Heads are exploding today, get popcorn. Here are some of the best emotionaly based reactions from the climate alarmist squad.
Here’s billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer saying it’s a “traitorous act of war”. Yeah, right.
If Trump pulls the US out of the #ParisAgreement he will be committing a traitorous act of war against the American people. My statement: pic.twitter.com/Qjgxm4fELp
— Tom Steyer (@TomSteyer) May 29, 2017
“Scientific” American thinks the future is dead trees, everywhere:
What will the world look like if the U.S. bails on the Paris climate deal? https://t.co/ywfDw3PmEg pic.twitter.com/ARE4u7zCmm
— Scientific American (@sciam) June 1, 2017
Neil Degrasse-Tyson thinks Trump is just too stupid.
If I and my advisors had never learned what Science is or how & why it works, then I’d consider pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord too.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) June 1, 2017
So does Carbon Brief Editor Leo Hickman, though he’s got a bit of an ego problem to think Trump should read his stuff:
Slowly dawning on me Trump has NEVER ONCE read Carbon Brief's exhaustive, explanatory journalism on Paris Agreement https://t.co/3T51ogDD9S
— Leo Hickman (@LeoHickman) June 1, 2017
He also helpfully provided Weepy Bill McKibben’s nutty op-ed:
Op-ed by @billmckibben in NYT on Trump's exit from Paris Agreement https://t.co/KWYWjiBLtx pic.twitter.com/g2fP9K9MQc
— Leo Hickman (@LeoHickman) June 1, 2017
Bill McKibben provided a flag and a funeral:
My essay in the NYT on Paris withdrawal: 200 years of science and 20 years of diplomacy blown up by an ignorant man https://t.co/j1myoS3wRr
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) June 1, 2017
The other Leo must have been crying on his mega-yacht:
Today, our planet suffered. It’s more important than ever to take action. #ParisAgreement https://t.co/FSVYRDcGUH
— Leonardo DiCaprio (@LeoDiCaprio) June 1, 2017
The execrably ugly Michael Moore:
USA to Earth: FUCK YOU
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) June 1, 2017
Trump just committed a crime against humanity. This admitted predator has now expanded his predatory acts to the entire planet. #ParisAccord
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) June 1, 2017
You think that’s bad? Mr. Sulu goes full-retard:
Trump is having the U.S. pull out of the Paris Climate Accord. Too bad someone didn't tell his father that he shoulda pulled out, too.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) June 1, 2017
Buh bye! Going to pay back all that money you got from the government anytime soon?
Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 1, 2017
Apparently, this is a Golden opportunity to play the race-card, according to the ACLU:
Pulling out of the Paris Agreement would be a massive step back for racial justice, and an assault on communities of color across the U.S.
— ACLU (@ACLU) June 1, 2017
The mayor of Pittsburgh was apparently not happy that Trump said: “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.”
As the Mayor of Pittsburgh, I can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement for our people, our economy & future. https://t.co/3znXGTcd8C
— bill peduto (@billpeduto) June 1, 2017
Robert Preston channels Trump Via cartoonist “Matt”:
Matt sums up Trump on climate change best, of course pic.twitter.com/UNsAWLB83h
— Robert Peston (@Peston) June 1, 2017
Al Gore, still boring:
My statement on Today’s Decision by the Trump Administration to Withdraw from the Paris Agreement: https://t.co/eDEFv5b1nS pic.twitter.com/SzHJU3D0Mr
— Al Gore (@algore) June 1, 2017
Hollywood actress Patricia Arquette suggested a class-action lawsuit against Trump’s decision to stop participating in what is an entirely voluntary and non-binding agreement.
Serious question- Can millions of people launch a class action suit if the US pulls out of Paris accord for negligence? #ParisAccord
— Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) May 31, 2017
Useless actor Mark Ruffalo: waaaahhh! At least Kathy Griffin shut-up.
