- Date: 11/12/19
- Global Warming Policy Forum
There’s no hypocrite quite like a green hypocrite is there?
Whenever you get some eco-zealot is lecturing you about impending climate doom and the need for “us” to go vegan, you can be pretty sure that you are dealing with someone whose carbon emissions would put some developing nations to shame and whose diet would make a vegetarian shudder.
Over the last year, the ability of our climate-aware friends to hop from the ski-slopes to the protest march, from the business-class lounge to the barricades, has been an endless source of entertainment. Remember Zoe Jones from Extinction Rebellion? She returned from holidays in Uganda, New Zealand and the Alps to blockade a major thoroughfare in Bristol, infamously preventing people from getting to hospital. “We’re doing the right thing” she opined.
One of our favourites was another Extinction Rebellion supporter, Professor Jem Bendell of the University of Cumbria, who enjoys regular trips to Bali, and is also a visiting professor at institutions in Australia, Spain, Kenya and Switzerland.
Indeed, the hypocrisy of the environmental movement is now so all-encompassing that it is starting to move from the domain of amusing anecdote to that of serious scientific consensus.
One of my favorite local ski areas has an event for an organization called “Protect our Winters”, which wants people to take action against “Climate Change” so that winter won’t go away.
So basically, they expect me to drive nearly 100 miles each way to a mountain in a remote location where nobody could exist if it were not for the ample supply of inexpensive fossil fuels, suit up in my high-tech ski gear which are products of high-tech manufacturing from all over the globe, and then be transported up a mountain over and over again for no better purpose than my personal recreation, except that this time I’ll be doing it in the name of fighting “climate change”, which if taken the least bit seriously would ultimately mean eliminating 100 mile drives, high-tech manufacturing, and self-indulgent personal recreation.
If these people honestly believe that human behavior is solely responsible for climate change and wish to be personally responsible for it, they really have no excuse for promoting or engaging in a sport like skiing.
To add to the irony of it all, for the last two seasons I’ve been doing a bit less skiing than usual, because of the excessive cold we’ve been having in the region.
I need to get some WUWT stickers to plaster on the funitel cabin at Squaw that’s sponsored by POW.
“Protect our Winters” is one of the thousands of “non-profit”organizations cashing in on this scam.
That’s half the problem right there–the “qualifications” to become a 501(c)3 NGO are ridiculously easy to fabricate. Any damn fool with a FB page who can cook up a set of “bylaws” can suddenly flower into a “charity” capable of loudmouth activism on idiots’ money. Standards need to become far, far more stringent and a legitimate list of 1,000 sworn signatures should have to pass legal muster before such a certification could be issued. This would cull a great deal of phony “group” activity.
I wonder where the power comes from to run those multiple 100+ horsepower pumps used for snowmaking/ ski lifts and where all the pipelines used for snow making came from?
Include all the hot tubs and the energy source too.
St Greta qualifies in spades. Watch this (5 minutes of pure gold)
https://youtu.be/r8SyoRwV_To
Climate contraband. Love it!
St Geta is a useful tool, no more, no less. The real hypocrites are the puppet masters, cynical and manipulative.
In the Alps multiple ski resorts have closed and many only survive on artificial snow runs set amid green slopes…
Griff,
Yes, local drought/weather conditions can impact skiing conditions, but your bogus implication that snow levels are increasing owing to CO2 emissions fails spectacularly based on the evidence. For example, the snow pack in the Sierra’s is at near record levels for this early in the season. Yes, this is only the consequence of local weather, but then again, so is the claim of your banal comment.
Charles Rotter
“Whenever you get some eco-zealot
islecturing you about impending climate doom and the need for “us” to go vegan”…………Maybe you could pass it to GWPF ?
It wasn’t CTM, but yep, that first sentence kinda ruined things.
I assume Gore has already won the maximum allowable 25 times?
After pocketing a cool $70Million in 2013 for his part on the sale of his failing news network to Qatari oil sheiks, the Gore-acle was awarded the Hypocrisy Life Time Achievement award because there is simply no way to top something like that from someone who has spent most of his political life claiming fossil fuels are killing the planet and producing moves to that claim.
So since 2013, he no longer can keep winning the basic award. But there is of course no shortage of fresh faces to recognize in the climate hypocrisy.
It should be called ‘The Albert Gore Jr Award for Climate Hypocracy”, so other deserving hypocrites can win.
Hear, Hear. I second the nomination of “The Albert Gore Jr Award for Climate Hypocrisy” as the award name.
Gore got a Nobel prize for climate hypocrisy.
Hands down its Michael Bloomberg – one of the King makers in the GreenSlime.
Private jets his way to Madrid, Spain to talk to the COP25 attendees about the US “still in” the Paris Agreement scam, when he has zero cred in the diplomatic matter as a private citizen.
Then Little Mikey private jets his way to the other side of the world to San Fran for the AGU19 Conference to appear with Flush-it Down Brown, aka Moonbeam, on a panel to discuss the “science”with other hacks there. Again, zero cred this time in science. He is just another a-hole with an opinion, but an a-hole with a lot of money to buy people’s interest.
