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.
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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.