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I confess: I make the climate change
just by breathing out CO2.
But don’t worry, Ill be dead soon,
and so will you.
This Alarmist movement is behaving more and more like the Catholic Church of my youth. Next they will set up confessionals.
Sinner: “Forgive me father for I have sinned. I accepted store supplied plastic bags. put plastic bottles in with my regular garbage and set my thermostat to 65 degrees.”
State Climate Bureaucrat aka Network News Chatty Cathy’s: “Perform 1 Act of Recycling Contrition, say 3 Our Gores and 5 Hail Hansens then go forth and sin no more.”
They are already selling carbon credit indulgences. That way I can sin as much as I want and just pay my way to redemption.
You obviously haven’t a clue about the Catholic Church’s doctrine on Indulgences.
Doctrine or actual practice?
Big difference. The “act of contrition” usually was and is a huge monetary donation.
Perhaps they were one of the early forms of virtue signaling, however since the church was the defacto state, you toed-the-line or risked ostracization.
Alba, it was a reference to the medieval practice of selling indulgences which led to the protestations of Martin Luther, which I assume you are not familiar with. Not the same as today’s Catholic Church.
be me: “Go fug yourself, father. I reject your framing of guilt”
Indeed Pope Francis seems all-in as a climate worrier. The climate-concerned propose growing less livestock, and eating less meat. So what should the Pope do? Bring back the Catholic tradition of Meat-less Fridays!
The current Pope was an openly socialist Jesuit in his youth. And should’ve been surprise when previous Pope (Pope Benedict XVI) was told to either retire/quit or “die” so that the Leftist bishops could install a Pope to push the Climate Lie. Benedict chose to retire rather than wake up with a pillow being held over his face. That made Benedict the first Pope to do so on his own initiative since Celestine V in 1294 AD.
That is evidence of how deep and powerful the conspiracy is to push to West towards socialism. It is why the UK is not being allowed to finalize Brexit as the conspiracy gets to key members of BoJo’s Leave party.
Powerful forces are at work to push Chinese-style socialism on the West.
I suspect the Lavender Mafia is a bigger reason than CCC for oushing Francis. Also lefties, but a different part of the agenda.
Yes, we are evil, evil I tell you!
Just for bein’ alive.
Just like the Catholic doctrine of “Original Sin”.
You obviously haven’t much idea about the Catholic Church’s doctrine of original sin. It sounds like you are much more in tune with the anti-Catholic John Calvin. He put forward the doctrine of total depravity, a doctrinewhich the Catholic Church rejects.
The Catholic church did not reject it in the dispute between St. Augustine and Pelagius. Pelagius rejected it not the Church. Unfortunately Pelagius’s view holds sway today in both the Catholic and Protestant wings of the church. You may have heard of it as ‘we are all born with a clean slate and only learn to sin as we grow up.’
Both Calvin (and Luther) and Augustine taught original sin and total depravity (though Augustine less so). Augustine got it from the gnostics he used to hang with before becoming a Christian. It’s a very gnostic concept.
…and I, in my maturity, pass inordinate amounts of gas. Methane is soooo bad and the smelly kind is worse.
Welcome to the club, Next they will want to eliminate senoirs.
Don’t joke – remember Obama’s ‘that’s a hard question’ answer on pulling the plug on grandma?
Mine doesn’t stink.
You need to see an ENT to diagnose why the smell receptors in your nose aren’t working. :–)
ha – like the joke:
Patient: …but doctor they don’t have any sound and they don’t smell so that can’t be why no-one talks to me at parties.
Doctor: (writing prescription) take two of these and make an appointment for 1 weeks time.
—1 week later—
Doctor: so do they smell?
Patient: well actually they stink to high heaven like rotten fish mixed with off custard. But that can’t be the reason why no-one talks to me at parties – because even though they stink, they’re dead silent so no-one would know it was me ahead of anyone else in the room.
Meanwhile the Doctor is writing another script.
Patient: (taking script) what’s this for?
Doctor: well, now we’ve fixed your sinuses, we’ll work on your hearing.
Haha
SPD = Silent but deadly
You can maximize that methane with beef products. I highly recommend Taco Bell.
Now me, personally, I’m doing everything I can to MAXIMIZE my carbon footprint, just to offset the efforts of my home state eco-nut overlords.
