Holthaus has joined other prominent climate campaigners in admitting that climate change activism is not about climate science.
By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot July 29, 2020 9:28 AM
Climate activist & Meteorologist Eric Holthaus has now joined a long line of climate players now fully admitting that the climate “crisis” or “emergency” is not about the science after all. “The climate emergency isn’t about science, it’s about justice,” Holthaus wrote on July 28, 2020.
Holthaus is also revealing how identity politics has taken over the climate debate. See: NASA scientist Dr. Kate Marvel links ‘climate change’ to ‘white supremacy’ – ‘We’ll never head off climate catastrophe without dismantling white supremacy’ – Calls for climate & racial ‘justice’
Holthaus, a long time prominent climate activist has praised the UN IPCC reports. See: Warmist Eric Holthaus: New IPCC report calls for ‘rigorous backing to systematically dismantle capitalism’
Holthaus has also injected his full emotions into his climate activism. See: ‘I lose sleep over climate change’ – Warmist Meteorologist Eric Holthaus admits to ‘soul-crushing despair’ – ‘I confess: I need help’
Warmist Eric Holthaus — who publicly vowed never to fly again — admits to flying again!
Holthaus has joined other prominent climate campaigners in admitting that climate change activism is not about climate science.
Architects of Green New Deal admit it is NOT about the climate
AOC’s staff has bragged that the Green New Deal is about wealth redistribution, not climate. Former Ocasio-Cortez campaign aide Waleed Shahid admitted that Ocasio-Cortez’s GND was a “proposal to redistribute wealth and power from the people on top to the people on the bottom.”
In addition, AOC’s Chief-Of-Staff Saikat Chakrabarti also revealed that the Green New Deal was not about climate change. The Washington Post reported in 2019: Chakrabarti had an unexpected disclosure. “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal,” he said, “is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all.” “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Chakrabarti continued. “Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
The UN and EPA regulations are simply a vehicle to put politicians and bureaucrats in charge of our energy economy and “save” us from bad weather and “climate change.”
UN official Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair of the IPCC Working Group III, admitted what’s behind the climate issue: “One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy … One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.”
In 2009, former Vice President Al Gore touted U.S. cap-and-trade legislation as a method to help bring about “global governance.”
UN climate chief Christiana Figueres declared in 2012 that she is seeking a “centralized transformation” that is “going to make the life of everyone on the planet very different.”
Greta Thunberg explained in 2019: “The climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all. Our political leaders can no longer shirk their responsibilities.”
Thunberg’s advisor, environmentalist George Monbiot explained in 2019 that in order to prevent “climate breakdown,” a complete change to our way of life has to occur: “We’ve got to go straight to the heart of capitalism and overthrow it,” Monbiot explained.
Outgoing UN IPCC Chief reveals global warming ‘is my religion and my dharma’
EU Commissioner: Global Warming Policy Is Right Even If Science Is Wrong – ‘Regardless of whether or not scientists are wrong on global warming, the European Union is pursuing the correct energy policies even if they lead to higher prices, Europe’s climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard’s has said.’
EU’s Hedegaard in 2013: ‘Let’s say that science, some decades from now, said ‘we were wrong, it was not about climate’, would it not in any case have been good to do many of things you have to do in order to combat climate change?.’
Flashback: 1993: Former U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth: ‘We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing, in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.’
Hedegaard in 2013: ‘I think we have to realize that in the world of the 21st century for us to have the cheapest possible energy is not the answer.’
Flashback: UN IPCC Official Edenhofer: ‘We Redistribute World’s Wealth By Climate Policy’
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Not new at all. new is, to admit it.
And did he mention that it’s really not about justice, but rather control, Marxist control?
So it`s a conspiracy?
A book called THE FIRST GLOBAL REVOLUTION from 1991, by «Club of Rome, authored by Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider, on Page 75, it stated;
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers of course will be caused by human intervention that will require a global response.”
https://ia800202.us.archive.org/33/items/TheFirstGlobalRevolution/TheFirstGlobalRevolution.pdf
So it`s a conspiracy?
No, conspiracies are by definition done in secret. This is being done completely in the open, just clouded in misinformation.
No.
As climategate proved there is substantial collusion and conspiracy behind what little is exposed of the climate alarmist cults.
