Peter Kalmus is a Data Scientist working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion laboratory.
Peter came to JPL Earth Science from astrophysics, where he spent eight years designing and implementing searches for gravitational waves from supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, and magnetars as a member of the LIGO collaboration. He now uses remote sensing data to study biodiversity, stratocumulus clouds (which cool the Earth), and severe convective environments as a member of JPL’s Science Data Modeling and Computing Group. He is also interested in improving how we use and interpret scientific data, and applying improvements to ecological projections and data fusion technologies.
https://higgs.jpl.nasa.gov/people/pkalmus/
Twitter user Zander “32-bar guitar riffs” Noriega put up a compilation of his some of Peter’s tweets over the last couple of years and gave me permission to publish it. Here it is. Click on images to expand.
Originally tweeted by Zander “32-bar guitar riffs” Noriega (@ZanderNoriega) on June 16, 2022.
things NASA climate scientists say:
“Capitalism is a form of violence”
“Capitalism is no way to live”
“We can’t count on technology and capitalism to solve climate when they are what got us here”
Things NASA climate scientists say:
“The only thing that can save us is…to shift to degrowth”
“What would I replace capitalism with? I would replace it with degrowth”
“Mammals were not designed by evolution to be as busy as I am… revealing of the deep cracks in capitalism”
Things NASA climate scientists say:
“No one *needs* to fly.”
“Big oil is only part of the problem. Another part: our own desire for convenience… mistaking wants for needs.”
“I’d prefer a world without private cars”
Things NASA climate scientists say:
“embracing a low-energy lifestyle is necessary but not sufficient… too few will voluntarily adopt it.”
“My go-to phrase is ‘climate emergency.’ My go-to phrase is ‘climate emergency.’ .”
Things NASA climate scientists say:
“Empower women to depopulate.”
“No more hoarding of wealth.”
“how we eat and overpopulation are far more deeply intertwined than you seem to presume.”
“(RE: ‘we need a limit on our reproduction’) Yes – #HalfEarth!”
Things NASA climate scientists say
“there is a huge difference between sectarian religion and a universal sense of divine gratitude” (1)
“Science isn’t perfect but it’s far better than the alternatives – superstition, religion” (1)
(1) his Mother Earth thing is not a religion?
Originally tweeted by Zander “32-bar guitar riffs” Noriega (@ZanderNoriega) on June 16, 2022.
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I may personally decide to live a life of monastic austerity on a small island with the brothers cultivating a small patch of land to feed us. But I am still dependent on the king to keep the Viking raiders from slaughtering and pillaging us.. The king is a capitalist so my precious life depends on capitalism. So also at any scale, in any society at any time.
“Peter Kalmus is a Data Scientist working at NASA”
He is obviously a climate alarmist of the AOC kind.
He doesn’t seem to be living in a place called reality.
Peter, Capitalism is what made this country great, and what made you successful …own up to it,,, The USA made you great at whatever you do.
You don’t know what you’re talking about.
He doesn’t like working 9 to 5 and blames it on capitalism, although he works in a socialist institution.
Kalmus’ comments seem to be extracted from the Uni-Bomber (Kazinski’s) Manifesto.
History and karma are a b1tch. This fellow obviously would have loved living in Jamestown after the “no work, no eat” law was implemented. Capitalism lets you be rewarded for the fruits of your OWN labors. Funny how most Communist countries have had to “resort” to capitalism in order to prosper.
Outstanding!
I live on that small island with the now descendants of the Viking raiders, in the largest Icelandic – Scandinavian ethnic community in the US.
A common meme on that theme is SINK THE (ferry) BOATS to ease the tourist load. Infrastructure for 700 residents crumbles crumbled under the load of 4,000 tourists per day.
Thank goodness for winter.
I would love to visit your wonderful island home. Please, please, where is it?
I’m guessing somewhere in the Puget Sound…
I’ll bet the proprietors of the small businesses people rely upon for their livelihood don’t agree with you. Move.
