Posted on 09/03/2019 4:19:38 AM PDT by 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.
It’s funny because the retards wasted her “15 minutes” on a sailbote in the Atlantic. But they want us to believe they are the only ones “smart enough to manage the climate”. Hilarious.
There was a Captain and crew who ran the ship. They fed her and gave her a sign when she landed.
Now tell us about the footprint to build the power boat.
Heh, are they so stupid they didn’t realize that virtually everything was “sun powered” before steam.
Hmmm, wonder how Columbus (can no longer mention that name) managed to sail the “ocean blue” without burning something.
When do we start openly mocking these idiots?
This piece ignores the most obvious fact: that it isn’t about climate at all. Vacations are targeted because the elite do not think that the riff-raff should have the right to enjoy travel. Being clearly superior, only the elite have the right to live in nice houses in good neighborhoods and take fancy vacations, etc. If the riff-raff also live in decent houses in safe neighborhoods, take vacations, and generally have a good standard of living, then the superiority of the elite is not as obvious. Conversely, the worse off normal people are, the better the elites can enjoy their superiority.
“ecocide” Sheesh.
I admit...I committed ecocide yesterday when I used my gas-guzzling, CO2-belching lawnmower to slaughter thousands of poor little defenseless green* O2-generating grasslets that were doing nothing more than trying to save the planet with their emissions of life-giving oxygen. After all, it WAS Labor Day.
(*...”green” because I dump/waste gallon-upon-gallon of cool clear H20 on the yard thru an irrigation system.)
I’m so evil.
Nobody talks about the monstrous carbon footprint it took to manufacture that craft.
“It is to be expected that people who are ‘cultured’ would be uncomfortable when forced to be in the presence of those who ‘lack breeding’.” There was a time when that statement would not have raised an eyebrow and the people who would blandly have uttered it are now the same people who lecture us on our behavior.
Sorry, but it took me a while to get through this story.
I had to wait to stop laughing and wipe tears from my eyes when I visualized the idea of solar powered planes!
Well, many of of us have been mocking the climate change agitators for years.
I don't take any of what they say seriously at all. Over a decade ago, I was at a happy-hour function at a place in Arizona with mostly friends.
My dentist was there with his new wife, who was going on and on about how bad climate change was, as she explained sanctimoniously how much she did to reduce her carbon footprint.
Then she made the mistake of announcing her and my friend, her new husband were flying to Europe on a delayed honeymoon. I laughed out loud at her about her carbon footprint exploding with those plane flights. She didn't have an answer and she has never spoken to me since.
Mocked her good, worthy of her foolishness.
I’ve noticed an increasing number of articles posted on Cruise Critic (Think Freerepublic only about cruising) on the environmental impacts of cruising. Looks like the environmentalists are beginning to attack vacations.
Look at Paris, Venice, London. Full and overfull with uncultured barbarians. The nobility can't actually ban vacation travel, but they can convince the stupids that it's a bad idea.
I've got a solution, but Democrats wouldn't like it...
It may have taken you a while to get through the story but I only made it half way.
Even more risible than the climate scams is the idea that the rich “elite” of today, such as all the Hollyweirdos, the British “royal” family and 99.9% of the politicians and pundits are cultured. They are all a load of boorish, ill-mannered, badly educated or downright stupid philistines.
“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.”
So... that same flight with no one in those seats generates no carbon emissions, but that same “logic.” Got it.
Excellent.
Q: What did Socialists use to light their homes before they started using candles?
A: Electricity!
For later
I’ve noticed an increasing number of articles posted on Cruise Critic (Think Freerepublic only about cruising) on the environmental impacts of cruising. Looks like the environmentalists are beginning to attack vacations.
Yes, exactly, so have I. Which is why the Atlantic article caught my eye this morning. It is obviously another coordinated climate scam campaign.
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