Shame on you @realDonaldTrump as people lose their lives, homes and economic opportunities to your childish refusal to honor #ParisAgreement
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) June 1, 2017
Obama, Zzzzz:
Statement from Barack Obama on the Paris Climate Agreement pic.twitter.com/SQc6kQV0Ah
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 1, 2017
One of Pope Francis’s right-hand men “Crux” said it would be “a slap in the face” to the Vatican if Trump did not continue with the agreement. Maybe the Pope could turn the other cheek?
#Vatican official says #Trump leaving Paris deal would be ‘slap in the face’ — by @inesanma https://t.co/AnCIvSrvbB pic.twitter.com/3WtArxPCHs
— Crux (@Crux) June 1, 2017
Al-Ed reacts:
Dear 🌍: we can't speak for everyone, but we speak for most – we're sorry, we're embarrassed, he doesn't speak for all of us. #parisagreement pic.twitter.com/RlijdlX4uL
— Alt Dept of ED (@Alt_DeptofED) June 1, 2017
This eco-green grassroots organizer said Trump’s announcement will prevent everyone from living on planet earth. We are dead already. Who knew?
Trump just declared war on the very idea of life on earth 🙁https://t.co/9KQ8yyZ384@LeoDiCaprio @JohnFugelsang @johncusack @MarkRuffalo
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) June 1, 2017
Joltin Joe Room tries the scare tactic of showing Florida flooded:
Trump falsely claims Paris deal has a minimal impact on warming https://t.co/ppy5jZrHg7 pic.twitter.com/baU4wQIM7U
— Climate Power (@ClimatePower) June 1, 2017
There is no Planet B. This disastrous decision threatens the world our children and children’s children will live in. #ParisAgreement
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 1, 2017
Maybe the most ridiculous one is this map from the Sierra Club. They probably need to work on their color scheme.
If Trump is pulling out of Paris, he is turning his back on the public in every single US state. #ParisAgreement pic.twitter.com/fKklVX6kCr
— Sierra Club (@SierraClub) June 1, 2017
The Huffington Post is predictably huffy and puffy:
HuffPo right now: "TRUMP TO PLANET: DROP DEAD" pic.twitter.com/q2pSyy805h
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 1, 2017
This one is just psychotic, IMHO:
https://twitter.com/mims/status/870367084609515521
Josh sums it up pretty well after I chided Leo Hickman for thinking Trump should read his work::
It was a good speech tho wasn't it. pic.twitter.com/eViQ0d9WNK
— Josh (@Cartoonsbyjosh) June 1, 2017
UPDATE:
A new addition, Andrew Freedman from Mashable who once penned a ridiculous piece on sea-level, complete with a flooded runway, forgetting that airplanes can move faster than water:
https://twitter.com/afreedma/status/870425624967606272
I’m not the least bit ashamed of my reply:
The get the hell out! Really, get out. I'm tired of your anti-American BS. But like all the hollowood liberals who claimed they wud, u won't
— Watts Up With That (@wattsupwiththat) June 2, 2017
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The MSM is reporting this afternoon that numerous large US companies wanted us to continue honoring the Paris accord. Yet, the broad market indexes did very well today, knowing the gist of the President’s announcement early this morning. S&P 500 up .76%, NASDAQ up .78%, Morningstar Small Cap up 1.84%. Hmmm. What’s up with that?
Turns out not being forced to waste money by the trainload is good for profits!
Whodathunkit?
And today, weak job numbers and the major indices set new records yet again.
The markets love Trump, no matter what anyone says.
Oh, and by the way…the US is already decreasing emissions of CO2 by more than any other country in the history of forever!
Without even trying!
And the biggest emitter, the one leading all others by huge margins and is increasing the rate of emissions faster than any other country in history…is not even forced by Paris to change one freakin’ thing!
The whole thing is meaningless in terms of CO2…even if you are convinced that CO2 matters!
This sickens me…histrionic mindlessness from clueless jackasses.
Can someone please post updated emissions trend charts broken out by country…so we can all spread it around and try to quell this nincompoopery before I vomit up my internal organs in disgust?
Yes, please. And for the Kyoto signatory countries, go as far back as needed to show how well they complied with their mandatory commitments to reduce emissions.
