NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab climate scientist Peter Kalmus in UK Guardian: “I’m terrified by what’s being done to our planet. … I’ve dreaded this depth of Earth breakdown for almost two decades, and, like many of my colleagues, I’ve been trying to warn you. As hard as I could. Now it’s here. … I only feel fury at those in power, and bottomless grief for all that I love. We are losing Earth on our watch. … Each minute the fossil fuel industry exists, each drilling permit, airplane flight, gallon of gas, fossil fuel ad, lobbyist’s email, takes us further into irreversible heat catastrophe, socially and physically. … Using executive orders and federal agency rules, and without needing to involve this failure of a Congress, Biden could end new drilling leases on federal lands and waters, block new pipelines and effectively ban fracking. … Declaring a climate emergency would unleash additional powers…The planet is desperate for policy that creates an equitable transition away from fossil fuels, and into climate emergency mode as a society.”
Flashback: Meet Peter Kalmus, the ‘dumpster diving’ NASA climate scientist who warns it’s ‘end of life on Earth as we know it’ & it’s ‘freaking out in my brain’– ProPublica profile of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab climate scientist Peter Kalmus: – “A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future. And nobody but him will use the outdoor toilet he built to shrink his carbon footprint.” …
Peter had been pleading, begging for people to pay attention to the global emergency. “Is this my personal hell?” he tweeted this past fall. “That I have to spend my entire life desperately trying to convince everyone NOT TO DESTROY THE FUCKING EARTH?”
By: Marc Morano – Climate DepotJuly 28, 2023 2:05 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/27/joe-biden-climate-emergency-peter-kalmus
Excerpts: I’m terrified by what’s being done to our planet. …
I’ve dreaded this depth of Earth breakdown for almost two decades, and, like many of my colleagues, I’ve been trying to warn you. As hard as I could. Now it’s here. …
I only feel fury at those in power, and bottomless grief for all that I love. We are losing Earth on our watch. …
Fossil fuels are causing this damage. Therefore, the only way out of this heat nightmare is to end them. No amount of tree planting, recycling, carbon offsetting, or wishful carbon-capture thinking will ever change this. The longer we allow the fossil fuel industry to exist, the more irreversible damage to Earth the people who profit from it will continue to knowingly cause. …
I have no doubt that fossil fuel executives and lobbyists – and those who chose to stand with them – will, in the future, be considered criminals. …
Each minute the fossil fuel industry exists, each drilling permit, airplane flight, gallon of gas, fossil fuel ad, lobbyist’s email, takes us further into irreversible heat catastrophe, socially and physically. …
Using executive orders and federal agency rules, and without needing to involve this failure of a Congress, Biden could end new drilling leases on federal lands and waters, block new pipelines and effectively ban fracking. He could unleash a historic education program to counter fossil fuel industry disinformation, using the bully pulpit to build awareness and support. He could prohibit government financing of overseas fossil fuel infrastructure, end energy department fossil-fuel financing programs, ban new fossil-fuel vehicle sales by 2030, prosecute violations by fossil fuel polluters, commit to veto laws granting immunity to such criminals, and more. …
Declaring a climate emergency would unleash additional powers such as banning oil exports and further accelerating renewable energy buildout on a scale not seen since the mobilization for the second world war. It would send an unmistakable signal to investors still living in the past, to universities that have been shamefully slow to divest, to media outlets that have failed to connect the dots, to all the dangerously lagging institutions of our society. And it would be a desperately needed win for climate activists. …
Biden had the last opportunity of any president to keep the world under 1.5C of heating. Tragically, this opportunity has now almost certainly been squandered. …
The planet is desperate for policy that creates an equitable transition away from fossil fuels, and into climate emergency mode as a society.
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Flashback: Meet Peter Kalmus, the ‘dumpster diving’ NASA climate scientist who warns it’s ‘end of life on Earth as we know it’ & it’s ‘freaking out in my brain’– ProPublica profile of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab climate scientist Peter Kalmus: – “A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future. And nobody but him will use the outdoor toilet he built to shrink his carbon footprint.” …
Peter had been pleading, begging for people to pay attention to the global emergency. “Is this my personal hell?” he tweeted this past fall. “That I have to spend my entire life desperately trying to convince everyone NOT TO DESTROY THE FUCKING EARTH?”
Jane Pauley: “Searing heat, massive wildfires, catastrophic flooding. Unequivocal evidence the United Nations says that climate change is real and that human activity is its primary cause. So how bad can it get?” Pauley asked. “According to some scientists, the possibility of worldwide societal collapse or even eventual human extinction isn’t out of the question. It’s a harsh warning to say the least.”
Jane Pauley features NASA scientist Peter Kalmus who declares “I do want people freaking out.” on climate.
