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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Transport Fuel Investment: $0.5 Trillion/year
For perspective, OPEC predicts:
OPEC’s World Oil Outlook 2018 launched in Algiers
In round numbers, this implies investing ~ $100,000 per flowing barrel per day of new oil developed.
I expect most people wish to have transport to work and vacation.
To understand the magnitude of the task, 4%/year depletion plus 1%/year growth from population and economic growth indicates 5%/year replacement & growth needed.
At 100 billion bbl/day, 5%/yr = 5 million bbl/day production of new oil will be needed every year.
$500 billion/5 million bbl/day = $100,000 / bbl/day.
https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/press_room/5161.htm
OPEC actually predicts 14.5 million bbl/day world growth in oil production in the 23 years from 2017 to 2040, from 97.2 to 111.7 million bbl/day. That is growth of ~0.63 million bbl/day every year. See OPEC report page 10 table.
https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/publications/340.htm
He’s vegetarian because of his supposed ‘carbon footprint’.
No interest in animal welfare or the conditions under which they’re raised, kept, and finally slaughtered it seems.
I’d say that he’s got his priorities wrong.
Well the European markets just closed. And they haven’t moved.
No impact from the end of the world in twelve years. The costs of the environmental disasters are already costed in without anyone noticing. And also the costs of all the new regulations that the report expects to be implemented… they haven’t moved anything either.
If even Europe acknowledges that the IPCC report is meaningless then it’s over.
We Sceptics have won.
This chap has not the foggiest notion of what capitalism is. If he did then he would know that it is a fact of life and cannot be dismantled. Otherwise all trade would cease. It is inequitable capitalism that he beefs about and I go along with that. Politicians have a duty to ensure that trade is basically equitable; but it is obvious that they just do not do that; for they are human beings like the rest of us.
Dismantling capitalism is an oxymoron; for it merely replaces motivation with coercion and concentration of corruptable power. Witness Venezuela.👎
As long as there is no coercion involved, all trades are inherently fair.
Coercion is already against the law.
Is putting fluoride in the town water supply coercion? or compulsion? is it illegal?
Is a government subsidy on a product coercion? It encourages the purchase and certainly influences the market. Is this illegal?
Is anything mandated by the government coercion? It’s an imposed cost that you can’t avoid if you want that product or service. Shouldn’t this also be illegal?
I see that he is a meterologist (or at least he says he is).
Maybe he is to Meterology what Liberace was to piano concertos*
This could be defaming Liberace. When he wasn’t being a total drama queen, he could play the piano rather well as well as reducing well know concertos to 12 bars.
This guy is insane. No wonder he got divorced.
This guy needs sympathy, not ridicule.
He obviously has some kind of mental disorder.
Soy boy isn’t getting enough nutrition to think critically.
Marxism is alive and well at the IPCC
—Destroy free markets
—Destroy property rights
—Destroy individual liberty
Apparently only a totalitarian hard left dictatorship is acceptable.
Nothing new revealed here.
So why does anybody care what this self-absorbed, emotional slave says about climate or anything else? Gee, he has a Masters from Columbia (i.e. thanks for trying, now here’s your MA and please leave) on “The Social Justice of Weather: Risk management for development in Latin America and the Caribbean” and one year at U of Arizona “working” on a PhD on a similar topic (LinkedIn profile). Typical alarmist m.o., ‘you all need to listen to me because I’m special and the rest of you really just can’t understand your situation’. Pound sand Eric.
The social justice of weather? HAHAHAHAHA!!! I’m surprised he’s not on the weather channel, trotting around in a rain slicker and bleating about global warming causing more hurricanes.
Summary of IPCC SR15:
… uses crap data in crap models, conceived on crap fundamental assumptions, to render crap predictions to scare the crap out of people.
I realize this guy Holthaus is a Leftist loon, a product of the feel good, participation trophy, safe-space college world he grew up in — unprepared to face life kicking sand in your face, but this is kinda like cyber bullying the nerdy little kid in the elementary school yard who can’t stop wetting himself in class if someone drops a book on the floor to scare him.
I mean when you see an adult with a maturity level of a 9 yr old, should we feel sorry for him or keep telling him to grow-up/man-up? I think the verdict from his wife was clear on that.
Eric and his socialist/totalitarian friends are constantly raging against Capitalism. They all seem to want some form of cradle-to-grave government care/control of everyone. They always point to the Fenno-Scandian countries and their free healthcare, education, retirement homes, etc. They don’t seem to realize that is the booming Capitalist economies of these countries that allow for these government-paid programs.
