When the pandemic began in early 2020, I thought it likely to become an historic event and I began taking notes of what was happening. I had no idea where my note taking might lead.

Unfortunately, many of the “experts” telling us to prevent Covid ignored their own guidance, rules, orders and regulations. They were Covid hypocrites who issued orders that they, themselves, did not believe. By 2023, my list reached over 120 single spaced pages of Covid hypocrites.

I then noticed the same behavior in the climate community – many prominent “climate crisis” advocates do not and did not follow their own guidance. For example, 20-year-old international climate crisis promoter Sophia Kianni, who has traveled throughout the world on vacation trips, co-chaired a climate youth group in Spain demanding an end to easy air travel. But in the years since she continued to fly around the world even more. This is hypocritical behavior.

We have groups like “Extinction Rebellion” and “Scientists Rebellion” which openly advocate for the end of democracy (and say that is their goal). Rather than use facts and logic to persuade others, their goal is for the world to be ruled by a tiny technocratic elite who are smarter than the rest of us (see below for details).

Many elite have carbon foot prints the size of planetary systems – but assuage their guilt by purchasing carbon indulgences from the climate church. And telling the rest of us to stay at home, ride a bike, and eat vegetarian.

They are the climate hypocrites who do not seriously believe in what they advocate.

A favorite target of their directives is travel and especially air travel.

Air travel is a tiny sliver of carbon emissions – 2% – (even cars produce less than most people realize and switching to EVs has a smaller reduction than most expect). We fixate on these because we see cars and jets – but most of us never see huge industrial plants burning fuel to forge steel or the insides of fossil fueled electrical generation plants or the insides of food processing plants or the farm equipment and watering systems required to grow and harvest that food. The consequence is transportation is the “bogey man” of climate change because it is visible while big carbon emitters, which perform critical behind the scenes work to make our lives possible, are hidden from view.

Many climate activists tell us to stop flying on airlines but have extensive global travel histories. They lack self-awareness of how hypocritical they look. Air travel is fine for them but if you do it, you are a climate denier and probably a Nazi too.

Oddly, this “bogey man poster child” provides an easy way to identify climate hypocrites who preach that we should not travel – while they travel the globe, many by private jet.

Carbon Indulgences

The elite assuage their guilt and promote their virtue by saying “It’s okay for us because we buy carbon credits”.

Carbon credits are notorious for scams and virtue signaling. “Credits” are sold on forest tracts whose owners agree not to cut them down – but many tracts were never going to be cut anyway, sometimes due to inaccessibility or limited timber production. In other examples, credits on the same plot of forest have been sold multiple times. As the WSJ reported, much of the world’s carbon offset credits do little or nothing to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, pointing to wind farms in China that are not even connected to the grid, or which fail to produce much power. But the elite purchase credits to justify their private jet flights to their multiple mansions throughout the world. Carbon credits are a scam enabling the elite to tell us how to live our lives while they continue to emit enormous amounts of carbon.

With the boom in renewable energy, many of the credits that trade hands are nothing more than a transfer of money from one profitable enterprise to another, critics say:

The end result is companies offset their emissions by buying credits that do little to help neutralize their carbon output.

WSJ: Companies are buying large numbers of carbon credits that don’t cut emissions

Bloomberg: Climate: Bloomberg reports that “Carbon offsets” are still a big scam

The global elite set the agenda – “Do as I say but not as I do“. By their actions, they do not believe in what they are saying. Academic research finds the “economic elite” run the world – and “average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence” – we will, in fact, do as they say, but not as they do.

Many, if not most of the elite, justify their global travels and private jet usage by saying they buy carbon offset scams. Rather than reduce their travel, the wealthy buy carbon offsets (which do little and possibly nothing). They could, if they actually cared, reduce their actual carbon emissions. But they don’t care – they only care about appearances and virtue signaling. They have no intention of changing their lifestyles or behaviors to reduce their emissions – while telling you that you must change your entire life.

These are climate hypocrites whose self-centered behaviors discourage action and lead to distrust in authority figures and institutions.

As I compiled this list, my encounter of Sophia Kianni and her hypocritical behavior, followed by reading that Extinction Rebellion’s goal is the end of democracy caused me to go from embracing climate change by sharply curtailing my own carbon footprint, to no longer giving a damn – all because the spokespeople for the “climate crisis” don’t give a damn themselves. The hypocrisy, as you will see, below, is off scale.

Because of these climate hypocrites I am no longer concerned about climate change. We live in a solar PV powered home, drive an EV, compost everything on site, and eat mostly meat free, but not quite vegetarian[1] (I have meat at times) and have a household carbon footprint 1/8th to 1/10th (or less) the typical American home

Seeing that none of these experts and celebrities promoting climate change action abide by their own demands, we’ve lost interest. We will continue to strive to be as efficient as we can, but will not support non-sustainable, unworkable “expert solutions” – which they promote but clearly do not believe in.

[1] By January 2024, after years of eating mostly vegetarian, my health had been in decline for two years. I was experiencing daily scotomas – blind areas in my vision occurring 5 to 10 times per day and lasting for many minutes, periodic visual auras (up to 3x / day), once per month migraines, headaches, dizziness and vertigo, brain fog, constant fatigue, memory problems, hair loss/shedding and more. The problem turned out to be a vitamin B12 deficiency caused by eating pseudo vegetarian; I am now taking 1000 mcg of vitamin B12, daily, at the direction of my doctor. I spent over $5000 out of pocket on many tests trying to identify the cause of my health issues. I have abandoned eating vegetarian style and now eat an omnivore diet. I learned that true vegetarian eating is remarkably rare (2-5% of populations), and that almost all those who do this, eventually end up discontinuing vegetarian eating. The risks of not doing vegetarian eating precisely right are real and very serious. If you intend to do this, you must consult your doctor, you must consult with a dietician, and you must have your blood nutrient levels periodically measured. This is not something you do casually. Incredibly, I never viewed myself as vegetarian and if asked, I would not have described myself as a vegetarian but as someone who reduced meat consumption. You cannot drift into this style of eating on a casual basis. After this experience, I now view vegetarian eating as a disease, for most people, and not a cure of anything.

