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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Wow, any chance that the terms “climate” and “justice” were defined? I’m pretty sure we are NOT using the same definitions.
” … justice…”
You kip use-ing thah hwerd…I do no think it means…hwat you think it means.
–Inigo Montoya
Better review the Paris Commune Uprising 1871…..communism and violence existed 150 years ago…their Principles are Might Makes Right…..The End Justifies the Means….Political Power comes from the Barrel of a Gun…..Just Do Anything to Win, Baby! Saul Alinsky wrote their manual for radicals and Buhrock Obomba and Hitlery have read it. No morals…mo scruples….no decency…just demrats.
“Saul Alinsky wrote their manual for radicals and Buhrock Obomba and Hitlery have read it. No morals…mo scruples….no decency…just demrats.”
That reminds me: Barack Obama turned John Lewis’ funeral into a political rally today. No respect. It’s all about him and the Democrat party.
God Bless John Lewis. In his efforts at non-violent protesting for racial equality, he was jailed 45 times and seriously beaten on several occasions, but he never got bitter or angry and resorted to violence himself, he always said non-violence was the way.
They jailed John Lewis.
They beat John Lewis.
Then, John Lewis won. Non-violently.
My problem with John Lewis was that he never met a welfare program he wouldn’t support.
The title could be shortened to – “The climate emergency isn’t”
Do you posters who keep using the word “Marxism” actually believe that? It’s Kleptocratism, or Parasitism. As I keep saying, these thieves wouldn’t know what Marxism was if Karl got in the shower with them.
Marx, and his theology, WERE and ARE kleptocratic and parasitic.
Yeah I guess, but saying you’re a Marxist as opposed to saying you’re a parasite has considerably more street cred.
Yeah I guess, but saying you’re a Marxist as opposed to saying you’re a parasite has considerably more street cred., even if you know more about where to buy a Che T-shirt and beret than political and phony, lethal, genocidal political systems.
He who controls (trivial, marketing) lingo controls fate.
It’s the Pepsi Generation all over again.
“Justice” is always what a socialist takeover is about – until it’s done and revealed it’s not justice but control over everyone else.
“Climate justice and racial justice are the same thing, and we’ll never head off climate catastrophe without dismantling white supremacy.”
How does that fit with China currently being the largest emitter of CO2? How does that fit with China, India, and the third world having the largest increases in CO2 emissions? Are they white supremacists?
Stuff your “white supremacy” lies.
And it’s not about justice, that’s just the latest virtue signaling.
— “The climate emergency isn’t about science, it’s about justice,” Holthaus wrote on July 28, 2020.–
It’s injustice to poorer people.
And when the “redistributed” wealth has been appropriated and squandered, the well will be poisoned. They will have killed the goose that lays the golden eggs, so to speak.
I detest the corruption of words such as ‘conversation’ when used to further an agenda.
conversation now means no debate.
“At @The_Corres, we invited Indigenous climate activists from every continent for a conversation about changing the conversation”
I think I`ll take a pass on this target rich field as I cannot say anything nice, witty or cogent and insightful.
Thing is, in 2020, the Gullible Warming(TM) scam has been rendered superfluous.
Any wonder why socialist governments, the United Numpties and billionaire ‘philanthropists’ have jumped so hard on this this Kung-Flu virus? Why they’ve felt the need to saturate the ‘news’ with scare stories about it, force everyone into isolation, self-destruct world economies and why tech giants are censoring doctors who say ‘actually, it isn’t such a big deal…’, over a bug that’s, on balance, little or no worse than a bad flu or pneumonia? Kung-Flu is like a new improved Trojan horse that’s fallen right in their lap.
