“If you’re pushing fossil fuels at this point, you’re anti-human.” – Andrew Dessler (2022)
“Fossil fuels are shredding our democracy.” Andrew Dessler (2024)
The recent election should have thrown climate scientist/alarmist/activist Andrew Dessler into a funk, even toward self-doubt and need to check his anti-CO2 premises. His all-out exaggeration about a climate emergency was resoundingly rejected by the winning party and abandoned as an important talking point by the losing party. [1]
Dessler will not shout (as before) that Americans are dumb and suicidal by rejecting his wise counsel. [2] He will not engage in some flagrant act of defiance like James Hansen getting arrested at a coal mine or Peter Kalmus disrupting a professional meeting of climate scientists. And, of course, he will not light himself on fire like a few climate crazies.…
“The Centre for Climate Psychology and Change is committed to supporting people where they are at…. We are working on a rich programme of events, which includes a grief facilitator training, run by Francis Weller.”
It is grief and grieving in AlarmistLand. Jonathan Watts of The Guardian wrote:
…Climate instability and nature extinction are making the Earth an uglier, riskier and more uncertain place, desiccating water supplies, driving up the price of food, displacing humans and non-humans, battering cities and ecosystems with ever fiercer storms, floods, heatwaves, droughts and forest fires. Still worse could be in store as we approach or pass a series of dangerous tipping points for Amazon rainforest dieback, ocean circulation breakdown, ice-cap collapse and other unimaginably horrible, but ever more possible, catastrophes.
Yet, apparently we must still have hope.
“So all you are left with days later is people remembering what a shocking and senseless thing somebody did who is associated with the climate movement…. this is a terrible messaging strategy.” (- Joe Romm, below)
Yesterday’s post highlighted the civil war within the climate activist camp on the usefulness of civil disobedience in revving up the public into climate action. Michael Mann warned, “the damage done by deeply misguided individuals who in principle would seem to be on the side of climate action but are instead dividing the community and playing right into the agenda of the forces of inaction.”
Joseph Romm, the perennially errant climate intellectual, similarly warned.
JUST STOP ALREADY! Why, why, why is our side so … senseless???
In case it wasn’t obvious, this tactic is self-defeating and senseless.…