I blame it on Trump Derangement Syndrome, oh wait, some were deranged before he got elected. Here is a collection of some of the most hateful tweets, essays, and posts from climate alarmists that are trying to pin hurricanes Harvey and Irma on the shoulders of climate skeptics. I must not be trying hard enough, because I’m not on the death sentence list.
Brad Johnson, formerly of Think Progress and currently with Climate Hawks, declared:
The vile #left in all its glory… pic.twitter.com/kCWg9rGQMH
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) September 9, 2017
Climate Depot’s Morano & other skeptics ‘sentenced to death’ for ‘Crimes against Humanity’ – Climate activists set 2029 for big ‘Crimes against Humanity’ trials of skeptics – “Sentenced to death for the critical roles they played in retarding any meaning action to mitigate climate change in the United States were as follows.
Sen. James Inhofe, Marc Morano (CFACT), Chris Horner (CEI), Myron Ebell (CEI), Steve Milloy (CEI), Patric Michaels (Cato Institute), Bjorn Lomborg (CCC), Matt Ridley (CWPF)(sic), Christopher Monckton, Fred Singer, Roy Spenser (sic).”
Climate Depot’s Morano receives threatening email: ‘You and your children should be burned in public’ – Recent hate mail to Morano: ‘Let’s meet man to man and I’ll rip that stupid smile off your face’ – Other Hate Mail sample to Morano: ‘If you have children, I hope beyond hopes that you must bury them, and that your grief will know no end.’
h/t to Climate Depot for some of the links.
Last but not least, the Pope:
Pope Francis HUGE RANT on Hurricane Irma: History will JUDGE the climate change deniers
Here’s the deal: there’s no current climate to hurricane connection, even NOAA says so. History too.
NOAA doesn’t think the alleged impact of anthropogenic CO2 on storm intensity is detectable.
… It is premature to conclude that human activities–and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming–have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity. That said, human activities may have already caused changes that are not yet detectable due to the small magnitude of the changes or observational limitations, or are not yet confidently modeled (e.g., aerosol effects on regional climate). …
Read more: https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/
Fact: Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Can’t Be Blamed on Global Warming
Hurricane expert Klotzbach: #Irma at landfall comes in 7th behind 1935 Labor Day storm
A useful retort for those claiming #Irma & #Harvey hurricanes are a sure sign of ‘climate change’
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So these climate scientists really believe that if we had started doing all they demanded back in the day when Al Gore first warned about it, that these hurricanes would not have happened or would have been less intense? It seems like they all acknowledge the affect would be very minor at this point in time even if we had done all we could. At this point in time nothing would be different either way. It is only out in 2100 that the real impact would be felt not just 15 years later. So lay off the blame game.
Fact: global warming can’t be blamed on “Global Warming”.
It is a witch hunt. A method perfected in Germany, 1932-1945.
“Oh for God the gift tae gie us, to see oorsels as ithers see us.” – Robert Burns.
These people imagine that they occupy the higher moral ground. They should think seriously about how they appear, based on their own words. But then, maybe I give them too much credit.
and walla: selfie stick
prayers answered.
Forrest
were those remarks made against an individual members of almost any other minority group in the UK, I believe they could be charged with incitement to violence. As it is, the minority group, climate sceptics, can be abused at will and without sanction.
It’s a terrible choice. To admit you have been fooled and are totally wrong about something you have invested years of emotion in, or go into rabid cornered rat denial and hatred.
Fear and Loathing in Las Verduritas
I know how they feel: for years, I thought I’d bought my wife the Beatles’ Greatest Hits Red Album with “Birthday” on it, and that she’d played it at my 21st birthday party. She kept telling me I was wrong, and after years of back-and-forth on it I finally bothered to look it up. Not only was it not on the Red album, it wasn’t on the Blue album either.
So yeah, I totally understand how alarmists would feel about admitting being wrong.
“So yeah, I totally understand how alarmists would feel about admitting being wrong.”