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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab climate scientist Peter Kalmus: “Here’s why race justice and climate justice are one & the same: The oppressive extractive plutocracies that colonize and kill black bodies and colonize and kill our planet are one and the same.”
Business Insider:Two climate scientists were kicked out of a major science conference in Chicago on Thursday. NASA’s Peter Kalmus and Rose Abramoff went onstage to urge other researchers to take climate action. They told Insider the American Geophysical Union told them they’d be arrested if they returned. …
NASA’s Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, shouted during his onstage disruption: “Our science is showing that the planet is dying. It’s terrifying. Everything is at risk. As scientists, we have tremendous leverage, but we need to use it. We can wake everybody up.”
. Kalmus blames “capitalism” for the alleged climate crisis. “Can’t you all see? The real villain was capitalism all along.” Watch: Peter Kalmus weeps over climate in April 2022: “We have been trying to warn you guys for so many decades that we are heading towards a F*cking catastrophe.” – “We are going to lose everything. And we are not joking. We are not lying. We are not exaggerating.” – We have to stop financing of fossil fuels. We have to stop new fossil fuel projects. we don’t have any carbon budget left.” – “It is going to literally take us to the brink of civilizational collapse. and we have to stop it right now.
”Flashback: Meet Peter Kalmus, the ‘dumpster diving’ NASA climate scientist who warns it’s ‘end of life on Earth as we know it’ & it’s ‘freaking out in my brain’Flashback: Kalmus declared ‘I do want people freaking out’
NASA’s Kalmus: “Global warming is happening with a rapidity that leaves me speechless”
2022: UK Independent: Nasa climate scientist Peter Kalmus breaks down in tears at protest after chaining himself to doors of JPMorgan Chase – Peter Kalmus and others were later arrested after blocking the entrace to a JP Morgan-Chase building in LA – His protest in LA involved scientists chaining themselves to the doors of a JPMorgan Chase building…“We’re going to lose everything,” Kalmus said in a video of the moment. “And we’re not joking, we’re not lying, we’re not exaggerating.” Dr Kalmus, a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, was participating in a protest organized by Scientist Rebellion as part of a global day of action by scientists around the world. His protest in LA involved scientists chaining themselves to the doors of a JPMorgan Chase building.
“Each minute the fossil fuel industry exists, each drilling permit, airplane flight, gallon of gas, fossil fuel ad, lobbyist’s email, takes us further into irreversible heat catastrophe,…”
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When is this catastrophe going to begin to happen?
It does happen every summer.
Every time the IPCC releases one of their “Assessment Reports”.
Just the 5 BRICS founders…
Brazil
Russia
India
China
SAfrica
%of global emissions
2022——–2020
B 01.26% 1%
R 04.66% 5%
I 06.71% 7%
C 32.48% 28%
S 01.21% 1%
T 46.32%
…are responsible for almost 50% of global emissions and will be doing nothing to decrease emissions in the next 10 years. China, in fact, has promised to INCREASE their emissions for the next 20 years.
With the rate of Chinese GHG growth, the USA could drop to absolute ZERO emissions tomorrow. Their manufacturing industries AND associated CO2 production would be outsourced to China the day after and any global effects would neither be eliminated nor forestalled. US citizens would simply be out of work and unable to afford to afford to live.
“With the rate of Chinese GHG growth, the USA could drop to absolute ZERO emissions tomorrow. Their manufacturing industries AND associated CO2 production would be outsourced to China the day after and any global effects would neither be eliminated nor forestalled. US citizens would simply be out of work and unable to afford to afford to live.”
Absolutely correct. If the United States cut its production of oil and gas to zero tomorrow, it wouldn’t make a damn bit of difference. The climate-sane people of the world would just continue to up their CO2 output.
Your plan has no hope of succeding, Peter Kalmus. Give it up and head to your bunker.
According to the recent Energy Institute ‘Statistical Review of World Energy 2023’
The Asia Pacific region continued to increase its share of total global CO2 emissions – accounting for almost 50%.
Whilst China was responsible for 72% of primary energy consumption growth during 2022
I wonder if it would be better for Kalmus to head to Canada.
Recent modifications to the “assisted euthanasia” legislation apparently makes it much easier for the seriously deranged to receive a kindly injection to ease their torment.
Much easier, apparently, than getting ‘normal’ treatment for mental illness.
Indeed – Seasonal catastrophe, bit like influenza. Hey maybe the “scientists” can come up with a vaccine to stop climate anxiety?
He’s also destroying the future of his family.
He needs help.
He’s 49 so there’s a good chance he will still be alive in 2050. How’s he going to cope when he finds that none of the doomsday forecasts for 2050 have actually come true?
“when he finds that none of the doomsday forecasts for 2050 have actually come true?”
Just shift them out another 10-15 years !!
