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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That man is dangerous. Because he is utterly deluded.
From this real astrophysicist to Mr K.
Go F yourself.
Even though Nasa hasn’t found any evidence of extraterrestrial life anywhere, near or far, they have this..
“The goal of NASA’s Exobiology program (formerly Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology) is to understand the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the Universe. “
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/research/astrobiology-at-nasa/exobiology/
Hope, like taxpayer funds…. springs eternal.
You mean delusion, not hope. With the Constitutional Amendment allowing a Federal Income Tax and no balanced budget requirement, the Federal bureaucracy is unchallengeable. Who else would spend money on looking at the sex life of Polish frogs? Wouldn’t the Poles be a more logical funding source? Oh, I forgot: The Poles don’t have unlimited access to printed money.
and golly gosh ALL his work relates around very expensive fossil fuel created gadgets..and so does NASA and all the benefits he derives working there.
male version of a “princess”
definitely NOT a prince among men!
Utopian moron who should be unemployed. If I’m the next President, I’m eliminating all of the research at NASA that isn’t centered around space flight and use of space. GISS— gone. Any “data scientists” (shorthand for BS computer geeks) gone. Let them compete in the free market.
Well, Captain, I’d vote for you.
I work with geologists and engineers and I hear them say similar things. Almost all of them are recent graduates. It gives me the creeps.
I am forced be careful what I say around them, I walk on eggshels every day because I need to keep my job.
What has happened to these professions?
Indoctrinated at every level of public education with the cults nonsense and made into useful idiots, who will be dealt with should their utopia ever come to pass. As has been shown historically, once the revolution is over, they are eliminated cuz the new powers that be does not want to have them around to challenge their authority. Research historical outcomes. Amazing.
They are paid to think those things, Klem.
… and you are feeding this … “life form” (?) … by paying his salary with taxpayers’ money? …
If this clown is so dedicated to “degrowth” and “depopulation” why is he still sitting here sucking up vast amounts of my tax dollars? Why has he not euthanized himself?
Being bugf**k crazy does not mean someone cannot have political influence, as the NSDAP demonstrated in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Belief in biodynamic agriculture and Ariosophy was an indication of the Party’s rejection of science, as is Kalmus’ embrace of hard green ideology and eugenics.
All of a sudden I am craving fruit cake.
Another nutjob living on his own planet between his ears. What the whole climate cultists miss is they can give up all the modern conveniences any time they want to. Stop driving or riding in vehicles which are fossil fuel based in any way, for starters. Then move on to the food on the table, which is harvested using fossil fuels to power the machinery which brings the foodstuffs to them. Etc, etc, etc. The list is endless of how fossil fuel makes all the stuff he, and his idiot cohorts, use and need every day possible. Even down to the clothes on his back, assuming they wear clothes, which are processed somewhere using fossil fuels to do so and delivered to the stores for their consumption.
Make ’em live up to their proclamations of being anti-fossil fuel. Shame them where ever they are found, for not living up to the tenets of their cult. Show them up for the hypocrites they truly are.
I’m still chuckling at the rich irony of a Jet Propulsion Laboratory researcher saying “No one *needs* to fly.”
Seriously, this person needs to get a grip.
No, his employer (us) needs to get a grip. Preferably on his neck.
Well why doesn’t this well paid, because of capitalism dickhead, pack his bags, no that’s supplied by capitalism to, no just walk away from all your worldly possessions stark naked into the middle of nowhere and start his own little utopia. Hasn’t some tried that before? Jonestown, Waco ect.
Not the same thing. Read history closer.
When your thinking is this muddled, it must be thought of as a mental health problem, but it is a common enough affliction.
Science denial, economic denial, humanity hatred and total incompetence all rolled up into one fool.
Remember Dalton’s Law of PP? The Gas Laws? The Carbon Cycle? Or that, most importantly, CO2 is the building block of life? Nah, didn’t think so.
Kalmus is an idiot. What’s particularly dangerous about him is that he doesn’t understand that he’s an idiot.
If he really fancies himself a scientist and wishes to open his mind, he needs to read and comprehend two books: E. O. Wilson’s Sociobiology and Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene.
“He is also interested in improving how we use and interpret scientific data, and applying improvements to ecological projections and data fusion technologies. ”
Currently am corresponding with a “Community Engagement Consultant” ostensibly to get input to “Save the Bay.” While my response to a number of unconsidered facts and suggestions was answered kindly, hope I am wrong, but best guess is —
“ … Carlos Duarte pointed out that those who believe that reducing nutrient inputs will return coastal ecosystems to some pristine state have forgotten that the ‘baseline’ has been changing. Like Peter Pan, he said, they want to return to ‘Neverland’ where time stands still and nothing ever changes…” Nixon, S. W. 2009. Eutrophication and the macroscope. Hydrobiologia . 629:5–19. Open access
DOI 10.1007/s10750-009-9759-z
Data Fusion?? Traffic is less lately.
This guy is so deluded and self unaware, I’m surprised he isn’t already a senior politician in the Brandon administration.
Besides, we all know that behind every successful socialist is an army of hard working, tax paying capitalists!
I’d like to start a go-fund-me for Kalmus to buy a one way ticket to China. There he can live in his nirvana, worship the state and offer his children as human sacrfices.
Nasa would be better off without him and a pox on China.
What a loon.
He used need quite a bit and it was Karl Marx who wrote to each according to his need, and who decides that?
A few years ago we could dismiss this as the ravings of an idiot. But these are the policies being forced on us by our governments-against the will of the people-and for our own good, as they claim.
“I’d prefer a world without private cars”
The above quote is a goal in the early stages of implimentation. It not about switching people over to EVs running on W&S because that is impossible. The only possible outcome of policies of the world wide Uniparty are the things this useful idiot is saying.
What in the world does a government employee know about Capitalism? In what way is his “productivity” measured? How does his effort effect the viability of that government agency? He’s overwhelmed with work that doesn’t change the price of tea in China by a millionth of a cent!
Yet, in his mind, capitalism is forcing him into a job where he must (at least pre-Covid) show up. He doesn’t want to work as hard as his bosses want.
Talking about him is a waste of breath. I quit.
It really is amazing how hard people work in order to delude themselves.
Does this nutcase actually believe that under communism, people don’t work hard?
They don’t. Mainly because there’s no point.
That’s why it always fails.
“They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work.”
My daily driver is a 1991 5sp manual BMW 325i coupe. That makes me 1,000x more a conservationist and “green” citizen than your average Tesla driver
“I’d prefer a world without private cars”
I’d prefer a world where if you don’t want to buy a car, you don’t have to.
But if you do want to buy a car with your own money, you can.
In other words, a world where Government’s role is to protect the rights and freedoms of the individual.
(I read something like that once.)