From “the stupid, it burns” department comes this very revealing statement (h/t to Dr. Roger Piekle Sr.) from Eric Holthaus, who’s apparently a socialist cheerleader:
He adds:
Source: Twitter
Such a mature, forward thinking, open-minded person Eric Holthaus is. /sarc
Here is his rationale:
Here is the IPCC Chapter4 text in a larger form:
Just a few reminders about Eric Holthaus and his credibility:
Then:
Then there was the flying debacle:
Then a year later, suddenly, flying is OK again.
Then:
In my opinion, Holthaus is overtly emotional, clueless, and has no critical thinking skills, as are many of the social justice warriors he pals around with.
My best advice to Eric Holthaus, and in fact all of the people in the IPCC that prepare these reports…
GO LIVE IN VENEZUELA FOR A YEAR!!!!
Then, if you survive, and can actually get past the border, come back and tell us why capitalism is so bad compared to that starving, filthy, pet-eating, totalitarian social paradise.
In the meantime, we can only pray that somebody will take his Twitter account away. IMHO, he’s a danger to himself and others.
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Mandatory mental health check before being allowed to use Twitter, I’m all for it.
“In the meantime, we can only pray that somebody will take his Twitter account away. IMHO, he’s a danger to himself and others.”
“Mandatory mental health check before being allowed to use Twitter, I’m all for it.”
I’m not for it. I think he should be allowed to say anything he wants unless he is calling for illegal activity or it is libel. I don’t want my freedom of speech taken away, so let’s not call for taking away the freedom of speech of our opponents.
In total agreement. There’s plenty enough government intervention in just about every aspect of our lives. We most certainly do not need more.
I against censoring him as well, though not because of freedom of speech concerns. Let him spout his nonsense where all may hear. Any right thinking individual will see through his BS. The more foolish he and his followers act, the more clearly they will be seen as fools. The more crazy they act, the more they will be ignored.
Although the crazies seem to be vast in number, in actual fact there are many, many more who quietly go about their business as usual. They need to see these idiots for what they are. Silencing them is not the answer here.
Best answer so far.
+1000
Mandatory mental health check ?
Questioning someones mental health because you do not like their politics is a dispicable lefty trick. No place here.
Yes, you want people to know how many loons are out there and that they vote. It stimulates the sane people to go and vote to cancel the loons, at least.
+1. It is very good he speaks up. And I’m also in for free expression even for people who can be considered to miss some gears.
As long as he’s not libeling or planning crimes for others to make.
I agree, but I would love to see a compulsory display of IQ on all twits, and an IQ filter app…
Who needs it? It’s rather obvious from his tweets.
PiperPaul says, “Mandatory mental health check before being allowed to use Twitter, I’m all for it.”
@EricHolthaus has 458k followers. The mandatory mental health checks need to be expanded to followers as well.
Cheers,
Bob
Most sane people don’t have time for following twits on Twitter. They’re busy practicing capitalism, making a living, building things, paying bills, having children, working and playing in the outdoors and teaching the next generation about what is important–and REAL.
Of those “458k followers,” I’d bet 400K are bots, 50k are journo trendspotters and 8k are the idle, over-medicated rich chicks in Greenwich, CT who give themselves angst about whether their $200 t-shirts are fair-trade, their $30 kale plates are organic, and their Prius just got towed because the battery crapped out.
MAGA!!
I suspect your suspicion is closer than many may believe. Espcially about the angst rudden Cat Stevens, Mahler et al music lovers. But without data I am just another person with an opinion. This also applies to statistical climate model prophesies that can never be proven or unproven, but certainly don’t forecast natural reality in even the short term, and their renewable energy cures cannot deliver a solution to the supposed problem in energy physics fact, however much they are subsidised. Not enough energy, and not there when needed.
‘Mahler et al music lovers’?
Do I read this aright? Since when has loving such ‘real’ music equated with being an AGW nutter?