With all the stress he’s under? He won’t be alive in 2040.
He will think the world is already over, like he does now, 20 years after he started freaking out.
Even though nothing has changed, he thinks the world has now spiraled into chaos and broilation.
He has 20 years of failed predictions under his belt, but thinks he was not just correct, but a prophet, and now it is too late.
I’m told that cyanide is pretty effective.
This appears to be a case of someone who is such a good liar, he believes his own lies.
Plus he is obviously quite unwell, mentally.
We have actual crazy people in such jobs.
All indications are he needs some therapy.
Not just therapy. This guy appears to qualify for serious in-patient treatment, and I say that as a criminal defense attorney who has had clients sent to in-patient treatment. God help us all that he is out loose, and working for such an important agency.
No. He needs psychiatric medication, and possible hospitalization. From reading his stuff, I suspect that he also —like Greta— is autistic.
Frankly, I worry for the safety of his children.
Yes .
Along with his outhouse , he needs is own nuthouse .
I tend to think that he is totally sincere in his beliefs, He is a prime example of the modern (since the dept education took control) American education system which no longer teaches our children HOW to think–just what to think. They are taught to believe any official narrative feed to them without question. Despite ample evidence and hard data to the contrary, he has been taught to ignore anything that goes against the gospel he now believes in.
Yes he does need help —but our education system needs help even more.
No, he’s really crazy. Don’t let your own rightwing ideology confuse the discussion. There is lots wrong with the educational system, and defective teaching of statistics (should start in elementary school) or what passes as “science” get in the way of understanding this dangerous man for what he is. He left real science behind long ago, but he parades is “science” credentials to boost his credibility for a patently false doctrine.
I agree, he is mentally ill.
And I think he may indeed be one of the ones who is a True Believer, but his position in the Warmista High Priesthood means he is one of the people who lies about everything, all the time. They are not just wrong. They alter data. They make stuff up. They present unevidenced hypotheses as facts. They go out of their way to be irrational cranks who preach an over-the-top version of doomsday catastrophism.
And he is the poor tortured soul who has been given the onerous burden of “knowing the truth”, even as no one listens to him as the world bakes itself into a crackly crunch.
Gimme a break! In medical terminology, this jackass is nuttier than a fruitcake.
The truth is, he is a miseducated ninny. He spews alarmist drivel, unconnected to reality. He insists that in order to save ourselves, we have to take an action that will necessarily lead to the deaths of most of the human beings alive on Earth today.
It is impossible to feed, cloth, house, warm, cook, or provides jobs and an income for nearly the entire population without the energy sources that allow us to do each of these things.
And he says we have to do it RIGHT NOW!
Full Stop!
“Our Carbon Budget is used up”?
Says who? Him?
That is an assertion disconnected from all factual information.
It is simply something that alarmists made up one day out of nowhere.
It is not supported by any objective scientific study or information of any kind.
Same goes for the idea that 1.5 degrees above preindustrial GAST is some sort of hard limit to what a human being can survive. That is not only made up out of nowhere and nothing, it is a modification of the number that was preached as recently as a few years ago, when it had always been 2.0°. They changed it because it was looking increasingly probable that that 2° was not going to happen anytime soon, if ever.
We are in an Ice Age, for Pete’s sake!
Most of the surface of our planet is cold enough to quickly kill an unprotected human being, or most anything else alive for that matter.
A large part of Earth is a permanently frozen wasteland.
An even huger portion of the planet is cold enough to kill a person on a seasonal basis, including the most inhabited regions of the planet.
Not a soul has become a climate refugee due to crop failures, or rising sea level, or any other reason.
The recent alarmist blizzard of doomsday nonsense is a transparent and pre-announced campaign of political propaganda, nothing more.
It began promptly just after the New York Times published an op-ed calling for a politicization of climate news.
Just in time for the middle of Summer, when, big surprise, it gets pretty dang hot in a lot of places.
But nothing and no one is dropping dead. No crops are failing.
Life goes on exactly as always, and in fact very little in the way of anything dangerous is going on anywhere in the world. In the US, burn acreage is at a record low for the year. Hot days are at the lowest levels on record. Reservoirs are refilling, and the worst of the recent droughts have abated. Wyoming is green and blooming, very rare for this time of year. A huge lake has formed where it has been very dry for a long time.
Apparently the only qualification for getting a PhD in “climate science”, is to be completely ignorant of every scrap of information in every science library on Earth.
It may well be the case that this person will be a case study in a most unusual brand of psychosis: Driven to insanity and utter delusion by one’s own lies!
Long after most climate scientists are retired.
Hah! I misread that as “criminal scientists”.
The earth is “boiling”, says UN/IPCC leader.
