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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For all those whiny celebrities that think the U.S. has given up its leadership in the world… guess what? This is what leadership looks like! i know most Americans haven’t seen leadership for about 8 years, but this is it. It’s doing the right thing even when nobody else is supporting you! If the President had signed on, the U.S. would just be another world follower, not leader.
At least Friday morning traffic should be light with all of the progressives not being able to face the world tomorrow with their dashed hopes of a ‘one world government’ where everyone joyfully marches in lock step in a back patting conga line to the gov’t freebie office, while shouting out in turn all of the wonderful imaginary things they’ve accomplished with their good feelings and promises to spend other people’s money.
ACLU National needs a strong mouthwash after their talk about racism with the mouth of the US party notorious for pro-slavery in the 19th century US. Perhaps the mankind can enjoy cleaner air afterwards.
Vatican a.k.a. Holy See should withdraw their political army from the international institutions. And the international institutions would be wise to take distance from churches. There have been enough societal scale realtime human experiments to know better.
These people are genuinely insane. Anyone who has any passing familiarity with the Ordovician or Cretaceous knows what the “planet” is capable of without the least bit of human input. Their utter ignorance, blind refusal to acknowledge the past, insistent hubris (we exist, therefore we must be the center of all earth’s mechanisms), and agressive hostility are truly frightening. I so long to scream “I have a doctorate in geology and you don’t know what the hell you are talking about”, but of course I don’t, because then I would hounded as some sort of “anti-science” denier Neanderthal…….
But what the climate did in the past does not preclude man also having an effect on the climate by adding CO2 to the atmosphere.
Isn’t it absolutely MARVELOUS to see than man is capable of helping the planet by returning a small part of the accidentally buried carbon back into the Carbon Cycle.
You know , griff, that cycle that sustains ALL LIFE ON EARTH.
CO2’s effects on plant growth aren’t its only impact…
And if man can’t influence the climate with the release of CO2, can he really influence the planet ?
It doesn’t preclude it, but it actually has to be scientifically proven first. It hasn’t.
BTW Griff, this in no way stops YOU and all your concerned friends from living a low carbon life, if you really believe. But I suspect you are all talk and no action.
Griff,
All by itself the planet took 6700 ppm of CO2 out of its atmosphere during the first half of the Paleozoic Era, then put back about half that amount in the second half and the Mesozoic. It continued adding until the Eocene Epoch of the Cenozoic Era, and since then has been generally lowering it, back to its present Carboniferous Period, ie ice age, levels.
We have added a single molecule per 10,000 dry air molecules to the three that were there a century ago.
Humans can have very little effect on our planet’s global climate, regardless of whatever minor local effects we might have.
CACA cultists imagine that Man truly is made in God’s image, with divine powers. capable of dominating all creation. What hoot!
“Donald Trump withdrawing from Paris agreement will be like slapping the Pope in the face, Vatican says”
Jesus said – turn the other cheek
What bloody cheek from an institution that Burnt Bruno at the stake and arrested Galileo for heresy.
The Pope needed a good slap in the face.
It is really hard to understand so many are so stupid ! I just wonder how the human race will evolve when people still believe in alarmism.
I think evolution will selectively eliminate their fantasy-following kind from the human gene-pool if they don’t wake-up to reality and get back in-tune with it in time, Rolf. That’s how the human race will evolve.
Anthony, I am sure that your website and you and all the contributors to it played a significant role in convincing large swaths of the populace that CO2 is necessary to life and that the global warming/climate change propaganda was/is just that…propaganda. Had you not dedicated hours and hours and hours over the years to get to the truth and to spread it, it is possible that Trump might not know it and might not have made today’s wise decision. I am very grateful to you. Thanks very much indeed!
Thank you, you are too kind.
True believers should simply stop exhaling as a protest against the impertinence of President Trump in single-handedly overturning the Obama-Paris treaty which was approved 100 to 0 in the Senate..