I am not advocating wasting resources giving out mental health checks. At least some of those 458,000 ‘followers’ are there out of morbid fascination. I have to admit, the guy is entertaining. Just don’t try anything he suggests at home.
The married family unit is the building block of society. I am sorry he couldn’t keep his together. Maybe he can work on that. Keeping an entire global society together is slightly more challenging.
When he gets the first challenge in hand we can discuss how to rule the world over coffee.
In the meantime if he can keep 458,000 others who also ‘know not the disease nor the cure’ busy in their corner, that would give real solutions a chance to emerge.
I wouldn’t trust those in charge of administering mental health checks to be anymore sane than those they “check.” Imagine having the power to blame US!
Piper, I wouldn’t trust those in charge of administering these mental health checks of being anything but unstable themselves. Anyone with even an iota of authority and a government check would more than likely abuse both.
No, leave him on the loose. He is the epitome of the Great Green Blobbites. Let his crazy, deluded message be heard by all the world. I mean he is one of the great comedians of our time, not that he is in the slightest bit aware of it.
Here is a heuristic for that “Mandatory mental health check”:
1. If you WANT to use Twitter, you fail the health check.
2. If you HAVE to use Twitter (against your better judgement) to make people eat their own words, you pass. But you must be closely monitored for signs of infection.
Mandatory mental health check? Waste of time. There are too many people like him whose connection to reality is tenuous at it’s best.
But no one is getting in Eric’s face to point out the obvious to him: where does he think the money comes from to deal with climate this-and-that?
Ye, I believe he is completely disconnected from reality, needs his own bicycle paths, and should get off the soylattecoffee chugging permanently. He’s less a loon than he is one of those who are disconnected from the real world. Where does his income originate? Grant money? If so, no surprises. He doesn’t EARN anything, nor does he contribute anything worthwhile to society.
I see a downward spiral there, probably prolonged but very real.
Here is another deranged “liberal”, maybe we should start a charity to help them get treatment, and maybe some academic psychologists should research the condition:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-08/fuk-you-all-hell-google-exec-threatens-gop-over-kavanaugh-confirmation
The Posr Normaks have taken over mental health soecialties too! S Lewandowski would give good health certs to all these neurotics.
Google is a profit-based company, isn’t it? If this rather silly person at Google were deprived of the income he now receives as a Google exec, wouldn’t it inconvenience him somewhat? He’s entitled to his opinion as a private citizen, but using his position at Google to force it down the throats of the general public says he’s too immature to have the position he occupies.
The real agenda is coming through loud and clear. Destroying capitalism is the best way to drag the developed world down to the level of the developing world. Climate reparations have nothing to do with advancing the developing world, but of destroying the developed world.
Holthaus is a clear example of how emotional triggers can drive someone insane and the IPCC/UNFCCC depends on this fragile nature of the human brain to push their repressive agenda.
The ultimate goal of the CAGW activists is a global vegan commune of about 1 billion souls, run by some subset of the tinpot despots represented in the UN General Assembly. The mind boggles!
The problem is that many of the activists, especially those in the developed world, are deluded into thinking they’re saving the world and this leads to a guilt driven self righteous indignation that blinds them to reality. What they fail to understand is that the world does need to be saved, but it needs to be saved from the IPCC/UNFCCC and not from the bogus claims they make to support their existence and agenda.
On the developed world side, guilt and fear drives CAGW alarmism, while in the developing world, the driver is greed, envy and in the case of China, a great opportunity to advance themselves at the expense of the developed world.
Right you are. As tempting as dismissive labeling is, Eric is no more ‘crazy’ than the Trumpster is. This poor hyper-socialized fellow has great difficulty accounting for his relative blessings to a like-minded social circle in ways they would satisfy them, and so he is on the hook to virtue signal to offset some of that self-grandiose guilt; replacing a humble gratitude to One he can’t bring himself to name. He just wants to rise to personal responsibility — for it all!