Here’s a PDF from EIA that shows the
emissions outlook for OECD and Non-OECD countries
As can be seen, OECD emissions are rising slowly from a dip in ~2010.
Non-OECD emissions are rocketing away.
Watermelons expoding. Everywhere. Fortunately, we loaded in much popcorn in anticipation. And it still early days. Fear might run out of popcorn.
Just think.
Popcorn is food.
More corn used for food.
Less food used for fuel.
A real “Win-Win”! 8-0
But is your Popcorn “Organic” ?? LOL …/sarc
Butch all food is organic, try shopping for inorganic food, no sarc it is another word usurped by green idiots to pretend they are saving the planet.
Well it’s got carbon in it; so yes it is organic. And very low in Tantalum Nitrides.
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I share in your anticipation, beer in hand! 10+ years following this myth. I can only hope it is all down hill from here, this is the unraveling but I am not holding my breath anytime soon.
Been following it for 18 years. In the UK we still have the Climate Change Act, which commits governments to continue the foolishness. We have a long way to go, but this is a great start.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Winston Churchill
IMploding – it’s only vacuum inside…..
I’m not tired of winning yet! Like liberal/Socialist tears, these reactions are delicious!
The Dow was up 135.53 points today, but Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman-Sacs called the decision a “setback for the environment…blah blah, blah”. When Golden Slacks is moping around, you know things are good for the little guy. ;->
He is likely sandbagging as they buy up shares like there is once again a tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Trump is teabagging all the EU ‘leaders’ in victory. Awesome move Mr President – you are indeed leader of the FREE WORLD 🙂
BTW, the Dow (up 0.65%) is only 30 stocks, and on a percentage basis was up less than the NASDAQ (up 0.78%), the S&P (up 0.76%, and up far less than the Russell 2000 small cap index (up 1.89%).
The Russell was up nearly 2% on the day! And it is a composite of 2000 companies, which although small cap (shorthand for market capitalization…the combined value of all shares of a companies’ stock), are worth an average of over a billion dollars each, up to as much as $13-14 billion.
Smaller large companies stand to see a larger percent gain in profits if and when energy and regulatory costs decline, or fail to rise as much as had previously been predicted.
This is bad for GE who have bet a lot on their Green Tech.
Lets see Little Billy Mcibbon got it right but he misspelled the last word it should have a capital M and 2 n’s.
Poor widdle Snowflakes, I feel so sorry for them…NOT!!!!!
I love the sound of watermelons exploding in the morning! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
All we need to cap this laughable collective hyperbole is a comment from Griff.
Hello, Griiff…..???
Hallllooooo? Where are you hiding Griff?
We need more laughs … please oblige.
The unintended consequence is that California is now doomed by Comrade Jerry and the “Progressives” doing to us what Paris would do to the USA…All for little or naught.
They elected him. They must like what he plans to do that will bankrupt them. I won’t give a flying monkey butt as long as US tax payers don’t have to bail them out.
Jerry will show us how his delusional thinking can trash a State economy in ten easy lessons, and will give us all an example of what other States should *not* do. As someone else said, California is our “crash-test dummy”.
All the Liberals crying in California may well contribute to sea level rise . .
I love Bill McKibben’s take on “200 years of science … blown up by an ignorant man.” An ignorant author forgot that in 1970s the scare was global cooling, not warming. The goal then, just like today, was free money to be provided by an idealistic U.S. government. A nice try. This time it almost succeeded.
Yeah, and they were just as sure back then that humans were causing Global Cooling as they are now about humans causing Global Warming.
They were wrong then, and it looks like they are wrong this time, too, although the jury is still out. But it’s not looking good for the alamist team.
So this is not the first time that humans have gotten hysterical over thinking humanity was changing the climate. The only thing the two time periods have in common though is hysteria over human-caused climate change.
McKibbles is owning all of the failed predictions of the recent 200 years?
Wait – Arrhenius wasn’t even around!
Bill McKibben wouldn’t know what Science was if it hit him in the face like a dead mackerel.
