Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Mann, whenever we point out the private jet traffic jams at climate conferences, or Clown Prince Harry’s latest green PR disaster, its all part of a sinister big oil conspiracy to discredit climate activists, by making them all look like useless hypocrites.
As denying climate change becomes impossible, fossil-fuel interests pivot to ‘carbon shaming’
Aylin Woodward
Aug. 28, 2021, 11:06 AM
- Fossil-fuel interests no longer bother denying that climate change is real.
- So they’ve pivoted to new tactics, including painting climate advocates as hypocrites.
- Drawing attention to advocates’ non-eco-friendly habits undermines their credibility and distracts from policy changes.
After Prince Harry told Oprah Winfrey that climate change and mental health are two of the “most important issues facing the world today,” the New York Post threw the words back at him. In a story earlier this week, the Post reported that the “double-talking dilettante” had taken a private plane from Colorado to California.
Sky News and The Times too, have lambasted Harry’s carbon-intensive jetsetting. All three publications are tied to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, which previously denied the science of climate change. Murdoch is on the advisory board of Genie Energy, an energy company that invests in oil and gas projects.
London mayor Sadiq Khan, an anti-pollution advocate, got similar treatment from The Sun, another Murdoch-owned publication, for flying 32,000 miles (51,499km) between 2016 and 2019 and purchasing 4.3 million paper towels in a year.
According to Michael Mann, an atmospheric science professor at Pennsylvania State University, these types of stories are part of a larger strategy: Groups that support the continued use of fossil fuels have increasingly begun to point out climate advocates’ seemingly hypocritical behavior, rather than denying that climate change is real. It’s one of many new strategies the fossil-fuel industry has adopted, according to Mann’s latest book “The New Climate War.”
Mann told Insider that in his view, “2009-2010 was the last hurrah for good old fashioned climate-change denialism.” By 2019, 62% of Americans agreed that climate change was affecting their day-to-day lives.
“It’s beyond not being able to deny the science,” he said. “It’s now a matter of having to deny reality.”
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Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/fossil-fuel-interests-target-climate-advocates-personally-2021-8
Anyone else noticed climate activists don’t seem to have a sense of humour? Perhaps that is why some people find it difficult to understand that when we point out the latest carbon outrage perpetrated by our hypocrisy challenged climate heroes, it is not part of some grand conspiracy to make them look silly. We just think its funny.
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“its all part of a sinister big oil conspiracy to discredit climate activists, by making them all look like useless hypocrites.”
By Jove, Mann really has lost touch with the footsoldiers. It isn’t big oil, it’s the ‘world we live in’….
One of Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) founders has admitted that she drives a diesel car
Defending her actions, XR volunteer and City recruiter Jonathan Tassell said that “We are all hypocrites, we are in a system” as he claimed that he could not afford solar power.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/23/extinction-rebellion-founder-admits-drives-diesel-car/
Bradbrook has previously been criticised for flying 11,000 miles to Costa Rica in 2016 for a holiday. She claimed that she flew to the island because of a health issue which could not be treated in the UK.
The treatment needed? Ibogaine and ayahuasca. Apparently, Bradbrooke claims ” I had a conversation with my left and right brain”
Er, right.
Mann really is a dinosaur, isn’t he! I doubt he can get down with the kids anymore.
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Since when is Costa Rica an island? Too much global warming, maybe…
Why not ask the Daily Telegraph?
Let me know how you get on
They will probably point out that it has… islands
Actually a team from the University of Costa Rica has stated that it IS an island due to the many rivers and lakes that make up its borders with Nicaragua and Panama. Apparently nobody thought to check before but ‘the island of Costa Rica’ may be actually correct!
From an article in SciTechDaily:
https://scitechdaily.com/how-science-works-uncertainty-spurs-scientific-progress/
There is a quote attributed to Nietzsche:
With further thoughts on the topic:
Either LiarMann either just doesn’t get it, or is being disingenuous (probably the latter). First of all, Skeptics/Climate Realists have always pointed out the cereal hypocrisy of Climate Bigwigs, which is a fact, not a “tactic”. It is like pointing out LiarMann’s outrageous and continual lies. Secondly, “carbon shaming” is a favorite tactic of the Climate Taliban, not Skeptics/Climate Realists, since we don’t give a hootenany about so-called “carbon”. Indeed, CO2’s only “crime” is to support all life, and its increase is 100% a good thing.
The hypocrisy is really the biggest piece of circumstantial evidence of the politics in science. That even the people who most staunchly say it’s an emergency don’t really believe it enough to change their own behaviour.
Just more credence to the notion that climate alarmism is a religion….It’s OK for the high priests to break the rules of said religion but NOT OK for the followers of said religion!