They should also add a new bumper sticker for the next Great Cause — STOP CONTINENTAL DRIFT!
Thank you Mr. Trump, thank you!
WHERE ARE THE SNOWLESS NORTHERN WINTERS?
The iceless Arctic summers? The gondolas sailing down Fifth Avenue past Macy’s and Trump Tower? Where is the rainlessness and devastating droughts wiping out forests, farmlands, plants and crops? Where are the coastal floodings displacing millions driving them to mountaintops? Where is the acidifying of the seas killing fish, marine life and all sea weed? And desertification, what happened with that? turning soil into dry lifeless sand where nothing can grow to feed man?
Unless CO2 was drastically cut by 2016 millions were to die from famines, plagues, floods and heat waves. What happened to all the destruction and death-the runaway extreme weather events-predicted expertly by the doomsday consensus? Thank God they were wrong and Armageddon’s not coming; and the world is greening and is pleasantly warming.
What President Trump did today is a sign: global warming alarmism is in its END TIME.
You might just get an iceless arctic ocean this summer. Do keep checking the extent graphs in between that popcorn munching.
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Here’s the data for anyone that is interested:
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
Meanwhile, Greenland Ice Cover is Yuuuuge !
http://www.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-budget/
if Griff thinks Greenland is going to melt from a record high to nothing in a La Nina year, he might need to put the hashpipe down.
Ah, so it’s *migh* now? You were sure just a few months ago that it *WILL* iceless, just like Gore did in and around 2005 stated the ice would be gone in 5-7 years. Well it;s more than 7 years later and ice is still there.
Griff
Ice free Arctic?
Wake up and smell the covfefe!
Both MASIE and NSIDC show the SLOWEST May melt this century.
MASIE has current sea ice extent above that of 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016
Come back to REALITY, little griff. !!
Moa I’m suggesting 2017 will see another record low in arctic sea ice extent… a record exceeding 2012 or even ‘ice free’ is still a real possibility, depending on how this year’s melt progresses.
(Mod: so many people here saying ‘get the popcorn out and watch the climate scam dissolve, I really thought you’d get it??)
Might/will – the probability is very high for a record in top 3, high for a 2012 plus, less than evens for ice free
The odds are close to 100% that the Artic will not be ice free.
Of course, they may be “ice free” though.
The odds are exactly 100% that a few weeks after the minimum, the ice will be growing fast because the sun has set for another six months up there, and it will be -40 to -60 below for most of the time in most of the places above the Arctic circle.
Griff…explain how large amounts of ice in the polar ocean is critical to human survival, will you?
Explain how a frozen wasteland that has fatally cold temps for most of the year is a good thing.
Please.
Do something useful for once, huh?
Menicholas, Griff
Every day after August 12 (at 78 degrees north latitude or higher), an “ice free” Arctic only means more heat loss into the Arctic air, then into the infinitely cold space.
Every day before April 2, an “ice free” (actually, an “lower ice than normal”) Arctic means more heat loss into the Arctic air, and then into the infinitely cold space.
Griff,
I bet you $100,000 that Arctic sea ice extent is higher this year than last year, let alone the record low of 2012.
Take it?
By which I mean September minimum.
Griff,
OK. Time’s up.
Wish you had taken the bet.
If you really were “sure” that this is going to be a record low year, as you’ve repeatedly said, then you’d have borrowed the money if you don’t have it.
BTW, Griff, Arctic sea ice extent on 2 June 2017 was higher than on that date in 2016, 2015, 2011, 2010 and 2006, ie five out of the past 11 years. Unless there are yet again cyclones in August, as in the low ice years of 2007, 2012, 2015 and 2016, you would “surely” have lost the bet you didn’t make. Maybe you knew that.
One small step for teh Donald, one slightly larger step for scientific truth.
