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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It sure looks like panic at the Sierra Club, where Holthouse resides as author :
They just exposed their filthy laundry :
Pulling Down Our Monuments
https://www.sierraclub.org/michael-brune/2020/07/john-muir-early-history-sierra-club
It is not about justice, Sierra Club itself shows what it about. They are in a desperate state, timing with “BLM” and riots, it looks like crisis management from the top levels.
Yet since the riots are evidently an insurrection against the very existence of the USA, an attempt at a “bloody shirt” used to bring down the Ukraine Government at Maidan, right in the USA, all fed by both Biden’s, and Obama.
So instead of claiming to dump their Sierra Club Confederate history, they are actually feeding an insurrection, rather Confederate what?
Maybe someone just never told Holthouse ? He needs to call upstairs….
Many of us have known this for some time, but happy to hear him finally admit it.
It’s all a leftist scam – the enviro BS including the climate and green-energy fraud, the full-Gulag lockdown for Covid-19, paid-and-planned protests by Antifa and BLM – it’s all lies.
We published that the climate-and-green-energy mantra was a false narrative in 2002, and by 2012 I wrote that there was a covert agenda, Now the greens are admitting that climate-and-energy was false propaganda, a smokescreen for their totalitarian objectives.
In 2002 Dr Sallie Baliunas, Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian, Dr Tim Patterson, Paleoclimatologist, Carleton U and Allan MacRae TOLD YOU SO 18 YEARS AGO:
friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/KyotoAPEGA2002REV1.pdf
1. “Climate science does not support the theory of catastrophic human-made global warming – the alleged warming crisis does not exist.”
See Michael Shellenberger’s 2020 confession “On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare”. quillette.com/2020/06/30/on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare/
2. “The ultimate agenda of pro-Kyoto advocates is to eliminate fossil fuels, but this would result in a catastrophic shortfall in global energy supply – the wasteful, inefficient energy solutions proposed by Kyoto advocates simply cannot replace fossil fuels.”
See Michael Moore’s 2020 film “Planet of the Humans”. youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE
The green objective is to destroy prosperity and move the USA into a planned economy – with a few rich at the top looking down on the many poor peasants. That model now describes most of the countries in the world. Europe and Canada are far down that “road to Venezuela”, and the USA will follow if Biden and the Demo-Marxists are elected.
I independently called Covid-19 correctly on 21Mar2020, while the epidemiology “experts” in the USA and the UK got it so wrong. The data was available, from South Korea, the Diamond Princess cruise ship, etc.
wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/21/to-save-our-economy-roll-out-antibody-testing-alongside-the-active-virus-testing/#comment-2943724
21Mar2020
LET’S CONSIDER AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH:
Isolate people over sixty-five and those with poor immune systems and return to business-as-usual for people under sixty-five.
This will allow “herd immunity” to develop much sooner and older people will thus be more protected AND THE ECONOMY WON’T CRASH.
rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/21/end-the-american-lockdown/comment-page-1/#comment-12253
22Mar2020
This full-lockdown scenario is especially hurting service sector businesses and their minimum-wage employees – young people are telling me they are “financially under the bus”. The young are being destroyed to protect us over-65’s. A far better solution is to get them back to work and let us oldies keep our distance, and get “herd immunity” established ASAP – in months not years. Then we will all be safe again.
PLANDEMIC OR SCAMDEMIC? Watch this video and re-post it.
youtu.be/X6pzXrEBqR0
The USA is the least racist country on the planet. I’ve done business on six continents, in some of the most dangerous countries in the world. I also lived in New York and Houston for ~two years. The world is imperfect – get used to it!
Most countries are much more racist that the USA – at least five countries in Africa still practice slavery of blacks, for God’s sake!
iabolish.org/arabs-and-muslims-own-black-slaves-in-five-african-countries/
George Floyd is a poor poster-boy for the extremists – “Saint George” was a violent serial criminal who once held a shotgun against the belly of a two-month-pregnant woman.
Every place has a few bad cops, but cops in the USA are a lot better than most – they are certainly better than the extremely violent cops in my home town, Calgary. Get rid of police unions and fire and charge the bad cops – that’s the solution!
Too many people believe the blatant lies of the political left – who lie all the time when it serves “The Cause”. BLM is just more political BS!
If the Dems get elected, you can say goodbye to the First AND the Second Amendments. Also, say goodbye to the rest of your basic freedoms – it will be “One Man, One Vote, Once!” The Dems are not-so-covert Marxists – the USA will be just like China and even worse than Russia – the end of freedom!