He’s a Multi-billion dollar climate hypocrite.
The Green in the Green Renewable Energy, the Green Revolution, the Green Jobs clearly is not the green of chlorophyll. We know what shade of green they are actually feeding on at Bloomberg’s slime trail of money.
In a recent interview a reporter actually asked Bloomberg about the China Climate problem (first time I’d heard the MSM bring up China so I perked up). Bloomberg’s response was a lie that falsely appeared to satisfy the reporter. Mike replied by saying that the Chinese party responds to the needs of their population, and they are moving the Coal Fired Plants away from the city centers.
That, of course, does nothing to reduce CO2 emissions, and the reporter surely knew that coal plants 20 miles from cities ARE STILL ON THE EARTH. There was plentiful body language agreement (head nodding affirmation and smiles) that China was OK regarding the Climate…And Bloomberg said WE NEED TO KEEP UP.
How about Tom Steyer? Made billions with big investments in Asian coal mines. Owns 6 mansions, cattle ranch, planes, fleet of vehicles, etc.
good one
Al Gore should never lose this well deserved Award.
Unsurpassable lack of excellence, veracity, and integrity.
Hard to single out any one in particular as they’re all huge hypocrites. Pretty much anyone of the “rich and famous” who put their names to that extinction rebellion open letter are in the running
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/17/extinction-rebellion-admit-climate-hypocrisy-but-blame-the-system/
As is anyone preaching the “climate gospel” while jetting around the world (or causing others to jet around the world in order to support their own virtue signaling efforts)
Just a few suggestions to remember when voting:
Justin Trudeau – Prime Minister of Canada – jets off regularly to various vacation spots all funded by Canadian taxpayers, when he is really supposed to be in Ottawa, working for the Canadian people – desperately wants a seat in the UN so is currently sacrificing Canada and has agreed to meeting all the conditions set in Paris
Catherine McKenna – Canada’s ex. Minister of Environment Canada and Climate Change (Yikes!) – doesn’t have even a minimal clue as to how climate science (is that an oxymoron?) works – claims full support for the nonsense of the PM and wants Canada to sacrifice more, to STOP climate change! Flies all over including to the world climate conferences and drives her taxpayer funded vehicle thousands of km each year (to help Canadians, of course!)
David Suzuki – constantly preaches to Canadians and any others who will listen, that they must sacrifice more – big on population control – owner of several homes including one on an island shared with an oil company – has several children – flies to most appearances and demands numerous support people and young women to accompany him, often on stage. Most recently reported to be able to sneak under a snake’s belly without disturbing the animal.
Of course, no list would ever be complete without (dis) honorable mention of Obama with his new $ multi million beach side home or Gore with his multiple lavish homes. The mentally ill Swedish panic pump can be excused because of how she is being used and abused by her parents, supporters, and promoters who should hold firm positions in the Hypocrites United, almost infinite line.
Mikey “a Disgrace to the Profession” Mann cannot be overlooked for his key initiating position and bogus climate graph (the hokey hockey stick) along with the UN talking heads and the IPCC.
Then there is the (in)famous Eric Schmidt of Google, Bill Gates (who does Windows for a living ;-), the numerous Apple directors and CEOs, Mark Zuckerberg who ensures that Skeptics have a lesser and lesser voice on Facebook, the various Twitter owners including Jack Dorsey & the Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, the New York Times editor, The Guardian, the CBC, the BBC, etc., etc.
I vote for your pick #2
Climate Barbie
I agree. Climate Barbie is the end of the end.
In the old days governments identified and solved problems.
The problems have not gone away. CAGW has taken all of the reason from the room.
What we get now is a Liberal Zombie mess, children playing a game.
There is no CAGW and the forced olution does not work.
Spending money on the solution that does not work is not going and cannot possibly for physical reasons change the climate.
Justin Two Jets Trudeau.
Leo (chinook) DeCrapio
There is no ONE greatest climate hypocrite.
They are legion.
Millions of citizens in western countries would never volunteer to change places with the billions of citizens of busted-arse countries who still have to cook their meals and heat their unsanitary water by burning animal turds or lumps of coal.
Yet the westerners would deny these poor downtrodden dregs of humanity the basic opportunity to avail themselves of reliable, affordable electricity connections.
Now THAT’s what I class as hypocrisy!
It’s a collectivist hive-mind. They ALL get participation ribbons.
I nominate the Democratic party. It’s bizarrely ironic that the piece of their platform they consider to be the most supportable by science is the least supportable by science any position can possibly be.
This is little more than amusement unless there is a press conference and “winner” is given a trophy. In abstentia, no doubt, but actually to be delivered afterwards. It’s necessary to call out these folks in public.
It should be awarded collectively to COP01 through COP25.
toss up….either the UN….or China
My friend had a girlfriend who was a evangelical vegan. She hounded him daily about his cheeseburger and jar doo wings addictions. Till he showed up one morning and he pulls a 3 meat pizza delivery box out of her garbage bin. Busted !
