The Climate Scammers are Coming for your Vacations

DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

[EyesOfTX]

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)

The only thing “green” about this stunt was the 4 million British pounds it cost to build the contraption. – 16-year-old Swedish student Greta Thunberg has been hailed globally as a “climate change” hero for crossing the Atlantic recently on a solar-powered boat. The trip took 15 days to complete, and got her more free, fawning media coverage than Irish Bob O’Rourke received last year in his failed race against Ted Cruz.

But it turns out, as all these Climate Scam stunts do, that the stunt was just a stunt and not “green” at all. Nevermind the decidedly un-green way in which solar panels are produced; now, the sailing team who accompanied Thunberg on her journey will fly two of its members on a carbon-spewing jet all the way across the Atlantic in order to bring the boat back. Because, see, there are no solar-powered planes capable of making that journey.

When asked to comment by the fawning Associated Press, team spokesman Holly Cova said that it was “an imperfect solution,” then said the team believes offsetting the emissions by funding carbon-reducing projects elsewhere “is better than doing nothing.” That of course is the same dodge celebrities with carbon footprints larger than Uganda’s – like Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio – employ to justify their lavish lifestyles.

Thus, Ms. Thunberg is revealed to be just another in the long, sad line of child tools employed by cynical adults to push the global socialist agenda. But we really knew that all along, didn’t we?

Speaking of Climate Scammers, they are now coming for your vacations. – Don’t say we didn’t warn you about this. The leftist activists at The Atlantic have a piece out this morning lecturing you on the evils of taking vacations that require air travel. This is of course in keeping with the the fake news media’s tireless efforts to prop up Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s ludicrous “Green New Deal.”

The piece, written by a guilt-ridden travel writer who is no more worthy of being named here than the Odessa shooter, contains this outright fabrication that illustrates its deceptive agenda:

Yet optional travel is also a major contributor to ecocide. Last year, a University of Sydney study examined the environmental impact of the many activities involved in tourism—including transportation, shopping, and more—and found that it accounts for 8 percent of all global carbon emissions, far more than previously imagined.

Given that all man-made sources only account for less than 4% of global carbon emissions, it is pretty much impossible for vacation travel alone to account for double that. The author employs the classic Climate Scammer trick of leaving out the whole “man-made” part. If the study cited is accurate, then the correct percentage caused by “optional travel” is 32/100ths of 1% (8% of 4%) of “all global carbon emissions.”

In other words, it’s a rounding error.

But that’s what the Climate Scammers do – everything they say is a lie couched within carefully constructed, high-minded rhetoric about “saving the planet.” The entire Green New Deal outline is a wonderful example of this tactic.

Your vacation isn’t killing the planet. What is really happening here is that international vacation travel has become a booming capitalist enterprise in recent years, thus making it a target that the global socialist Climate Scam must seek to destroy. Any private enterprise that produces profits and economic growth automatically becomes something these people must attempt to kill. Unless, of course, that enterprise is engaged in by the Gores, DiCaprios and other fabulously leftist heroes of the Climate Scam.

Here’s another very telling quote that illustrates that dichotomy of targeting:

“Going someplace far away, we now know, is the biggest single action a private citizen can take to worsen climate change,” the journalist Andy Newman wrote recently in The New York Times. “One seat on a flight from New York to Los Angeles effectively adds months worth of human-generated carbon emissions to the atmosphere. And yet we fly more and more.”

Ok, so, “one seat on a flight from New York and Los Angeles” is now something to be vilified using false, deceptive claims attributing a jumbo jet flight’s entire emissions to a single passenger. But nowhere in the Atlantic piece will you find the author similarly excoriating the globalist Climate Scam heroes for flying hundreds of private jets and sailing dozens of gigantic, gas-guzzling yachts to half a dozen or more international “climate” conferences each and every year.

Whose carbon footprint is bigger? Is it the footprint of the middle class couple who occupy two seats out of 300 on a Lufthansa flight from Dallas to Rome to embark on their bucket list European vacation, a trip for which they have planned and saved for the last 20 years? Or is it the billionaire climate huckster who occupies one of six filled seats on a private jet from New York to Geneva? Or is it the hundred-millionaire movie star who chugs across the Atlantic with a couple dozen friends and hangers-on on his 200-foot yacht?

Your vacations are not killing the planet, folks. Ignore these evil scammers. Enjoy your life.

That is all.

[super7man]

I did better than that. Yesterday is started up my lawn mower and just let it run.

Since necessity is the mother of invention, I figure the sooner we get to a scorched earth situation, the sooner someone will invent cold fusion. So I’ll do the same today with my BBQ.

[moovova]

I am perfectly comfortable with “the sooner the better” philosophy.

[FrdmLvr]

15 days??? That’s going to seriously crimp my 14 day vaca.

[Soul of the South]

“Look at Paris, Venice, London. Full and overfull with uncultured barbarians. “

Are you speaking of the immigrants or vacationers?

[samtheman]

This is an important article. Everyone should read this.

[gaijin]

Things libs hate for YOU to have:

Golf courses
Ski resorts
Cars
Lawns
Cows
Guns

In other words, things WHITE people have and like.

They want destitute SUBJECTS, a popuulation that not only does not challenge their authority but CANNOT.

That should be a really big clue about what they know is the general nature of their plans for all of us:

We don’t know the details of that plan, but we do absolutely know it’s something they know we would dislike very much.

[samtheman]

Things libs hate for YOU to have:

Golf courses
Ski resorts
Cars
Lawns
Cows
Guns
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I think you left the #1 item off the list:

Any enjoyment of life whatsoever
Golf courses
Ski resorts
Cars
Lawns
Cows
Guns

[thefactor]

"Given that all man-made sources only account for less than 4% of global carbon emissions..."

I like this stat. Is there a source?

[1Old Pro]

The Lefties and media have so over done the climate change alarm that it now is ignored, totally ignored and mocked.

[FLT-bird]

When Obama and Al Gore sell their palatial oceanfront homes, when the Hollywood crowd stop buying multiple properties and yachts, when both groups and various UN delegates stop flying to various junkets on private jets, come back and talk to me.

Trying to say all this blatant hypocrisy is OK because you bought some green indulgences from the Church of Gaia is laughable.

[I want the USA back]

I can’t afford a “vacation”.

The left wants to turn this country into the Soviet Union plus Venezuela. NO bread, no beef, no vodka. May they go to hell, the lot of them.

[The Great RJ]

Imagine the Hawaiian economy if the only way to get there was by a weeks long voyage on a windjammer. Ditto for those Caribbean islands. St. Greta’s Swedish utopia would also miss those American tourist dollars when the only way to get there would be by a rough crossing of the north Atlantic in a sailing ship or better still by Viking longship with the passengers rowing part of the way.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Under AOC’s New Green Deal you would take the train to Hawaii. I figure if she somehow gets that part of her delusion accepted it would cost several billion dollars without even one mile of track laid.