Co2
You must accept that they are using “feelings-based evidence”.
You know you have guessed the right answer when it feels right. Get lots of friends to agree they feel the same way about that answer and presto, a consensus!
With a consensus you can rule the world.
Crispin,
Don’t mean ‘feelings based rhetoric’? I don’t see any evidence …
but if you destroy capitalism…who’s going to send all that money to prop up the third world countries
When as logic ever applied to the alarmist agenda?
The guy’s off his trolly.
I just followed some of his links. Scary pant’s.
A reactionary climate alarmist by his own admission!
And can someone help me here please. In the last tweet he says “I’m drunk” “I’m getting divorced, tomorrow is my five-year anniversary”
Firstly, we’re supposed to take note of the rantings of a drunk?
Then, who would post a comment on his marital status online, or did I get that wrong, was he meaning something else he’s getting divorced from.
If not, perhaps his wife got fed up of eating vegetation alone and pushing a pram everywhere when she could reasonably afford a perfectly good SUV.
Honestly, were it not for the internet these lunatics wouldn’t be given the time of day by the local tramp (hobo?) never mind the ability to publish their insane rantings.
He’s taken the climate change prediction models to heart: make enough claims to justify every possible outcome, then add a few more for good measure, and in the future focus attention on the few you got right and claim wisdom and foresight.
No you read it right his wife of 5 years wants a divorce .. they broke up in march from his feed
https://twitter.com/ericholthaus/status/978802613641711616?lang=en
Give the guy a straight-jacket and a padded cell.
…..And maybe Dr. Christine Blaisey Ford could be his live-in shrink?
Maybe she already is …. and that’s whats wrong with him!
He’s getting divorced? Does one suspect that his wife is tired of his BS? Maybe he can hook up with that obese Antifa lady directing traffic in Portland just because she “said so”. He’s a vegan so as to reduce is “carbon” footprint”, and the lack of protein has severely affected his brain.
Come on, guys, don’t kick a man while he’s down. Get at his hypocrisy or his politics, but leave his social life alone
You’re right and I know that. But I’m only human and this idiot expects to be taken seriously. He doesn’t even have the basic sense that most kids have that if you’re saying something that nobody agrees with, maybe you should rethink it at least once.
And, the rest of the Eco-Left Fascists may not be quite so far off their rockers as this guy clearly is but they sure are serious about their intentions toward our rights and economic beliefs. So it looks like a no holds barred fight to me. The fact that this loony is on the other side assures me that we are most certainly in the right.
Under normal circumstances I would agree with you, but in this case he’s the one advertising his divorce. He’s probably after the sympathy vote.
The man doesn’t understand his own destructive personality traits.
He’s thinking of getting a vasectomy.
Start at the chinline…..
Jim
“Start at the chinline…..”
And move up.
“that accepts science” – LMAO, let me translate that for you – “that supports the politically motivated crap dressed up as “science” that I BELIEVE IN” – Tell you what, Eric – let us know when the Climate Nazis have a scrap of empirical evidence (you know, ACTUAL SCIENCE) that supports the ridiculous notion that CO2 drives temperature. Like it never has according to any observation. Until then, just STFU.
Don’t you think that’s excessively harsh? How about a month to start? Or perhaps just one week in N. Korea?
(absolutely no insensitivity to the people suffering in those two countries is intended by this comment).
“In my opinion, Holthaus is overtly emotional, clueless, and has no critical thinking skills..”
Agree. This is what happens when you don’t eat enough meat. I say this as I lunch on a sandwich of beautiful, rare Boar’s Head top round on a fresh baked hard roll which I hollowed out to allow for more meat. Topped with a thin slice of Swiss, a local grown full of flavor tomato slice and some spicy mustard. I just got back from the gym so perhaps I’ll have two.
Yikes! That guy is an actual nutjob.