Davos, Switzerland – Spring 2022

An estimated 1,500 private jet flights were made by global elite to attend the conference, plus private helicopter shuttles from the airports to the venues. As one pundit put it, they flew in on private jets, to dine on luxury foods while agreeing to tell the rest of us to ride bicycles and eat bugs.

The top 1% are estimated to have more than 2x the climate impact of the bottom 50% of the world’s population.

Climate hypocrites: The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

The Elite and Global Travel

For the past 30+ years, globalization of everything took place – anyone hoping for a successful professional career should have global competency. Now, over a period of about 2 years, global travel is seen as evil – particularly by the elite who have benefited from years of living aboard, working abroad, studying abroad, and taking advantage of immigration opportunities – what was fantastic for them is now bad for you!

And then there is private jet travel.

Private jets and global travel in general are now positioned as wrong. We are no longer supposed to travel by air – even though air travel is a small component of climate change. Jet travel becomes a visible, but mostly unimportant, component – but it is that visibility that has turned it into a poster child for evilness.

Many young people who advocate curtailing or ending air travel are themselves among the most prolific of global travelers. Some, despite personal travel footprints that are massive, participate in programs to discourage or eliminate air travel for most. Now that they have traveled the world – by their early 20s! – they wish to deny opportunities to everyone else.

This enables them to enjoy the benefits of global knowledge and experience while ensuring others will not have similar experiences and develop similar skills and knowledge. And this, despite the fact that the 21st century will be far more “global” than any previous century, particularly due to the declining fertility rate and the desire by dozens of countries to import skilled workers from other countries. In this new world, workers with global skills (and this means “soft” skills like how to travel, speaking additional languages, how to interact with diverse peoples) – which come from direct international experience – are the key to success.

But they don’t want you to have these experiences. Only the elite, like themselves, are deserving of global travel, as you will soon see.

Hypocritical Youth Climate Activists

Hannah Hunt

Hannah Hunt is 23 years old (as of 2023), an activist and co-founder of a Just Stop Oil group in the UK has, according to the British press, from age 18 to age 23 traveled by airline to exotic vacation destinations around the world (reportedly Australia, Europe, Bali, Canary Islands and more), which she features on her Instagram page (since made private). She says the rest of us should not travel – but her travels are more important than your travels: By age 23, this climate/fossil fuels protester has spent 5 years traveling the world to exotic locations. Her father runs an environmental consulting business. Hunt is reported to have been associated with Extinction Rebellion. Her associates say they will continue to shut down society until the government agrees to end all fossil fuel use, effective immediately.

She was later convicted for her protest actions but given a hand slap fine.

We see these travels because narcissistic influencers promote their global travels on their own Instagram pages with plenty of selfies. They do not hide their hypocritical behavior.

Izzy Cook

Speaking at School Strike 4 Climate – New Zealand student Izzy Cook voices opposition to people flying in aircraft and proposes that people must be given permission from the government to fly and only for approved reasons.

She is then asked, suggesting an example, “Would flying to Fiji be wrong?Yes, she says.

The interviewer then asked her, “When was the last time you flew on an aircraft and where did you go?

Answer: “A few months ago. To Fiji.

Says she was not embarrassed that she flew to Fiji. She lacks self-awareness and appears foolish, which is the definition of idiot.

Let’s take our climate change advice from 16-year-old hypocrites, shall we? More here.

Izzy’s Mom attacks the interviewer accusing her of “bullying my daughter” because she asked fair questions and pointed out the hypocrisy. Her Mom’s argument is that since Izzy works on climate advocacy it’s okay for her to be a hypocrite: “She also lives a low carbon lifestyle: she’s vegetarian, uses public transport, and buys second-hand.” – which justifies Izzy’s flying around the world while telling others not to fly.

Thus: as long as you are a climate advocate, vegetarian and use public transport occasionally, feel free to fly around the world while telling others not to! It’s logic! As we shall see, there are many that travel extensively – but as long as they are documenting the “climate crisis”, their travels are fine!

Ketti Wilhelm

She is about 30 years old, a travel blogger who has traveled to over 40 countries, has lived and worked in France, China, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Guadeloupe, Nicaragua (and the Caribbean), and has traveled in Chile and Argentina to research “sustainable tourism”. Her own business focuses on travel, and now sustainability. She met her husband, who is from Italy, while traveling in China. She says on her blog that Italy is her 2nd home (they presumably sail a boat across the Atlantic?) – and likely has dual residency due to her husband being from Italy.

A graduate of the University of Montana, where she grew up, she went on to earn a Master’s degree in “Green Management” at a university in Italy and did an undergraduate study abroad in Granada (Spain).

She is as global and privileged as any 30-year-old can be.

She has declared a travel Climate Emergency and signed on to a group promoting a global tax on aviation to discourage air travel, which favors taking buses and trains (such as the high-speed rail service from Los Angeles to Honolulu...), avoidance of eating meat, only staying at places that practice sustainability (e.g. solar powered, local food sources only), and we should fly less and stay longer (because everyone can do that on 2 weeks of vacation per year!)

The above is common among the well-traveled elite – now that they’ve traveled the world, they seek to make it more expensive and difficult for others to do so – which makes themselves more elite as they will be the ones with global skills that others will have difficulty obtaining. There is hypocrisy in having gallivanted about the globe, and then advocating others curtail such experiences.

Greta Thunberg

A few years back, she got tons of publicity about taking a sailboat from the U.S. to Europe – because climate. But at least two sailing crew members flew across the Atlantic to crew the boat – negating Greta’s carbon savings. But it was a much publicized and successful PR stunt. The meeting she was to attend in South America was canceled and relocated to Spain – and she had to sail back again, traveling extensively in the America’s by both car and train. The hypocrisy was large. Of course, those of us in the real world are unable to spend weeks sailing back and forth across the oceans on privately owned $1.5 million yachts- but privileged elite like Greta have lots of time available. (The luxury yacht crossing was donated by an Australian Youtube sailing couple as publicity for their Youtube channel.)