Think ‘Godzilla Meets Bambi’ with ‘F&%# My Carbon Footprint!’ as a caption.
Not soon, I won’t.
I love the enthusiasm that everyone has put into their climate confessions!
https://rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com/2018/05/09/ever-been-told-that-the-science-is-settled-with-global-warming-well-read-this-and-decide-for-yourself/
Cheers
Roger
“Therefore we should not go down this road unless we have absolute proof that humans are warming
the planet and that the predictions we are hearing from some sources are
scientifically confirmed.”
I LOVE the certainty you have about economics.
that made me laugh.
Therefore we should go down this co2 mitigation road until we have absolute proof that the economy will be wrecked and that the predictions of economic disaster we are hearing from some random new zealand blogger are
scientifically confirmed.
…you go first
mosher is babbling again !
Your current employment is really having a sad and rather pathetic effect on you, SM.
Do you have an opinion on Nicholas Nassim Taleb?
Dr. Taleb is brilliant, but he can be a bit of an arrogant a$$.
I have most of his books from the ‘Incerto’ series, and highly recommend them. Very thought provoking and insightful.
I wonder what Moshee’s Climate Confessions are?
Andrew
That deep dark secret he tries to hide that he knows nothing about climate.
LdB,
Well, I for one am ready to take his confession. He’ll be a better man for it.
Andrew
He spends all day on his computer trolling sites that openly discuss the real science behind climate change, decrying the posters as sinners in need of repentance.
For some reason, Steve seems to feel that wasting trillions of dollars will have no impact on the economy.
For some reason, Steve seems to feel that making energy much more expensive as well as unreliable, will have no impact on the economy.
For some reason, Steve is once again trying to change the subject.
Mark, my only update to your comment is:
“Steve seems to feel that
wastingspending trillions of dollars will have no impact on the economy.”In the context of his mini rant, whether it is wasted or not is not relevant.
We can still be assured that any of the “serious” proposals by alarmists will wreck the economy.
We do not have other earths to test the climate theory, but we do have other countries to test the economic impacts of the GND and other even milder proposals now being floated by those citing climate emergencies.
Mr. Mosher – I dare say his certainty about economics is more grounded in real-world evidence than your climate boogeyman.
Non-binary Gaia, forgive me, for I have sinned!
I used nonrenewable fossil electrons to reply to steven mosher climate change oral flatulence.
What’s that, non-binary Gaia? That’s not a sin, it’s a virtue? And CO2 is good for you?!!
Thank you, n-b Gaia! I will continue my non-sinning ways!
What CO2 mitigation road? You loons don’t do anything, run anything, make anything, produce anything tangible or abstract, simply a waste of space. The rest of us will continue down this road of real progress.
I guess Moshpup has never listened to Lomborg’s TED Talk. Let’s see if he can understand basic economics, and massive human suffering…
These were the bad projects. As you might see the bottom of the list was climate change. This offends a lot of people, and that’s probably one of the things where people will say I shouldn’t come back, either. And I’d like to talk about that, because that’s really curious. Why is it it came up? And I’ll actually also try to get back to this because it’s probably one of the things that we’ll disagree with on the list that you wrote down.
The reason why they came up with saying that Kyoto — or doing something more than Kyoto — is a bad deal is simply because it’s very inefficient. It’s not saying that global warming is not happening. It’s not saying that it’s not a big problem. But it’s saying that what we can do about it is very little, at a very high cost. What they basically show us, the average of all macroeconomic models, is that Kyoto, if everyone agreed, would cost about 150 billion dollars a year. That’s a substantial amount of money. That’s two to three times the global development aid that we give the Third World every year. Yet it would do very little good. All models show it will postpone warming for about six years in 2100. So the guy in Bangladesh who gets a flood in 2100 can wait until 2106. Which is a little good, but not very much good. So the idea here really is to say, well, we’ve spent a lot of money doing a little good.
And just to give you a sense of reference, the U.N. actually estimate that for half that amount, for about 75 billion dollars a year, we could solve all major basic problems in the world. We could give clean drinking water, sanitation, basic healthcare and education to every single human being on the planet. So we have to ask ourselves, do we want to spend twice the amount on doing very little good? Or half the amount on doing an amazing amount of good? And that is really why it becomes a bad project. It’s not to say that if we had all the money in the world, we wouldn’t want to do it. But it’s to say, when we don’t, it’s just simply not our first priority.
http://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global_priorities/transcript?language=en
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtbn9zBfJSs
So, does Moshpup care about the millions needlessly dying annually? Or is he simply another climate zealot, willing to sacrifice millions of human beings for his agenda?