That situation has not changed; if anything, it is much worse currently.
Holthaus is just another alarmist appalled at how little real regard is given their “justice” climate change alarmism.
So, Holthaus has joined the alarmists who are trying to re-spin “climate change” as a ‘Social Justice’ imperative.
An approach (scam) just as fallacious as their ‘climate change’ alarmism since 1988.
john a much more detailed understanding is penned in:
Merchants of Despair : Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism by Robert Zubrin.
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Despair-Environmentalists-Pseudo-Scientists-Antihumanism/dp/159403737X
Indigenous, huh? What tribe is Eric from?
He’s the self anointed white liberal who is needed to lead the people of color.
All he has to do is to “identify” as being indigenous and you don’t have the right to question whether that is a biological reality. That would be “offensive” and thus a “hate crime”.
Logic, reason and hard work are just white traits and part of the systemic racism of society. Black folks don’t suffer from those defects, according to Smithsonian.
Now please check your privileged, recognise your white fragility and stop pretending you can use logic to counter the assertions of these beautiful heroes of “justice”.
You can temporarily transfer dollars but you cannot “transfer” power to ineffectual losers.
Nowhere in the natural world , which these charlatans claim to worship as the ideal state of the world, do you find anything but hierarchies of power.
The best you can do is limit excessive concentrations of power. So let’s start with the new Robber Barons of social media.
Aern’t we all indigenous to this planet?
Al Gore definitely is NOT.
Oh, and then there’s Carrot Top, I’m not convinced he’s from Earth.
the lying idiot tribe
Leftards lie. Who’d a thunk it..
Leftards are evil.
That is just the leftist wet dream of world wealth redistribution. All the rich countries send huge amounts of money to the poor countries. Then we all get rid of our nuclear weapons and sit around singing kumbaya in a big love in.
What could possibly go wrong and so going to happen 🙂
Foreign aid is the transfer of wealth from the poor people of a rich country to the rich people of a poor country.
Development aid from Germany for Africa once was, to send Solar cookers to Africa
Those might actually be useful, if it’s sunny…..
At night?
Oh yes of course, in climate science the sun shines onto the ground at night.
Not about science? No shiite, Holtaus, the casual observer has known that for years. Communist Van Jones of the Obama Administration let that be known publicly well over a decade ago; yet, still some disciples who have not gotten the message yet.
They are finally telling the truth about their motives.. The comments they make should be front page.
Is and has always been a political issue.
He mentions “forces that too often exclude Indigenous voices from storytelling about climate”. What is he blathering on about?
John,
The “forces” he is referring to are our collective white privilege.
They want you to check your white privilege. According to WaPo, the term “white privilege” is now supposed to have the “W” capitalized. It is their new favorite straw man to beat. The funny thing is to now watch these morons at NYT undertake flagellation to atone for their lack of wokeness. Just like some Monk atoning for mortal sins.
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I checked my white privilege this morning. Funny thing, it’s doing just fine.
It’s all just more push from these neo-Marxists for the People to impose self-censorship and thought control, a la George Orwell’s Thought Police.
The thing is, there IS no such thing as ‘white privilege’ – privilege is extended to an elite few – not a majority population. The phenomena of racism exists – but that’s called ‘minority persecution’ – and it’s more than a game of semantics.
See – privilege is something that maybe isn’t earned, or perhaps should be taken away.
No – it’s the PERSECUTION that should be taken away.
But the reason it’s framed that way is because progressives are all about persecution, and directing it towards their ends – this is called elites playing everyone against each other.
And all the little brain-dead twits are following right in line – I saw Megan Rapinoe using her pedestal to proclaim ‘no one deserves white privilege’.
Apparently, in her little world, everyone deserves persecution – or at least whites do.
Personally, I’m of the humble opinion that, if you’re of that special ethnic group that never did anything to anybody, than by all means, bugle it from your high-horse.
Otherwise, just start trying to get along like everyone else.
“Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities”
– Voltaire in his 1765 essay, “Questions sur les miracles.
Yeah, the “homeless” white guy pandering for money with a cardboard sign at a red light intersection I was stopped at here in Tucson, in 108F afternoon heat no less, was really reflecting on his white privilege.
