Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Global warming just isn’t scary enough.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Why Trump is ‘wrong’ on climate change
By Rob Hodgetts and Christina Macfarlane, CNN
Updated 1946 GMT (0346 HKT) January 26, 2019Kitzbuhel, Austria (CNN)”The Terminator” Arnold Schwarzenegger says US President Donald Trump is making a “big mistake” on environmental policy.
Making his annual pilgrimage to the famous ski races in Kitzbuhel, the Austrian muscleman, movie star and former governor of California was in the grandstand to watch the second leg of Saturday’s slalom race.
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Schwarzenegger grew up in the Tirol and is a long-time ski enthusiast.
“It’s not just global climate change, it’s about the pollution that it creates that kills so many people worldwide,” he added.
“Seven million people die every year — this is inexcusable. We have to fight, we have to do something about it, and the only way we can win is by doing it together.”
Schwarzenegger said one of the major problems in the fight is that climate change and global pollution have “no borders.
“It doesn’t matter if you come from a naturally clean country like Austria or Brazil, we all have to work together to fight this problem of this unbelievable pollution that eventually going to kill everyone,” he added.“The world leaders need to take it seriously and put a time clock on it and say, ‘OK, within the next five years we want to accomplish a certain kind of a goal,’ rather than push it off until 2035.”
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As an asthmatic I’m no fan of pollution. But I’m also not a fan of people going hungry, or kids missing out on visiting grandma in the countryside because their family can’t afford to put carbon taxed gasoline in their automobile. And frankly I’m not going to take climate austerity advice from someone who jets about the world and likes to drive a Humvee, even if he is one of my favourite action movie stars.
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wait….did he just imply that climate change is pollution…and 7 million people die each year
…and Brazil is a “naturally” clean county?
No wonder he was boinking the maid……….
“Seven Million people die every year….”. And with a total world population of about 7 billion, that implies a death rate of only 0.1%, and an average age of 1000 years. And still he complains how bad things are going.
On average more than 55M people die each year. Which ones make up the 7M?
Good question. Reminds me of Reagan’s statement: “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” Throw together a few cherry picked proxies, true or otherwise, and they are ready and willing to start legislating somebody else.
The man had a way with words wouldn’t you say Arnie?
He’s right that is totally unbelievable.
Spot on Arnie.
I like the ‘ everyone ‘ touch.
When I see a Death Certificate signed by a medical professional declaring “Cause of Death is Carbon Dioxide poisoning”, I might pause
But that will never happen. Indoor air is typically 1000 ppm CO2, and I believe submarines routinely operate with cabin air at 2000-5000 ppm. I may be a bit off on the numbers (which are not exact anyway), but this is a simple order-of-magnitude observation.
If Ahnohld wants to combat deadly pollution, he should fund cheap, reliable, coal-sourced electricity for the billions living in poverty in Africa, south Asia, southeast Asia, and the western hemisphere tropics who actually die from indoor air pollution due to cooking and heating with wood and dung.
Steroids musta bent his brain
The grotesquely UGLY Maid
All cats are grey in the dark, Kenji.
That would be the one he was caught with.
The report he is referencing states that burning fossil fuels releases pollution as well as CO2. There is some truth in that, but the idea that this pollution kills 7 million a year is complete fantasy.
oddly quite a few die ffrom having to burn organic material , such has wood or animal dung for heating and to cook , which creates Carbon monoxide which means die in their sleep. If on the other had they had access to the very types of energy sources the greens hate, this would not occur .
Exactly, if he is suggesting 7 million is unnecessary he has to calculate the deaths with his alternative. Energy poverty in Africa will kill more people , not less.
The simple answer would be to clean up those badly regulated countries like China and India that are not currently burning coal in a clean, efficient way. You do not have to produce toxic air when burning fossil fuels.
Britain could have had a super clean , modern coal burning power plant at Kingswood North in Kent. but the idiotic greens persuaded Brown to shut the project down. Now we burn US oak forests instead.
Today’s world is ruled by fantastic ideas of grandeur that are wrought by governments who are no longer subject to the fundamental laws of nature. If you mess with Mother Nature long enough, she’ll get you. If you mess with father time, you just may get your clock stopped. Or your brain may be made to go numb. Perhaps that’s Arnold’s biggest problem.
Arnolds biggest problem is that he fears there won’t be enough fuel for his gas powered toys. So he wants you to stop using yours to preserve more for him. “CO2 for me but not for thee”
” boinking the maid”
while his wife was pregnant with their child.
I thought he would be back.
10 points for that one
I want him to
just
go
AWAY!
Pollution is a real thing.
More plant food in the air is the opposite of pollution.
Agreed. This hypocritical moron can’t tell the difference between CO2 (plant food) and pollution that actually degrades our natural resources. If these people were to read the White House’s plan to improve infrastructure like wastewater treatment plants and potable water facilities then they would change their time… maybe. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/building-stronger-america-president-donald-j-trumps-american-infrastructure-initiative/
For such a big guy, he has a tiny brain.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Height
5ft 11 ¼ (181 cm)
Peak height was 6ft 1 ½ (186.7 cm)
Note: most of us get shorter and wider with age.
I got shorter through too many pats on the head. Then they used me as a basketball.