In 2022, Thunberg says we must destroy capitalism and all existing government systems, and apparently put her and friends in charge of a new global order (we need to destroy capitalism, she says). Thunberg acknowledged on Nov 2, 2022 that other systems, including communism, also failed. Thus, she has no solution after we destroy capitalism: Greta Thunberg: It’s time to transform the West’s oppressive and racist capitalist system (telegraph.co.uk)

As she makes pronouncements, enthusiasts grovel at her feet. Yet, she had not yet graduated from high school. (She was granted an honorary doctorate(!) in theology before she completed high school – she did not graduate high school until she was 20 years old. She has not gone to college, but she is the climate expert the media turns to – even funnier, CNN had her on a panel to discuss Covid-19 before she had finished high school!)

The “solution” to climate change is to destroy capitalism and institute global communism.

She graduated from high school in 2023 – at age 20: Climate activist Greta Thunberg won’t be school striking after graduation but vows to still protest – ABC News (go.com)

Since her graduation, she has been convicted of disobeying police orders in Sweden; 2 days later, she was arrested again for similar behavior. These convictions may make it difficult for her to travel internationally – the U.S. would require her to apply for a waiver. Canada and other countries have strict rules on denying visitors convicted of crimes in their home countries. In late October 2023, she shared antisemitic content on her Instagram page.

Advocates like Hunt, Cook, Wilhelm and Thunberg have a lack of awareness of how this propaganda messaging looks to others – it looks like hypocritical, privileged elite-ness.

But – then there is Sophia Kianni and the primary reason I came to no longer care about climate change …

Sophia Kianni, Youth UN Climate Ambassador and Activist

As of this writing in early 2023, she is a climate activist, studying environmental science and public policy (i.e. activism) at Stanford University. She was selected as the youngest UN Ambassador on climate.

From the Washington Post:

I try to make choices to lessen my impact on the planet and reduce my carbon footprint, but it’s also important to know that the very concept of the carbon footprint was invented by an ad agency hired by fossil fuel companies to distract people from the huge amounts of pollution that Big Oil and gas companies produce. So while it’s important for everyone to do their part, those who pollute the most have an obligation to reduce the most.

Climate Diaries: How Sophia Kianni tries to live sustainably – The Washington Post

Translation: Since the concept of a carbon footprint “was invented by an ad agency”, her own personal carbon footprint is not relevant.

The article reads like a parody – a commenter notes the WaPo has turned into The Onion! Air travel is okay for her to visit family – see the WaPo article – just like Deborah Birx’s Covid sob story and that of other public health officials, who ignored their own Covid rules because they hadn’t seen their family in 6 months! Rules they could break, but not you!

Kianni goes on to say:

It would have been impossible for me to get home for this [spring] break without choosing to fly: Taking buses across the country would have taken 3-4 days of nonstop travel and cost several hundred dollars more.

Yet she co-chaired a group (on one of her trips, to Spain) that wrote a manifesto calling for financial disincentives to fly – she is said to be wealthy so that wouldn’t matter to her, but it would to you, of course.

She is a hypocrite … and it gets worse.

Kianni is a Global Traveler

Note – this section was going to be a short item – but geesh, she is a global elitist dripping with an appearance self-centered, narcissistic behaviors as she travels the world telling the rest of to get our act together.

From her Instagram page, she has made numerous trips to Europe. She has participated in Extinction Rebellion events (ER advocates flight shaming and the end of air travel):

She is famous for having organized an international group to translate climate literature into other languages; the average age of her translators is 16 years old (what could possibly go wrong with that?) She regularly attends meetings with the UN Secretary General. She has done extensive global travel – and is a global elitist, reportedly having a high net worth.

Some of her global travels:

Amsterdam, 4 years ago

Amsterdam

Italy

Italy

Bermuda

Edinburgh, Scotland

France

In September 2021, she was in Madrid, Spain to tell us about climate change.

She was co-chair of the Youth 4 Change Climate manifesto which states “Incentivizing low emission options such as bikes and public transport and financial disincentives for air travel“.

In 2022, she is in Egypt at COP27. Her participation is mostly self-promotion:

Endless self-promotion

The narcissistic self-promotion is off scale:

Are 20-year-old college students qualified to advise the UN and the WEF and the NY Times on global policy issues that affect humanity for eternity? Do they know as much as they think they know? Many of us have learned, through experience, that things are more complex and nuanced than they seemed at age 20, and much of what we thought we knew, and much of what “experts” told us, turned out to be wrong.

Does she know that the concept of generation labels like “Generation Z” is a creation of a media institute, Pew Research, which says such labels are largely meaningless and should be treated with great skepticism?

The comments to her post were not positive:

From the above, her posts suggest she was focused on self-promotion rather than saving the planet.

Hilariously, this global elite traveler says that people should “stop lying and greenwashing” (She needs to look in the mirror):

She has visited her family in Iran (presumably by air, and multiple times).

She is an elitist. She can travel about the world and tell the rest of us how to live our lives – but we can’t travel because air travel is evil – and she’s written a manifesto saying the rest of us should not travel by air!

She is an elitist, world trotting hypocrite telling the rest of us not to fly.

She needs to think about how this looks to the average person out in the world, living real lives not having her privilege and wealth. She seems incapable of self-reflection and self-awareness.

Update March 15, 2023

Sophia Kianni continues her crusade to travel the world, telling everyone else how to live their lives – and telling you not to travel – while continuing her narcissistic tirade of self-promotion. Kianni’s behavior led me to no longer care about “climate action” – combined with the other climate hypocrites on this page, these issues no longer have anything to do with climate. Literally, I no longer care because of her, more than any other climate hypocrite. What’s good for her is wrong for you and me.