In other words climate activists are saints, and whoever criticizes them is obsessed by “big oil”. We are back in the medieval eventually.
That photo of Mann is creepy. Is that a Masonic sign (i.e. half of a pyramid and all-seeing eye)? Or does it represent a hockey stick? Weird.
I think it’s a Photoshopped symbol for “loser” superimposed over his face.
Ok. Well. I learned something new today.
There’s no pivot. We (people who don’t get paid to spew propaganda, like most of the MSM) have been pointing out the hypocrisy since day one.
The climate elite are the modern version of Jim and Tammy Baker, Jimmy Swaggart and Peter Popoff.
Yeah I just looked up their search ‘images’ results –
they all share that same demented look as Jack Nicholson had in the poster for “The Shining”
So Anthony et al, be very scared if you hear a crash on your door and you hear a demented Mannian voice growl –
“Wattsy, I’m home!”
No “pivoting” – it’s always been part of the natural response to the stupidity of warmunistas, and their disregard for the intelligence of normal people. This carbon-hogging call outs of warmunistas has been going on for decades. Al Gore was certainly one, but not the first, and not the largest carbon hog to get called out.
“…by making them all look like useless hypocrites.”
But they ARE all useless hypocrites, and they need absolutely no help making them appear that way.
I will recast the climate terminology above as a religious debate, just to prove you can criticize a belief system and also criticize the hypocrisy of the believers. The two critiques are not mutually exclusive. “[Atheists] have increasingly begun to point out [Christians’] [strike out the word “seemingly”] hypocritical behavior, rather than denying that [God] is real. It’s one of many new strategies [atheists have] adopted…”
At this point there is no way to stop it. No, I’m not talking about Climate Change…I’m talking about the End of the West as Five Eyes and Europe become vassal states of the PRC. And they said it couldn’t happen here.
He’s one sick puppy.
Of course these stories are part of a bigger agenda! Exposing these extremists as hypocrites! And there is nothing sinister about it!
Mann did carbon shame himself and should not shy out right now!
The Climate Taliban have been in power for 20 years now and they are still intolerant religious enforcers of agenda science. They have quite a few female victims along the way also.
Hypocrisy isn’t considered bad anymore. In fact, it’s celebrated and applauded.
As long as you have the “correct” beliefs, that is.
Michael Mann has never established the ideal climate on Earth that humans should live in. I searched all his published papers and not one ever mentioned or described this function.
So why does his opinion on the current climate carry any weight at all? He’s not an expert in human sociology.
Either Mann or the author used the phrase “seemingly” hypocritical behavior. Like there’s some chance that the example (Prince Harry) actually wasn’t hypocritical behavior? Either Mann or the author seems to be defending the elite’s attitude of “do what I say, not what I do”.
I wonder if Woodward would care to clarify if Mann used that phrase, or if she did. The big question is, if Mann did use that phrase, did she call the hypocrite out on it?
4.3 million paper towels in one year? What happened? Did the Mayor of London find that the tunnels under London streets still leak like sieves and create that nasty London fog? Or is he just obsessed with paper towels? They can still be used, once they’re dried out, for starting a fire in the fireplace or in a cookstove that uses wood instead of electricity or gas.
However, former U.K. transport minister Norman Baker calculated the couple took at least 53 international flights, including 18 on private jets, in the 12 months to January 2020.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Seen as Climate Hypocrites by Most Brits (newsweek.com)
Newsweek and a former LibDem in the pay of Big Oil, Mikey?
Anyway, impressive figures, your royal. hypocriteness.
“begun to point out climate advocates’ seemingly hypocritical behavior,”
But, yes it is hypocritical! No denial there from the hidy-ho of declines. Were a sceptic to witness and photograph a bank robbery, would that somehow excuse the robbers?
It doesn’t take a conspiracy, or even any skill, to make them look silly. Laughter is the best way to treat them.
Yep – they’re making it easy for us.
It takes a special kind of warped mind to attribute the shaming of antics of hypocritical celebrity activists to a plot by fossil fuel interests. You really could not make it up.
It doesn’t really matter who the source of the information is. The only thing that is important is whether the claim is true, and whether it is germane.
Complaining that the news comes from Murdoch News is really just an ad hominem attack.
Slightly OT but…
also, quick while you can, it will download but otherwise something you need to register for and will disappear soon.
It doesn’t happen very often, but I iz in luv
Go here and watch this girl go: Time from 1min08 thro 3mins25
https://vsecretscc.com/episode-2-live
What would happen is she was put in the same room/space as Our Man Mann?
Thanks.
All I saw was some video about covid that doesn’t even run for 3+ minutes.