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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Who is the better scientific authority? Arnold or Al Gore? I want your votes, please.
AOC
You need to know which one has the biggest house, the biggest car and the biggest private plane- by their ‘carbon footprint’ shall you know them!
None of the above.
Oh, sorry. I forgot science isn’t established by authority. It’s established by the media.
It takes a special kind of ignorance or “girlie man” to come out with the tripe Arnie has.
Everything about Schwarzengger is black…. optimism is a clearly a criminal offence now in the Californian political mind.
I am so grateful I was around in the sixties to see the true American can do attitude projected by Kennedy in full flow, to watch men land on the moon capture the technical and actual high ground.
Seems my comment was not posted.
I’ll try again.
Reply to Arnie ‘Hasta La Vista Dickwad’
It posted. Sometimes you have to wait a several minutes for it to show up.
Arnold is quoted as saying: ““It doesn’t matter if you come from a naturally clean country like Austria . . .”
Arnold apparently does not know the distinguished history of his country-of-birth regarding it being a source of the dirtiest form of coal, lignite (aka “brown coal”). See, for example: “The Coal Supply of Austria after the Revolution of 1918,” Rudol̇f Kloss (https://www.jstor.org/stable/1015212?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents_ )
Wikipedia has this to say about coal production in Austria: “Lignite production has been declining since 1963. In 2003, lignite production totaled 1,152,000 metric tons. Production of bituminous coal declined steadily after World War II, and in 1968 ceased altogether.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Austria )
Naturally clean? Well, if by that phrase you mean “before humans arrived,” I guess that is true of every place on Earth, excluding the interiors of volcanoes.
Arnold apparently does not know the distinguished history of his country-of-birth regarding it being a source of the dirtiest form of…..
oh dear, forgot history did we…..?
The interbred royal families started the ball rolling then…….. that little man with the moustache, what was he doing with his scientists with heavy water, going for Russian oil, and Werner and his rockets, and burning Coventry to the ground and the oil terminals in Swansea….
And if AH had got to the atom bomb before the yankees, had he not decided to send all the best Jewish scientists packing….? What if?
Lots of things came from Austria including some of the brightest lunatics of human history.
“we all have to work together to fight this problem of this unbelievable pollution”
I have to file this under True Lies
#YouKnowItsColdWhen: The Weather Channel pulls it’s global warming stories (but say the cold snap is leading to “confusion” about global warming and climate change)…take your pick!
It is becoming increasingly amusing and ludicrous to watch the brilliant light bulbs in the MSM quoting celebrities on climate change or other scientific matters when the celebrity is seriously lacking in any scientific background or credentials. Bill Nye also comes to mind here.
When the media posts a piece like this, what % of the public do they actually believe will swallow it? I imagine the number is probably much higher than it should be.
At any rate, this is a little like asking the cleaning staff at a hospital for their opinions on surgical procedures that the doctors perform on patients. It doesn’t matter how popular the cleaning staff is, it’s still pointless.
BTW Arnold, don’t feel as though you are obligated to come back to the U.S. if you don’t want to.
Celebrities, sports figures, actors, and virtue signaling politicians as spokespeople for AGW and none of them live the life they are espousing and none of them know what they are talking about.
Bono, the celebrity climate activist, and his luxury yacht.
http://www.celebsonyachts.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/xbono-yacht-3.jpg.pagespeed.ic.v2_GfaZL16.webp
The Hollywood message seems to be ‘pollution is bad, until it isn’t.’
Don’t forget the billionaires who claim to believe in CAGW and will fund any political group or politician out there that promotes the socialism … er … solutions that will fight it.
(Of course the money they provide is too important to “The Cause” for them to have to surrender it.)
Well Arnold is completely right about the “Unbelievable” part. AGW is most certainly an “unbelievable problem”… It’s never been credible from the start. 🙂
I didn’t see any scientific evidence in Arnold’s statements.
The definition of a hypocrite!
Imagine all the actors and musicians too.
Sticking to acting and singing.
With no political views.
Imagine Barbara Streisand falling down a flight of stairs.
Oohs who ooh who.
You may say I don’t like Barbara Streisand, but I’m not the only one.
Celebraties love to pontificate on pc emotional panic. Good for ratings.
He may have been a fairly good a actor… a good thinker?? don’t know……..
One Austrian corporal was more than enough.
Arnie: “… eventually going to kill everyone”
… does he know conception is terminal?
apart from his personal excesses.
anyone realise just how wasteful and energy intensive and polluting the film industry is?
in his case all thjose explosions fake or not pollute quite a bit
always thought he was a dipsh*t and nothings changed my view
remember when he started dating shriver, said to my hubby the boy had grandplans to run for president one day
wasnt far wrong
only country of birth saved you all from that!
Haven’t you seen that disclaimer they put at the end of the credits these days? Crowing about how environmentally friendly all their productions are?
It is the land of make-believe, after all.
Just another in the long and ever growing list of Hollywood/entertainment industry hypocrites. Bono is another hypocrite in the news. Those that consume and pollute far more than the average telling the average they must cut back their consumption and pollution. Just like the college professors that proclaim that there are far too many humans and then fail to show the courage of their convictions by not committing suicide. The world is full of em.
Arnold is nothing but an ass-kiss trying to work his way back in the favor of his Hollywood crowd – now that he’s thumbed his nose at his actual fans, and has no future as an actor.
I don’t know, thumbing noses at actual fans is happening more and more in Hollywood, so he fits right in with many of his fellow Hollywood crowd
Poor Arnold. He ran for governor using a broom as a prop to sweep out Sacramento. He got to Sacramento and the Democrats took the broom.
He was a disaster as governor. Wants to be popular with all the “right” people. But, I believe he did covert his Hummer to electric.
But, I believe he did covert his Hummer to electric.
Yes, Kreisel Electric converted it a little over a year ago, after decades of driving various large fossil fuel guzzling vehicles while spouting climate alarmism. It’s a “one-off” – IE Arnold is the only one who currently has an Electric Humvee (must be nice to be rich enough to afford such virtue signaling) – and isn’t available to purchase by the hoi polloi.
(and would likely be out of their price range even if it was available to purchase by the masses).
“It takes a village” (idiot) to distort markets globally as Hillary spin consultants would say.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5770131/