Posted on 03/10/2020 6:28:38 AM PDT by rktman
In 2014, Joe Duggan started reaching out to climate scientists to ask them a question: how did climate change make them feel?
“I was just blown away when I started getting the letters back,” he says.
Duggan, a science communicator at Australian National University, set up a website and starting publishing the mostly handwritten responses.
“[Professor] Katrin Meissner was one of the first, and her letter really hit me. It was so ... unscience-y. Almost poetic.”
“It makes me feel sad. And it scares me,” Meissner wrote.
“It scares me more than anything else. I see a group of people sitting in a boat, happily waving, taking pictures on the way, not knowing that this boat is floating right into a powerful and deadly waterfall.”
Prof Will Steffen, Australian National University
I’m angry because the lack of effective action on climate change, despite the wealth not only of scientific information but also of solutions to reduce emissions, has now created a climate emergency.
The students are right. Their future is now being threatening by the greed of the wealthy fossil fuel elite, the lies of the Murdoch press, and the weakness of our political leaders. These people have no right to destroy my daughter’s future and that of her generation.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
These scientists need to go to their Safe Place.
The Chinese are going to kick our collective asses if this is what passes for science in Western civilization today.
These people are clinically insane.
1. The Guardian
2. Duggan, a science communicator at Australian National University
Meh, time to shine my light bulbs.
“Climate Crisis”
I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but I am OVER this phony as- BS.
Next person that even tries to talk to me about “Climate Crisis” is probably going to get a kick to the penis, and then I’ll cough on them.
I have had enough of phony people and their lies.
Then there is the eco statement and commitment by ‘the guardian:
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If you really care, any equipment you are using that has any relation to petroleum products must be disposed of. Come on, do it. And, just how is you crap spread anyway? Solar power? Wind power? Hemp fired generators?
Give the whiner Coronavirus.
Then let him think on that for awhile instead.
Ping.
“It makes me feel sad. And it scares me,”
...it would be truly aggravating to have to spend 5 minutes with an idiot like this.
I wonder how the ‘scared, sad’ scientist would feel if his ‘climate change’ brethren actually got what they wanted.
Living in yurts, or maybe mud huts.
Eating nothing but vegetables, or perhaps grass.
Walking everywhere. No ‘evil’ gas-powered vehicles (except for the elites, of course)
No electricity, so what would the scientist do, and how would he conduct research with no modern conveniences?
Would he rather enjoy living as a slave to his betters, telling him what to do over every aspect of his life?
Since he’s male and is likely white, the true climate changers would likely instead just want him dead. The only way he’d hit the trifecta of the death-mark is to be an American.
Pofoundly stupid and feel silly.
I wonder how he ‘feels’ his way thru scientific experiments ...
“scientists reveal personal fears about the climate crisis”
They are internalizing their own propagandist hog wash?
I swear, at least once a day on FR you post something that makes me laugh!
The day the warming movers and shakers start pushing for next generation nuclear power is the day I start getting genuinely concerned, until then - not in the least
Unfortunately, working to solve “real problems” usually doesn’t net you the pricey grants that come with “attacking” a “crisis” that amazingly runs parallel to the Left’s agenda for people control.
That’s where the money is, you bet.
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