Russia, China, India, plus about 40 other countries, 70% of the world population, will keep on using abundant, low-cost, fossil fuels, to grow their economies at greater percentages than the economies of the wind/solar/battery/net-zero-by-2050 nuts, no matter how many trips Kerry makes to China, which politely and repeatedly says scr.. y..
“When is this catastrophe going to begin to happen?”
Tomorrow.
And tomorrow it will happen “tomorrow” and the day after that it will happen “tomorrow” and the day after that … etc.
Like Fusion Energy…the energy source of Tomorrow (AKA next decade)
Kalmus is difficult to listen to, the insanity hurts my brain. He says things like they’re obviously true, like the Sun in the sky, but they are certainly not. He’s supposedly a scientist but it seems he’s only been reading the hype and political propaganda and not the actual data.
It looks like he has mental issues and is a danger to himself and his family – and indeed anyone around him. His psychosis could lead him to attack someone getting into their car or turning on the air conditioning, or anything else the person has a perfect right to do.
Kalmus is a perfect example of the kind of useful idiot, fully activated and brainwashed, that communists/socialists seek to create in order to seize power. Kalmus could be the beginning of a new army of brownshirts to terrify the general populace into submission.
When is a prediction from an alleged climate scientist actually going to come true? We have been waiting for decades.
This should be a fun Peter Kalmus-bashing thread. Or should that be Peter Calamity? Do persons like him realize how bat-shite crazy they sound with these nonsensical claims?
Regards,
Bob
Very kooky outlook, but he was co-author of a pretty decent paper
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/27/24/jcli-d-14-00242.1.xml
To us scientists and engineers, and other occupations represented here that are used to thinking for ourselves, Kalmus is obviously a crazy person. But his emotional, guilt trip filled diatribes have an effect on duller minds who believe he must be true if he is so loud about it all.
Guys like Kalmus need to reach inside their ears with a basic multi-tool and tighten up all the screws that have worked themselves loose.
That is not possible. Too far gone. Accept that he is too far gone to fix and don’t waste anymore effort on him.
Better off reaching up his nose with the knitting needles and stirring. Better for his family & better for him.
An idiot in NASA clothing.
God, I hope NASA doesn’t let this guy get anywhere near anything important. The fact that they pay him is scary in itself. That he can call himself a NASA scientist should be a major embarrassment to a once competent organization.
What is it about california? Is it the water? too much sunlight? Poorly cultivated weed? Bat guano crazy doesn’t begin to cover this loonie.
Poor Peter is a martyr waiting to happen.
So what’ll it be, Petey boy?
Gasoline and a match? OK, mebbe not.
90 mph into a tree? Bad optics.
How bout a nice quick needle. Modern and efficient, just like NASA!
Or just STFU.
He needs to get his psych meds balanced. People who are bipolar can go even more manic on anti-depressants when in a manic phase.
Lithium might work, but the margin between an effective dose and a dose toxic to his kidneys is all too close.
He ought not to touch Lithium – he might self combust.
Kalmus is a disgrace to Caltech/JPL, my former school and employer, which used to train and house only intelligent people.
While a student at MIT, my son did an internship at JPL where he worked on the Mars Rover. Due to limited bandwidth, they had to prioritize what information would be transmitted back to Earth. He developed a program to distinguish between already known information and new information that needed to be investigated. This was back in 2003 and his work had to be completed and locked down years before it was deployed. I can’t believe that JPL now employs someone who is obviously such an unstable nutjob as this Kalmus. Why does JPL even have a “climate scientist” when they’re the Jet Propulsion Lab?
I’ve also wondered why JPL has glaciologists on staff. Mission creep!
We are watching mass delusion unfold right before our eyes. It’s almost as sad as it is entertaining. My friends think the Earth is going to turn into a hot ball of gas. In the past, I’ve tried to show them more information from the climate skeptic side on social media, but they keep spouting the same nonsense. At this point, I don’t care and since the UN secretary labeled this as ‘global boiling’, I think we’re past the point of no return. They’ve done irreparable damage to this generation’s ability to think critically and be skeptical.
To me, it is sad. Really pathetically sad.
It’s really criminal – public and NGO leaders making provably false statements in their public pronouncements should face the same scrutiny as CEOs and CFOs who hype or cover up issues in their prospectuses or annual reports.
“We are watching mass delusion unfold right before our eyes.”
That’s exactly what we are seeing, powered by the internet and mass media.
Our Western ruling class are completely mesmerized by the concept, either because they believe the claims, or because they see an opportunity for money and power by promoting the concept.
More information than ever is available to people, they’re all walking around with supercomputers in their pockets, and they’re more aggressively ignorant than ever.
Love it!
“Aggressively Ignorant”, right up there with “Useful Idiot”.