The whole concept was invented by white liberals who are Marxists needing white America to bow before them and surrender their free speech in the face of their absurdities.
for a conversation about changing the conversation.
Here’s how we could reinvent the climate narrative:
I’m wondering what sort of atrocities he could come up with.
And because it’s not nearly widely-spoken enough – Karl Marx was a pure, self-concerned, ungrateful, totally-enabled, spoiled, self-indulgent parasite.
Not surprising that his ‘ideology’ reflects this on all corners – not to mention it’s followers.
White priviledge is the latest excuse for why socialism hasn’t benefited minority groups the way the rich white socialists said it would.
The concept of “white privilege” is a way for liberals to label every white person as a white supremecist on the basis that the white race is superior and being white brings certain benefits whether you believe in white supremacy or not.
It seems to me that the very concept of “White privilege” is inherently racist. That is, to accuse people born with light-colored skin of having the special privileges of royalty or the wealthy admits to categorizing others based solely on their race. Thus, those using the term are perpetuating racism.
“I checked my white privilege this morning. Funny thing, it’s doing just fine.”
Mine’s doing fine, too.
The radical Left can’t stand the fact that 65 percent of the American population are white.
They would dearly love for white people to be the minority so white people could get a taste of their own racism medicine (ths is their delusion, not mine). But since their wish will certainly not come true during their lifetimes, they do the next best thing and just treat white people like they are a minority now by discriminating against white people and denigrating them in every way possible.
Racism is alive and well on the radical Left. And always has been. First they discriminate against the Blacks, and now they discriminate against the Blacks and the Whites who don’t go along with the radical Left’s agenda.
Racism is the progressive left’s favorite tool of exploitation – it’s an easy lay.
California liberals have actually proposed undoing some of the anti-discrimination laws so that they can better undertake discrimination against what they perceive is “white privilege.”
Undoing Prop 209 would allow reverse discrimination against whites in the name of “affirmative action” to force “equality of outcome”. Equality of outcome is of course the fundamental tenet of Marxism.
Yes – I saw in the Huffington Post a couple years back that ‘white wounding’ is required.
“Equality of outcome is of course the fundamental tenet of Marxism.”
No. “all animals are equal but some are more equal”
The really funny thing is that CA is a white minority state. Wonder how it works then? Of course, logic and math were never Leftist strong points.
The radical Left can’t stand the fact that more than 65% of the American population have seen through their charade…or we’d better hope they have.
Their goal is the destruction of Western Civilization and the subversion of all free peoples.
Storytelling…the climate “crisis” is right up there with Rumplestiltskin and The Brainless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
Responsible adults don’t try to tell scary fairy stories to other adults…but Green Wackoes clearly do.
The planet is literally hostile to human life.
It’s why we have houses and clothes and heating and air conditioning. And natural selection and evolution.
A climate crisis is all we can every know. Nothing new there.
George Monbiot is not an environmentalist.
The Grauniad’s attack gerbil Monbiot thinks he is reserving a place at the top table, he’s not clever enough to understand that he is just a useful idiot and will be thrown in the gulag once he has served his purpose.
In University science and engineering departments and colleges across the county for the past 20 years, most engineering and science professors and Deans sat by quietly while the Social Science departments and Fine Arts departments undertook their chilling attacks on free speech with calls for “safe spaces,” approved language to prevent “triggers”, and the cancel culture of speakers who didn’t fit the Liberal narrative. They didn’t think it would ever consume them and their Science or Engineering academic endeavors.
Now they are facing Diversity Vice Chancellors with institutional power, backed up by the Cancel Mob, that are making demands of these Departments and Colleges of Science and Engineering to implement different grading schemes and awards for “disadvantaged minorities”. We’ve already seen calls for different admission standards from things like the SAT, ACT, and GRE for minorities. So this is the logical progression to force them to submit, to obtain the Marxists’s “equality of outcome” agenda.
If they don’t submit, they will be attacked by the Progressive Mob and thrown into the Gulag too.
I arrived at UCLA in June 1973 and my first assignment was to review oral pathology for a group of 26 students who had entered dental school via affirmative action. They had failed the course. A number of those shouldn’t have been there; they didn’t have the skill sets to perform academically or clinically. Nevertheless, they were passed along because the admin was afraid of the backlash if the students flunked out. Later the school hired a black administrator to help with the problems as they arose. He made countless trips to upper campus to straighten out problems for these students. I still don’t know if all of them finally passed the state board.