These activists think USA’s 80 year contribution of 0.05 c at most will destroy the planet! #alarmist#activists#clueless.com
I love Bill McKibben saying they’ll double down on their commitments, since zero X 2 is still zero. Few of the Warmists practice what they preach, and, in fact, tend to have higher carbon footprints than Skeptics.
That is true of people I personally know.
Pretty much to a man and woman…everyone.
Maybe Griff is in the process of getting a Gripp.
Yes, the “The Arctic is incredibly hot” headlines, in midwinter, are particularly annoying lies.
The disconnect between those headlines and the weather news that record cold air will settle over the East coast tonight as Arctic air barrels in behind the latest front, is how you know these people never even stop to think about anything for even a second.
They do not have the sense they were born with.
They make a run-of-the-mill curious five-year-olds look like Einstein.
Put Up or Shut Up
The likes of Leonardo DiCaprio Elon Musk and Al Gore are very welcomed to give their own millions of dollars to the Paris Climate Treaty
No one is stopping them
I know it’s getting warmer because the Al-Ed girl was hot!
They’re going nuts over on Ars Technica over it.
The 4th letter should “e”
Frightening, isn’t it, that a good number of your fellow citizens in a technological society are insane, ignorant
and completely gullible in believing the AGW hysterical nonsense?
You know, I was at Zoo Atlanta today, and those folks proved to me that they are not logical. They had all this global warming propaganda embedded in the messaging all over the exhibits. It was completely unavoidable anywhere you looked. Then I got to the Orangutan enclosure where they had all these big posters about the magnificent animals being greatly endangered due to clear cutting of forests for palm oil plantations. It never once dawned on any of the idiots that their very demands for “renewable fuels” were the primary drivers of this habitat destruction. IRONY IS LOST ON ENVIRONMENTALISTS!
So is logic.
The Audubon Society of all organizations, supports the very windmills which are massacring birds, including rare and endangered species, in their tens of millions.
Insanity!
http://www.audubon.org/content/audubons-position-wind-power
They imagine that “proper siting” will solve the problem of killing birds and bats.
At least they did oppose the Obama Administration’s USFWS rule which would have allowed wind farms to keep killing Bald and Golden eagles, by exempting windmills for 30 years from the Endangered Species Act.
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The Audubon Society of all organizations, supports the very windmills
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They weren’t originally, but they put in their place by the other green-bat organizations. It reminds of the doctor’s comment at end of the movie: “The Bridge on the River Kwai” where he simply says: “Madness! Madness!”
Jim
It reminds me of the end of movies like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, where by then everyone knows that they are all a bunch of crooks with various angle to profit from and not a sincere thought in their heads or word from their lips.
If you never saw it…do.
The Audubon Society seems to be one of several organizations that look at the net worth of the Nature Conservancy ($5,923,968,911 in 2014’s IRS 990 form) and realize they should be striving to become a mini Nature Conservancy.
The American Bird Conservancy seems to have picked up Audubon’s mantle and mantra of defending birds no matter what the cost and are not nearly as fond of wind turbines.
https://abcbirds.org/10-worst-wind-energy-sites-for-birds/
Yup. No such group wants to get read out of the Noble Cause League by daring to sing off a different hymnal. Their voices must be united.
Must join the Borg!
I used to give money to some of these groups, and not all that long ago.
That changed for good when I found out how malleable they became with regards to their ostensible mission.
Among the most egregious pack of hypocrites I ever became aware of.
Tore their stickers of my bumpers too, along with those of any of “science” organizations I once supported.
It was really a slap in the face and incredibly sobering.
Top it off with what has become of the science periodicals I had been reading monthly for many decades…I do not even know how to finish the sentence…words fail me.
Dear Global Warmers:
Keep up the whining and teeth gnashing, cause it is Music to my ears!
The AGW Scam is Up! The CC Sham is dead!
Sincerely,
Taxpayer you ripped off
Hopefully Trumps action will embolden other leaders who hopefully won’t be spooked by the noisy rantings of the warmist zealots. The silent majority who remain just that are smiling. No media reports to cheers that are coming from them on websites such as this one. I still think it has a while to go before the global warming scare is ” dead, buried, and cremated” but this is surely a major first step.