The United Numpties are faithful to the ‘never let a good (invented) crisis go to waste’ mantra and have already churned out a 23 page report on the global impact of Kung-Flu (or being pedantic, the self-inflicted impact of the clumsy over-reaction to it)
https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/sg_report_socio-economic_impact_of_covid19.pdf
The report is predictably filled with enough social justice worrier fluff to make you vomit. Or perhaps sleep with the lights on when you see where all this is heading:
” …Everything we do during and after this crisis must be with a strong focus on building more equal and inclusive societies that are more resilient in the face of pandemics, climate change, and the many other challenges we face…
…This crisis also has brought into sharp focus the inadequacy of the global response to the climate and biodiversity emergencies…
…Women’s organizations, operating with meagre resources, are often on the front line of community response – supporting those most affected economically by the crisis, ensuring shelters remain open for domestic violence victims, and channelling public health education messages to women. Expansion and capitalization of Funds such as the UN’s Women, Peace and Humanitarian Fund or the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women must be encouraged…
…Economic recovery goes hand in hand with social justice…
…Young women and girls are at higher risk of intimate partner violence and other forms of domestic violence during the pandemic…
…Young people make up more than 30 per cent of the world’s migrants and refugees who also stand to suffer disproportionately both from the pandemic and its aftermath – whether due to limited movement, fewer employment opportunities, increased xenophobia…
… timely information needs to reach everyone, in particular national, ethnic or religious minorities, indigenous peoples, or LGBTI people…
…(thou shalt) Reduce populations in prisons, jails, and immigration detention centres through appropriate supervised or early release…
…(thou shalt) Ensure that social protection plans and emergency economic schemes take a gender perspective and take into account unpaid care by women, specific constraints for women entrepreneurs and women in the informal sector…
…resources available to the IMF need to be increased, by leveraging Special Drawing Rights to rapidly inject resource…”
This is apparently all about responding to Kung-Flu, although I’m sure I’ve heard near identical utterances from the United Numpties when they’ve been venting copious hot-air on the subject of tackling Gullible Warming(TM) as well.
There is the inevitable Robin Hood-con-omics demand in there:
“…(thou shalt) support implementation of a human-centred, innovative and coordinated stimulus package reaching double-digit percentage points of the world’s gross domestic product…”
Which I assume they expect to be collected and disbursed via UN (mis)managed fund managers, sort of like their green slush fund; minus what’s skimmed off the top to pay for the next round of cocktails and canapes in UN towers of course. On his weblog, Martin Armstrong asserts this ‘support’ is planned as a 10% global tax, but I didn’t find the statement buried in the UN document.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/un-want-global-power-to-tax-10-for-the-coronavirus/
Perhaps he referred to this:
“…A large-scale, coordinated and comprehensive multilateral response amounting to at least 10 per cent of global GDP is needed…”
Which doesn’t sound like a 10% tax on everyone, it sounds more like a few of us are expected to cough-up the equivalent of 10% of GDP, while the rest cry poor or hide their folding stuff away in trust funds or charitable foundations.
The corker was this nugget of stupidity versus reality in imagining the ‘opportunities’ to be seized when passing their hat for a global whip-around:
“…This will also require creative thinking about how to mobilize large injections of concessional finance – not only from multilateral development banks but also from private lenders such as pension funds, who will be in a hunt for low-growth investment opportunities…”
Just who wants their pension funds investing in a low growth ‘opportunity’ FFS?
One would be better advised to invest in which ever tech company Bill Gates and his mates in ID2020 award the contract to make RFID dog chips to insert behind your ear when we’re all forced to accept our ‘fundamental and universal human right’ to prove our identity with a ‘portable digital ID solution’.
https://medium.com/id2020/about
That’d be the digital ID that among other things they can scan before you’re allowed to go to work, or anywhere public for that matter, to prove you’re immunized against a novel corona virus that allegedly mutates so fast that achieving herd immunity is futile. Sounds rather like the ‘mark of the beast’ stuff they were on about in Revelations, but I digress…
And those ill-gotten gains should be used for?
“…(thou shalt) support the COVID-19 response launched by WHO with humanitarian agencies, which will assist 51 or more of the most vulnerable and conflict-affected countries in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America where the impact on people will be particularly severe in the absence of assistance…”
In other words, having referred to their map of affected countries on page15, the loot should go to those countries which, mostly, are the least affected by Kung-Flu.
And naturally the overtures of one world government in all but name aren’t hard to find:
“…this crisis cries out for leadership, solidarity, transparency, trust and cooperation. This is no time for self-interest, recrimination, censorship, obfuscation or politicization. The tone set by leaders at the national and local level matters. While temporary border closures, travel bans or limits on the sale of critical supplies may be warranted in the short-term, such national-level measures must not impede a global coming together and global solution…”
Yeah right. ‘Global coming together’; sounds like we’re to be assembled and knelt before our enlightened superiors for the reverse of a bukkake scene.
