Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Ever wondered what it is like being the child of an Climate Scientist? Thanks to The Conversation, we now have a window into what its like to grow up in the home of an academic climate alarmist.
How climate scientists talk to their kids about climate change
04 NOV 2021 LACHLAN GILBERT
There’s no need to sugar-coat the truth or scaremonger when talking to kids about climate change.
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Have you talked about climate change to your kids and what did you, or what do you plan to say?
SPK: The only way we’ve really talked about climate change so far is about the dinosaurs. Before lockdown, we went to the dinosaur museum here in Canberra. And they loved it. My eldest has constantly been asking questions like ‘where are the dinosaurs now?’ And I said ‘well, you know, they died out’. ‘Why did they die out?’ ‘Well, climate change?’ ‘Okay, how did the climate change…’ and so she’s kind of being very inquisitive. But I haven’t yet had a sit down with her saying, ‘well, yeah, the climate is warming, it’s getting worse. It’s basically because of my parents and their parents before them – sorry about that!’
I have had a couple of conversations with my nieces and nephews. My niece, when she was nine or 10, asked me to come to her school and give a talk. So I actually started thinking: how am I going to talk about this? I don’t want to get in there and scare them and say, ‘you’re all doomed, you’re all gonna die’. I was never going to do that –I would talk to them about how the planet’s changing, the indicators of this and how we can fix it. I think you should always finish on a message of hope, especially with a younger demographic.
KM: We always had a very scientific approach to education. When they ask a question, they get the answer, even if the answer is not pretty. Even when they grew up, they knew that Santa Claus was not real from early on, and we never made a big deal out of how babies come into the world, we never made them believe in the tooth fairy… so climate change for me is just another fact we have to live with, a fact we can talk about with the kids.
Because we talk about climate change all the time, they were exposed to it from a young age. We would also take them on holidays where you can see evidence of it all around you, for example coral reefs. I think it was just part of their lives from the beginning, and they didn’t need me pointing these things out.
IM: I don’t think my two are that aware of climate change itself. So I’m trying to raise their awareness of environmental issues, but we’re at the stage where I might, for example, point out an electric car, or that it’s a terrible habit to leave the taps running. So at this stage it’s saying things like don’t waste things, don’t use too much plastic because it ends up in the ocean, that kind of thing. I think that’s a far easier thing to attack than the specific issue of climate change itself. I see climate change as just another facet of issues to do with waste and careful use of resources.
As for whether I’m worried about scaring them or other kids old enough to understand about climate change, to be honest, it doesn’t worry me. I mean, there are things worth being scared of!
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Read more: https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/how-climate-scientists-talk-their-kids-about-climate-change
When I read history books, interviews with survivors of the some of the worst attrocities of the 20th century, they didn’t take their kids out on guided tours to look at all the ugliness on display, they tried to shield their children from the horror, did everything in their power to give them a childhood of love and joy, in the most impossible circumstances.
Yet climate activists seem to revel in frightening the hell out of their children with the worst of their nightmare climate fantasies, then somehow seem to think it is OK if after scaring the kids, they try to undo some of the damage by finishing on a “message of hope”.
Telling kids they are likely to die a horrible death should never be a part of childhood, even if the horror is real.
Maybe I’m misinterpreting what I’m reading, but the uppermost thought in my mind after reading this was, who needs a climate catastrophe when you have parents like that? In my opinion this just seems so wrong.
Fast forward 30 years. The kids have grown up, the climate hasn’t done anything it didn’t do before and daddy is widely regarded as having been a quack. The horror stories his kids will tell him about care homes.
I think that’s the future. A lot of disillusioned youth, who are wondering just who they can believe, after Doomsdays doesn’t show up.
Perhaps, but maybe they grow out of it. Once they realise that they have been told porkies most will learn to rely on their own judgement. Learning who the charlatans are and how they operate is a very useful lesson of life.
I myself am of the generation force-fed the doom and gloom of the Club of Rome and wss very worried. Then I discovered women and realised there were much more direct and interesting problems to engage with.
Hopefully their chances of survival will be better than the Jim Jones followers, the Manson family, and the drug overdose hippies of the 60s/70s.
I suppose some will realize the con game and move on to the next advocacy parade. Still a few others will learn the subtle techniques of keeping up the climate screams as a leader and extending the predictions out another 25 or 50 years. And maybe a few special ones will go on to found climate megachurches with huge budgets and shuttle buses to pick up the converts for the climate church services and debate-has-ended, anti-science process baptisms at the altar of Gaia.
From the article: “Maybe I’m misinterpreting what I’m reading, but the uppermost thought in my mind after reading this was, who needs a climate catastrophe when you have parents like that? In my opinion this just seems so wrong.”
It’s so wrong because those alarmist climate scientists don’t know what they are talking about. There is no evidence CO2 is doing any of the things they think it is doing.
I don’t see how you get good science out of someone who is so delusional.
Michael Mann must be so prooud.
It’s hardly any wonder there has been such a huge spike in mental health issues in the Gen-Y and Gen-Z demographic; they have grown up spoonfed with the story that their future will be horrible, and no respite in the media either, where Secular Millenarianism has swept away any semblance of balance. And in this age of ‘cancel culture’ they are probably too afraid to ask inconvenient questions in-case they get cancelled. O best of all worlds, where art thou.
What would motivate an adult to talk to children like that, self gratification or to talk to a child who has not developed their adult personality.
Whatever the reason it is wrong and converting children through fear to their cause is despicable.
Act up and you can be rich and famous like Greta! Remember to pick a winner for the T-shirt, that’s very important.
If the adults hate themselves,their children are born at a disadvantage.
Hopefully when they become rebellious teenagers they will have friends who help them break free.
Funny how everything these do gooders do,seeks to extinguish their own future.
Yet they will not restrict their misery to themselves..
Misery loves company.
Pray for their children,but never turn your back on them.
That escalated quickly.
Send them out individually on a Chinese fishing fleet for a real education.
“My eldest has constantly been asking questions like ‘where are the dinosaurs now?’ And I said ‘well, you know, they died out’. ‘Why did they die out?’ ‘Well, climate change?’ “
Yes indeed that’s because dinosaurs were fragile, unlike humans they had poor adaptability to adverse climate conditions. It took them about a short million years or so to completely die out worldwide (see https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg24432511-200-end-of-an-era-how-long-did-it-take-the-dinosaurs-to-die-out/ )
and we wonder why? kids as young as five are handed antidepressants?
removing them to saner homes might be better for them
How will the human race end? (1) By sudden catastrophe. or (2) By some slow-moving disaster.
In the first case we do, indeed, mimic dinos. In the second we mimic Neanderthals.
In any case the environment changed, so nature selected which gene pools would survive.
(1) Asteroid. Volcano. Electric grid. War. Earthquake. Tsunami. Disease.
(2) Climate. Pollution. Sea level.
And on both lists: Unknown unknowns.
The kids are more likely to die from their teachers who push the great green lie.
10:10 No Pressure – YouTube
What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.
Richard Lindzen
“We’re going to die like dinosaurs”. You know, if we humans can last nearly as long as “dinosaurs”, even short lived species lasting millions of years, we should be pretty happy.
To be honest, I wouldn’t miss the climate “scientists” and their ilk. If they vanish, this would clean the genetic pool and raise the average IQ.