Capitalism is an invention of Karl Marx who also invented socialism and communism.It mean simply freedom of property. The king is no capitalist as capitalism arose with the industrial revolution in the 18th centrury he is just the king. Capitalism is the source of all our wealth and freedom and contributes enormously to our happiness. Once China allowed some form of capitalism prosperity skyrocketed. See the contrast between south and north Korea.
Agreed!
Marx talked about “capitalism “ to tear down the idea that any profits should return to capital——he argued that all profits belong rightly to labor. This was his absurdity, his anti-reality, his basic error, intellectually.
In reality capital and labor work cooperatively——a man with a shovel can dig holes far more effectively. The man is labor, the shovel is capital. Or, a farmer with a tractor produces far more food than a farmer with no tractor. The tractor is capital.
Capital multiplies the wealth that comes from labor.
Marx refused to acknowledge that both labor and capitol bring benefits and both must be rewarded for an economy to succeed.
capital not capitol.
also, an astronomer with a telescope searches the heavens somewhat better than a guy using only his eyes. So where would this guy be without capital?
This guy seems to believe in some sort of idyllic pastoral world where nobody owns anything, we all live in huts and everybody is eternally happy.
Read the supposedly fawning profile of him included with a previous WUWT posting. He’s a real nut. Only government would hire him. I know; I’ve met many of them before I quit Federal government.
AND, nobody ever does any work, LOL.
The proper, non-error-laden term for what has made the US and most of the world great is “free trade.” Communism is insidiously destructive and fails everywhere it’s tried. Socialism is simply communism that–for the moment–tries to achieve its aims without guns.
Marx was mentally a captive of the economy of the mid 19th century and was unable to see the extent of the changes to living standards and unable to apply himself to any positive participation in that economy. He therefore chose to attack it while bumming off his friends and relatives. He was a lazy and disgruntled human being. If he had been born 5000 years earlier he would have railed at the unfairness of nature while mooching nuts and berries from those who worked.
The L. Ron Hubbard of philosophy.
As I recall, Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations 1776 describes 4 types of capital: tools, land and its improvements, circulating capital like coins, cash and short term deposits, and “human capital”.
He was not referring to slavery- though if you mention the passage or the term to “woke” Progressives who haven’t read the book they invariably assume so and have a cow.
Smith referred to human capital akin to the modern idea of Intellectual Capital that use of the mind to improve the productivity of process and output or enterprise organization.
My memory of the book may be incorrect but I don’t remember him talking much about “stocks and bonds”, or equity and debt. I’ll have to reread it at some point. Always loved the coincidence of the dates of publication of TWON with the Declaration of Independence.
“Capitalism is an invention of Karl Marx who also invented socialism and communism.”
You’re telling me that the principles underlying capitalism were not present and active before Karl Marx came along?
Same goes for the principles underlying socialism?
Recorded history clearly falsifies that statement.
Your post is even self-contradictory because you also state “capitalism arose with the industrial revolution in the 18th centrury” (sic).
Karl Marx was born in 1818, which is in the 19th century.
Karl Marx invented capitalism with retroactive effect. People who, to their mental detriment were forced to read Marx at university are still coping with the insanity of the text. Property of course existed long before Marx. Socialism, the revolution disowning capitalists (industrials) and preparing for communism did not exist before Marx.
Really?
From https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/socialism :
“The intellectual roots of socialism go back at least as far as ancient Greek times, when the philosopher Plato depicted a type of collective society in his dialog, Republic (360 B.C.). In 16th-century England, Thomas More drew on Platonic ideals for his Utopia, an imaginary island where money has been abolished and people live and work communally . . .
“Early socialists like Henri de Saint-Simon (d. 1825), Robert Owen (d. 1858) and Charles Fourier (d. 1837) offered up their own models for social organization based on cooperation rather than competition. While Saint-Simon argued for a system where the state controls production and distribution for the benefit of all society’s members, both Fourier and Owen (in France and Britain, respectively) proposed systems based on small collective communities, not a centralized state.” (dates of death added by me).
Insert something here about the first action to take when one finds oneself digging deep and deeper into a hole . . .