Mislabeling a Beatles album is far more egregious and I can’t even believe I’m responding to a Beatles denier.
Here’s how the worst of them will process being wrong: Technically I was wrong, but I deserved to be right (based on what I’d read and heard, and because my motives were altruistic), so I wasn’t really “wrong.” I was merely incorrect—the moral equivalent of a mere typo, in other words. I’ll be right next time.
PS: They’ll also say, “Was I ‘wrong’ to follow the advice of the scientific consensus and 97% of the world’s scientific societies?” I was misled, not wrong.
Climate Warming Alarmism, and its evil twin, Climate Skeptics Witch-hunting are a religion, folks. A religion right up there with the present day Inquisition over ‘organic’ ingredients, peanutbutter sandwich bans at schools, SP–20,000 ointments and 10-bucket recycling programs. Its RELIGION, folks.
• A belief system: progenitors can recite practically in unison the list of grievances, can name-drop lists of Blue Ribbon bishops, can soliloquize at length of personal ‘miracles’ or ‘sightings’ of endless suspicious events.
• Defies falsification: essentially since both climate and weather are chaotic and this nearly unpredictable even a few months (let alone years and decades) out, the theory cannot make hard predictions, and thus hard falsiability.
• Armies of mendicants: The’re EVERYWHERE. All “moms”, because you know, Moms will do anything (including burning witches at the stake) in order to protect their children. Dads will do what Moms want, otherwise their beds are empty and cold. Grandparents will be on board ‘cuz they get to see their grandkids instead of being denied the opportunity. And life is short. And ‘what the heck… nothing bad comes from embracing climate change’.
• Arguing it is a sacred right: it doesn’t matter whether your dinner host and hostess are significant skeptics, or whether most of the people at the table aren’t remotely interested. Once you and whatever few similarly-minded advocates of climate alarmism gin up their litany, the gin won’t stop turning.
• Casting aspersions at sinners: is also a halmark both of climate alarmism and fundamentalist religiosity. People move away (or unsubtly pillory) from neighbors who are infidels and skeptics. The little jibes, the blatant shuns, the invented police complaints … just go on and on.
THE POINT IS that Climate Alarmism is real, its dark, its almost completely mindless (except for the people at the top printing the articles and leading the goats), and if not continuously engaged, can become quite ingrown and dangerous.
Remember, there are people who believe that the on-news weathercasters cause weather, not just report it. Its a very short distance from the poppycock to come to believe that The AGW Embracers’ citings of unusual weather events – linked to their equally poppycock theories of AGW and Weather – are rightly citing AGW “Deniers” as being CAUSAL to the unusual events.
HISTORY, FOLKS.
Those who forget it are sure to repeat it.
There were no witches. But many odd ducks and politically pilloried people fell prey to the pogroms and inquisitions. All that came to pass, the dead din’t rise, and looking back we then and now knew it was a really bad idea. Thing is, almost all mass-market politically-religious movements are really bad ideas. In fact, I can’t think of any that are good ideas!
GoatGuy
And Fermi wondered why intelligent life on other planets hadn’t made contact…
Cult not religion.
Quite a few religions started out as cults, Nigel. Where the transition happens is rather vague – but Warmism is at least close to that line, whether it’s just under or just over.
I blame a lot of this modern insanity on some of the quantum theorists that wandered away from physics into mysticism. When you believe, as John Wheeler did, that humans created the Big Bang – a little thing like wishing a hurricane into existence is an extremely minor exercise.
These idiots actually help our cause. Anyone listening to them for two minutes would be turned off AGW all together. Don’t stop them, we need to embrace their ignorance. Like a saboteurs that blows themselves up.
QUESTION: What is the maximum prison term for being stupid beyond belief?
Stupid is a life sentence. Except for Algernon.
I would like to know precisely when humans first became primarily responsible for climate change.
