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’ve commented before on the epidemic of Climate Alarm neurosis induced by the “PAUSE” a few years ago and of course it was rationalized as fighting on the front saving the planet and their dire warnings being ignored. Egregiously, therapists treated the sufferer’s disorder as if the self diagnosis was correct. The classic psychological term d#nile which has to be faced by the patient in order to recover in such cases was instead enabled by the shrinks. These patients never returned to work (e.g the Edith Spot butterfly exp.) and, peculiarly, a disproportionate number of Ozzie warmer types. With Karlization of the Pause, I was expecting some of these to venture back into their world but trump’s election should forestall this and add the new wave of neurotics
. Recalling weepy Bill of350. org I’m convinced the shrill ones at least have a background of mental instability without CAGW. Good thing they developed the “safe places” because the demand is going to be enormous!
I’m not an expert in American campaign financing, but do the Republicans have to send out a tax receipt for everyone who seems to be contributing the 2020 Trump re-election campaign?
Not yet.
Not ever. Donations to candidates or parties are not tax-deductible.
“Steve Fraser
January 9, 2017 at 1:47 pm
Not ever. Donations to candidates or parties are not tax-deductible.”
Ah, perhaps I’m thinking of “equal time” for political ads and stuff.
I was only wondering because so many Trump haters are doing a better job of getting him re-elected than the Republicans could dream of.
Why it became admirable to be weak and whiny I simply cannot fathom. These people are all losers incapable of dealing with real life. That’s not admirable, it’s sad and pathetic.
It has a lot to do with the new crop of Hollywood “stars”.
If you added them all up, they still couldn’t take on a John Wayne or Humphrey Bogart.
Well, “weak and whiny” can also be said of too many Republicans and conservatives (and libertarians) in general.
My advice to them years ago was “stop complaining and explaining”. You simply can’t reach those who believe you are the Ultimate Evil. Stop trying.
I think at least a few are listening now.
of too many Republicans and -> of to many Republicans and
The poor snowflake could always audition for the Climate Choir as a castrato.
Caligula Jones: I put no political party affiliation nor gender on my comment. It was an equal opportunity comment.
I hope some are listening now, but I am not optimistic the newly grown spines will last over time.
For his own sake and for every else, Holthaus needs to be kept away from loaded guns…..and butcher knives and baseball bats and……
Here one can see the emotionalism that global warming alarmism rests upon. Silly me, but I don’t remember men (or women) of science getting all emotional about their work. No Dr Spocks around the DOE, apparently. The gravy train may be coming to an end. No more spouting off preoposerous claims that never get challenged by your colleagues UNLESS they don’t demonize carbon dioxide sufficiently. You know your science is in bad troiuble when you have to rename “global warming”
to meaningless “climate change” because no one can detect any warming.
Let’s get this straight. This guy has been involved with “climate change” for 11 years and is oblivious to the fact that nothing much has changed in those 11 years, but now feels insecure because there is a new President who believes that nothing has changed in those 11 years.
Yeah, I’d recommend more than a counselor : how about a nice white straightjacket? And a rubber room. And lots of Prozac.
And an unlimited supply of fenatyl ……
He is the guy who stopped flying in 2013. I hope he is vegetarian and lives in a passive house with no energy supply whatsoever from the outside. However, both web publication and print press, in fact all media has an enormous carbon footprint, so refraining from those would be a truly valiant deed.
Unfortunately, going to a see a counselor or using any other branch of healthcare is also detrimental to the planet, so he’d better leave those services alone as well.
He should go back to Ethiopia, that’s the perfect lifestyle for him. With no flight available he could cross the ocean using a pedalo perhaps.
If someone could volunteer up Eric’s home address, I’ll be happy to send him some play dough and crayons. Apparently that’s the new form of therapy for those who are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
and we paid them to go home and cry like the pusillanimous piles of crap they are.
Gravy train derailing
Climate fraudsters in panic mode
Life is sweet
Warm milk, a pacifier, and a ‘blankie’ in his safe place might help this child-in-a-man-body cope…..
Vacant Position: straight shooter meteorologist wanted
Anthony has retired.
“Tito, pass me the tissues.”
*sniff*
There is no bigger calling than saving the planet, which is why most rational folk leave it to a few crackpots unfortunately.
Ah, these X-genners, so pampered. If he’d been through the 80s/90s in corporate work, he’d have learned the cry of the middle-manager: BOHICA!
Let me tell you, no crayons, no Play-Doh. Just a lot of resumés printed in advance of the meeting with HR.
(Don’t know what BOHICA is? Lucky you.)
Looked it up. Think warm thoughts ……
Not just corporate and that still goes on today. I lived BOHICA in the US Army. Resume buffing is a constant need only where I work, it is about demonstrated performance. BS is easily seen. Metrics are actual profits. Reality rules.
The kooky leftist response to the election has been nothing but spectacularly embarrassing In all areas.
I’m old enough to remember nuclear winter…ok, that isn’t old. But I did see every generation had its own particular fear subject and mine’s was nuclear winter promulgated by Dr Sagan et al. .
People need fear. Pain is the primary motivator . Since food and medicine have become easy, one either uses religion fear (eternal damnation in Hell for Catholics ) or they make up a new faith based system (manbearpig) .
Science is a tool, not a religion. The only thing I fear is a government taking my money, land and property. But that is my Jeffersonian side, minus slave owning proclivities as being half Slavic, I know that pain.
I’m glad I grew up with good old fashioned 1960’s “the atomic bombs are about to drop, run to your shelters! except even if you survive everyone will be mutants and giant rats will hunt you down” fears. Ahh, the good old days.
If I told my boss I couldn’t work because I was upset about the election (no matter which party won), I’d be out on my ass in the snow (of which we got 8+ inches this past weekend, in the “sunny south”).
Suck it up, buttercup.
It’s the Millennial syndrome. They do not understand what product is. They all want to get a trophy for doing nothing.
LOL – EXACTLY!!! Yay, we finished in seventh place and won a trophy! In my day, this therefore means that you LOST!!!
Still remember playing catcher as a kid in baseball, coming home with bruises on my face and a bloody nose. My father asked me what happened, I said that I was blocking the plate and got run over. My father then asked ……
“Well, was he safe or out?”
+Many!
I find it hard to be sympathetic. The evidence is there, he’s just not looking at it. It’s like people who get bent out of shape because their horoscope is all out of whack or the feng shui of their apartment is messed up.
How do you help someone who imagines themself into a tizzy?
Let them go hungry. Either they’ll wise up, or they’ll starve.
‘nuther Snowflake…
just what we need in an already too cold winter. Not
just what we need in an already too cold winter. Not ->
just what we need in an already to cold winter. Not
I will counsel Eric Holthaus, over the internet, for half of what his current brain-care specialist charges. If my advice doesn’t help his climate-change problems immediately then I will continuously double the price until it does.
michael, I’ll do it for a quarter! Gee at that rate ($ 200/ hr ) i would give him the advice he needs at least 2 years of therapy 6 hrs a day1 ( hey i would need the other 2 hrs in a honest work day to recover from laughing)
Don’t do it. You’d go crazy and kill yourself if you had to talk to him for 6 hours.
“Some federal employees were so depressed, they took time off. Others might retire early.” We could only hope that they all would retire. Easy way to put an end to their involvement in promoting the hoax.
Eric Holthaus should have committed himself 11 years ago! Maybe he couldn’t find a psychologist back then who would top laughing at him.