Capitalism began in Holland and was principally Protestant. Following the English Civil War coffee houses opened in London where anyone regardless of class or gender could meet and openly discuss anything and also and trade with anyone. Charles II tried to close these down and failed. Parallel to the capitalist traders were the farmers, engineers and scientists driving the agricultural and industrial revolution. Underpinning and preceding these were the Magna Carta, the Lollards and the English Bible, which led to the Protestant Revolution, and Copernicus which led to Galileo and Kepler and the opening up of scientific enquiry. Marx was an academic and so was only able to write about capitalism.
Oh yes, and the other name for capitalism is commerce.
“No one needs to fly” – except them. “We must change the way we eat” – except them. And on and on. NASA has been weaponized with globalist talking points. It’s a very wide net.
I am fairly sure he didn’t say “no one needs to fly” in his job interview. But if he did it would be hilarious.
Yes, his paychecks come from the National AERONAUTICS and Space Administration.
Not only that but he works at JPL , or jet propulsion lab. No we need jet propulsion?
However it does show how the mission creep , NASA has it’s earth sciences crowd at New York (even though NOAA is the agency for that) but JPL seems to spend their time on climate science as well
In a capitalist profit making organisaation empire building by managers doesn’t last long before a bean counter asks what value is being added.
In a taxpayer funded organisation even the bean counters are empire builders. After a couple of decades the JPL starts investigating gravity waves and pontificating on Climate Whatever
AKA taxpayers!
I’m sure he’s following John Kerry around to harass him about flying.
Kalmus does refuse to fly anywhere.
Since his services aren’t needed anywhere, who cares?
Then how does he participate in 6 sigma continuous improvement offsite blackbelt certification?
As do many people afraid of falling out of the sky.
Liberals are always focused on things they think “no one needs.” Whether it’s flying, or SUVs, or AR15s, or large homes, or meat, or freedom. Just try to imagine what life would be like if no one was allowed to have anything they didn’t “need” according to a tyrannical liberal government bureaucracy.
Uhh, slight correction, Hoyt.
“Liberals are always focused on things they think “
no one needsother people don’t need.”Since they are the SPITR, of course they are the only ones that should determine what other people need. After all, we’re too stupid to even remember to breathe, right? How could we possibly determine what we need?
Now for them, it’s different. They have different needs because it’s such a tough job running everyone else’s life, so they deserve a little extra.
The sacrifices they make for us… 🙄
Correction noted.
Animal Farm
He tried to change the way his family ate and shat but neither worked. You can imagine what a composting toilet in the house would smell like. He turned his two boys into neurotics and fed into his wife’s existing mental pathologies.
By reports, there are designs of composting toilets that are very good at evacuating all odors to outside the building and above the level of the building, not unlike chimney smoke.
Apparently he didn’t buy that kind. Wife and kids made him move it outside where only he uses it. And he wants us to retrograde to outhouses like him.
The solution is simple: put NASA in charge of developing all future passenger aircraft. Then, even if people actually do need to fly, they will never be able to do so. Ever.
They also make outrageous claims like …
“Without carbon dioxide, Earth’s surface would be some 33°C (59°F) cooler.”
https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/19/what-is-the-greenhouse-effect/
Wow that’s nuts. They’ve lumped them entire effect of water vapor and other greenhouse gasses into CO2.
Zoe doesn’t believe in any green house effect. On her website she has proven that geothermal energy is what keeps the atmosphere warm.
“proven”
I’d vote for sunlight!
What the link actually says is: “Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxides, and water vapor.” Where they go off the scientific rails is: “(Water vapor, which responds physically or chemically to changes in temperature, is called a “feedback.”)” Water vapor is a driver of climate processes and temperatures, not simply a “feedback.”
Where NASA wanders into Leftist dogma is where it says: “Remove carbon dioxide, and the terrestrial greenhouse effect would collapse. Without carbon dioxide, Earth’s surface would be some 33°C (59°F) cooler.” This is absolute scientific nonsense and should be called out by every scientific organization in the world. The fact that it isn’t is a condemnation of all of our scientific organizations. All such organizations have become captive to Leftist dogma. Post modern science has put real science into retrograde.