On June 2, 2022, public health Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo wrote that “protesting is more important than fighting a virus” tweet (June 2, 2020) – which became a defining moment in the downfall of public health credibility, Kianni’s behavior has been a defining moment that resulted in my creating this “climate hypocrite” pages. It became obvious that like those making Covid mandates, none of them believe their rules apply to themselves. They are self centered hypocrites who have turned us off to climate crusading.

More narcissistic self promotion – it never ends for Kianni:

Update March 28, 2023

Now she favors “climate lock downs” for you but not for her. Why are people listening to this fool?

She lacks even a smidgen of self awareness. Sophia Kianni is the definition of climate hypocrite.

Update November 2023: Kianni’s self absorbed narcissism continues. Now at age 21, she advises Google and UNICEF on “climate projects”. Now platinum blonde, her self centered self promotion continues, seen shaking hands with The Pope – because she’s so important. Just visit her IG page – she’s the center of everything:

Worse, the UN is now paying children as young as 12 years old to “advise” the UN. What could possibly go wrong? This no longer has anything to do with climate or affecting the climate. At this point, I no longer care – this nonsense is utterly stupid – 12-year-olds advising the UN?

Isabelle Boemeke, Model (not a hypocrite)

This is an odd one – she is a Brazilian model and social media influencer who travels all around the world promoting nuclear energy and herself (her Instagram and Twitter pages have plenty of photos of herself, often in exotic locales). Unlike Sofia Kianni, Boemeke is promoting a potentially viable solution and does not appear to be telling everyone else to shut down their lives, so not a hypocrite. She is not a scientist or engineer but says she is focused on science communications.

Eirik Lindebjerg

This could become a lengthy list as there are so many young elite sending mixed messages.

Lindebjerg is the 24-year-old Global Plastics Policy Lead at the World Wildlife Federation (as of late 2022). Plastic is a new evil and we need to curtail its production and improve recycling programs for plastics (plastics, in the form of polyester and related fibers, as in most of the world’s clothing, and almost none is recycled). There are serious issues with single use plastics that are tossed. I agree with this concern about disposal of plastics and the lack of recycling.

Lindebjerg is also concerned about climate change – but he’s also a global traveler. From Norway, he’s attended COP27 in Egypt (and COP28 in the UAE), worked at the UNEP in Geneva, Switzerland, volunteered in Madagascar, did a study abroad in France, a Master’s degree in Geneva, and was a delegate to the UN plastics treaty conference in late 2022 in Uruguay, and probably more travel than that too (and he’s just 24! – as of 2023). That’s just from online posts and LinkedIn.

Young people travel the world, many times, and then participate in activities urging the rest of us to not travel. This is inconsistent messaging. It’s okay for the self-defined elite but not ok for us plebeians. They are oblivious to how this looks to others.

The Elite Behind Climate Crusades

Aileen Getty – Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion

Just Stop Oil is a group of anxiety ridden folks who believe we all die within years due to climate change, and we can stop the climate from changing by whining about it, disrupting society, damaging historic venues and art works, and blocking ambulances and fire trucks carrying ill patients to hospitals. (“Their behaviour is fundamentally immature and destructive.“).

Aileen Getty, raised in Italy, and wealthy from her Getty Oil inheritance is a major funding source for the Climate Emergency Fund, which funds Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion. The extended Getty family lives on nearly all continents.

She is the founding donor of the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF).

In 2017, Getty sold her modest 5,255 sq foot Malibu mansion for $14 million, just a year after buying it. The same year she bought a NYC mansion for $19 million. (She rode her bicycle between Los Angeles and New York City, of course?) Three years later, she put that up for sale for $25 million.

She grew up in Italy, her husband is from Italy and she has traveled the world extensively in support of her causes. Likely a dual or triple citizen of multiple countries. Undoubtedly, they sail a boat to cross the Atlantic – hah hah. She has a massive carbon footprint – but that’s okay, because she cares and has lots of money.

Gail Bradbrook, Ph.D.

ER was co-founded by Gail Bradbrook, who spent two weeks in Costa Rica consuming psychedelic drugs (yes, really) – she flew there on a jet plane consuming oil – and under the influence of psychedelics she was inspired to found ER. A drugged out global elite traveler, she did her PhD post-doc work in India and France (she rode her bike to both places – haha, just kidding – she drives a diesel fueled car and does, in fact, fly on jet planes.)

She also buys fruits and vegetables flown in from all over the world. See the photos.

Extinction Rebellion states it is opposed to democracy – and a tiny climate elite should rule the world.

These elite lack expertise in useful fields, where talent might invent solutions. Instead, they whine and disrupt the lives of others who are working to solve problems. They can’t even agree on what they are protesting:

Just Stop Oil has been protesting in London for the past two weeks, and the group said in a press release that its actions were “in response to the government’s inaction on both the cost-of-living crisis and the climate crisis.”

Oil protesters appear in court after throwing soup at Van Gogh painting (cnbc.com) Similarly, in terms of lacking clarity on the target, Greta Thunberg says the real goal is to destroy capitalism – see below. Climate is now an afterthought.

Their childish behavior persuades many to ignore environmental activism and issues.

VW climate protesters demand bowl to ‘urinate and defecate’ | news.com.au – When activists glue themselves to walls and floors, they are asking to be stuck there, right? VW provided them with food and water but did not bring them portable toilets – the activists then complained that the company they are vandalizing did not treat them as invited guests! They say they will glue themselves to the floor until “their demands to decarbonize” the entire German transport sector are met – because they can easily decarbonize the entire transport sector in a few hours? VW has already committed to converting to all electric vehicles.