Agree. Sanity has won an important battle, but there’s still a war going on.
I’ve been following them on Twitter: The world is going to die! The planet is going to cook! We are all going to go extinct! I shake my head at this insanity. And the media is no different. Claims that more “superstorms” like Sandy will happen. It’s total madness.
The CO2 horses**t has to stop.
More Popular Delusions and Madness of the Crowds.
Down Under!
Elon Musk: “Climate change is real.”
It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear Smart than open it and remove any and all belief.
I don’t get Musk. You can generate electricity More reliably and a tenth as cheap with fossil fuels. He dshould be able to sell more cars.! If he doesn’t he will find some upstart competitor that pushes him out of business. Subsidies have infected good old American business acumen.
Elon Musk: “Climate change is real.”
And I claim my next $4 billion.
Elon, you have gotten enough of our tax money. I seriously hope that your empire building will be successful and will provide a bunch more cool products to the world. Just do it without taking Federal subsidies.
When duzz he leave for Mars. I’ll hang around for that.
So long as he takes two more Californians with him.
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A number of people here are expressing disappointment that Trump did address the science of the issue, but let’s not confuse science with politics. I think Trump did an excellent job on the politics of this. He has “split the baby”, as people say of Solomonic wisdom, by offering to renegotiate. Moreover, this announcement may flush the skunks out the wood pile–we will now see who is willing to go to the mat to somehow impose this voluntary agreement on the U.S. through the courts, perhaps. If Trump had addressed the science of this we would be treated to the tired 97% argument by the 10% with no progress in sight.
Now we have some flexibility to fight this, and also plan our lives. Thanks, Trump.
Trump’s offer to renegotiate? Haha! Which takers are going to agree to become givers? China and India?. The same with most of the other signers. Trump is going to raise the price on them for participation — and they will decline the deal.
How much is the rest of the world willing to pay out of pocket to “save the earth from climate change”? Exactly zero.
Eugene WR Gallun
I believe that was President Trump’s subtle point, Eugene.
This way none of his critics can accuse him of forcing the issue or shutting down the dialogue.
The ball is in their court and they were counting on the US to pay for it.
I saw quite a number of ‘pundits’ on TV last night saying that Donald Trump has ceded leadership of the CAGW cause to China. That is the LAST thing the PRC wants. They were quite happy with the US footing the bill and tanking its economy while China waited until 2030 to do anything (and then, maybe not do anything). If they are now front and center, they may come under scrutiny they surely don’t want. They will however, gladly take to the bully pulpit to excoriate the US. Expect the mandarins’ hypocrisy quotient to sky rocket.
On June 1st, Al Gore spoke at the “Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity 2017” (http://jejuforum.or.kr) in South Korea. His speech here was totally different than his official statement on his website. According to the Korea Times, Al Gore said: “The United States is going to continue reducing emissions regardless of what President Trump does”. And he “pointed out that Apple, Google and other American businesses are going “100 percent” in developing and using renewable energy”.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2017/06/281_230455.html
That is fine if Apple, Google, etc want to go all in for Green. So long as those companies don’t try to force their AGW fanaticism on America.
I don’t care if they want to try to force their AGW fanaticism on America. I only care that they don’t expect the Federal government to subsidize their clean energy schemes. I hope they discover the giant deposit of Unicorn farts that must exist somewhere in the earth and they, in their obviously endless magnanimity, share those farts with the rest of the world.
If they don’t take government subsidies then the money they spend is theirs to spend as they want. When subsidies are involved it becomes the public’s money.
The profits off renewable industries have always come from the subsidies. None are independently viable.
Eugene WR Gallun
PS — The business model for renewable industries is — Get a huge government loan — pay yourself well — then go bankrupt.
All of the NY Times OpEds and Opinion Pieces were obviously written in ADVANCE. They appeared in the online version of the NY Times within minutes of Trump’s announcement.