At the same time the University set up a separate room in the mens gym for black students. I remember thinking at the time..great way to integrate into the general student population. So things we are seeing now began many years ago.
Back when I was in high school, they actually proposed having a separate certification exam for black medical students. Seems too many blacks were flunking out of the standard exam. Those who passed the special exam were to get the same certificate as everyone else, so that patients wouldn’t be able to tell who took which exam.
From the Earth Insttitute Columbia university web page for their M.A. in Climate and Society:-
“Eric Holthaus came to Columbia University’s M.A. in Climate and Society with a strong atmospheric science background and a preexisting fascination with the natural world that was fostered in his early childhood, growing up along the Great Plains in Kansas.
Eric Holthaus, Climate and Society graduate, class 2006
His dedication to furthering an understanding of climate change and “the social justice of weather” was solidified on an affecting college trip to the Texas/Mexico border where he met a Honduran refugee who was the sole survivor among his family of the devastating Hurricane Mitch. Upon graduating from Saint Louis University with a B.S. in Meteorology, Eric proceeded to the University of Oklahoma where he spent a year studying for an M.S. in Meteorology. While working on his M.S., he assisted Howie Bluestein’s tornado-chasing team by navigating and operating mobile Doppler radars.
Dissatisfied with the narrow focus of the M.S. in Meteorology, Eric applied to the Climate and Society Master’s Program at Columbia University in the hopes of finding a “more broadly based [curriculum that he] could apply to solving real world problems around the general theme of serving society.” Coming from a strong science background in the atmospheric sciences, Eric wanted to learn more about how he could apply his skills to work towards solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems, like poverty, hunger, and social justice. Eric says, “The multidisciplinary program and the resources of the Earth Institute at Columbia was the perfect location for a scientist like me to easily acquire skills in policy analysis, economics, risk management, urban planning, public health, and countless other disciplines.” ”
Taken together with his comments about all that maths and science in an actual meteorolgy masters degree that about sums the guy up.
The Climate Change stopped being about science in 1995 when US gubment scientist Benji Santer was allowed to get away with his malicious one-man altering of the previously carefully chosen wording IPCC SAR’s Chapter 8 on attribution.
Cargo-cult Benji was probably acting under orders from Veep Al Gore to get something done on attribution in the IPCC report. Then CC Benji had WH top cover to make the ensuing stink go away and defund his critics if they wouldn’t sit down and shut-up. Mark it as the beginning of the modern era of Cancel Culture to protect the climate lies being told. And it slowly ate its way through academic sciences and universities at-large to the complete anti-science mess we have today.
Richard Lindzen’s proposal a few years ago to reduce US government funding of climate research by 90% for about 5 years doesn’t go far enough IMO. Probably more like 95% for 10 years is needed to get rid of the pseudoscientists and the anti-science culture they’ve built.
Here’s to hoping that Kanye West liberates a fair percentage of the Black Vote from Biden. Similar to how Hillary lost key battleground states
LOL brutal beatdown. He deserves it.
” NASA scientist Dr. Kate Marvel links ‘climate change’ to ‘white supremacy’ ”
No wonder NASA can’t go to the Moon, or even carry an astronaut to the ISS with its own rocket.
Human-caused climate change and White Supremacy are linked: They are both distortions of reality that are used by the radical Left in an attempt to gain political power.
She is just deeply inculcated with the Lunatic left that infects and afflicts GISS. NASA’s entire GISS is subsumed by the Marxist culture at Columbia University they affiliate with. If you are on GISS staff like Marvel, it virtue signaling even if inside you know its all crap. To keep your high paid gubment yob as a scientist there, you must speak the correct language and use the correct social justice terms these days or have happen to you what happens to anyone at the NY Times editorial staff or similar Leftist institutions that don’t spew the proper PC dogma.
Has anyone else noted the rampant increase in Climate Change alarm that is proceeding in lock-step with the increase in tattooing, and the attribution of COVID-19 to 5G networks? /sarc
All those who are surprised, please contact me immediately about a unique opportunity to purchase a bridge in Brooklyn.