Sir Chris Hohn

Hohn is a UK-based billionaire hedge-fund manager who claims to live a “simple lifestyle” and make donations to worthy causes. He is the largest single source of funding for Extinction Rebellion, which aims to shut down air travel – yet:

The son of a Jamaican immigrant to Britain, Sir Christopher grew up in Surrey and is known for his simple lifestyle. He reportedly lives in a rented house, drives a Toyota Prius and wears a black Swatch watch he has had for years. The couple met as students at Harvard University and married in 1985. They have four children – triplets aged 12 and an older child aged 15.

They have homes in London, the US and the West Indies. Because everyone with a “simple life” lives like that. He studied abroad, going to university in the U.S.

Ex-wife of Sir Christopher Hohn claims he’s hiding millions to minimise divorce settlement | Daily Mail Online

Undoubtedly, he rows a boat between the UK, the US and the West Indies – or drives his Prius across the Atlantic. He attended universities in the UK and the U.S. and previously worked in the Philippines, Singapore, the U.S., and London, per news reports. His charity, Children’s Investment Fund has offices in Nairobi and New Delhi.

As a person who benefited immensely from global travel he supports groups that want to deny travel opportunities to others.

How much of Hohn’s donations are caused-based marketing, such as the faux “effective altruism” of Sam Bankman-Fired? Hohn has said his life’s mission is to give money away: “My life is actually about charity“. He has fashioned his public persona around this image – much like Bankman-Fried. How much of it is for marketing purposes?

(Note – Hohn does actually contribute large sums of money from his earnings, to charity but so did Sam Bankman-Fried – who even graciously donated his customers’ money, without their permission!)

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Former actor and Governor of California, Schwarzenegger has become an activist for climate change initiatives. During his film-making days, he mandated private jet services for himself, and as Governor of California, he spent $60,000 per day to fly between Sacramento (California’s state Capitol) and his home in the Los Angeles area.

Now he’s attempting to re-brand himself, saying “no one gives a shit about” climate change (just as he didn’t throughout his entire life). What was good for him in the past is not good for you – shame on you for traveling and having a life. While he continues to be a global traveler, he now says he flies commercial airlines (first class, by the way).

Hypocritical Climate Activist Organizations

The Anti-Democracy Movement

The activists’ real goal, they say, is to get 3.5% of the population behind them, because research says tiny minorities who engage in civil disobedience can take control over the other 96.5%. The goal is rule by a tiny minority – in other words, they are anti-democracy.

They believe a small group can force change through society disruption (other words for this are civil disruption or “extortion“). The concept is based on a political scientist’s claim that change occurred in the past when a tiny minority of the population (3.5%) engaged in civil disruption. Extinction Rebellion refers to 3.5% as the “magic number.” See –> Extinction Rebellion Summer Uprising: The Group That Brought London To A Standstill Is Now In 50 Counties (buzzfeednews.com)

Rule by a tiny minority – just 3.5% of the population – in other words, they oppose democracy.

Rather than study engineering and science to develop solutions, they are children throwing temper tantrums, asserting they have right to authoritarianism rule through extorting the population. Their own words:

The good news, the members say, is that they have extensively studied the history of social change and believe they have a scientifically testedtm approach that enables just a small minority to bring the political system to its knees

Extinction Rebellion Summer Uprising: The Group That Brought London To A Standstill Is Now In 50 Counties (buzzfeednews.com)

In other words, rule by authoritarianism and the elite – not by using logic and facts to persuade a majority to support climate control. The goal is to end democracy – and turn rule over to a technocratic elite, the central idea of governance by bureaucratic Central Committees.

More on how today’s climate activists act like spoiled, self-centered, narcissistic children, rather than adults seeking to solve problems: Infantilization Of The Apocalypse (substack.com).

Update: Surprisingly, a very large contingent of Biden and Trump supporters favor government censorship of “offensive” views, the use of violence to stop political opponents, and between 24% and 31% say that ‘democracy “is no longer viable”‘. Note – this survey is not a measure of Democrats or Republicans, and note that the largest political group in the country is “decline to state a party affiliation” or not a party member.

Extinction Rebellion Children

Climate activists fail to glue themselves to ‘The Scream’ painting in Norway: ‘I scream for people dying’

These children in Norway live in one of the wealthiest countries on the planet, having a sovereign wealth fund of $1.4 trillion (as of spring of 2023), the largest such fund in the world. The funds come from Norwegian oil fields and income from the fund provides free university education, funds public schools, libraries, services, transportation, a government run pension fund, and other infrastructure for these children to live an exclusive, globally elite lifestyle.

Since its inception in the 1990s, Norway’s wealth fund has invested the country’s enormous oil and gas revenue widely across the world and across economic sectors. Today, the fund holds nearly 1.5% of all shares within listed companies globally.

Climate activists throw black, oily liquid at Klimt painting in Vienna (cnbc.com)

These endeavors have nothing to do with climate and everything to do with using extortion to end democracy. They are deadbeat fascists. The more they do this, the greater they turn others off to doing anything about climate.

Throwing food at artwork tactics are not effective at convincing non-believers. It’s pointless and childish behavior that causes harm to their desired message.

After 4 years of childish, immature disruptive pranks, Extinction Rebellion acknowledges its tactics have turned people off to climate enthusiasm and says it will stop disrupting civil society, including the lives of those who are working to solve genuine problems (except not long after, these groups were back doing the same stupid things again). Their idiocy, as well as those of other hypocritical activists (this page) have gradually converted me from someone who re-insulated my home to R-60, installed solar PV, installed a 220v line for EV charging, eventually got an EV, began composting everything on site and dramatically reduced my meat consumption – to someone who no longer cares.

There actions are a turn-off.

Update May 2023: But the six year olds keep doing these things: Climate activists dump charcoal into Italy’s Trevi Fountain, turning water black – UPI.com

Roger Hallam, the founder of Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion called the Nazi era Holocaust a “normal event”. After the German subgroup said they would split from ER over his comments, he attempted an apology saying climate change will be worse than “the slaughter” of Jews. His public messaging is not good. To say the least.

