Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen — 27 May 2022
It didn’t take much of a push, but the Climate Crazies have finally gone over the edge. The ever-more-alarming climate bad-news cabal of journalists and media outlets have slipped off the playing field into a land far far away from the pressing realities of the real world.
I received this email alert today:
What blockbuster expose are they going to be discussing in their semi-secret cabal meeting on Twitter Spaces?
“Revealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown”
“Exclusive: Oil and gas majors are planning scores of vast projects that threaten to shatter the 1.5C climate goal. If governments do not act, these firms will continue to cash in as the world burns
by Damian Carrington and Matthew Taylor”
This shocking expose was published two weeks ago in The Guardian on May 11, 2022. It is one of the most outrageous propaganda pieces I have ever read. Apparently, it was mostly ignored worldwide, getting only a tiny bit of mention in the like-minded alarmist press. It failed to get even a mention on WUWT or other climate skeptic sites.
So, Covering Climate Now to the rescue! This Columbia University-based climate-propaganda-pushing media group is a collaborative of media outlets, headed, as you may know, by The Guardian.
I am listening to the Twitter Spaces conversation, which consists of the authors of The Guardian piece talking about how shocked they were to find that oil and gas industry leaders are actually still seeking new sources of oil and gas. Joining in are propagandists from Covering Climate Now. They are discussing how to bring governmental, legal and civil forces to bear in an effort to stop this expansion of oil and gas recovery.
Their main point so far is: How can we, civil society, stop them? Why are governments letting this happen? How can we get a million people in the streets to protest?
They talk about how American gasoline prices are not subject to the laws of supply-and-demand – but are caused by rapacious oil industry actors. They pooh-pooh the idea that the Russo-Ukraine War gas and oil shock and the embargo on Russian oil had anything to do with the rise of gasoline prices in the U.S. and that, of course, that Biden’s war on oil has nothing whatever to do with gasoline prices either.
The CCNow propagandists cheer on the absolutely nutty notion from the UN Secretary-General António Guterres who said, at Seton Hall, that “the graduates …. needed to be the generation that addresses the “planetary emergency of climate change.” And “Investing in fossil fuels is now ‘a dead end – economically and environmentally’. No amount of greenwashing or spin can change that. So, we must put them on notice: Accountability is coming for those who liquidate our future.’” …. “So my message to you is simple: don’t work for climate-wreckers. Use your talents to drive us towards a renewable future.“
In the entire discussion at Twitter Spaces about fossil fuels and gas/oil production, not one single word was mentioned that indicated any awareness of what oil and gas are used for in today’s world or what the world would look like if we stopped oil and gas production tomorrow. The reality that nearly all the products and conveniences, including homes, clothing, food, water, transportation, concrete, plastics, electricity, highways, railroads, hospitals, airplanes journalists’ laptops and even newspapers and news media outlets, would cease to function or exist, if oil and gas production were to stop.
Yet, despite this obvious and undeniable fact, these cultist journalists happily skip to their computers to write stories meant to scare the general population into opposing all oil and gas production.
Europe is going to discover this coming winter what it means to live without Russian oil and natural gas.
Towards the end of the “conversation”, the CCNow spokesperson said (paraphrased): We encourage Climate Propaganda outlets, the over-500 of them, to focus this coming week on the Food and Water Crisis caused by Climate Change”. CCNow, naturally, will supply stories for them to use, share or re-write allowing a widespread media cluster-bomb of mostly-false and misleading oh-so-alarming stories concerning the food and water crisis . I bet these stories don’t feature: “Too much food?” “Record crop production?”
CCNow supplies suggestions on the stories to write and references to use here. And those reference? All but one from the UN FAO.
And thus goes the war against sanity and reality – stay tuned for a flood of media nonsense next week.
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Author’s Comment:
It is not that there are not places in the world that lack adequate food (mostly for political reasons) or places that suffer from lack of potable water (mostly for political reasons). It is rather that none of these problems is caused by climate change. Some are caused by “climate + too many people” – too many people living in an area with a not-human-friendly climate – think the Horn of Africa or the Sahel.
That these media outlets are conspiring to produce the appearance of a Climate Crisis is not in doubt. The people involved are, for the most part, True Believers in the Climate Crisis Cult. They worship the IPCC and people like António Guterres.
They are not disinterested journalists doing their best to inform the public of all aspects and all sides of the climate controversy, without bias or personal agendas. They are not dedicated to telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The truth about climate and fossil fuels is their enemy. They actively suppress the truth.
Thanks for reading.
