Claim: George Floyd Protests Are Linked to Climate Change

George Floyd Protests - Burned Out Buillding
George Floyd Protests – Burned Out Buillding, East Lake st, Minnesota. By Fibonacci Blue from Minnesota, USA – Protest and riot aftermath on East Lake Street, CC BY 2.0, Link

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Who didn’t see this coming?

Faith Communities Connect Floyd Protests, Climate Change

June 2, 2020

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — An interfaith group working to slow climate change says there is a link between ending reliance on fossil fuels and the protests taking place across the country. 

The COVID-19 pandemic and protests over the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man in Minneapolis, have eclipsed many other major news stories. But according to the Rev. Alison Cornish, executive director at Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light, the long history of systemic racism sparking nationwide protests is part of the climate crisis, too. 

“We know that people with fewer resources and less power and who are more oppressed are going to be people deeply affected by climate,” Cornish said.

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Karl
June 2, 2020 10:05 am

Words fail me…

Earthling2
June 2, 2020 10:08 am

I would say that this latest black swan event with America tearing itself to pieces is a result of an extended lockdown that has made everyone extremely uptight and just itching to get outside and blow off some steam. Just another unintended consequence of many bad things to come from the China Virus…just the start. Nothing to do with climate change or global warming.

June 2, 2020 10:14 am

An incredibly stupid thing to state, could only come from a progressive.

June 2, 2020 10:17 am

Can’t we have the reverend Cornish examined for the presence of brain cells?

Its hard to imagine just how stupid some people are.

Maybe she should talk to Jesse Jackson who is in favor of fracking because cheap energy favors poor minorities?

Probably i should just stay with Karl’s comment, Words Fail Me

Al Miller
June 2, 2020 10:19 am

I am in awe of the stupidity of this claim. The desperate reach to tie in everything to phony god of Climate Change is truly breathtaking how absolutely absurd and foolish these claims that we seem to find daily from some twit with the title Professor, or Dr.
I suppose the good news is that with the more and more stupefyingly dumb claims they make the average person, who has demonstrated they little time or interest in researching these things will turn the station off. And I’m certain that is going on as polls consistently show. However the people riding the fake CO2 gravy train just won’t get off no matter how ridiculous they make themselves look. Hmmm, follow the money…

markl
June 2, 2020 10:20 am

Yes there is a link. The same cabal is promoting both.

June 2, 2020 10:23 am

Looks like another positive feedback loop: CO2 causes rioting which releases more CO2. I wonder how close we are to a tipping point?

Hansen’s prediction about the West Side Highway being under water may come true after all: due not to the seas rising but the firetrucks trying to put out all the fires.

June 2, 2020 10:31 am

Protests Are Linked to Climate Change

No, they’re linked to Democrap chickens coming home to roost.

whiten
June 2, 2020 10:35 am

Sorry, could not resist it.
Another lyric;

Eric Church – The Snake (Lyric Video)

cheers

June 2, 2020 10:43 am

Shouldn’t that be Pennsylvania Interfaith Intermittent Power and Light?

Ed Zuiderwijk
June 2, 2020 10:43 am

Beyond stupid.

n.n
June 2, 2020 10:43 am

Hey diverse protestor, what have you done? It’s good weather… climate for protests, riots, witch hunts, warlock judgments, and redistributive change.

2hotel9
June 2, 2020 10:49 am

So this is an electric utility company run by a preacher? I saw State College PA and figured it was some brilliance coming out of Penn State. Mike does still work in one of their basements, right?

David Baird
June 2, 2020 10:49 am

Of course it can’t be due to George Soros up to his dirty tricks again, na has to be Global WArming.

David Baird
June 2, 2020 10:50 am

Of course it can’t be due to George Soros up to his dirty tricks again, no has to be Global Warming.