Just your standard bipolar, note the mood swings
Pathetic !
That’s all.
“We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster… to bomb us into the stone age, where we might live like Indians, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion, guilt free at last.” -Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalogue
“If we don’t overthrow capitalism, we don’t have a chance of saving the world ecologically.” -Judi Bari, Earth First
“Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process. Capitalism is destroying the earth.” -Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
“A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis.” -Gordon Brown, ex UK Prime Minister
“The greatest hope for the Earth lies in religionists and scientists uniting to awaken the world to its near fatal predicament and then leading mankind out of the bewildering maze of international crises into the future Utopia of humanist hope.“ -Club of Rome, Goals for Mankind
~
“In socialism people line up for bread. In capitalism bread lines up for people.”
They remind me of the early acolytes of Marx. Horrible to think what resulted from that wretched mind. Horrible to think what might result from the modern version.
So. He cries. He stomps his little footie. He says exactly what he’s going to do. To help all of us. And tells us what we should also do.
AND THEN… He takes it all back. Gets married. Has a child. Flies in a plane. What else has he committed to that he never intended to follow. He doesn’t say but I’ll guess there are plenty more. How many times has he been to McDonalds the past year :-).
Two questions:
1. Did SR15 make Eric Holthaus cry?
2. Has he been able to return to work?
Last I heard, he was so traumatized by the election of President Trump, that he couldn’t go to work. Which raises a third question:
3. Has Eric Holthaus ever actually had a real job?
I’m gonna say that the GDP probably went up while he was off work. Maybe he is personally responsible for the strength of the economy under Trump, just by being out of it!
Advocating vivil war is now within the Overton Window.
civil war. I wish Anthony would redo the editing feature.
I’m working on it, the commenting system crashed a couple of weeks ago, and I don’t want to re-enable without some assurance it won’t happen again.
Thanks Anthony. It is outrageous what happened to you.
In the meantime, we can all agree that not having the editing feature suvks. (^_^)
LOL
(unedited) Made it on the first go.
🙂
But you could add a preview feature, that doesn’t imply any editing of existing entries in the database, so simpler and safer.
And a tag check feature, as people sometimes misspell a tag, or fail a balance tags.
What’s wrong with vival war? I never liked those damn vivals anyway.
those vivals are a menace that needs to be wiped out. (And I hear they kick puppies and hate children too).
I think a book with these kinds of rants from the “scientists ^тм” in the style of Mark Steyn’s explosive book on M Mann “…Disgrace to the Profession..” which was based on quotes from scientists about Mann. When people say I wont listen to anyone but peer reviewed “scientists”, it would be a handy reference on these guys. This is a good project now that these guys are unabashedly coming out of the largest closet the world has ever known.
I’m not sure that article indicates that he is flying again.
I don’t know, man. He’s really out there!
Well, as CO2 emissions are directly linked to prosperity, the less capitalism we have, the less prosperity we can expect.
The after-tax net income of many companies is probably in the 5-10% range, as you suggest. For many, it is less. For some, there is no net income. However, Microsoft and Apple (and Google?) have after-tax net income well in excess of 10%. And I don’t read the text as saying to take the profits. It’s more of that SJW “divest yourself of all the bad stocks and invest in renewables” idiocy.
Eric is a vegetarian?
Shall we trace the vegetarian food chain backwards?
– vegetarians consume vegetation
– vegetation consumes Carbon Dioxide
That’s about as direct as you can get to the base of the food chain: CO2
– Carbon Based life forms need Carbon
Mr Holthaus
Why would you want to be vegan and destroy the carbon sink in such fashion??
You can have my Capitalism when you can pry it from my Cold Dead Fingers
Ironically the useful idiots have become so idiotic that they have actually become useful for our side. Someone give this loon his own show so that everyone can witness the level of stupid that is the CACA crowd.
I guess one upside of social media is that we get detailed documentation of the messed up minds of our supposed social/political/media elite.