Steven, did you really think about what you were writing there, or did you just really like how the words sounded in your head when your read them to yourself?
There is no physical evidence that the slight increase in the Earth’s average — and I emphasize AVERAGE, because that number truly has no meaning to the Earth writ large — temperature has been caused by the slight increase in CO2 over the past 60 years. It’s all models, and they far overestimate the warming to this point. The alarmists double down on the folly by claiming that this mild, gentle, almost unnoticeable warming will wreck “the climate” — as though there is only ONE “correct” climate for Earth and human life.
On the other hand, the mitigation schemes require trillions of dollars of wealth redistribution and the abandonment of fossil fuels, either one of which would wreck the world’s economies.
It’s not an even choice.
For an (cough) academic, do you not realise the sheer stupidity of your comment? Or have you been hacked?
No, of course you haven’t. You just talk stupid.
Wow, someone actually “confessed” to using too many Qtips. Yep overuse of Qtips is really going to destroy “mother earth”.
Steven Mosher,
“Therefore we should go down this co2 mitigation road until we have absolute proof that the economy will be wrecked and that the predictions of economic disaster we are hearing from some random new zealand blogger are
scientifically confirmed.” –
You’re good at that:
You sow legitimate doubts and hurray you’re the magic master of wisdoms.
The other way round: YOU telling what IS
won’t you risk, will you, can you- defend, prove your assertions with facts.
– unseen ’till now –
My most humble apologies,
I added to the Universal store of Entropy yesterday while converting sections of 125million year old Granite to airborne dust particles using a small hand held internal combustion engine (and a rare element diamond disc)
I promise I`ll only use an electric grinder in future
I fall short in every respect, since I don’t believe that the available data shows that there is a problem.
Mind you, it means that i have a reasonable life, at the possible expense on my great-great-great grandchildren yet to be born. However, it also means that they will benefit from the work I was able to do during my time here…
I just had all my halogen downlights converted to LED today. Even though they were working perfectly and had many years of service left, they are all in the tip. The LED were provided and installed by the local State Government.
So I added unnecessarily to the manufacture transport and installation of 20 LED downlights and the waste of 20 perfectly serviceable halogen bulbs.
Oh and the installer arrived in a petrol powered van. So add fossil fuel use to my crime.
I only hope my rash actions cause all the glaciers in the world to grow, not too much mind you, just enough to shut up those who worry about them.
I left the oven on too long and burnt the witchetty grub roast….resulting in combustion and emission of excess CO2 Fortunately we had a frozen chicken in the freezer.
Witchetty grubs are best served alive!
Unless they’re chocolate coated.
My climate confession is that I didn’t give a thought about the climate.
If you read the “confessions” at NBC, most of them are making fun of it ! D’OH !
That picture of AOC at the end was pretty interesting.
But you only get 130 characters to have fun with!
I must confess that I accept the atmosphere as the perfectly reliable model of its own heat-engine performance. Watch a thunderstorm, and lose the fear of greenhouse gases.
I will add on to that, if you think humans are so powerful stand out in one. You might get a new respect for the power of the planet. After you do that go stand out in a blizzard and then try to tell me that warm is bad.
Good point ML. And if it seems too scary to stand outside, one can get on the web and see images such as this one – US radar summary from this evening – showing the prevalence of strong convection and precipitation to high altitudes, and the likelihood of hail. Very common from spring through fall.
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I confess. Mea culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa, etc.
– I confess I never believed in global warming – and I never will. At the time (~30 years ago) when it started grabbing headlines, the ice caps were melting – on Mars – and a new Red Spot was breaking-out on Jupiter. I didn’t read the National Inquirer (tm no doubt) that morning, so I didn’t know how many men were on Mars and Jupiter, causing global warming there – but if the answer was “none”, then could whatever was causing warming there, also cause it here? I wondered.