Once the oil fields run dry, even booming capitalist economies won’t be able to support these government paid programs.
In my experience, most socialists have such a high opinion of themselves that they are convinced that in a fair world, they would be amongst the best paid.
Since they aren’t, that’s proof that the world isn’t fair and needs to be overturned.
My nephew dropped out of school in year 10, lives at home with mum and dad, but is convinced he’s going to be a millionaire by the time he’s 30. I give him slim chance of ever waking up to himself, no matter how hard life gets for him.
The technical term is that he’s an “Idiot”.
This is what is wrong with Eric. It is what is wrong with vast numbers of people.
It is The Root Cause of climate alarmism, plastic alarmism, diesel alarmism, _________(fill in your own choice) alarmism.
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability is a 2009 book by Lierre Keith
From the wiki describing the book:
No. Climate Change doesn’t cause shrunken balls. Soya does.
The boys got away lightly to still even have any balls after eating soya – so full of fake estrogens it would and does turn male anythings into female anythings
And a physical attack. On a girl reading a book.
Nice. Ad Hom gets up close and personal
Some UK figures:
Active UK taxpayers (non-public sector workers) pay £5,000 per year for healthcare from the NHS
On top of that, they pay easily £1,600 more to fund their ‘local authority’s’ spend on Social Care for the elderly.
Government has said it wants an extra £2,000 per year for the NHS within the next 15 years.
Government now says it wants a £30,000 lump sum for it to pay for care for elderly people – equating to a whole year’s salary out of a typical 40 year working life so = 2.5% tax on gross earnings.
65%+ already goes in mandatory take.
Now thinking of a 0.5% annual tax on the value of your house = another £1,250 annually.
To fund local services apparently, where 50% of local service is care for the elderly.
And now, girls of 60 year old+ have been told they have to work until age= 66 before being able to get a pension. Just like that. Out of the blue.
Do you still maintain that ‘Things Have Never Been Better’?
Be gentle on Eric. He is not intrinsically bad.
Just a bit misguided.
That explains plenty!
Everyone should follow Eric. His disappointment when disasters fail to unfold is palpable.
Dismantling capitalism is all we need to know that the latest bilge spewed by the IPCC has nothing to do with science.
Oh, I remember this guy from that ridiculous airport tweet. Here’s some news for him…by producing a child, he has greatly increased his carbon footprint, far more than if he flew every single day, ate nothing but meat, and drove a gas guzzler. What a hypocrite.
If Eric takes responsibility for his daughter’s carbon footprint. Does that mean that his daughter has no responsibility, and therefor has no carbon footprint?
The thing is, even though Holthaus has a track record of not being too accurate, he’s right on this socialist claim.
I’ve also seen a number of tweets from Hayhoe regarding skeptics claims of a socialist conspiracy. Wonder how this contradiction is going to play out.
I’m not a doctor and I don’t play one on tv, but that guy really needs help.
I think the situation is worse than this misguided individual’s bipolar rants. It seems to me that he is symptomatic of most of those living in metropolises along the east and left coasts. Those of their ilk can even be found in some of the larger cities in Texas! That is, there seems to be a stark ideological contrast between the ‘deplorables’ living in ‘Flyover Country’ and those decadent ‘elites’ living in the centers of wealth. It reminds me of the characterizations displayed in the “Hunger Games,” or in a historical context, the perversions of the Roman aristocracy versus their agrarian colonies. It helps explain the extreme polarization in the politics of the US, and why everything is so partisan. We are two different cultures kept apart by by a common language (with apologies to Churchill.) As long as the wealthy Hollywood ‘elites,’ the denizens of the DC ‘swamp,’ and the money changers of Wall Street view themselves as superior to those with less money, they will rationalize that they know what is best for the world and behave as though they have a moral responsibility to save everyone. Consider Soros! Then there is the observation of Lord Acton: “Power corrupts…”
Is this guy the son of Figueres?
That’s the thing about Progressives – their elitist conceit won’t LET them shut-up.
This is all this was ever about.
The control mechanism to replace religion.
Oddly he is missing the one thing he could do that would have the biggest impact ‘ stop existing ‘ any other action is merely an excuses for ‘destroying the planet ‘
He’s saving that one for us.
Holthaus needs a one way ticket to a rubber room.