June 2, 2020 11:00 am

The riots are based on climate change…. a political climate change that smacked them in the face on January 20, 2017. They haven’t been able to get past their derangement since. It is now just metastasizing in a Mini-Mike Bloomberg/ Judenrat Soros/ Lil’Stinky Steyer-funded shit storm that’s been building for years. They’ve got a whole cadre of bought and paid for Democrats, mostly incompetents like Michigan’s Gov Gretchen Whitmer, doing their bidding. Soon they’ll start eating their won in a finger pointing blamegame as sure as liquified feces-flow downhill from their incompetence in leadership for addressing very real problems in their states and cities. We already see some of this now with NY’s Gov Mario Cuomo having to deal with NYC’s openly socialist, incompetent Mayor Bill DeBlasio and his unwillingness to bring law and order to NYC and the burroughs.

So the Left doesn’t like the Trump Train rolling over their nanny-statist UN Agenda 21 (or whatever it is today) of global socialism run by elitists for the claimed benefit of us “deplorables.” That has been glaringly obvious since the morning-after Trump’s November 2016 defeat of Hillary. What is absolutely amazing NOW is how they bash Trump for all his Twitter nonsense, but then they about to nominate someone worse than Hillary in ability to lead and handle the stress of the Office of the US President.

Senile Joe Biden clearly is just a puppet now in this game run by the billionaire leftist who think they’re better than the rest of us because they have gobs of money. It will be insightful to one day learn who it is that is really Senile Joe’s Geppetto, the puppet master tugging at his strings. It is clear every time Senile Joe tries to speak outside a scripted, friendly controlled setting that he cannot form two coherent sentences on complex subjects that require remembrance of the past and putting that into context of today. His brain is obviously a muddle now, a haze of thinks he can’t clearly bring to words, however good a speaker he was in the past. The brain fog is now his reality. The most serious thing Senile Joe needs to be choosing between TODAY is either the orange jello or the grape jello in the memory care home cafeteria, rather than having to choose a running mate for Vice Pres. Which makes it obvious he really isn’t in control of who he “picks.”

Yet the money behind him and Dishonest Dems and their incompetence at governing their states and cities is enormous. Bloomberg probably learned his lesson of politics as a blood sport when threw away almost $1 Billion of his personal wealth on a 4 month vanity project seeking the nomination that a 78-year old senile white guy now seems to have a lock on. One of the more enlightening things that came of Bloomberg’s ego-trip was his debate slip where he admitted he “bought 20 Democrats” their Congress seat for $100 Million in 2018. So it seems obvious Bloomberg is just going to continue buy his control of Biden and the Democrats with a few more billions and stay hidden out of sight. Here in Arizona he’s bankrolling the SuperPacs trying to get his handpicked Astronaut Mark Kelly to the US Senate. If a House of Representative seat cost him ~$5 million/seat in 2018, I figure his calculus is $50 – 100 Million to get Kelly to the Senate where he can then control use his Geppetto strings to make Astronaut Kelly twitch and dance if he manages to dupe enough of my fellow Arizonans to vote against their long-term interests simply because they don’t like Trump.

That’s where we are today. Much of these riots have been driven by just a few bad actors. Like most revolutions that are attempted, it is youth being exploited for their ignorance of who is controlling them. Young, violence prone, a brain yet to mature in 20-somethings brought in to pushup the violence a notch, to be the match to larger pile of dry wood. A situation that began as an ugly police brutality on a black that all it needed after an American populace was is the ignition and a Democrat-run political class that’s incompetent to deal with the resulting flames. The Leftists like Soros and Bloomberg have been quietly cultivating this for years.

These elitists usually, like most intelligent criminals engaged in a game of misdirection, try to cover their tracks and hide traces of their involvement. In 2016, the Clinton campaign and the DNC tried to hide their funding of the Steele dossier by going through a law firm firm (trying to exploit lawyer-client confidentiality), then to a second intermediary (Fusion GPS) then to a British former MI6 agent working with Russian contacts to write a story that then fabricated a sophisticated sets of lies. It will be interesting to see what tracing and tracking of money that has funded Antifa and these paid protestors, and whether the FBI can (or more likely, is willing to) uncover their trail of money back to its deep-pocketed sources. And like th climate scam, the stink will I suspect land at the feet of US Democrats once again. Their quest for raw power is insatiable.