Then the Alarmists started wailing about “the Arctic will be ice-free in three, two, one… oh it isn’t? Oh, it will be – just you wait!” Meanwhile the Antarctic was setting records for accumulation every year – and still is – the Arctic and Antarctic, they’re on the same planet, aren’t they? So confused…
Then, some truly dreadful characters (I’m looking at you, Al Gore and David Suzuki) started pumping it with ever-increasing stridency until eventually the Press picked it up. Then, with the Press flogging it for all they were worth (I’m looking at you, CBC and BBC), politicians picked-up the screed and began throwing enormous amounts of my tax dollars at it – more specifically, at their friends who were head-and-shoulders deep, profiting immensely and living lives that kings would be envious of. And two hoary old bromides, “Politicians lie” and “follow the money” occurred to me. Frequently.
Then I found WUWT.
So I confess that no – I don’t believe it. And I further confess that I clicked-on the “make your comment” link at NBC and was going to recite approximately the above – but they only allow 130 characters. So I didn’t; sorry to burden you with it.
Great comment. Thanks.
“the Arctic will be ice-free in three, two, one…”
That part of the AGW message is still out there.
What about Santa Claus?…what do these people tell their children?
With regard to Santa Claus ; the Dems for 2020 are all think they are Santa; we’re gonna give you free health care, and free college education and free housing and pay off your college debt. Just vote for us.
An ice free Arctic is desirable.
In fact, global warming is desirable, too.
I confess that when the Temperature falls below 54f degrees – I turn on a personal heater
I confess that when the Temperature is above 95f degrees – I turn on an air conditioner.
But since my power is 100% large scale Hydro + inconsistent renewables – I feel no shame or motivation to act from my confession.
I suppose the 2 V8s and heavy meat consumption might be a problem – to me, not the climate.
I drive a real SUV. (Not one of those BS crossovers.)
I have a motor boat.
I keep my thermostat at 72 year round.
I have gas powered tools.
I also have an ornamental pond that uses lots of electricity for pumps.
I take trips. And hot showers.
I eat meat and non-locally grown food.
I have 3 dogs, a big house and a big yard.
I have a cigar every night to celebrate these things.
I’ve probably left out a lot of other stuff that also offends the hyper hypocritically offended.
I interact with relatives and friends outside of Facebook.
I wear clothes made with agriculture, animals and petroleum.
That’s truly wise.
I drove my GT350 to the grocery store to buy a steak. Passed one store, to another a couple of miles further away.
Bless me father, for I have sinned.
Yesterday I ate meat. Lots of it. I ripped it out of its plastic container. I cooked it on a very wasteful stove connected to the grid, and added lots of yumptious ingredients with wonderful flavours imported over thousands of miles from distant parts of the world. Washed it down with an excellent bottle of South African Pinotage. Then I washed up the plates and cutlery in hot running water without even putting the plug in the sink. I binned the residue, and lots of other detritus from the day, in the general waste bin, not even checking whether it might belong in one of the several recycling containers helpfully provided by our masters and guardians. I had the television and several computer screens going simultaneously, with the ‘hibernate’ settings disabled as far as it was possible. I left lights on throughout the house during the commission of all of these crimes. And I ran approx 400 watts of lighting all night illuminating my gardens front and back. That’s after I had applied copious amounts of water which had to be pumped to the house, to the lawns and plants in my care. Luxuriated under a hot shower for a long while.
Oh, and father – just to save me coming back and troubling you again – I’m going to do exactly the same thing tomorrow.
Although I do recycle somethings I contribute to future energy source. The local dump.
Here we have a county-wide waste-to-energy stream with full recycling plus CLEAN, local incineration.
The only way one’s trash escapes this waste stream is if one irresponsibly hucks it out the car window on the side of the road.
Yet, our virtue-signaling “betters” have not only banned plastic grocery bags, they’ve now prohibited plastic straws, coffee lids and all styrofoam, while whinging and wringing their hands that China (so green!) has stopped container-shipping all our rubbish across the world to be recycled!
The only way one of OUR straws gets up a turtle’s nose is if it’s placed there on purpose. I’d be delighted to make a similar placement up the various orifices of our various local commie politicians!
Disposable plastic shopping bags were great. I never had to buy “Disposable Plastic Glad Trash Bags” to line mu garbage cans. Straight from the grocery trip into the new duty as waste basket liners. Then straight into the main garbage can for pick-up and removal to the dump…
Plastic is plastic…
Yes, very convenient re-use.
“local incineration”. We tried that where I live. It didn’t work out. The gas fumes didn’t sit well with the near by communities.