In this so-called “information age” people are dumber than they’ve ever been. Probably cause we’ve become so lazy from having information so readily available at our fingertips rather than how in the past we had to go to the library, research the card catalogue, and then go find the books on the shelf. Then read them ourselves and outline the relevant information. Now we just google a question and accept the choices that google presents to us.
From the above article:
” . . . and without needing to involve this failure of a Congress, Biden could end new drilling leases on federal lands and waters, block new pipelines and effectively ban fracking.”
— Peter Kalmus
Well, setting aside the question of whether or not Kalmus merits the classification “scientist”, he certainly appears to be unqualified to comment on the powers of the President being able to override the power (and will) of Congress.
Hey, Peter, read up on the Separation of Powers as defined in the US Constitution!
Also, Peter, you must been spending so much time worrying and crying that you missed this news of two years ago:
“A federal judge in Louisiana has blocked the Biden administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters . . .
Judge Terry A. Doughty of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday against the administration, saying that the power to pause offshore oil and gas leases “lies solely with Congress” because it was the legislative branch that originally made federal lands and waters available for leasing.
Judge Doughty also ruled that 13 states that are suing the administration over its temporary halt to new leases “have made a showing that there is a substantial likelihood that President Biden exceeded his powers.”
— https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/climate/biden-drilling-federal-land.html
(my bold emphasis added)
Finally, Mr. Kalmus, I offer my strongest recommendation that you seek out professional psychiatric assistance as soon as possible.
Gotham needs a new Arkham !
Plenty of candidates for residency. 🙂
“Finally, Mr. Kalmus, I offer my strongest recommendation that you seek out professional psychiatric assistance as soon as possible.”
TYS:
Exactly what I was thinking You beat me to it. It almost sounds as though he isn’t far away from deciding to check out from life along with his family.
For the sake of his wife and kids, he needs to seek out professional help in the worst way. And soon.
In all seriousness, his reaction appears to me to be similar to a dysfunctional brain following some form of breakdown. I am no expert but I do know what a damaged brain can mean, especially cognitively and behaviourally. His inability to take a step back and examine what he says and when, is scarily reminiscent to me of frontal lobe dysfunction and depression; in that case medication might do him a deal of harm which as a human being I do not wish upon him. He needs help for sure.
My expertise isn’t in that area, but it does sound to me like he is on the verge of a mental breakdown.
He wants Biden to disband congress and the courts in order to rule as a dictator.
Funny thing, this is what Democrats are always accusing Republicans of trying to do.
Socialism always necessitates an authoritarian dictatorship.
No matter what they had in mind to begin with.
HIs spewing of left-wing extremist talking points about racism and colonialism is very telling.
He spews word salad with the best of them.
My impression is Kalmus wants Biden to declare a Climate Emergency that would suspend the U.S. Constitution.
I guess he wants Biden to declare Martial Law, which is what it would take for Biden to be able to do what Kalmus wants him to do.
And of course, stopping all oil and gas today in the U.S. would make no difference in reducing CO2 going into the atmosphere, as other nations increase their output. So it’s a really stupid idea on many levels.
What kills black people and others in the developing world is lack of energy, not its generation via fossil fuels.
Population soared in the global North during the industrial age because of coal.
This guy is an idiot.
He doesn’t appear bright enough to warrant the “Idiot” moniker
Of the three, idiot, moron, and imbecile…imbecile may sound the dumbest, but in fact idiot denotes the lowest IQ level of the three:
These were once scientific terms denoting specific levels of mental retardation or deficiency. Or effective age of mental development, to put it a different way:
Alternatively:
“Morons – Those with IQs between 51 and 70 (adequate learning skills to complete menial tasks and to communicate) Imbeciles – Those with IQs between 26 and 50 (unable to progress past a mental age of approximately six) Idiots – those with IQs between 0 and 25 (poor motor skills, extremely limited communication, and little response to stimulus).”
Who could forget the Three Stooges response when some guy called them idiots:
“We’re not idiots, we’re morons!” Moe exclaimed proudly.
Nothing calm with Kalmus.
His name ought to be Alarmus, eh?
Poor Peter. Looks like he needs a referral also.
Climate Anxiety – Psychologist.
This crackpot needs to be fired today and everyone who has kept him employed.
And absolutely, whoever recruited and admitted and promoted him.
A sad, demented lunatic venting his personal phobia on the rest of the world. He is so caught in his own madnes that he is utterly blind to the misery, poverty, death and starvation that his ‘stop oil and any cost’ would produce.
And to the world of greater academia: this lunatic is your creation. Now go make your apologies to all the dead children in Africa and Asia perishing from your environmental colonialism.
Shouldn’t he be wearing a sign board and standing on a street corner?
Here is what will happen if Biden does what this “scientist” asks for:
Transportation will come to a screeching halt. People won’t be able to drive to work or to the grocery store. There won’t be groceries there anyway because the trucks that deliver them will be grounded too. The economy will also stop. Starvation will soon set it.