The book “1984”, written by George Orwell in 1949, foresaw a time “when most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation”.
Well here is the REAL “1984”, an interview that year with ex-KGB officer and Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov, who describes the slow, long-term “ideological subversion” of Western societies. Note Bezmenov’s discussion of ideological subversion. It’s all about manipulating the “Useful Idiots” – the leftists in the West.
youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA&feature=youtu.be
One commenter on the video wrote: “this is f***ing crazy, almost everything predicted by this guy is already happening.”
If the Dems get elected, you can say goodbye to the First AND the Second Amendments. Also, say goodbye to the rest of your basic freedoms – it will be “One Man, One Vote, Once!” The Dems are not-so-covert Marxists – the USA will be just like China and even worse than Russia – the end of freedom!
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Thank you, Allan
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The book “1984”, written by George Orwell in 1949, foresaw a time “when most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation”.
Well here is the REAL “1984”, an interview that year with ex-KGB officer and Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov, who describes the slow, long-term “ideological subversion” of Western societies. Note Bezmenov’s discussion of ideological subversion. It’s all about manipulating the “Useful Idiots” – the leftists in the West.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA&feature=youtu.be
One commenter on the video wrote: “this is f***ing crazy, almost everything predicted by this guy is already happening.”
Thank you SunMod
The current climate is the best in hundreds of years after rebounding from the too cold centuries of the Little Ice Age.
The phrase climate emergency comes only from people ignorant of climate science and climate history.
Holthaus is yet another ignorant climate alarmist.
He has a choice
Enjoy the current climate and be happy, or fear the future climate, for no logical reason, and be uhappy.
Leftists love to be fearful and unhappy, or at least it seems that way.
Holthaus goes on those Leftist white guilt trips when he falls behind on his mental health meds.
How any right minded person can read that litany of Socialist quotes and still support those people is beyond me. What is important to understand is that any system of governance, and by extension, society devised by humans will be flawed. This is because humans are flawed by their very nature; it is impossible for humans to create a perfect system of governance that will make everybody happy. The best we can hope for is a system that has the least amount of built in bias and assures the maximum amount of people enjoy the maximum amount of happiness. The United States with it’s Constitution, representative democracy, and republican structure (i.e. a republic of States), is the best system yet devised to meet that goal. It does not guarantee equal outcomes, only Socialism and other totalitarian systems do a good job in that regard; and they do it by making the vast majority of the people equally miserable (only the upper echelons of the political class are happy).
You talk about the US democacy as the best system in world. That is not true. On the Worlds rank of democracies US is unfortunately ranked as a incomplete democracy. Not so curious that there are so many poor people in US. The system make the rich ones always have the power. No hope for the poor ones who are getting continuous more and more people. On the other hand we have the scandinavian countries and the social democatries (not totalitarian systems at all), all of these complete democracies with less economic differences between rich and not so rich people.
Of course we can not use the “climate change” to resolve the worlds economic injustice. No reasonable person believe that. It is to many bad democracies or not democracies at all to resolve economic injustice with “climate change”. Are such coutries getting much money from the “climate change”-system, the rich are surely getting most of the money. Perhaps more countries could be social democratic like the scandinavian coutries??? US could try! Oh no, the rich would not permit such a development.
So a perfect democracy is one where those who don’t produce are permitted to steal from those who do.
How wonderful for you.
As bad as the US is, our poor live better than do the middle class do in the so called wonderful European states.
What winds your clock is not the idea that poor people exist, rather it’s the thought that there are people who are allowed to get rich.
Wilhelm,
It all depends on who is doing the ranking, doesn’t it? It is easy to bias one way or the other depending on the criteria and how they are evaluated, making them almost totally subjective. By any objective measure, the US has done more to advance and improve the condition of mankind than any other country in the last 200 years. As far as the Scandinavian countries having “complete” democracies, that is just an opinion you happen to agree with; I see them as a hybrid that still prioritizes group “rights” over individual rights in too many instances. As I said, all human systems are flawed, including democracy.
You left out The Bill of Rights, the limits on the Government formed by the US Constitution.
Both are human attempts to realize the ideals expressed in The Declaration of Independence.
(The first attempt, The Articles of Confederation, failed.)
They’ve been chipping away at The Bill of Rights and the US Constitution for decades.
