We asked for your climate confessions.
Read the responses, and submit your own confession here: https://t.co/Exsl2JKcti #ClimateInCrisis pic.twitter.com/woJoPCdTix
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 18, 2019
Even those who care deeply about the planet’s future can slip up now and then. Tell us: Where do you fall short in preventing climate change? Do you blast the A/C? Throw out half your lunch? Grill a steak every week? Share your anonymous confession with NBC News.
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I left my own comment, unlike some of the other ‘visitors’ who left comments like:
“I would rather the whole planet burn than give up steak. Kick rocks hippies”
Comments like this can be nonconstructive and just roll the eyes of the AGW-True Believers..
So, trying to actually add to the conversation, I put:
“As a Conservative, I’ve always recycled my bottle-cans and even ziplock bags. BUT my liberal wife and children just throw them away, go figure.”
Granted, I ran into the 130 character limit, so I couldn’t expand on this. Yes, it may seem a little snarky with the political bent, but it seems to be accurate that ‘some’ people do things that may look good, as long as it’s easy and doesn’t inconvenience them . But actually doing the right thing and taking the extra steps, that’s another.
Isn’t the definition of ‘Integrity’ – Doing the right thing, even when no one else is looking.. ?
Let’s see if this make it past the website’s censors..
Grill steak once a week?!? Bahahaha!!!
Sometimes we grill stuff THREE times a week.
But on the other hand I have a wife and daughter, so the thermostat has had to be set at a compromised 76 deg.
And they STILL sit under blankets.
“Ah yeah, Climate Confessions. I double bag the garbage every night, it’s my OCD. And the last person my wife and I axe murdered we buried in the ground. BIG SORRY. The CO2 must be bad coming off that rotting sinner must be bad. Extra big sorry for that…”
You committed a terrible sin. Dead bodies should never be buried.
Dead bodies need to be chopped and put into the compost pile. This is the proper way to recycle. After composting, the fine compost is used in your organic garden. As we all know, gardening is wonderful and doing it with all-natural inputs is even better. After some trial and error, you may find that just one or two dead bodies per year will provide your garden with all the rich fertilizer it needs. Trips to the local Home And Garden shop to buy commercial fertilizer will become a thing of the past.
No,no….dead bodies are needed for the left’s “Soylent Green”…
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/09/06/swedish-behaviourist-suggests-cannibalism-to-combat-climate-change/
LOL
I confess that, while I am an atmospheric scientist well educated on the climate crisis myth, I haven’t done enough to help dispel this myth and prevent a dystopian, socialist hell-hole of a future for my children and grandchildren.
Land O’ Goshen, but this is a fun set of posts.
But maybe climate zealots are like Unitarians?
Whose prayers are “to whom it may concern”.
My confession?
I’m an unrepentant skeptic.
I confess to a bitter and probably irrational hatred of the BBC due to a professional betrayal some years ago – and a withering contempt for the Synod of the Church of England for their fossil fuel policy and their lack of concern for the poor of the planet.
Are we sure these confessions are not some kind of joke? Most of the ‘confessions’ that I have looked at on the NBC site are hearteningly of the ‘get lost’ variety; even those that are not seem like they might be spoof anguish. I am from the Eastern side of the pond, so maybe need the politics of NBC spelling out for me. They surely couldn’t expect serious responses to such a fatuous question?
I wasted precious electricity watching NBC. I have since repented and do not watch it any more. I feel much better now.
Climate Alarmism becomes an official religion when you have to confess your sins.
+100
Bingo!!!!!
Ding, ding, ding
When the school made the children watch Algore’s sham movie in class, I had them skip and took them go cart racing. Instead of propaganda and indoctrination, we fertilized the trees that day.
I am a climate super-villain – dedicated to destroying the planet one plastic bag, one hamburger, one car-ride at a time.
I’m not even sorry.
There was this comment from the NBC News’ website:
“….I built a 60 foot tall Al Gore effigy out of old tires, doused it in motor oil and lit it on fire…”
I have proudly contributed to the release of CO2, for better or worse, during my 83 years on this beautiful earth. I’ve: driven over a million miles in a series of gas and diesel cars and SUVs; flown hundreds of thousands of miles in pursuit of pleasure and business; heated my homes with coal, natural gas and oil; eaten food produced on mechanized farms around the world and transported in FF vehicles to my market; purchased a lifetime’s worth of products mined and manufactured using FF; air conditioned my home with a heat pump powered by coal and gas; used refrigerators and a/c units which occasionally leak a small amount of powerful greenhouse gas; worked in electric generating plants fueled by coal and gas; spent four years in the evil, FF-guzzling United States Air Force while it pushed back against the wonderful communists in the USSR, China and Vietnam; voted for Republicans who (usually) support evil capitalism; worked 30 years in and around nuclear power plants and a bomb material production facility (for the anti-nuclear environmentalists); use plastic bags, straws, and single-use plastic products; owned and used small, gasoline-powered generators; owned and used gasoline-powered tools, including a chipper, trimmer, tiller, riding and walk-behind lawn mowers; and, of course, if you are a wild-eyed, leftist, Trump and Trump-supporter hater, I am also still breathing and exhaling 40,000 ppm CO2.