United Numpties vultures, career ineptocrats and social justice worriers must all be loving that lab in Wuhan and the incompetent git who let Kung-Flu get out. For 30+ years unelected, unaccountable, ineffective ineptocracies have been bleating incessantly about the need to fleece everyone and impose regressive my-way-or-the-highway excuses for policy based on the gullible warming(TM) bogeyman story that they keep harping “could, maybe, with some confidence”, make the weather a degree or two nicer for our grandkids. Which of course will somehow be so much worse for women, people of colour and the alphabet people. I guess progress has been modest because it’s just been too hard to keep vilifying and silencing those pesky ‘denier’ folks. I guess it also hasn’t helped that the weather hasn’t lived up to the expectations of the climastrologist’s computer games.
Now in the space of a few months they’ve managed to convince everyone that Kung-Flu is a boogie-man that’ll rip your head off and defecate down your neck by tea-time tomorrow if we don’t all roll over, take their self-flagellation orders without hesitation and now they’re adding that thou shalt start paying scutage; as if the black death had descended yet again and the solution was Robin Hood-con-omics without due diligence. Just trust the ex-spurts. And most of the world’s sheeple seem to be sucking it right up.
…Except when a convicted criminal gets murdered by a rogue copper, then there’s apparently ‘a just political momentum’ that can’t risk being interrupted by taking precautions against a pesky chest cold, so the looters and rioters get a free-pass from the social distancing rules, as well as laws relating to robbery, vandalism, arson, assault, murder and so on.
If they weren’t such a gormless, useless, deceitful, conceited bunch of greasy little toe rags I’d almost be impressed with the creativity of the parasites at the United Numpties.
So I reckon Eric Holthaus might just have found himself riding the slow ‘all-stops’ GUllible Warming(TM) gravy train while it is being overtaken by their new HS2 version of World Government by Kung-Flu Trojan horse gravy train, and in a moment of soul-crushing despair, he’s let his guard down in respect to his real motivations.
So I’m working for a living and paying a bunch of my hard-earned to keep this swamp filled with scum; I really am in the wrong game.
The problem with “justice” as an end is that “justice” is in the eyes of whoever has the most guns and is willing to use them.
For most liberals, justice means “I get what I want”.
Erny72,
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“The climate emergency isn’t about science, it’s about justice.”
I know, right? It’s the same with the space aliens emergency. No science, it’s about popcorn for all. Buttered, or not, maybe with some nutritional yeast – sky’s the limit. Maybe even a popcorn palace in the sky for the aliens. They might decide to come in peace, you never know.
It’s always been about politics and economics, never about climate. Alarmism generates clicks and instigates action. It’s a foolproof recipe.
The climate emergency certainly isn’t about science, this was shown early on by the fraudulent behaviour of those involved in it and it is not about ‘justice’. These people would not know ‘justice’ if it fell on tgem. It is simply about control. This control is that exhibited by Marxists, Socialist and their fellow runners, Fascists. These people have primitive urges disguised as altruism but which are in fact, a psychosis mis-shapen by their limited intelligence.
He can lie, be wrong about the science, fail every prediction, but he means well so it’s ok…said every leftist ever.
Trump needs to send the Paris Climate Accord to the senate as a treaty so it can be voted down and eliminated forever.
The next step for the good guys is to give publicity to the warmists’ bogus notion of justice. green-agenda.com
If you add violence or threats of violence to this rhetoric, he should be charged with sedition. Otherwise, can the CAGW crowd be charged with fraud?
And as we’ve seen from the way they’ve reacted to Trump, they want a new system only if it is THEIR system and, most importantly, that THEY are in charge.
It not even science.
The basic concept that the power of the sunlight should be instantaneously spread over the whole surface of the Earth (divide intensity by 4) before the light has even entered the atmosphere means that in the distorted world of climate science the sun shines onto the ground at night.
Wow! He does look as though he loses a lot of sleep. What the hell is he doing whilst awake,apart from worrying.
The whole article can be summarised by “The bigger the lie the more it will be believed.” (Goebbles I think)
The real shame lies with the scientists who know the truth and remain silent.And the legion of “Climate Journalists” who swallow and publicise every lie.
100 percent correct. And now they have hijacked CV19 Response and mitigation as another “tool.”