Was it during the Late Stone Age? New Stone Age? Copper Age? Bronze Age? Iron Age? Middle Ages? In AD 1500? AD 1600? AD 1700? AD 1750? AD 1800? AD 1850? AD 1900? AD 1950? AD 1980? When, exactly?
Whenever a Republican is in the White House.
Somebody thinks it started several thousand years ago.
Yeah, Progressives are really feeling comfortable expressing their hatred – not that they were ever very able to hide it to begin with – the reactions this year have actually taken it past pure ideology into the realm of spoiled, elite children in the midst of an extended temper tantrum, who just want ‘their way.’
And the thing is, there’s no reaching out to them. When one position is rigid, any reaching out – any ‘flexibility’ – inevitably forms the opposing opinion as the rigid opposite – like a mold.
When faced with such absolutists, it’s hard not to become like them, just in fighting them.
But make no mistake, this is an ideology where hatred has always ruled the day – and it’s a real simple equation to get there. Establish a stereotype with character qualities worthy of hatred, assign all opposing viewpoints to that stereotype, and proceed with your hate-mongering.
They really don’t even TRY anything else anymore.
Leftism, at it’s core, is based on jealousy.
Leftism, at its core, is based on hatred.
Jealousy is only one route to hatred.
But it’s a well-traveled one.
If Hurricane Irma is Trump’s fault, he must be pretty damned potent to have changed the climate in 9 months of his Presidency.
But, the sea stopped rising when Obama became President and he got the Nobel Peace Prize to prove it.
What is it about POTUS that influences the weather?
It’s the “King Cnut” effect in reverse.
This is how they justify jailing or even killing those who disagree with them.
One constant with leftists (and the vast, vast majority of alarmists are leftists) is the inability to deal with complex reality.
Thus, Texas and Florida voted for Trump, therefore everyone who lives in Texas and Florida is equally guilty and must be punished.
The fact is that Houston, Miami, Naples and Tampa voted for Hillary.
But none of the Left ever go without luxuries, like they want all others to do.
Quite extraordinary stuff. But the most penetrating comment was made above: these people do not care about climate as a thing in itself. It is just a peg to hang a whole bunch of weird stuff on.
Climate Alarmism is the latest Progressive dog whistle. Losing it would do great harm to the Progressive movement, which is solely based on identity politics. If you identify as a person who “cares about the Earth”, you can hear that whistle, at least in theory.
Anyone who really looks at the Progressive demographic though will find they mostly live in urban environments, artificially isolated from Earth. In fact they have no real, practical experience with the Earth. They live in cities and suffer from the anxieties that result from living in a high population density artificial environment that usually doesn’t work all that well.
The folks who don’t subscribe to Alarmism are almost uniformly residents of rural open spaces, to prove that all you need do is look at those county level “red/blue” maps. Outside isolated pockets, the vast majority of the rural population, folks who interact with the Earth on a daily basis, are “red”; they give no credence to the Alarmist mantra because they actually live in direct contact with the planetary ecosphere and have a direct understanding of it. They know better.
But the majority live in cities, suffering isolation and anxiety. The divide between these constituencies grows by the day.
You’re quite right.
Remember the movies “Soylent Green” and “Escape from L.A.”?
Walled cities, no way to escape, Aldous Huxley’s Utopia gone completely sour.
I say we wall them in. Make them pay a tax to leave, a big, FAT tax, and limit their resources to what we feel like letting them have. WE don’t need them. They need US.
One farmer can grow enough wheat, oats, corn – whatever – on one section (640 acres) to feed an entire state. Why should the THEY get the benefits of his labor at a cheap price?
Wall them in. They bore the living daylights out of me.
How odd! When Obama was elected President, every single crisis he encountered for at LEAST the first four full years were “inherited” from Bush. NOTHING was his fault for a very long time.
But, how short liberal memories are!! Because SURELY Trump INHERITED these hurricanes from Obama. He’s only been in office for 8 months, so using liberal logic, the hurricanes cannot be Trumps fault!!