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Somebody should dig up a picture of the sad looking crazy ones with the “The End is Near” street corner signs. There used to be sidewalk photographers taking pictures to sell to likely looking walkers, might be one in their collection somewhere. Maybe one in a sociologist’s work.
Kip,
The answer to your question is: “Very.”
To answer your question, “just how crazy are these people”, the word “crazy” does not adequately describe them.
Think of any cult in the past and you have the answer to the question. “Insane” is the word I prefer cuz it implies a deeper disturbance in their psyche. There may be no cure for the depth they have reached in their illness. Think a pathology which refuses to respond to obvious reality checks backed by facts and data. Ripe candidates for mental institutions of the past, which should be brought back post haste just for these types of delusional people.
Side note: I was told when I was in elementary school had 40 years of oil left in the ground before the world would run out. I was 7 or 8 years old at the time. I’m 80+y.o. now. Still pumpin’ the black gold outta the planet today, aren’t we? With new reserves discovered all the time.
Climate change=weather. The AGW nutjobs need to be dealt with summarily.
“Think of any cult in the past and you have the answer to the question. “Insane” is the word I prefer cuz it implies a deeper disturbance in their psyche. There may be no cure for the depth they have reached in their illness.”
I think it is going to take at least a decade of cooling to snap most of these people out of their CO2-caused Climate Change spell. I imagine there will still be some who hang onto their CO2 delusions even after a decade of cooling.
It sure has been a cool start to this year around here.
At some point Rosneft , Saudi aramco and others will buy the likes of BP, Exxon , royal Dutch shell for pennies on the dollar then refuse to appear in US courts .
What if fossil fuels were actually renewable and they didn’t actually come from fossils.The myth that we only have 47 years left of cheap oil is just that, a myth.Organic material such as Algae can be converted into green oil so to speak but you would still have CO2 emissions. That is what is really bothering folks like Simple Simon.
Let me guess, these people are not working class or not working at all and if they are don’t drive their own car. Or as in the article are they that stupid. My guess is they are band wagon types seeking a purpose for their lives and attention for that. The only way to look at them is they are clueless of the results of their worries and see no problems for themselves. In other words despicable.
Despicable for what they would do to others.
Olen ==> Journalists (nominally) are well-paid (when still employed — news staffs have been cut sharply compared to 20 years ago). They seem to all have failed Journalistic Ethics.
The Bureaucratic Elite dictate what the pseudo-jounalists write.
In respect of “Covering Climate Now” one of its two founders and current Executive Director is Mark Hertsgaard.
Hertsgaard’s father was an anchorman at a Baltimore television station in the 1960s and was generally thought to be a bit wacky (the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree). His son, Mark Hertsgaard, is an aging hippie and likely took one too many tabs of acid in the course of his mostly wasted life.
The “Covering Climate Now” website lists the following as its funders (the usual delusional suspects):
Looking down the list one finds out, once again, that these climate activists are being funded by big oil. Hypocrites.
John ==> Yes, a nasty pack of propagandists . . .
A dangerous pack.
KIP
“They actively suppress the truth.”
Author of the Ist Amendent didn’t think it would be necessary to expand on the ‘freedom to do what’ idea. After all it was written for reasonable people. I think Guardian/Columbia University signing up the world press to monopolize the news on totalitarian climate is actionable under this amendment. They deliberately flood the world press and are assisted by deplatforming of the daylight side of the competition. Surely to conspire with the world press to promote only one side restricts the intended purpose of the amendment.
Where the hell are the legal beagles. Are they all alligned to takedown Exxon and prosecute sceptics? Tell me why such a case wouldn’t be a slam-dunk. There are also laws against companies conspiring to control their industry, products, prices….
It makes perfect sense once you realize the cultists have a death wish, but lack the courage of their convictions …
Meanwhile…..
Fjords may emit as much methane as all the deep oceans globally (phys.org)
“How can we, civil society, stop them?”
The pro-CAGW protesters and their ilk are definitley not civil in their activities.
We would be in deep doo doo should we all emulate their version of ‘civil society’.
As a graduate of Seton Hall (4 years in the Prep and 1 semester in the college) I’m embarrassed they had to reach down for Guterres as a speaker.
Errm wasn’t Pedo Joe just telling big bad oil Co’s that they had to Drill, Drill, Drill or he’d be after them with a big stick because the price of fuel was too high?
Talk about tying yourself in mental knots, these people and their mind games are so far out there they’ll be able to help NASA sort the coms problem they’ve got with Voyager.
James Bull
Thanks for yet another article on the climate crazy amongst us. They seem to be everywhere with about the intellect of a brick!
Brian ==> Far worse than that — they are intelligent but unquestioning and unthinking….