Meanwhile, funds are being spent to figure out how to remove it.
What an imbecile. He would “replace capitalism with degrowth”, as if they are opposites. Look at countries in Eastern Europe. They have capitalism and degrowth. Heck, look even at New York, California, and Illinois. lol
He’s wrong. We need more population! We need pressure to get off this planet, not wait around for a catastrophe to wipe out the ENTIRE human race. You’d think a NASA scientist would understand it. But no, he’s just a specialist, and a moron in general.
Without capitalism, he would be working somewhere else. Probably with a broom.
Without capitalism, he wouldn’t even have broom.
He works for the government and his pay cheques depend on him agreeing with his paymasters?
For the poster child of his desires, i.e. stopping capitalism and de-growth look no further than Detroit.
There is the living example of a once very prosperous city, It embraced full on socialism, it is big on rewilding whole tracts of city land, bulldozing whole districts that have long abandoned capitalism. The once famous name of Motor City is a fine place to focus his ideas of banning private cars….
NB his other great demand for reduction in population….well Detroit has achieved that too.
There is precious little capitalism in New York, California or Illinois.
Walk the walk, Peter.
Stop using vast amounts of ff on your computer games
Stop using vast amounts of ff on twatter
Maybe he should also “de-populate” by jumping off something high?
It’s never too late to immolate.
Ron:
Kalmus isn’t anywhere on the political spectrum anymore. He jumped off of the cliff at the far left end of it some time ago.
Even the avatar in his tweets shows him using a megaphone, a technological device of convenience that uses batteries. Another typical hypocrite! Hey, Peter, no one needs a megaphone.
All of which is said by someone who prefers to live off the taxes generated by other people.
That grifting allowed him to achieve Nirvana- “embracing a low-energy lifestyle”- between his ears!
Obviously a Marxist. Mainly Karl – but there’s quite a bit of Groucho in there, too…
♯♪♫ “Whatever it is, I’m against it.” ♪♫
~Groucho Marx sings
These people should be taken very seriously as they will not care how they achieve their aims and who suffers in the name of the greater good. Some of these statements are right out of the Eugenics playbook. It doesn’t get any scarier than that.
This ^
Kalmus sounds line James Hansen.
Evidence of the continued decline in NOAA efforts and accomplishments.
Kalmus the competent cloud scientist of 2014:
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/27/24/jcli-d-14-00242.1.xml
Kalmus in the midst of a psychotic slip in 2021:
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-climate-crisis-is-worse-than-you-can-imagine-heres-what-happens-if-you-try
All right.
Kalmus out weirds Hansen by quite a bit. Though, I wouldn’t be surprised if Hansen composts his own manure.
Still, they never got into raising fiber sources, carding and spinning their own threads and weaving/knitting their own clothes.
Instead, they focused on off grid silliness while ignoring their usage of fossil fuel derived toys, electronics, computers, clothes, shoes and whatnot.
Does NOAA keep a branch in California?
Some people refuse to bring themselves out of depression. Instead they happily wallow in their personal darkness while eagerly seeking ears to fill with gloom and doom.
Their children aren’t going to be happy climate alarmists.
NOAA is many many places but he works for NASA -JPL
Kalmus….
Heir to Malthus… and Ehrlich
What he and his radical colleagues call themselves is no surprise
Scientist Rebellion
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/06/climate-scientists-are-desperate-were-crying-begging-and-getting-arrested
I can think of a better term, how about Climate Scientist extinction
Anyone else worried about his mental state? These are the rants of someone rapidly dissociating from reality. Another Ted Kaczynski in progress? The Unabomber was a mathematical prodigy until he checked out of Sanity Hotel and Spa. If Kalmus heads for the woods start checking packages in your mail very carefully. Most of these misanthropes exhibit serious mental problems but the climate zealots cheer them on because they’re devoted to the same religion.