June 2023: These adult children keep doing this – this time in Stockholm in June of 2023; these actions do not garner support for their cause.

In April 2023, another group, The Tyre Extinguishers, slashed tires on what they defined as SUVs, eliminating mobility options for elderly owners in the neighborhood. The Tyre Extinguishers children said the elderly should walk or ride a bike. Because none of the elderly have osteoarthritis or other physical limitations, so let’s fuck the elderly. The children claim slashing tires improves the environment (and claim that globally, they have slashed tires on over 11,000 vehicles)- even though it means taking a tow truck to a car dealer for new tires, which are made of rubber, which are made from petroleum. The idiocy of these self-centered children is amazing.

These are not professional propagandists – these people are childish idiots with the intellectual capacity of six year olds. They would be wise to hire professional public relations counsel if they wish to avoid being called immature children.

“Last Generation” – Adults Who Act as Children

(From the German “Letzte Generation” – as in, they believe all humanity will die off in the next 20 years.)

They dangerously forced the shutdown of the Berlin, Germany airport by blocking runways. Because screaming children should rule the world, not democracies. The concept of a democracy that is based on education, information, evidence, facts, logic and individuals choosing policies is so 20th century. Climate enthusiasts believe that in a true democracy, a tiny sliver of technocratic elite and screaming activists that act like six-year-olds in a temper tantrum should lead us as it is the only way forward!

They demand that Germany cease use of all fossil fuels by 2030 – just 6 years away. How many millions of people does Last Generation want to kill due to lack of food and heat?

July 2023 Update: They did this again, this time gluing themselves to runways in July 2023. In Part 2 you will learn about 2 of their members who skipped out on their Court trial by flying 7,000 miles to Thailand for a vacation while they were supposed to be in Court. Total fucking hypocrites.

And again in mid July 2023, the climate six year olds blocked traffic on streets in Germany. Their cause is righteous so in their tiny little minds, blocking people from accomplishing useful things, while making demands that can not actually be fulfilled, is productive.

September 2023 Update: Cleanup of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate after climate protest to be longer and more expensive | AP News. The Last Generation children did it again..

Related: January 6 2020 and Trump – Did you support this too?

Trump and the January 6 rioters that stormed the U.S. Capitol asserted a non-existent right to overthrow an election. They too were anti-democracy, just as much as the climate activists are anti-democracy with their “just 3.5% to take control”.

You either believe in democracy or you do not. The goal does not justify the means.

Climate enthusiasts who profess a desire to end democracy are doing their cause massive harm, just as Trump and his henchmen did to his political fortunes. Climate “activists'” goal – in their own words – is for a technocratic elite to form a single global government that ignores the democratic majority will of the people. Because they believe their cause is righteous and pure, that the elite is smarter than everyone else, therefore it is necessary to end democracy and suspend human rights. They have made this clear, stating that per their theories, if just 3.5% of the population engages in civil disobedience, then they will win control – and we will then be ruled by utopian technocratic elite superiors.

They, like Trump’s January 6th supporters, are fascists.

These actions by climate activists – engaged in activities that have nothing to do with climate – and often impede the work of those developing real solutions – are a turn off to others taking action.

The Hypocritical Political Leaders

Spanish Minister Teresa Ribera

She is the Minister for Ecological Transition. She traveled to the Valladolid Climate Summit. Then is reported by the media to have gotten out of her chauffeured limousine a few hundred yards/meters away from the conference, and rode a bicycle the remaining short distance for PR photo purposes. There’s a video of her charade. She did not wear a bike helmet. She met with The C40 group which has called for banning private ownership of cars and limiting normal people to one aircraft flight every two years. As a Minister, she has put forth rules limiting use of air conditioning. (Some reports, like the tweet below, said she flew by private jet – that appears to be false. She arrived at the conference, in Spain, by vehicle, but did transfer to the bike for the short distance at the end.)

Prince Charles

Prince Charles (now King Charles III) tells us we should live within 5 to 10 minutes of our workplace. No more long commutes.

  • He says we should walk or ride a bike to get around.
  • Cheaper neighborhoods should be abolished, and cheap and expensive housing should be combined side by side.
  • We should stop eating meat and dairy.
  • He did not say anything about air travel.

In 2020, over 11 days he traveled 16,000 miles with 3 private jets and one helicopter – to pose with climate enthusiast Greta Thunberg.

Also in 2020, he flew 125 miles by private jet – to attend a presentation on the effect of aircraft emissions on climate

Face plant. One cannot make up things that absurd! King Charles is a climate hypocrite.

King Charles and President Joe Biden

In July of 2023, President Biden flew to England to meet with King Charles to discuss climate issues.

Biden’s trip used a fleet of USAF C-17 cargo planes to, in turn, transport a fleet of black SUVs and limousines (27 was quoted), and a fleet of USAF helicopters to England, for the trip. No information on how many staff accompanied the trip. After arriving at a private jet center, he was flown by USAF helicopter (Marine One) to Windsor Castle at London to have tea and discuss climate issues for several hours (Biden takes tea and talks climate with King Charles III (bangkokpost.com)). He was also to meet with UK PM Sunak, who Biden met in California, Ireland, Japan, WA DC and now in London, all during the past six months.

After his one day visit, he will continue on to a day in Lithuania and a day in Finland. With all of his massive aircraft and ground fleet. Because. Climate Change. Remember, air travel for you is bad but for the elite, it is an essential activity. Know your place little ones!

Prince Harry

Like father, like son: In August 2021, son, Prince Harry, flew a private jet from Aspen, Colorado to California, after attending an equestrian event. Harry tells us climate change is the world’s most pressing problem and you, dear peon, should do something about it, so he can continue to fly around the world by private jet.

Hypocrite: Prince Charles warns Glasgow summit is last chance to save planet

And again in late 2023: Harry and Meghan use private jet for holiday days after attending mental health conference – Mirror Online

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex flew off on a private jet to enjoy a Caribbean holiday… after attending a ­conference that warned of how ­the blight of climate change is damaging ­children’s mental health.