We move towards scientific truth one step at a time. Anthony and many others have been tying to push the AGW bandwagon in the opposite direction for some time. It’s just slowing down now, not reversed its direction. MUCH more effort required to bring it to a stop and then get it going towards the truth.
Many thanks to Anthony and all other contributors in the blog-sphere and elsewhere for their efforts over many years. This is a good start and we can enjoy our Champagne/Prosecco/Bud or bucket fulls of snowflake tears for today. Tomorrow we need to get back to work, so when the hangover has gone please have a look at this for your bedtime reading next week:
https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/New-Insights-on-the-Physical-Nature-of-the-Atmospheric-Greenhouse-Effect-Deduced-from-an-Empirical-Planetary-Temperature-Model.pdf
I note that people with money, who make real spending decisions, do not believe in catastrophic sea level rise.
In Soneva Jani, in the Maldives a new hotel has just opened – it is 8 feet above sea level. (and the sea is only 100m (300ft) away).
If you were going to invest millions in a new build, I guess you would check out the location quite well before committing a lot of money.
I wonder what these business people know that most world leaders do not?
From The Times
Can anybody say what is the climate impact of exploding lonely brain cells?
It’s hard to tell whether the exploding heads actually believe that the Paris agreement makes any sense, or they are simply latching on to this as another excuse for criticizing Trump. If these morons
realized that technology is headed for low emission energy production (via molten salt uranium/horium reactors) and transportation is on the cuff of a revolutionary switch to electric vehicle, they would realize the stupidity and total pointlessness of their “solutions” You’d think Elon Musk would know, but then, he is simply getting in tune with his customers. And he is not a native American.
I tend to agree, a while back I decided to estimate the cop21 impact if nations adhered fully to the agreement, and extrapolated behavior somewhat optimistically to 2050. I also have an estimate I prepared which includes fossil fuel resource limits. The difference between the two is 0.2 degrees C by 2050. I did it to work out the model logic and have the ability to do additional estimates as real life deviated from my asumptions. The results are in my blog here https://21stcenturysocialcritic.blogspot.com.es/2014/11/obama-china-europe-co2-plan-results.html
In case anyone still has any capacity left for a chuckle after the last 24 hours, it seems the EU offices in Europe decided it was a good protest against President Trump’s brilliant decision to leave their office lights on overnight (but in a tasteful green shade).
You can only gasp at the stunning stupidity of this – do these people really understand that using electricity , the production of which by any means , involves CO2 emissions? Or perhaps they think if it is produced by so-called green windmills it is like magic fairy dust with no impact on anything.
Meanwhile I want to add my appreciation of Anthony and WUWT in providing such an essential antidote to the insanity inflicted by the climate consensus lobby on the rest of us.
did they leave them on overnight?
France has laws limiting overnight leaving on of office lights and illuminations of landmarks…
According to the 1,760,000 hits on Google News for leaving green lights on overnight to “protest”, yes, they did leave them on overnight. Beginning to see that this is nothing but a scheme to redistribute wealth and undermine the sovereignty of nations?
There’s a light bulb joke in there somewhere.
… except the joke might start, “How many EU offices does it take to screw up a protest?”
Unicorn farts power the green EU lights. Burning unicorn farts produces no CO2, only the crazy gas that Progressives love to huff.
There’s a page on the BBC – it rumbles on about ‘5 things’ that would happen if/when the US dumps this thing. I can only remember 4, that’s plenty.
In a nutshell, ‘they’ were losing
1. US leadership/organisation
2. US setting a good example = Virtue signalling
3. US technology
4. US money
What an epic Buck Pass. *They* make an agreement (Paris) that the US does absolutely everything to save the planet/children/polar bears etc while they do what?
Diddly fooking Squat by the looks of it. ‘cept spend the money. Just great innit?!!
It is nice that they seem to hold the US in high esteem, or do they?
Equally arguable is that they take the US as suckers.
You’re well out of there on so many levels.