Probably under communism he would be either part of the apparatchik or not work at all and manage the commune with knitting, agricultural classes.
Running show trials as a side gig to make ends meet.
Under Communism he would already have been executed. No industry?
Yep, that’s reality, not his utopia.
“Given enough time, every organization becomes corrupt.” – unknown
I emailed Peter Kalmus the title and link to my paper on May 8 of this year.
His reply was silence.
Nevertheless, everything he now says touting a climate crisis is either a lie, or evidence of a profound incompetence.
Seems they also responded with crickets to the Ross McKitrick papers that kneecapped bad statistics like “optimal fingerprinting.” My faith in the corrective mechanism of science has been completely undermined. I wish there was a way to force them to address inconvenient evidence.
Well, there’s always the prospect of economic collapse, but I’d wager they’ve already lined-up their anti-market talking points. So hopefully, we wait until a non-progressive administration ‘red teams’ the junk science of climate alarmism and strikes down the EPA’s so-called ‘endangerment finding’.
I hope you are right Frank, but these 3 letter institutions will not go down quietly.
Remember all those guns and ammo that 0zero bought while in office? Where do ya think they went? My guess is the 3 letter agencies, and others, have them at the ready for the next even hint of a revolution.
Just sayin’.
Governments with agendas push money in at one end for the express purpose of getting B.S. out the other. The B.S. is fertilizer for their anti-human and anti Capitalism control and spending agenda.
Trust in the fact that “science will out.”
Good paper Pat, but Kalmus would label it “denier” and part of “the plan” is to NOT give any platform to deniers or luke-warmers. But really it just shows their case is weak or they would relish easily vanquishing their foes in public debate. Plus they get quite a few probably tax free benjamins donated for their speaking events at old folks homes and the like, why demonetize themselves by undertaking debate with an expert in the field ?….
Put this man in charge of strategic policy to achieve net zero.
The current highly successful strategies are failing in implementation. There is obviously nothing wrong with the strategy we just need some real believers to implement them.
Peter should stop exhaling CO2, right now! And never reproduce.
I’d prefer a world without NASA climate scientists.
Biting the hand that feeds him. Perhaps he should move to Cuba, Venezuela, or Red China, if they’d take him. No doubt a large pay cut would ensue, but think of how divinely grateful he’d be. You can’t buy gratitude… evidently.
We don’t call them warmunists for nothing. Alarmists are always commies. Goes with the territory. Enslaving the masses fixes everything, especially imaginary problems.
OK so the guy is completely Woke. A more complete interview wold show how totally Woke he is. He is also bugnuts crazy.
NASA huh???
We need to remember these things come funding time.
I’d prefer a world without Peter Kalmus. The best way to achieve that would be to take everything away from him that came from capitalism. No car, no computer, no phone, and no cushy job at NASA. He wouldn’t survive long. And if he thinks he is too busy now, let him try to survive by spending his days hunting and gathering, or planting and cultivating the crops he needs to survive. Then let him spend his nights protecting his food and crops from marauding thieves. He would soon view capitalism with great nostalgia and look at his former 8-hour-a-day job as a walk in the park.
He is a child still. How can someone be that intelligent and yet so immature at the same time?
Oh well, one day he might grow up.
Who said he is intelligent? His thought processes are all jumbled and he lets emotion dictate his thoughts.
He’s not alone. Our idiotic Lord Stern said we must do away with internal combustion engines. I’ve had him strapped into a twelve wheel artic at Dover and drive to the Spanish border and back. He’s to count all the artics he sees and perform before the Royal Society how batteries will do it
I pray he never sees the utopia he wishes for. For one thing, it would have no use or slack for people like him. If he thinks his life is hard now, he’s got a big surprise coming. Starvation would be inevitable.
Obviously influenced by the well-known NASA scientist and anagram, Gavin A Schmidt..
“the sun has nothing to do with it”..
And atmospheric temperatures have no importance because it is “not where we live.” Schmidt is a fraud.
Cockroaches are sub-surface dwellers.
Hiding under rocks and in crevasses like a rock spider.
They hate the Sun.