June 2, 2020 11:13 am

It’s important to separate the protesters from the looters and rioters, even as many of the protesters turn into criminals once the Sun sets.

Watching the protests in NYC today, it struck me that most of the protesters were white, flashing the black power fist, knelling, doing the hands up don’t shoot BS and complaining about systemic racism. Who exactly was it they were complaining to? A single cop who will most likely be going to jail, where he won’t last a week in the general population? No doubt this protest is just a large collection of progressive virtue signalers trying to feel better about themselves because of the death of a black criminal by a white cop. As night falls, they become the useful idiots of anarchists and criminal gangs that so far has resulted in several deaths and numerous serious injuries including the death of a black law enforcement officer.

I put all the blame for this on a main stream media that’s so one sided and politically biased, it’s turned otherwise intelligent people into idiots. To the extent that the politically biased MSM is also incredibly wrong about climate science, yes, this is linked to the climate change issue, but not to the catastrophic climate change that isn’t happening and never will.

SMC
June 2, 2020 11:19 am

The only thing Antifa and the Watermelons have in common are their Revolutionary Marxist roots.

Walt D.
June 2, 2020 11:31 am

Linked to Climate Change? A tautology.
Tell me something I don’t know.

William Astley
June 2, 2020 12:09 pm

Come on. Climate change causes Riots. What causes ‘Riots’?

People are angry because the Democrats run their campaign on anger, no practical solutions, and no need for a budget.

Think of Greta. 100% anger. Zero understanding of issues or help in solving any problem. Greta is not a problem solver. She is just an angry anarchist.

The Organized ‘Riots’ started, in the Obama administration, funded by Black Life matters …

‘Riots’ occur again and again and again, in large Democrat cities, because ‘Riots’ are allowed to occur.

Dusk to Dawn curfews, overwhelming police presence, National guard, high convictions, and prison time for the worst ‘Rioters’ would stop the recurring Riot problem. People learn.

And some real solutions to police problems, that are not anti police. The problem is the Democrats are the party of Chaos and are hence anti police.

Where we are now, because ‘Riots’ happen again and again and again…

Opportunists
Now, we have guys breaking into high end shops, during ‘Riots’ with vehicles waiting to carry stuff away.

Democrat Dark Force
At some of the ‘Riot’ sites someone has brought piles of bricks, before the ‘Riot’ to use as weapons. The Left bring large slingshots, to the ‘Riot’ that send a brick from a block away.

Bringing weapons to ‘Riots’ should result in long prison times. As well as throwing bricks at police and firemen and lighting buildings on fire.

Vince
June 2, 2020 12:14 pm

Note the dateline of the article. State College, Pa, home of Penn State University and Michael E. Mann. He has been a speaker to this group and is considered a “friend”. What else needs to be said.

http://paipl.us/2018/02/14/february-newsletter-for-the-love-of-children/

Jeffery P
June 2, 2020 12:27 pm

The Good Reverend Cornish is correct in that the poor always have it tougher when the going gets rough. But linking the protests to Climate Change is silly and unfounded.

rah
June 2, 2020 12:38 pm

Well they are connected! The connection is people and institutions. The same ones that support the catastrophic climate change meme also support ANTIFA, BLM, and try to facilitate or cover for their criminal acts. This covers Hollywood/entertainers, academics, government and the press.
They are pretty much organized as a classic resistance movement. They are also the same ones that hate Trump and any conservatives with a passion.

Command and funding – democrats and their supporters
Guerrillas (Military/paramilitary arm)- ANTIFA and BLM
Indoctrinators – Academia
Auxiliary (lends needed support for guerrillas and/02 underground) – Hollywood/entertainers
Propogandists – The MSM and various other leftist media.

ResourceGuy
June 2, 2020 1:03 pm

Never let a good crisis go to waste….in promoting one’s self interests and advocacy reach.

Rahm Emanuel’s saying is still in force.

ResourceGuy
June 2, 2020 1:06 pm

So much for feeling sorry for Happy Valley. Hopeless Valley is more like it.