The World really is filling up with wimps = Weakly Interacting Massive People.
Less sophisticated folks than moi might say, fat, lazy, money-grubbing, selfish, hypocritical & mendacious gits.
I blame sugar/carbohydrate food so its not *really* their fault – or is it. Don’t eat sugar if you don’t want to.
Woohoo!
Why doesn’t a single one of these whining children seem to realize that not being part of the Paris Accord doesn’t prevent the US government, businesses or people from doing as much or more than the goals set by Obama’s NDC?
Can the US government still incentivize ‘green’ energy, less pollution (real pollution not CO2) and mitigation? Can they still give money/aid/technology to other countries for ‘green’ energy projects? Sure can.
Can US businesses still conduct research and innovate new and better energy sources? can they still reduce their energy use? Sure can.
Can the US people still push for ‘green’ energy, reduce electric use and be better ‘stewards’ of the environment? Sure can.
Pulling out of the Accord removes a bunch of unelected bureaucrats from the equation and acknowledges the reality that the solutions for one country may not be the same as the solutions for another country. It allows the US to decide how best to spend their own tax dollars and what the best course for the US is.
Kind of the definition of a free and democratic society. Guess some people just prefer oppression and socialism. maybe they should try living in Venezuela for a few weeks, see if their opinions change.
Well, yeah.
The Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) weren’t legally binding and without the Paris accord, they still aren’t.
All over the alarmist media here in Australia with comments such as “We might slap a carbon tax on US exports/imports”. Alarmist heads popping everywhere. It’s a real hoot!
Do we know which route Trump is using to leave Paris? Is he canning the whole UN effort as well?
Apparently the Paris agreement withdrawl terms, NOT the withdrawl from the UN agreement route.
Trump said he was also withdrawing from the Green Climate Fund. That is under UNFCCC, not Paris, as a result of Copenhagen 2009. HQ was set up in Korea in 2010, long before Paris 2016. Paris only set notional annex 2 country funding aspirations for it. Therefore, Trump will exist UNFCC under Article 25 sections 1 and 2. One year only now from receipt of written notice. Article 25 Section 3 automatically also explicitly cancels Paris. And, Paris Article 28 section three also makes this explicit using mirrored language; it says withdrawing from UNFCCC automatically is withdrawal from Paris. Avoids the three year plus one wait year mess in Paris Article 28 sections 1 and 2. And only way to cancel GCF obligations. Looked this up (as a lawyer) in both documents to make sure.
Thanks. Good to know.
He did mention the GCF separately, toward the end of his speech, without making that distinction explicitly.
What is really terrible is a politician who stands by his pre-election pledges. /sarc off
400 billion dollars PER YEAR to anonymous UN agencies and no-one in the MSM smells a rat?
I guess you don’t smell rats if you are a rat.
Carbon dioxide – Making the planet green again!!
Anote Tong ex president of Kiribati has called lone Donald Trump versus the 195 other nations – many of which are probably mounting their armies of protesters at this very moment – “a classroom bully”
A bit like calling Anne Frank versus the Third Reich a thug?
Rand Paul Mocks Trump Critics on Paris Accord Withdrawal — ‘Mass Extinction, Really?’
Thursday on CNN, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said the reactions on the left to President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement on climate change were “alarmist” and “ridiculous.”
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/06/01/rand-paul-mocks-trump-critics-paris-accord-withdrawal-mass-extinction-really/
We’ve lost our fear of hellfire, but put climate change in its place
By Boris Johnson
12:01AM GMT 02 Feb 2006
“Billions will die,” says Lovelock, who tells us that he is not normally a gloomy type. Human civilisation will be reduced to a “broken rabble ruled by brutal warlords”, and the plague-ridden remainder of the species will flee the cracked and broken earth to the Arctic, the last temperate spot, where a few breeding couples will survive.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3622794/Weve-lost-our-fear-of-hellfire-but-put-climate-change-in-its-place.html