“Michael Mann” and fraud are apparently joined at the hip! Its something in the name!
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/small-businesses-left-scrambling-after-35-million-disappears-massive-payrolls-fraud
“The FBI have launched an investigation into a suspected fraud at the company, and a team of agents have raided the upstate New York home of Michael Mann, MyPayrollHR’s owner.”
WOW…alas, I don’t think it is the same Mann !
No doubt Mann will sue him for having the same name.
Any confessions from Algore yet?
Forgive me Gaia for I have sinned. I have a very powerful car and I drive it 35 km’s to and from work five days a week. I live in a heating/cooling climate zone so I burn coal electricity summer and winter. I like to go to the tropics for a holiday twice a year and I fly in an oil burning aeroplane. I like fishing and use a petrol powered boat and I eat the fish I catch, and sometimes my line brakes and I leave some plastic in the ocean. When the nutters banned supermarket plastic bags I bought 2000 online for $30 and I use them to shop and line my bin, only double use, what a sinner I am.
Oh please forgive me my wicked ways Lord Gaia.
Wait just a minute! LORD Gaia??? You’ve got a lot more cofessin’ to do, friend Neil.
Energy cat:
I confess my shameful low greening CO2 contribution. I promise to increase my CO2 to help greening the planet for my kids and the poor.
Oh I see now there are 135 letters and white space, so will probably not appear.
Sigh. I confess that I took a commercial flight and not a private jet, and thus reduced my potential carbon footprint. By doing so I prevented CO2 from possibly warming the Earth a little, perpetuating the cold climate we presently have instead of a warmer climate more beneficial to life. I also deprived some poor plant easier access to the CO2 it needs to grow.
Faith in a power that can’t be proven,
Submission,
Sin,
Confession,
Sacrifice,
Repentance,
Worship,
Liturgy, ideology, and sacred symbols,
Salvation.
Persecution.
In every way, climate change is a religion. Right down the the pious, the heretics, and the hypocritical religious leaders.
Cooked 4 prime rib beef patties for supper last night, using my gas-burning stove. Saved the pan drippings for the chuck roast that goes into the slow cooker this morning, accompanied by baby russet potatoes, baby carrots, pearl onions, nothing grown locally and consumed one beef pattie with a plateful of yellow bell pepper strips and radishes, followed by ice cream. The beef patties were cooked in EV olive oil from Sicily, with a couple pats of butter donated by dairy cows. The ice cream was loaded with vanilla from some exotic island in the South Pacific.
I enjoyed every momentous minute of it, and I don’t care who knows it. And I will get more of those beef patties to make shepherd’s pie in about three weeks, when the weather gets cold, and I have to turn on the furnace to keep the house warm.
I also made notes on local weather in a spiral bound notebook with pages of paper, and balanced my checkbook in the paper check ledger. Oh! Almost forgot! Last week, I bought a new cotton mattress pad for my bed, and three small jugs of laundry detergent on sale, plus a padded bed covered in synthetic oil-based fabric for my cat. She loves it.
Have a nice day!
Can I dine at your house? I can bring my own cats and their (electrically) heated cat beds.
Absolutely, you may! While you’re at it, include a good Tuscan red (NOT Chianti!!) or a modest and mellow burgundy.
Years back I ran around the house turning all the lights on for Earth Day… wearing blackface!!! ok, the last part was an embellishment.
Is that ewe, Justin Trudeau?
I have never understood the impetus for someone putting on blackface. What do they get out of doing it? I don’t get it.
Need we any other proof that climate alarmism is now officially a religion, with priests taking confessions and offering absolution, as well as selling indulgences?
Where is Martin Luther when we need him?
I am so good! I car-share or cycle, I recycle like a Womble , I only use stored rainwater on the garden, I had only two children, I keep the central heating low, I eat only a little meat (though my husband makes up for that) BUT I confess I do love my bonfires – and I don’t believe any of this affects the climate!
I am proud to say I saved a couple of gallons of fresh water yesterday by peeing in my neighbors pool instead of flushing all that water down the drain. But then I dislocated my shoulder patting myself on the back.
150 character confession:
You’ve swallowed pseudoscience. Shame on you.
0.38°C since satellite measurement started in 1979.
You don’t know why
Using a decimal point shows you have a sense of humour.