The “they” being those who seek power over individuals rather than preserve the Rights of the individual.
Aren’t the amendments considered part of the Constitution?
Yes.
Some amendments changed the text of the original.
The Founders realized early on that how the President and Vice-President were elected needed to be changed.
The original had individuals run and the winner as President and second place as Vice-President. An amendment changed it to “tickets” running for President and Vice-President.
How Senators were originally chosen was up to the individual states. (The Senate was to represent the Governments of the States of The United States equally. The House of Representatives is where the individual citizens had their say.)
An, in my humble opinion, bonehead amendment in the early 1900’s changed that to them being chosen by the popular vote of the citizens of the state. The state Governments no longer had equal representation in the Federal Government.
I’ve seen many of these examples before; quite a good number of them here at WUWT. Thanks to all commenters who have spent the hours to assemble these resources. To the story at hand, all I can say is “gross”! I don’t get angry over much in this life, but the likes of Maurice Strong and Al Gore make my blood boil.
/rant
badEnglish
Not even justice, but rather social justice… the religion of relativity.
More evidence that the global warming thingee is dying. After thirty plus years of dire forecasts and end of the world doom and gloom anyone with some common sense and an open mind can see for themselves that nothing in the climate is any different. So jump on the next bandwagon.
As as an aside – what the heck is an “activist?” Can anyone be an activist? Do you have to know anything to be an activist and pass some kind of special test and get a certificate or a license? Or do you get anointed an activist in some secret ceremony where a high priest pours holy oil over your head? Can my dog become an activist? He is really really smart – he can fetch a tennis ball and he understands when I ask him if he wants to go out for a walk. He’d make a fine activist.
No. Your dog has morals.
At the risk of argumentum ad hominem, there would appear to be a common thread of depression and mental health issues with these people.
More research and treatment needed…
Well kind of. I think a lot of people feel really great about having Chronic Virtue-Signaling Disorder.
Liberalism is a mental illness for sure.
Lookout!!! You’re gonna get trampled by all the reporters rushing to cover this scandal!!!
Who are the “you guys” to whom Mr. Chakrabarti was speaking? He was evidently mocking reporters who insist this is about climate. The reporters were puzzled by the flashing neon “it’s about climate” sign over his head. He must have thoroughly enjoyed schooling them, just like when Obama’s Ben Rhoades found the reporters on the Iran beat knew nothing about Iran.
Yes, when your goal is deception through propaganda and narrative control through half-truths, having knaves and fools as your audience makes your job really easy. It really helped Mr Rhodes run his propo campaign on the Iran illegal $1.5 billion money-laundering scheme President Obama ran.
No doubt the usual suspects will return to whine about how we are ignoring the science and need to stop talking about politics.
The Trump campaign could/should make hay with this. The implications should be terrifying to the vast majority of the American population.
Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
The progressives/radicals feel so empowered now, they don’t even bother lying about their true goals.
” ‘I lose sleep over climate change’ – Warmist Meteorologist Eric Holthaus admits to ‘soul-crushing despair’ – ‘I confess: I need help’
Yes, you do. You need help understanding the lack of science that makes up today’s climate science. Assertions are not evidence of anything, Eric. Once you understand that CO2 is not a problem, your despair will go away. Until that time you’ll just have to suffer from your delusions, I guess.
Wow! The developed world is kept poor by the neo colonialist environmentalist refusal to find real electricity-fossil fuel and hydro.
Their aims enrich the rich at expense of poor. They achieve nothing but injustice.
From the article: “AOC’s staff has bragged that the Green New Deal is about wealth redistribution, not climate.”
Yes, and what is “wealth redistribution” about? It is a means of gaining political power. So the Green New Deal is about gaining political power, not altruism.
Eric Holthaus :
“The climate emergency isn’t about science, it’s about justice.”
and just after :
“Here’s how we could reinvent the climate narrative”
What about fear mongering on covid ?
Kidding aside, it looks like Moore’s movie had a devastating effect on climate clown parishes.
The other funny point is that if most of those climate scamsters flee away and AGW appears to be what it is, namely, a fraud, all the laws that were passed to fight the AGW will have soon or later to be repealed.