Arnie got shorter and thicker.
he got shorter, but he was always thick.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is right when he says: “we all have to work together to fight this problem of this unbelievable pollution”. It is certainly quite unbelievable.
You have to read it in the way you know he’d say it:
“Ve all haff to vork togedder to fight dis problem of dis unbeLEEVable polLUtion. It iss certainly quite unbeLEEVable.”
It’s better that way.
Those things he says. He’s unbelievable.
Arnold is absolutely, positively correct.
The ignored and uncontrolled mass movement of hordes of illegal immigrants crossing the Border into the US of A is in fact a major problem of “unbelievable pollution” of America’s social and cultural values.
“Societal pollution” is failure of immigrants to assimilate.
And how many of those seven million die from indoor pollution, from cooking with wood and dung, because they don’t have proper electricity supply?
97%
120,000,000 by 2050 according to WHO
Another 1,000,000 a year from vitamin A deficiency.
500,000 a year as a direct result of poor sanitation.
4,250,000 a year so far and I know I have forgotten a few other equally horrendous statistics.
That is a new claim!
“Global climate change” causes deadly pollution!
Ranks right with chicken little “sky is falling” bluster.
“Unbelievable”, is the right word.
How nice of the delusional muscleman to fly to an Austrian ski slope to speak about “global climate change”.
A complete hypocrite.
Lives in mansions, flies anywhere, lives a wanton lifestyle…
And there is still snow on the ski slopes.
Just think; if there wasn’t snow on the slopes, they’d start up the snow makers. Hah!
Given ski resorts are very high on the carbon footprint table .
I think all those years of Steroid abuse are catching up with him…..(or maybe a few too many knocks in the head)
Or maybe it is a tumor.
Let’s see if 200000 ppm of CO2 kills 100% of the people who breathe it and we assume linear no threshold then 400 ppm should kill 0.2% of people, therefore in a world of 7 billion, CO2 would kill 14000000 people. Irrefutable math and you can’t escape breathing this pollution – the horror – the horror!
I’ve every exhalation contain 44,000 ppm CO2 then the leading cause of CO2 related mortality must be CPR. We must stop this horrendously barbaric form of pollution based murder.
Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. I don’t care what the EPA or CARB says.
Seven million people died last year from carbon dioxide pollution? Bet you can’t name even one of them, Arnie.
Another high level climate hypocrite, he is no engineer.
I forfeited about two hours of my life recently watching him try to act in The Last Stand (2013).
I reckon enough CO2 was emitted during the filming to have fuelled the entire 2014 hurricane season /sarc.
greetings from from New Zealand…I thought this Bloke was dead and buried!! another GORED.
He’s virtue signaling to try to still fit in, in a Hollywood world that’s past him by.
A tough still trying to get it with the women in his liberal world. A Phony.
Yep, he’s a pretender.
He pretended to be a good husband , but as Latitude pointed out, he was boinking the maid.
He pretends to care about CO2 and air pollution, but he drives a Hummer and smokes cigars…
We don’t need lectures from Arnold or people like him.
“I need your Private Jet, your humvee and your motorcycle”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBKMRUyWU38
The we can talk Arnold.
Well, I will admit I voted for him in the recall of Grey Davis. His being around the Kennedys gave him a warped view of politics and society in general. He comes across just like some of his cousins-in-law, accepting received wisdom with no judgement.
Well anyone was better than Grey Davis and Arnold was better than Gary Coleman.
Steroid poisoning will do this to you. Big muscles, little brain and tiny other appendages.
How did he make his totally unnecessary “annual pilgrimage to the famous ski races”? Did he walk, bike or take mass transit? Or did he fly in economy class on an aircraft?
I bet dollars to doughnuts that he flew in on a private jet.
He had AOC power his hot air balloon?
The bigger problem is the news media that publishes this bs.
The article’s picture of Arnold driving his Hummer gives one pause to consider how really clueless he is with his statements regarding “climate change” and “unbelievable pollution”. To wit:
— does anyone think he knows that the tires on his Hummer are composed of about 60% synthetic rubber, produced from petroleum-derived hydrocarbons, with natural rubber comprising the remaining 40%. Synthetic elastomers are necessary for reasonable-life vehicle tires because of their special capability of deforming under stress and then returning to their original shape with minimum hysteresis . . . and that there is no plan for replacing synthetic rubber using chemistry not dependent on petroleum?
— does anyone think he knows the amount of energy used in manufacturing the mass of steel in his Hummer (as well as all other vehicles), and the stress that meeting that energy demand via renewable-sourced electricity would place on the associated sources and associated delivery grid?
— does anyone think he knows that coke (a purified form of carbon derived from non-renewable coal) is necessary for the manufacture of the steel used in his hummer and that coke cannot be generated using only renewable energy sources?
I could go on and on, but need I?
“It doesn’t matter if you come from a naturally clean country like Austria or Brazil…”
Wonder what countries Arnold thinks are naturally dirty? Oh, and has he not noticed how muddy the Amazon river is? Perhaps he’s unaware that countries with well developed abundant and affordable fossil fuel energy tend to have the resources to clean up their environments, while countries living in energy poverty under corrupt governments tend to be the dirtiest.
Why does anyone quote an obvious imbecile about such matters.
My reply to Arnie ‘Hasta la Vista Dickwad’
Ahhnuld. Nobody gives a d@mn what actors think. If they do they suck. Have a nice day.