I don’t remember Obama ever taking responsibility for anything.
Then there’s Hillary, this weekend she gave an interview in which she blamed everything but the kitchen sink for her losing last year. Not once did she concede that her campaign was less than perfect.
She did admit that saying “We will put a lot of coal miners out of work…” was rather dumb.
Now she needs to face up to the “deplorables” remark.
Her campaign was perfect indeed, she couldn’t have done better: Trump won.
These people feel a real threat to their power base and they’ve moved from an extended season of comfort to a season of despair. They’re now in the “taking names and kicking butts” phase of political expression. Unless it’s shut down peacefully right now, it stands a chance of spiraling out of control.
This is nothing to make fun of. They’ve already donned the black masks and taken up their baseball bats. They’re deadly serious about this. To complacently joke about them (as many, including myself, have done on these pages now and in the past) is courting disaster. I’m sure many of the younger contingent on the side of reason and rational debate secretly yearn for that sort of physical confrontation. For my part, I’d rather not experience civil war over something this patently stupid.
These are very clear calls to violence and they aren’t protected by the first amendment for that reason. But the truth is, the advocates of these actions are themselves trying to attack free speech, so any legislative action on the subject plays directly into their hands.
No law should be changed, or made, based on these incitements to violence. Instead, existing laws should be enforced, and enforced promptly. To do anything else is to try reaping the whirlwind that will follow, which will not end well.
In certain online areas it is possible to goad the haters into going “Full Retard”. This can be an amusing hobby if you have the time and inclination. Sometimes it is possible to get a “win” on the argument and delight in watching them go back and try to destroy all the evidence by deleting their comments.
What sickness, what disease, what abject failure of nurturing could make these people so utterly hateful … of plants? Their sickness goes far beyond any form of ‘ism’, any phobic phobia, any ‘ist’. This is beyond any form of speciesism; any form of animal cruelty. Why, oh why, do these incomplete, damaged human beings wish to deprive our good friends the green plants; the nurturing life giving green plants that provide us with food, shelter, beauty, and in fact, the oxygen in the very air we breathe; deprive them of the carbon dioxide – the sustenance – that they so desperately need, to live, to reproduce?
This must be called out for what it is: Plantaephobia. And, it must be fought with every fiber of our being.
sarc/ sort of
Jennifer Lawrence – actress
education: up to Middle School
Hurricane is caused by President Trump – ignorance, forgiveable
Bob Ward – LSE Grantham Institute Communications Director
Education: Science Degree, First in Geology
Hurricane is caused by President Trump – deception, unforgivable
Deception deliberate, a Fabian wolf in sheep’s clothing hammering stoutly.
What the hell is that instrument third from the right?? Need to put that in the dryer and shrink it!
Both are “forgivable” and if either asks for that forgiveness grant it to them and in the meantime maintain compassion for them while fighting the good fight against them.
Well at least the so called trails are 12 years off. How many accused are likely to be deceased by then? Must be going to be tried posthumously I guess.
The real problem is that most of these people lack critical thinking skills,they either follow the herd or they chose to fight against reality. The same people are mostly leftists and even just plain liberals with this lack,not many Libertarians or Republicans have this problem.
For most of history, it was the FEW that drove nations and fewer who did any scientific studies the rest were mostly the herd,who did most of the labor. It is a reason why people should be seriously studying history to see that it was always the few that did most of mental work,the rest just limped along for the most part.
In today’s world,precious few are being responsible leaders, to propel their nations into a better future,it is being killed by corruption and excessive government influence. America is slowly dying because the rule of law are fragmenting,as corruption are also in the Justice system.
A larger mistake than failing to recognize that CO2 has no significant effect on climate is the potential tragedy of failing to realize what is happening that actually does. The still-rising water vapor is rising more than twice as fast as expected from water temperature increase alone (feedback). The good news is it is countering global cooling with its increased risk of crop failure. The bad news is increased risk of precipitation related flooding. But that can be attended to.
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