Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia’s Center for Sustainable Development and of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network has accused President Trump of being a sociopath, while at the same time directing hate speech towards President Trump’s wife daughter and son in law Jared.
Trump’s Climate-Change Sociopathy
Jeffrey Sachs
JUN 7, 2017 24
NEW YORK – President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement is not just dangerous for the world; it is also sociopathic. Without remorse, Trump is willfully inflicting harm on others. The declaration by Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, that Trump believes in climate change makes matters worse, not better. Trump is knowingly and brazenly jeopardizing the planet.
Trump’s announcement was made with a bully’s bravado. A global agreement that is symmetric in all ways, across all countries of the world, is somehow a trick, he huffed, an anti-American plot. The rest of the world has been “laughing at us.”
These ravings are utterly delusional, deeply cynical, or profoundly ignorant. Probably all three. And they should be recognized as such.
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Here’s more simple truth: With its large, rich, fossil-fuel-intensive economy, the US has done more than any other country to bring about the global peril of climate change, so it should accept its responsibility in helping to get us all out of danger. At a minimum, America should be eagerly cooperating with the rest of the world.
Instead, Trump’s sociopathic behavior, and the corruption and viciousness of those surrounding him, has produced utter disdain for a world nearing the brink of human-made catastrophe. The next human-caused climate disasters should be named Typhoon Donald, Superstorm Ivanka, and Megaflood Jared. The world will not forget.
What a nasty anger filled rant.
I can understand a climate true believer directing criticism towards President Trump. But to include his family – what influence did Jared have over President Trump’s Paris decision? What did Jared do to be included in Professor Sachs’ nasty rant, other than to have a father in law for whom Professor Sachs cannot contain his hatred?
Update (EW) – h/t Tom Halla corrected Jared’s name
Correction (EW) – I Called Jared President Trump’s son, he is Trump’s son in law. Included President Trump’s wife in the first paragraph.
Correction (EW) – Ivanka is President Trump’s daughter
Science vol. 356 p. 990 ’17 (9 June ’17)
The world’s first commercial plant for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the air opened last week, refueling a debate about whether the technology can truly play a significant role in removing greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere. Funded in part by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy and the European Union, the Climeworks AG facility near Zurich, Switzerland, is a 3-year demonstration project that is expected to capture about 900 tons of CO2 each year. The plant, which will sell the captured CO2, sits on top of a waste heat recovery facility that powers the pro- cess. Fans push air through a filter system that collects the CO2; when the filter is saturated, the CO2 is separated at temperatures above 100°C. The gas then travels through an underground pipeline to a greenhouse containing vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers. Meeting its goal of capturing 1% of the world’s CO2 emissions with this technology, Climeworks told E&E News, would take about 250,000 such plants. Critics of air capture technology, however, have said it would be cheaper to perfect carbon capture directly at fossil fuel plants before it enters the atmosphere. http://scim.ag/carboncapturemachine
Every one should be required by law to drag along a small greenhouse on a trailer behind their car connected to the car’s exhaust pipe! We’ll put the greenhouse operators and the manufacturers of CO2 generators out of business! Think of how much less NG will be burned in greenhouses and … all the condos we can build where the greenhouses were! /sarc
Jeffrey Sach wants to end poverty by killing all poor people on earth by carbon tax and expensive energy, fertilizer and food. Sociopath, lunatic, mass murderer (evil laughter)
It sounds eerily familiar to one of the reasons my veterinarian gave me for neutering my male puppy, “It will prevent testicular cancer!”
Leftists are truly disgusting, arrogant, illogical, irrational and immoral.
It’s now irrefutable that CAGW is the biggest and most expensive Leftist scam in human history.
The only consolation is the huge blowback against the Left which will ensue once the CAGW sc@m is officially tossed on the trash heap of history.
Oh no it isn’t!
Head still in the sand, Griff? Remember to come up for air from time to time.
Britain’s election might seem bizzare even to those in the UK, let alone people from other countries.
It has a climate angle however.
The Conservatives are now dependent on the Northern Irish DUP (Democratic Unionist Party) to have a majority in the house.
And as a green MP whined this morning on radio – the DUP are climate skeptics (he used the “d” word).
A wee sting in the tail for progressives.
They also have at least one creationist MP…
And this will make no difference at all to the UK stance on renewables, climate science or Paris.
We just had a day where solar and wind provided 38% of electricity in the middle of the working day and switched on 2 new offshore wind farms in the last month…
“a day where solar and wind provided 38% of electricity in the middle of the working day ”
Whoopee, only the rest of the week to go….