Over 50% of homes in the U.S. are heated by fossil fuels. So the people who live in them will freeze in the winter time. Older people and babies will be hard hit.
60% of electricity produced in the US comes from fossil fuels. So that will mean a 60% reduction in electricity too. Where will you get electricity for all those EVs? Where will you get electricity for all the electric appliances?
Survival will be extremely difficult. People will die. That is far worse than temperature rising 1.5 C per century and sea level rising 1 foot per century.
But that is what a lot of politicians are calling for – they got jealous of the covid emergency powers and hunger for more power, so they keep insisting that there is a climate emergency and hope that no one notices that they are complete liats as they take over control with martial law powers to fight the climate boogeyman.
Meanwhile, life goes on just as always in every corner, nook and cranny on the globe.
Record crop yields are coming for most of the growing regions of the planet, Arctic sea ice is increasing year over year, and the US is having the least hot Summer on record.
This jackass must have applesauce for brains.
Some clown tried to say European crop levels were down the last couple of years.
Probably forgot that Ukraine is a major crop producer.. or used to be. ! D’OH !!
Given the endless torrent of demented publicity the mainstream media are putting out, I suspect we’re going to see a lot of tragic cases like this fellow.
This clown should be fired and referred to a mental health professional. He’s clearly delusional, since there’s zero evidence of any “emergency”! Smoking too much weed? Just askin’.
Place him in a padded room and give him a set of pastel watercolors and some blank paper. Someone can check on him once a week to see if he produces a few saleable images.
I’ve heard Hunter Biden has a good agent.
Some time ago I watched the sympathetic short documentary on this raving lunatic. He has driven his family into dysfunction and his wife turned passive/aggressive to survive along with his children withdrawing. As an example of his insanity, he had gone so far as to install a composting toilet inside his house; you can imagine the stench. His wife and sons finally were able to get him to move it outside where only he uses it.
Authorities should be on notice of his potential for domestic violence or mass murder; he is that unstable.
I wouldn’t want anything I say about this clearly delusional NASA scientist to be taken as a psychiatric assessment. However I do have a bit of ‘comparable ‘in family’ experiece with this sort of thing, take that how you will.
Someone like this fellow who makes a fuss, drops the F bomb about the end of the world, etc., isn’t likely to be a direct physical danger to people close to him. However, his “fraught with calamity’ outlook could easily be given more power by the calculating ideologues at his place of employment, in the media, etc. So it’s my view that his enablers should be ashamed of themselves, and you never know where that could lead, I guess.
1) There is nothing in the IPCC that supports a belief that we are facing the end of life as we know it, even with totally unlimited fossil fuel usage.
2) Does this neurotic nut job realize that 1.5C won’t even get the planet back to the levels the world enjoyed during the Medieval Warm Period.
3) Even if we do get back to the levels of the MWP, we will still be cooler than the planet has been for 90% of the last 10 to 12 thousand years.
4) Even if the US does completely stop emitting CO2, the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will continue going up, in fact the decrease in the rate of increase will be barely measurable, if it is measurable at all.
That would require Kalmus and fellow travelers to actually sit down and think about the issue – but they are too busy ‘feeling’ and emoting on the issue, and getting high on all that extra dopamine to bother to do something useful.
Also I don’t think people like him care about accuracy and The Truth – they just want to win the argument regardless if they are right or not.
Has Peter Kalmus thought about how many of the 8 billion on this planet would be lost without the medical industry, and the 50,000-merchant ships, and 50,000 jets in the world, that did not exist before the advent of refined crude oil after 1900?
He does not care about that. He is a monomaniac who will not look away from the focus of his fear for even a moment.
He would probably tell you with all honesty and emotional heartfelt love for planet Earth that all those people should die, that humanity is a cancer, and it would be great if there was some kind of super ebola to get the job done faster.
Look at it this way: Peter breathes, lives, thinks and works in a sea of Wokeness.
Wokeness is Western Marxism, Peter is fighting White Supremacy.
James Lindsay explains:
https://youtu.be/iE4MmscK44k
Who created the pressures required to produce fossil fuels?
Who gave the planet humanity?
Who equipped humanity with knowledge, intelligence, and the ability to treat many of its illnesses both physical and mental?
Who gave us the holocene?
Who gave us the little ice age?
Who gave us the ability to record weather and improve our agricultural skills?
Who gave us Peter Kalmus and his type?
Mother Nature knows and has no bounds and has never promised to make it easy for anything to live, to understand truth from fiction, hysteria from real fear, lies from truths, the backlash generated by constant hyperbole, the dangers of getting prognostications wrong and of jumping to conclusions, to be tolerant with those who panic and scream at us, and point us in the wrong direction for safety and carefully move them towards more secure footing.