Sanna Marin, the new Prime Minister of Finland. Took a private jet from Helsinki to Brussels to a EU meeting about Climate Change.
There are so many worthy candidates. I’m at a loss as to where to begin…
Since she’s Time magazines “Person of the Year”, I nominate Greta Thunberg. She has sea captains flying all over the globe so she can virtue signal in a sailing ship. Then there is this from Rebel News…
Now that’s funny! Thank you!
Notice how she has a Heinz baked bean fetish?
I wondered why she is known as “Greta Thunderpants” and now we know!
No, I think she just can’t get that “contraband” in Sweden. Crosse and Blackwell baked beans are better IMO, and I can’t get that in Aus.
Well, well, well…. Greta’s a slob, through and through. Doesn’t even pick up after herself. All that trash could be bagged and disposed of properly, but it must be just TOO HARD…..
Okay, now, I’m giggling.
To be fair, she IS a teenager. 😀
If I was that sloppy when at her age I would have been slapped in to the middle of next week.
To be fair she’s a teenage leftist. Not a combination that bodes well for having the habit of cleaning up ones own trash, as seen in the aftermath of leftist rallies the world over
Always good to see that lying, thieving forger, Peter Gleick, again, working as the panel moderator. Ah, life is good, hob-nobbing with the AGU Fellows, as if he had never been a lying thieving forger.
Remind me again, which of the very thorough investigations cleared him and made him eligible to be in good standing with the AGU following that cock-up? I mean, didn’t the head of this very organization have to kick him out of his position as the head of the AGU Ethics committee because of what he’d done? Who, again, was it that determined Gleick was not the author of the idiotic “strategy memo” that mentions him by name and pretended that Forbes Magazine was one of the critical resources for public understanding of CAGW?
Gleick admitted stealing Heartland’s annual financial statement documents via identity theft and “phishing,” then found them too mundane, and so then punched them up by submitted them along with his silly strategy memo forgery to DeSmogBlog and the other favored (ie. alarmist) news outlets.
Of course, the ever playful Michael Mann, who knows how his bread gets buttered, sucks up to Gleick at the beginning of his chat with Moonbeam, thanking him for organizing the panel. What a pair of frackin’ putzes!
And former Governor Moonbeam, woah, he fits right in there with them, urging scientists to do more and that whatever they do, it still won’t be enough! Awkwardly, that lady who heads up the AGU asked Moonbeam how scientists can get active in politics and still protect their reputations as (she did not use the word, but it is implied) dispassionate scientists? He gave bad advice, double down, as many times as you have to. No, that’s not going to work. The good advice is run away from Gleick and Mann and Moonbeam as fast as you can, you stupid bimbo.
I thought this reply was made in the article about Mann’s keynote panel announcement. Somehow it ended up here. Probably user error.
Michael Shellenberger has a great interview that includes a lot of this stuff with Brendan O’Neill:
https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/environmentalism-is-a-false-god-for-lost-souls/
I’ll suggest Nikki Henderson, 26, who flew to the US from Britain to sail the catamaran La Vagabonde.
This award needs a new, young, and pretty face. Nikki is a smart and talented person – and a great climate hypocrite.
Photo – Skipper Hypocrite Henderson
Compare to Gore, Mann, Suzuki, Gleick, Hayhoe, Oreskes, Steyer, Bloomberg.
I nominate Javier Bardem
Actor Emma Thompson flew from the USA just to join the XR demonstrations.
and jane(never went without anything) fonda for her idiotic charade recently
more of runner up award though
id go Strong Holdren Ehrlich gores guru (started with an A?) and gore or course
minimikemann all his buddies and the mob fromUah or whatever it is.. lewandowsky steffen orestes damn theres SO many to choose from
assholes all the way up and down
After meeting Greta, Jane Fonda claims she is a climate scientist now. I guess it must be an acting position.
Well it’s certainly not a science position.
-There are a truckload here-
“Exclusive Video: UN’s Whopper of Hypocrisy: UN climate activists line up for Burger King at Madrid summit despite UN’s warning on dangers of eating meat – Harrison Ford confronted about flying up coast for a cheeseburger”
https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/12/12/exclusive-video-uns-climate-whopper-un-climate-activists-line-up-for-burger-king-at-madrid-summit-despite-uns-warning-on-dangers-of-eating-meat-actor-harrison-ford-confronted-on-uns-hypocris/
Since we need someone new, I nominate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the freshwoman Congresswoman proposing the $92 Trillion Green New Deal, who wants everyone to give up plane travel (why doesn’t she sail to Spain with Greta?) and beef (to prevent bovine flatulence from overheating the earth), and trade white-colonialist cauliflower for Latina yucca. Unfortunately, the Bronx hasn’t warmed enough to grow yucca there yet!
Congresswoman AOC has recently doubled her scientific competence by discovering the inner workings of an electric-powered rotating blade in her sink drain, commonly known as a Dispose-All.
Just to be clear, i.e., if a decision is based on consensus, it’s not based on science.