My goal right now is to continue with my climate-destroying ways (sarc), including exhaling 40,000 ppm CO2 through the 2020 presidential elections so I can cast my vote for “The Donald.”
Thus ends my extensive climate change confession.
My main PC is an old beefy 2011 model. Ever since I bought it, I’ve been running World Community Grid in the background 24/7. It does warm up the computer room nicely in the winter. Projects are mostly search for cures for diseases and medical research (some projects are cancer, Ebola, clean energy, influenza, dengue fever).
One of the projects I wasted energy on was “AfricanClimate@Home”. IMO, the project was never well thought out. I don’t think the data was ever used by anyone. The project came to an abrupt end when the PI took on a new assignment with the United Nations Development Programme. https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,31678
WCG now has three new climate-change projects in beta testing.
Is it a climate sin if a soda can gets dropped into the plastics bin? Asking for a friend….
I confess.
I use gasoline.
I use electricity.
I use methane.
I buy products that use plastic.
I buy products that use metal.
I buy products that use wood.
I have four internal combustion engine vehicles.
I take drives unnecessary to stay alive.
I like new infrastructure, i.e. roads.
I use a computer.
I watch TV.
I eat meat.
I eat at restaurants.
I heat my house.
I cool my house.
I have six children.
I breathe.
I believe that all these things do no harm to the earth or any other people that live thereon.
I mock people who think that a little more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is bad.
I don’t think that a small change in temperature is really “climate change”, more like “minor weather variation”. I believe the northwest US is still a temperate rain forest. I believe northern Africa is still a desert. I believe the north and south poles still icy. I believe the British isles are still rainy.
I believe climate is more than temperature. I believe “climate change” would require an actual change in designation, like the Alps becoming a desert. I believe a hyper focus on small changes in temperature reveals the foolish childishness of these climate claims.
I confess.
I have refused to surrender my sovereignty to the whims of eco-fascists.
I confess that I don’t leave carbon footprints, I leave twin 10 inch tracks of rubber.
Here is the current headline on Fox News Channel:
Internet Trolls Mock NBC News’ “Climate Confesssions” Project
I admit I sin by laughing at the local weather forecasters long term predictions and I do that pretty much every week.
I questioned the static climate world view set by advocacy groups and hockey stick constructions of data proxies with agenda emphasis applied to modern warming.
I bought a very large box of plastic bags at a wholesale store and another one with plastic straws.
I bought a large vehicle with a nice, reliable V-8 engine after it had depreciated and without subsidies.
I collect dividends from pipeline companies.
I visit WUWT daily.
I invest in fossil fuel companies.
I turned off big brother media.
I’ve questioned agenda climate scare authority and it’s science basis.
I’ve viewed global satellite data and studied long-term ocean cycles like the AMO.
Am I a bad person for expanding my knowledge base?
My confession?
I’m much more concerned about the intellectual climate.
Nice one!
A confession is an act made by a Catholic before a Priest. Another indication that “CAGW” is a religious movement.
I confess to owning
A diesel tractor
A diesel van
A diesel car
A petrol quad
And nearly forgot a diesel digger
And a solar panel for charging a battery which is next to useless
Rush Limbaugh said today some college had students confessing their “sins” to plants! Looked for a link in search engines but nothing came up yet (I think they’re hiding it).
I believe this is what you meant…
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/absolute-theological-bankruptcy-union-theological-seminary-students-pray-to-plants
Thanks Gator — that’s it.
Completely illogical as plants prosper from more CO2. But then, logic has nothing to do w/the current deranged cultural marxism.
When praying to a plant, stand (or kneel) very close to the plant and breathe facing the plant. Plants appreciate very long prayers of this type.
That is fine if you are an animist, I suppose, but if you are a Christian or Jew it is straight up idoloatry.
Who gets the “A” in that class?
The one that recites the Rosary completely and properly, substituting “Our Mother Gaia” for “Our Father”, and “Hail Marigold” for “Hail Mary”.
The biggest “A hole” ??