EPICA%20DomeC.gif
Trump said NAFTA was the worst deal ever negotiated by the US.
True or false? If someone lies to you, have they told other lies?
http://cns7prod.s3.amazonaws.com/us-mexico_trade_deficit-photo.jpg
I wouldn’t worry about Mexico. They buy from the U.S. as well as sell. It’s trading with the Chinese while they oppress their people, disturb the peace in the South China sea and conduct corporate espionage via government agents that I don’t get.
Mexico sends in drugs through tunnels and its people live here illegally. I do worry about Mexico. Maybe not the trade deficit, but overall, the situation seems to merit worry.
How many more illegals would be trying to come here, without the economic growth that came about because of NAFTA?
Come on man. Let’s have more than 10 minutes thought. Think out of the dang liberal box.
First, business as usual is not working. The US cannot afford to lose better high paying jobs. As Trump noted in the election, the US has lost 70,000 manufacturing plants.
BMW and Toyota are currently building plants in Mexica. Volkswagen and Mazda are there now. All of the car manufacturers will move to Mexica if action is not taken.
Purchase lower labor goods which we now purchase from China, from Mexico such as garments, toys, and so on. China is the number one long term threat to US interests both business and military.
Require that higher labor goods such as cars be built in the US.
Europeans will only purchase higher labor goods such as cars that are made in Europe. The US has a skilled, reliable labor force.
No matter what we do, those jobs are lost.
They are either lost to Mexico and other foreign producers, or they are lost to automation.
PS: Automation is the major reason behind the drop in US manufacturing employment, not shipping jobs over seas.
PPS: The only reason why such jobs were once good paying is because unions had the political power to force companies to pay more than the jobs were worth. And because the rest of the world took decades to recover from WWII.
All of companies that moved to to Mexico, would have gone to Asia had NAFTA not been passed.
The fact that you focus only on Mexico is like Griff whining over and over about the Arctic but ignoring the rest of the world.
Might Eric Holtaus learn to grow up by studying and applying the Spartan agog military training and understand why it was so successful?
What Made the Spartan army as successful as it was. Mimoza Budeci
I vaguely remember the day that I admitted to myself that Santa Clause was not real.
Yeah, it was kind of depressing, but after that, intellectual experience was so much richer.
“Santa Clause was not real.” !!!!!
Don’t talk such rubbish, next you’ll be telling us the tooth fairy doesn’t exist.
Well I have proof she does…shes collected all my teeth, glued them on a base & put them in a glass next to the bed
Classic virtue-signalling, you see the similar thing when Dear Leader dies and all the women are out wailing in the streets. It’s really quite sad to see people act like this.
The women are all out wailing in the streets at the death of the Dear Leader because they don’t want to end up dead too.
Perhaps the caped crusader can rescue him!
http://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/files/2012/03/scottsmall.jpg
Gotta send him some of those boots for the SLR. That’s the ticket. 🙂