November 2023 update: Prince Harry branded ‘hypocrite’ after flying on fuel-guzzling private jet owned by oil heir to attend Katy Perry gig | The US Sun (the-sun.com)

Prince Harry is a hypocrite who is apparently lying about his concern for the climate. Let’s call him what he is: a hypocritical liar.

Harry co-founded an organization to change how we travel – travel must be sustainable says their web site where they are working to shame you into not flying – by lobbying all travel booking sites to display your trip’s estimated carbon emissions. They urge you to consider not flying but if you do, you should purchase well known scam carbon offsets! So that former Prince Harry can do day trips by private jet – of course. Harry is a hypocritical asshole.

Prince William

There’s “Official Unhappiness” at the Palace Over William and Kate Using Royal Helicopter to Bounce Between Homes (msn.com)

Climate activists Prince William and Kate travel between their multiple homes via helicopter. Don’t we all! (William is a helicopter pilot, also, and usually does the flying, say reports.)

See also Prince William as climate change influencer (hah hah). Hypocrites.

Former President Obama

He’s really opposed to climate change, has given speeches on that, launched U.S. government efforts to end climate catastrophe – except when he’s flying on private jets: Photos: Former President Barack Obama arrives at Hillsboro, OR Airport for Nike visit (koin.com)

Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Video of Sen. Warren disembarking from a private jet:

Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA)

NRDC: Feinstein Sounded a “Clarion Call” for Climate Action

While flying her very own $61 million private Gulfstream G650 jet: Dianne Feinstein’s stunning properties and feuding family (nypost.com)

She lived in palace sized estate homes on the west coast and in Washington DC, plus owned a duplex in Hawaii, a huge home at Lake Tahoe, a ranch in Colorado and more. She also owned a water front property in Marin County, CA – you know, the place that will flood from rising seas. None of these properties are energy efficient. She traveled between them by bicycling, of course, especially to their duplex in Hawaii.

Canada: Deputy Finance Minister Michael Sabia

Deputy Finance Minister Michael Sabia, who called climate change “a massive change to humanity,” spent nearly $11,000 in first-class airfare, according to Blacklock’s Reporter .

Minister spent $11,000 in airfare for climate change conference | Toronto Sun

Read the whole story. You and I will be prohibited from traveling while the elite go about their lives with carbon footprints the size of planets, traveling in luxury.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (Michigan)

September 2020:

“The science is clear — climate change is directly impacting our public health, environment, our economy, and our families,” Whitmer said in a statement. Discussing her plan in a virtual event with other governors, she added: “There’s no time to waste when it comes to fighting climate change. We’ve got to act now.”

Gov. Whitmer Offers ‘Carbon-Neutral’ Climate Plan For Michigan – CBS Detroit (cbsnews.com)

April 2021:

After issuing a Covid travel caution to residents of Michigan, Gov. Whitmer flew to Florida and then lied about her travels saying she had been “in town the whole time. She had, in fact, visited her Dad in Florida, while prohibiting similar visits in Michigan by Michigan residents. She said she went for just 2 days (it was actually 4 days). She blamed “spring break” travel to Florida for the upsurge in daily cases occurring in Michigan – while she traveled to Florida and lied about it. She traveled on a private jet that was operated as a charter flight in violation of FAA regulations. She refuses to say who paid for the private jet – with indications it may have come from a private business group in Michigan. And she had not yet been vaccinated either.

So of course, she flies by an illegally operated private charter jet. Because she cares and you do not.

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ahern and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau

Jet pools on Canadian PM’s private 200 passenger VIP jet flight – after earlier making a big deal about taking a bus because she’s climate aware. The climate preachers intend to stop you from traveling – but they will not make changes to their own lifestyles. It’s as if they don’t believe in climate change.

https://twitter.com/hamishpricenz/status/1572025019932483585

August 5th, 2022:

Al Gore

Former VP and Inconvenient Truth documentary producer, Al Gore reportedly engaged in hypocritical activities and worked to clean up his behavior after being caught at it.

In 2007, his 4,000 square foot Tennessee mansion consumed more energy per month than the typical American home in a year. Snopes and FactCheck.org say this was true in 2007, but Gore eventually added solar PV, reduced lighting demand, improved insulation and became LEED certified. (It will likely take up to 20 years for these changes to pay back the carbon produced during the manufacturing and retrofit work during the remodel.)

He also owns or owned a 6,500 sq ft ocean front home in California. He has traveled all over the world, extensively, giving lectures and presentations on climate change, and specifically, climate change related investment opportunities in which the very wealthy may participate. He was formerly Chair of Generation Investment Management – a way for the wealthy to invest in climate profits.

He also owns or previously owned a 100-foot-long houseboat whose engine runs on bio-diesel and which had solar PV on its roof.

He admits to occasionally using private jets and says he also travels on commercial airline flights. He says he purchases carbon “scam” offsets to ameliorate carbon produced.

He justifies his massive homes, boats, and travel by saying he now uses alternative energy or carbon offsets – because he can afford to, and you can’t. He could live a scaled back lifestyle AND buy carbon offsets – but none of the elite do that. Instead, they purchase carbon indulgences to pretend they are justifying their outrageous carbon emissions.

Many of the wealthy (Al Gore is worth hundreds of millions of $s) spend much on multiple, large homes, travel on private jets, own yachts, and other vehicles – but assuage their guilt at using orders of magnitude more energy than you or I, by purchasing carbon indulgences to support their efforts at doing God’s work to save the world.

John Kerry, Biden Administration “Climate Czar”

John Kerry’s private family jet took 16 trips this year alone (nypost.com) (up to August 2021). However, those flights were not for him. Of course. He flies dozens of times per year to climate meetings, via airlines and government private jets. Because he can and he’s important – and you are not.