This is a report right to the heart of the issue: Capitalism and Democracy must go. The Grand Unified Theory of why this is now encompassed Climate Change, Socialism, Voter Fraud, BLM, John Lewis, and Russian Collusion. Posting that picture of the Odd Couple, Gore and Pachauri, should not have been done while there might be children still awake. Struggling to stay sane and safe.
Capitalism rewards people based on their merit, not on how they feel about themselves.
That’s why those who are convinced about their own superiority, yet have nothing to show for it, are convinced that capitalism must go.
I’m not sure any CEO is worth the > $20 million/year compensation many get at so many mediocre run companies. So I get the rage the Left has when that happens. It’s just that like everything they do, they attack the wrong target. They target capitalism. But it’s not capitalism that has a BoD approve a CEO’s compensation package of such size even when the company isn’t doing well. That is what happens when BoD no longer represents the share holders.
We see this behavior in any system that doesn’t have accountability from the bottom up. Socialist regimes Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, China, all have leadership cults and their families that live very well, stealing vast amounts of wealth for themselves while their population suffers. So it’s not capitalism. Just old fashioned greed and power.
The problem we have today in Washington DC is a power culture that represents special interests, both the Left and the Right, and Congress has for too long represented them and not their constituents. This is the problem with money in politics and what it costs to run a campaign for Congress today. The Left wants America to think TODAY it is a Problem for Conservatives, this is just projection on their part to deflect away from what they are really doing now.
There is a reason rich billionaires like Michael Bloomberg (who used to be Republican) have become Democrats in recent years, when traditionally those types were the Fat Cat Republican backers. It is far easier and cheaper NOW to buy off Democrats today for the billionaire class than it is to buy off most Republicans.
Pretty much the only CEO’s who make that kind of money, are the ones who started the company.
Regardless of what you feel, the guys who are actually cutting the checks feel that he is worth that kind of money, if not they would hire someone else for less.
Whenever I read about these people I can’t help but be reminded of that memorable scene from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1711jiiRtM
We all know what kind of people the planet-savers consider themselves to be.
Wow, it only took him several decades to realize that since the inception of the IPCC, the scientific truth became an anathema to climate alarmism and now he’s trying to say that this is a good thing by applying the dog whistle ‘justice’ to the deception?
It was never about the science. This is from twenty years ago.
Ottmar Edenhofer – German economist and IPCC official
Ottmar Edenhofer’s interview with the Sueddeutscher Zeitung from November 20, 2010
First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole
You didn’t mention, his “home” is the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the most unscientific research institute in causa climate, also home of Schellnhuber and Rahmstof, the witchhunter of climate skepticals.
Even if all these activist wh@ckj0bs were walking every street of every city & town carrying their climate doomsday sandwich boards, they would be getting zero traction with the public if it weren’t for the MEDIA breathlessly reporting their every moronic utterance.
Let’s face it –
the ‘scientists’ feed the media what they want (alarm);
the politicians align themselves with the media;
the bureaucrats ingratiate themselves with the politicians;
academia mugs politicians and bureaucrats with alarmist media stories to ensure grant$.
Rinse & repeat ad nauseum. And taxpayers foot the bill$.
‘failed out of’ degree in meteorology at college – ‘Realized it was a whole of math and computer sh*t’ & ‘upper-level-math’
@ur momisugly 3:35 in this audio interview. Too much soy in that boy’s diet.
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/range/hot-take-4/e/68696569
As long as the MSM spouts divisive rhetoric there will be no harmony among people. It’s no longer science vs. politics, it’s now science vs. ideology. The takeover of the Democratic party by the Progressives (read Marxists) in the USA will be the defining moment that took “United” out of USA. They are now openly stating their true intentions because they believe it’s safe to come out.
So many proclaim their “justice”. Fascist one and all.
Until we’ve all been awarded a Nobel Prize there is no justice.
“Once everyone is super, then no one will be super.”
Syndrome
Hear, hear.
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
George Orwell – Animal Farm
MaxP
So why are climate activists ignoring the concerns by the Inuit people of Nunavut about how the expanding polar bear population is placing them in literally in danger of being eaten? I guess these activists only listen to their own paid indigenous people who are willing to play noble savage role for the White people, not the real ones actually living out there in the real world
Animal rights. That said, we need more wind turbine gauntlets. Spread the Green Blight.