We have no idea what the U.K. will do until some kind of trade deal is worked out with the E.U. Then I wouldn’t be surprised if they turn their backs on expensive, unreliable, pretend Green energy.
I am sure the birds and whales are delighted at the prospect of new wind farms.
No link? So, just how many hours and minutes did this last? What would anyone depending on this do the rest of the time?
Why are we building an expensive second electricity generation system when we have to keep the original one as well ( for backup). The original system has to be kept running or on standby so will cost the same or be less efficient, and we have the enormous cost and technical difficulties of managing a distributed and unreliable second system. The final raw materials may well be “free” but the installation, management and maintenance most certainly is not. The amount of land and resources used is also not good for the environment. Definitely not sustainable after subsidies are withdrawn.
SteveT
Climate hysteria has infected the scientific process itself and it needs to be purged from existence. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
I got an email from AAAS CEO Rush Holt, (someone soooo interested in science that he gave up on it and became a politician for a while), telling me I need to join him to save the planet.
Why are we allowing dishonest biased people like him to be at the helm of publishers like AAAS? It got me wondering whose palms do you grease (or who do you extort, etc) to get be CEO of AAAS?
It may be more fundamental than that. Competent scientists, like competent doctors or businessmen or whatever, prefer to work in their field – to actually accomplish something. It’s the incompetents that go into management of things like magazines and professional organizations. A version of them who can, do and them who can’t teach.
Or who get “kicked upstairs” to management to minimize the damage they can do, because it’s cheaper, easier, and/or less paperwork than firing them.
It is worth reading “The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty” by Nina Munk. It starts out as hagiography, and as reality slowly sets in about his various schemes in Africa (to her and the people he was ostensibly helping there) ends up as a indictment.
Global warming has produced fewer and milder cyclonic activity (tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons) so perhaps this era of less extreme climatic events should be labelled “The Era of Trump”. This brainless Sachs fellow can be considered a rather disgusting example of a “climate illiterate.”
Jeffy Sacks put on quite an amazing performance of the liar-dance, so kudos to him on that. Seriously though, these people have worked themselves into such a lather on the Paris Affair that their own psychopathy and sociopathy shines through clearly. Their words border on treason.
When YOU can’t prove your point with facts and reason the left goes into personal attacks and rants. I have observed this modus operandi all my long life. I am so over this since there are so many real ecological problems we need to address.
Anything with the word “sustainable” or “sustainability” in it is evil nowadays. Same w/environmentalist, diversity & others.
Reap what you sow. Fully earned, as far as I’m concerned.
Doesn’t he mean “The FIRST human-caused climate disaster”?
If we’re talking about ‘human-caused’ disasters, they should name the next one ‘Hurricane UN’, or possibly the ‘DDT Apocalypse.’
I think he finally sees the end of the gravy train. if the US won’y pay, nobody gets paid, and the stop taking ‘climate action’. When the world doesn’t burn up in two years, the gig is up, they won’t be able to take credit for making ‘needed changes’, then poof, no more climate dollars.
Just another BrownShirt. They should remember that there is always a “night of the long knives” when they are no longer needed. They just know too much.
https://youtu.be/J5LcIZp0otA
Interview with David Stockman a real sceptic.
min 15,13
How does such a dissembling fool become a “UN” advisor of any sort?
Eric Hoffer — ‘Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.’
I suggest that he holds his breath until then.
I walked out of a Jeffrey Sachs presentation years ago. There is nothing there, nothing at all.
Oh, maybe it’s Professor Jeffrey Sachs who has all this evidence linking carbon dioxide to commonly occurring yet somewhat inconvenient weather events which I keep hearing so much about. It would be great if he could bung some of it in this direction because I’ve looking for ages and can’t find any no matter how hard I look. Howzabout it Prof?
How about „Mega Projection Jeffrey“ ?
Donald who?
the next? I’m still waiting for the first!
The Great Sachsian Starvation is imminent!!!
I seem to recall hearing that “Hillary” was one the names on the list of hurricanes but was dropped once Bill won the election, for understandable political reasons.
Now this guy wants to ADD names for political reasons?!
A category 3 or stronger hurricane hasn’t hit the mainland USA since 2005, the longest such hurricane drought in our history. Maybe more CO2 stops hurricanes?
Trump haters are not just hateful bigots, they are also a fact-free zone.
A wonderful example of that breed of (pseudo) scientists who believe that only their views should be permitted, who try to suppress contrary views even in people who have taken their own decisions quite rationally and who would support some form of national or sometimes continental or even world control on the basis that ‘we know best what’s good for you’.
They are of course like the dictators of many past regimes who finally have to succumb to democracy.