Defunding all those scamsters, stopping CO2 taxes, Carbon credits and “renewables” subsidies would indeed be a great step towards science, true ecology and social and economic equity (aka social justice) 🙂
… I invited six Indigenous climate scholars, activists, and advocates to talk about how they tell climate stories, and how we might be able to tell better climate stories…
In other words, Holthaus thinks that climate science hasn’t done a good job of stating their case. No, they’ve done an excellent job of stating their case, it just doesn’t hold up to the light of day. The misdirection, re-writing of history, exaggeration, cherry picking, bunker mentality, propaganda & dogma is there for all to see.
Better Stories? We all know what acronym to use for that!
My question is: What is education? All of the people in the examples above are supposedly well educated, which as far as I can tell only goes as far as being articulate. I’m not sure where Greta fits in with this as she skipped school but must have learned how to articulate from her parents. Even the 911 hijackers were ‘well educated’.
You can win or lose an argument based on Science. You can’t with arguments based on politics. You quickly run into irreducible positions that neither side can gainsay in a way that will sway the other side.
I naively thought that the pause in global warming would have finished off the whole anthropogenic climate change story. It did not.
Listen to a debate between an atheist and a devout believer in any religion. The debate just stops because the participants are speaking different emotional languages. That’s what it’s like to talk to a warmist if you’re a skeptic.
“The climate emergency isn’t about science, it’s about justice”
Justice for rich white people of the Global North at the expense of the poor darkies of the Global South.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/10/14/racism/
India is the world’s most racist country, Chaamjamal.
No European country makes the list of top 25 most racist. Neither does the US. Thailand makes the top 25 list. Maybe you ought to look closer to home for your problems.
Pat
Japan probably comes a close second. It isn’t well known, but Japan has an untouchable class just like India.
Japan comes in at number 25, Clyde. I recall reading some time ago that even after 7 generations, Korans in Japan are not allowed to become citizens. I don’t know if that’s still true.
After India, then next four are Lebanon, Bahrain, Libya, and Egypt.
The Middle East apart from Israel heavily dominates the top 25 most racist countries.
‘failed out of’ degree in meteorology at college – ‘Realized it was a whole of math and computer sh*t’ & ‘upper-level-math’
How is it possible to not understand, comprehend mathematics and computer science necessary for a graduate degree in Meteorology, and then become a Climate Expert. Ridiculous, Absurd, equivalent to a person dropping out of a graduate degree in Physics becoming an Astrophysicist. How could he understand the math and computer science needed to evaluate , analyze Climate Change Computer Programs? Saw no requirements for a course in Statistics – thus the lack of knowledge of Significance Level or Hypothesis Tests, etc.
Makes me think that all Climate Change Activists are educational dropouts.
I’ve yet to encounter a climate so-called scientist who is competent at physical error analysis, Uzurbrain.
They have no clue, and are apparently entirely untrained in assessing data quality.
They show no knowledge of resolution, or any cognizance of the difference between precision and accuracy.
They display no competence in evaluating the quality of their data or the predictive/physical reliability of their models.
It’s no wonder the field is such a mess.
The real question is why the APS, AIP, ACS, and the NAS have remained silent in the face of such obvious pseudo-science.
Agreed, Pat.
The shallow evaluations of the science of climate by the learned societies, chief scientists etc were shabby exercises, followed by endorsements of the unproven CO2 control knob speculation. Their institutional support was a critical factor to sway politicians in my Country, Australia, and probably in others.
Learned societies need to evaluate the science again, this time in appropriate detail, that is, beyond sloganeering level. Geoff S
Geoff, I’ve been in touch with Phil Bucksbaum, the new president of the APS. He works at SLAC, and we know one another causally.
I sent him a link to my error propagation paper, and asked him to take a look and perhaps reconsider the APS position on CO2 emissions. His first response was that he’d consider it. That was months ago.
Since then, his repeated answer to follow-up emails has been silence. Phil is an outstanding physicist. He knows everything there is to know about physical error analysis. He hasn’t written that my analysis is wrong. I’m quite sure he knows it’s correct.
He must know the IPCC position is scientifically untenable.
And yet, the APS position has not changed. So, what’s the problem? Has Phil put politics above science? I don’t know. The silence of the science institutions remains a deep mystery.
This isn’t about redistribution from the wealth to the poor. That *never* happens under a Marxist scheme. This is all about redistribution of power from one group of elites to another group of elites. Not a single proletarian will be helped by any of this.
‘I lose sleep over climate change’ – Warmist Meteorologist Eric Holthaus admits to ‘soul-crushing despair’ – ‘I confess: I need help’
I could probably help you out if you need some rope……
…. a baseball bat would work too.