Over the weekend, on X, I witnessed what is probably the most vapid climate alarmist comment I’ve ever seen, uttered by former ESPN sportsperson, Keith Olbermann. Shortly after that, our ever sharp friend, Chris Martz, shot Olbermann right out of the social media universe. It wasn’t just a fact-check, it was a full blown whack upside the head.
It started with this:
Then, this happened:
Chris decided he was going to unload, and wow, did he ever.
OUCH!
I added this comment:
I’d trade Al Gore for Jesse Jackson any day. RIP Rev. Jackson.
Rev. Jackson preached hope.
I agree.
I loved one of the replies to Al Gore’s climate gloom-and-doom video on X:
Q: Why isn’t China concerned about climate change?
A: Because they already have a communist government.
A plus comment
I just wish I could give more than one uptick to this comment.
One point I’ll disagree with .
Olbermann will be remembered , as the nutter he is , in fifty years thru this exchange alone .
AOC, the nincompoop-big-mouth-with-big-lipstick-former-bartender girl, who grew up near Yonkers, NY, told the whole world she uh…. thinks Venezuela is south of the equator.
AOC forgot that Ecuador is southwest of Venezuela and, unlike Venezuela, Ecuador is on the Equator.
She didn’t forget, she never knew.
Doubtful. Stuff on X gets lost in 5 minutes.
Al Gore: “We don’t have much time left to wake up and start taking action.”
Chris M: “Al Gore has been saying this for 40 years.”
Isn’t it amazing how we’ve been running out of time to act for 40 years now? Incredible.
And the sun keeps having its 11-y cycles, and El Niños come around every four to seven years, causing temp changes several orders of magnitude greater than CO2 ever could.
A German icebreaker got stuck in ice and will be there for months, unless a Russian icebreaker breaker comes to rescue it, for a big fat fee, paid up front.
Al Gore: “We don’t have much time left to wake up and start taking action.”
Chris M: “Al Gore has been saying this for 40 years.”
Isn’t it amazing how we’ve been running out of time to act for 40 years now? Incredible.
Sorry about the double posting.
You need to post it at least 10 more times to catch up. As you indicate, they have been reposting the same old saw for decades.
“[T]hey have been reposting the same old saw for decades.”
Yup. Einstein’s definition of insanity again. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Ad hominem – a VERY unprofessional discussion. Both parties should be ashamed.
Loosen up!
Where’s the ad hominem in this?
Al Gore has been saying this for 40 years.
It’s time to give up the grift, grandpa.
Al Gore has been saying it for 40 years. He’s a grandpa. And he’s been grifting off his claims for a long time.
Funny how accurately describing liberal extremists and ideologues is called “ad hominem” by some!
Ad hominem fallacies are that the argument is wrong because the advocate is wicked, not just dissing on a stupid person making an invalid argument.
Such is the substitute for corporis pugnam in a modern society.
On principle, I agree, but when faced with an activist (you are my friend or my enemy, no middle ground), it may be the only reasonable choice.
What I do not see is the actual ad hominem posted by Chris. Keith? Yes. Clear as a button hook in the well water.
With respect to KO, it’s entirely accurate. Nobody is more viciously stupid on line, and he has been fired from several jobs because he lacks any self control. I’m a big NFL fan, stopped watching Sunday night games when he was on (NBC) and never went back. Lost the habit.
Curious George says, “…”
No, I got you. I was thinking the same thing — Just another food fight untillll
He is so busted (:
50 years? I’m prime age and demographic for remembering who Olbermann was and I had to hunt for a few minutes. The best ever were Merlin Olsen and Dan Dierdorf, back before gambling odds and fantasy football scoring were so prominent in coverage. Without fancy screen graphics, those guys turned a sluggish game into a good story. Then came the Madden era. Then the last generation of pre-Internet-and-streaming TV execs got desperate and turned to people with the characteristics of Olbermann..
Dierdorf was absolutely terrible.
Pat Summerall and John Madden were the best broadcast duo.
I couldn’t stand Merlin Olsen, who was talking about an “orange Crush defense” in Denver during the “Denver Elways” years when the AFC largely didn’t know what defense was.
At this point, I haven’t watched football for about 6 years. Really don’t care anymore with all the political BS.
🤣 What’s that idiot talking about, an atmospheric CO2 concentration of say 700ppm suffocating children?
From https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/18-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-were-made-around-the-time-of-the-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year/ :
12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.
There are other gems on that link.
2/3 are Ehrlich, including
““Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years [by 1980].”
And yet the guy still gets interviewed on 60 minutes.
SMOG. Ok, but that has nothing to do with CO2.
Submarines during operations reach peak CO2 concentrations of 5,000 to 10,000 PPM. During WW2 some life or death operations reached peak concentrations at 30,000 PPM with 17% oxygen levels.
I worked in a brewery, when we went into a fermenter to recover the yeast we wore O2 sensors with the alarm set to 18%, meaning 30,000 ppm CO2
Or 3% O2 missing from normal 21%
Per Navy submarines, 5000 ppm does not suffocate.
Humans exhale between 20,000 ppm and 50,000 ppm with each breath.
Maybe he is inferring suffocating from the heat in a world +2C warmer?
They may suffocate under the totalitarian future planned for them by the elite, or under the stifling ignorance they are being conditioned for by the educational system.
I prefer your explanation over mine. 🙂
Why should I base my understanding of what happens in the atmosphere on an opinion made by Al Gore? He hasn’t got one prediction right yet.
But when everything else fails, we’ll talk about your hatred for unborn children instead.
“I’d say he resembles that remark.”
If the lunatic fringe Olbermann is remembered for anything in 50 years, it will be by having his picture in the dictionary at the definition for ‘projection’ for his “Worst Person in the World” segments! He may get further notice as examples of extreme TDS and frothing-at-the-mouth liberal lunacy, but there will be nothing in his legacy of merit! Urinalism at its lowest!
My view is that the best way to deal with Olbermann is to ignore him.
You got it!
Olber who? In truth I didn’t even know the guy was still around, is he broadcasting from his basement now?
Yes. He has utterly lost any relevance he may have had.
“suffocate”?
The left wing scientists are losing their collective minds.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/inside-worlds-top-science-societys-convention-bashing-trump-pushing-dei-pronouns-felt-like-a-funeral
Apparently Trump’s lack of support for left wing science has so scarred young scientists that they will never be able to recover.
Every cloud
When you have genuine scientists and a Supreme Court justice who cannot define a woman, a great many people have lost their way. Maybe these young scientists should be scarred enough to leave the field and do something more productive, like dig ditches.
One attendee complained that he attended to hear and learn science and all that was presented was politics. Need to find and recruit him.
Good. Maybe they’ll change careers. They certainly aren’t any good at science.
Outstanding, Chris!
Generally speaking, I’m not keen on public humiliations.
On the other hand, this is Keith Olberman we’re talking about.
I have never had respect for Olbermann.
So the guy who does weather for a living doesn’t have a clue about climate. But nepo-baby Al Gore does, for some reason.