Had the MSM not been lying to us about stuff for what seems to many of us a lifetime, and had MSM faithfully stuck to the facts then perhaps we would have solved our problems with an array of clean nuclear fission projects leaving the more fragile of our species to focus on things worthy of their energy rather than getting in a lather about normal stuff.
Mother Nature has always warned us about the dangers of people shouting “wolf” too often.
The wolf has turned up, but is blind, toothless and needs a zimmer frame. The years have not been kind, a trip to Dignitas would be a mercy.
nobody but him will use the outdoor toilet he built to shrink his carbon footprint.
It’s hard to soar like an eagle when you’re surrounded by turkeys.
Only a fool thinks that USA/Biden has any power to stop the global population burning fossil fuels. Both China and India are accelerating use of fossil fuels. China already burns close to twice what USA burns.
The planned transition will require more fossil fuel than it eliminates. Everything will need to be made in China and that involves a lot of fuel in shipping to get raw materials to China and then finished product to export markets.
Yep. In August 2022 coal powered generation in China increased by around 150% year on year to over 500TWh. This monthly level of generation was higher than the total annual coal power generation of any other country, except India and the US.
(IEA ‘Coal 2022 Analysis and forecast to 2025’ (Dec 22)
Just wait until India catches up – their “world’s largest population” doesn’t like living in poverty their emissions will balloon as their per-capita emissions go from 3rd world to ‘western’ levels.
With a heading of: Dumpster Diving NASA Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus
I thought he might be living in one of these things
NASA should review their recruitment policies if this is one of their team.
He is clearly unwell, maybe suffering some form of trauma brought on by depression.
He actually wants to block/stop the two prime drivers of world advance, Capitalism and Energy.
Those two features of our modern world are why we have 8 billion people living for the most part comfortable lives with health and prospects better than any era that has gone before.
The benefits to the planet of stable none destructive (no need to fell forest) energy access and sufficient spare time to enjoy life means we have a utopian existence for most people.
The tragedy listening to people like Kallmus, Monbiot and too many others, is their prime policy ideas will result in billions of people perishing through malnutrition and cold due to lack of energy availability..
These shrill anti humanity advocates, need to be defunded and revealed for what they actually stand for.
Some NASA employees are not delusional, thankfully..
Ecoloonies are normally haters of Capitalism and usually advance authoritarian Socialism based solutions to non-problems they wail over as they want to be THE Planetary Savior.
Poor chap. Can’t we do some crowdfunding and get him a few sessions with a trickcyclist to sort out his paranoia?
Is there any definition of a “climate crisis” ?
What criteria are used to assert we are in a climate crisis ? Extrem weather frequency trends ? Global food production ? Others ?
Without any sounded clear and stable definition how do we know we are in or out of a climate crisis ?
“Without any sounded clear and stable definition how do we know we are in or out of a climate crisis ?”
That’s the idea. This way, without a clear definition, the alarmists get to tell us when we are in a crisis.
“If you can’t define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can you really tell anyone else what it is. There is, in fact, no formal difference between inability to define and stupidity.”
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Is NASA a space agency or a mental institution?
We are talking about NASA Climate, which *is* a mental institution. Kalmus is in good company.
I have no doubt that alarmist climate scientists and politicians – and those who chose to stand with them – will, in the future, be considered as blithering idiots and dangerous criminals. …
History is not going to be kind to them.
Depends on who’s writing that history. And if anyone can read it.
“His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future.And nobody but him will use the outdoor toilet he built to shrink his carbon footprint.”
Not surprised, I bet he eats strong curry !!!
Last night I went out for a curry, resulting in an ‘irreversible heat catastrophe’, but this morning I was able to unload some of my ‘bottomless grief’ !
It’s amazing how quickly natural cycles can recover … although 1 room will be out of bounds for a few more hrs.
This man needs a better therapist.
His new therapist might be a climate alarmist, too. In that case, I don’t think this would help him much. It might exascerbate the situation.
I bet he has NO solar panels on the roof or yard, and himself uses FF every day. HYPOCRITE!
Where’s Nick-pick, Flaming Nitwit and Slimon supporting this goose?.
Saying they “feeeeeel” with him !!
The lunatics have really taken over the asylum….
What is scary is the actions that insane beliefs like this justify. Think Jonestown.
Biden had the last opportunity of any president to keep the world under 1.5C of heating.
Is the deadline January 2025, or is he assuming that Biden will be on the ballot paper in November 2024 and will win?
Nuts
From the article: “Peter had been pleading, begging for people to pay attention to the global emergency. “Is this my personal hell?” he tweeted this past fall.”
Yes, Peter, it is.
You need to snap out of it, Peter. You are seeing things that are not really there.
Cry me a river Kalmus, god knows how someone so naive and irrational managed a doctorate, standards must have slipped in recent years
Whatever happened to empirical? CONsensus is not scientific proof, it’s opinion, not a good basis for societal management – would NASA use consensus when planning space missions? No, of course they wouldn’t, the risks are too high
In my experience as a hiring manager dating back to the 1980’s there is plenty of evidence to indicate that a vast number of PhD’s are woefully overeducated beyond their ability to comprehend. I can readily think of 2 PhD’s that I’ve worked with – one in economics and one in education – that are some of the most clueless people I’ve ever met. On the other hand, I can name two high school dropouts that I hired for technical positions in engineering that were some of the sharpest people I’ve worked with. Possession of advanced college degrees is no indication of intelligence, and in fact, once again as a hiring manager, if a candidate had a PhD their resume would go immediately into the round file as it was an indication that they possessed little common sense and were unable to work as a team player. As we used to say in college, “BS, MS, PhD… BullS–t, More S–t, Pile it Higher and Deeper.”
Chicken Little looks a bit different with a beard, mustache, and glasses.
Why is there so much repetition in this story?
Because “The sky is falling!” is too short for an article.
Maybe it is AI or something like that. Anyway, it is a PITA!
Calling this pagan zealot a “scientist” does disservice to real scientists.
What an embarrassment he is who makes it clear that he is a phony with his hyperbole statements and stupid woe is us diatribes.
I stood at my front porch 15 minutes ago enjoying another young cool morning without a single concern for the climate in my area which hasn’t changed at all since I moved there in 1964.
You don’t realize you are under threat from the weather. You need to turn on the tv forcast. They are claiming tens of millions of Americans are under threat from the weather, and I’ll bet your area is one of them. That’s sarcasm, don’t bother with the tv.
Instead of naming a number (hundreds of millions!) who are under threat every day, the tv weather alarmists should just say “Everyone is under threat” every day. That will really scare the folks! That’s their objective isn’t it?
As for my neck of the woods, it’s a little warm (about 98F) and will be that way for a few more days, but the end of summer is coming soon. This high heat won’t last much longer. We are on the downhill side now.
So, wait…does this mean you are really Sunrisetommy?
I’ll take “What is climate hysteria?” for $500, Alex.
How come these guys never make the ultimate sacrifice and reduce the earth’s carbon footprint by one person? I know I would applaud his courage in standing up for his beliefs.
I guarantee you Kalmus was one of those people driving alone in their car and wearing a mask.
Rule: The angrier an expert becomes, the more likely they are to be wrong. An angry expert is a wrong expert.
Although I fail to see how someone who believes that .04% of the atmosphere controls the other 99.96 of the atmosphere can be considered an expert. Ergo, he’s an expert in his own mind.
It has also been said that those suffering from mental illness never question their sanity. It is only the sane who question their sanity.
I wonder how long he’d still have his Government job if he was as vocal about being skeptical of the “extensional threat” being a chimera?
(I retired from a local Government job. But after about 10 years, they went “Green PC”. People were being fired other places for what they put on Facebook or other places.
I’d made a couple of comments on WUWT using my real first name. When I realized I was going to continue to comment here, I used the CB handle someone else had dubbed me with at a previous job because of the work I did. Water and Wastewater treatment.)
This psycho nutcase should be in a rubber room and certainly not in a tax-payer funded position at JPL. He would also be wise to keep his arms spread out wide when he is walking around to make it more difficult for the white-suited men to throw their butterfly nets over him. My goodness, he should take a head first dive down his outdoor outhouse as that is where he belongs.
In other words, ignore the Constitution and separation of powers, effectively becoming a dictator. This is exactly what Democrats claim to be concerned Trump might do. This guy is more than just a hysterical wack-job. He is promoting insurrection and destruction of our political and economic systems. All while employed at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories. What is wrong with this picture?
Salute!
Am I the only one that has troubloe determining who is saying what?
I cannot tell if the sentence is from the “target” climate whacko or the guest contributor or Joe Baggodonuts like me.
PLZ figure out how to use “quote” boxes so we can tell who is saying what.
Gums asks…
Morano is adhd or something, his posts are always an absolute mess.
>> I’ve dreaded this depth of Earth breakdown for almost two decades
We KNOW that the data and most importantly the models were horrible 20 years ago, so what he really is saying is that he liked to make prediction without scientific certainty, which of course is nothing but religion.
Also in particular this year is particulary bad to make climate demands.. unless of course he can already explain how much of the recent global warming is related to the Tonga explosion, which make all model based predictions not including it look particularity unrealistic.
Can’t someone put him down for his or our safety?
He’s clearly insane, why isn’t he reassign to inspecting rubber rooms from the inside?
He could very well be a “crisis actor” for the WEF to supplement his income…and of course it fits his idealology!