In 2019, he flew by private jet to Iceland to receive a climate leadership award. But it is okay because he was fighting climate change, he said. And has to travel the world (and you don’t, so there!) It’s important that he flies: “And I believe, the time it takes me to get somewhere, I can’t sail across the ocean, I have to fly to meet with people and get things done, Kerry added.” But you dear plebeian – your time is not valuable – you should ride a bike or sail a boat to travel the world. Know your place you miserable commoner, he said in so many words. Note – he flew to Iceland by private jet to receive an award – not to fight climate change, not to conduct government business – but to receive an award. Even the Icelanders noted he’d flown by private jet to receive the award.

He also lives part time in Idaho – and commutes by bicycle – oh wait, actually by jet from the east coast.

In 2023, he denied owning a private jet that his wife owned. Yes, his wife owned the private jet but he says she sold it last year. He says for the past 2 1/2 years (cherry picking much?) he’s only flown commercial or on government planes. But that’s okay because he has devoted his life to fighting climate change, he said. In fact, in a couple of days he would be flying to Beijing, China. Because. Climate. Change.

John Kerry is a serial liar – comb through the Getty Images library of John Kerry Planes. There are 17 pages of thumbnail images, many of which involve private or charter jets or planes. (Whose name is literally painted on this chartered jet John Kerry? Who is that standing in front of the Gulfstream jet?) But it’s okay that he lived much of his life on private and chartered jets – because he did important stuff and you did not. Know your place peon!

John Kerry is a serial hypocrite and liar with zero credibility.

August 2023: Kerry jets off to Scotland to give a speech at the “Scottish Global Dialogue“. (Reading Kerry’s comments, he is lifting lots of things out of context. He accuses non-believers of being cultists) His January to August travel schedule:

Michael Bloomberg

The Bloomberg news service is owned by Michael Bloomberg. Every day, his news service runs stories on climate chaos – to the extent that Bloomberg news is a climate activist group pretending to be a news service.

Yet Michael Bloomberg’s private jet was flown about 400 times from mid-2016 to mid-2020, and most of those flights likely had him on board.

Like so many of the climate elite, he travels in luxury, on board private jets – while using his news service to tell the rest of us to stop living immoral lives of carbon emissions. We get it: Flying must only be permitted for elite climate masters and deities like Bloomberg.

In fact, in early 2023, The C40 Group issued a proclamation that people should not be allowed to fly more than once every two years. Seriously. Except you know that won’t apply to climate hypocrite virtue signalers like Bloomberg, Gates, etc.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and COP27

Shortly after that, he flew to COP climate conference in Egypt.

Hypocritical Industry Climate Activists

Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder FTX

Commitment to Mitigating Climate Impacts.

FTX is very serious about minimizing our impact on the global environment where we live and work, and as a company we have taken several important steps to ensure this. Here, I would like to share several key points to explain why FTX’s environmental impact is de minimis, but nonetheless explain the additional steps the company has taken to reduce even further this impact. First, FTX has no factories or physical products and therefore does not leverage global shipment networks, a substantial source of energy consumption. FTX has a small workforce with a small physical-office footprint, renting only a few small offices spread out around the world, and operates online. FTX corporate operations, therefore, do not have direct impacts on climate change at a globally relevant scale.

12-7-21 FINAL – Written Testimony of Sam Bankman-Fried for HFSC Hearing (house.gov)

Let’s ignore that cryptocurrency mining is an extraordinary consumer of electricity.

SBF’s public persona was fake cause-based marketing that everyone fell for:

Bankman-Fried had become a legend by pushing an image of monkish aloofness, vowing to forsake the allures of his extraordinary wealth – sleeping on beanbag chairs, driving a Toyota Corolla – and to give away his fortune for the greater good.

Yet in April, when Avedisian was hired as a master of ceremonies for a conference in the Bahamas sponsored by FTX, Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange, she saw how the 30-year-old billionaire really lived: in a guarded island compound, every need closely catered to, the world’s elite at his beck and call.

FTX’s Bahamas crypto empire: Stimulants, subterfuge and a spectacular collapse (sfgate.com)

SBF has since admitted that his altruistic image was purely for marketing purposes (yes, he admitted to this in an interview). Because people fell for it. As of Dec 2023, he has been convicted of fraud and awaits sentencing in March of 2024, which some think will be several decades in Federal prison.

Of course, his private jet:

Mark Zuckerburg

Mark Zuckerburg’s private organization is donating $44 million for climate change research initiatives. In 2021, Facebook’s parent Meta spent $1.6 million on his private jet travel for the company. He likely spends personal funds on his private jet travel too. He commutes between his homes in Hawaii and Palo Alto, CA.

Many of the elite have carbon foot prints the size of small planetary systems – but assuage their guilt by purchasing carbon indulgences from the climate church. And suggesting the rest of us stay at home.

“Climate offsets” are well known as scams, particularly those involving selling forest rights. In many cases, “carbon offsets” are sold on forests that no one had any intention of cutting down, often because they are in geography that makes logging difficult or impossible. Worse, some of these offsets are sold multiple times as there is no way to track offset ownership.

Bill Gates

and he stresses the importance of consuming less. Seriously. What a joke.

He flew to the 2015 Climate Change Summit in Paris, France – by private jet. Of course.

His carbon footprint may be up to 6+ orders of magnitude greater than mine. At least.

Bill Gates says he buys green aviation fuel, uses solar panels on his homes and eats synthetic meats | Daily Mail Online – Coldstreams Business and Tech

January 2023: Gates is flying around Australia – in his $70 million private jet – to give talks on climate change: Bill Gates $70 million Gulfstream N887WM at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith on Australia visit | Daily Mail Online

May 2023: Gates has other affairs too – Jeffrey Epstein Appeared to Threaten Bill Gates Over Microsoft Co-Founder’s Affair With Russian Bridge Player – WSJ

Billionaires

The investments of 125 billionaires produce 393 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions every year, according to a report by Oxfam. (FYI am guessing this is an error prone estimate as it is doubtful Oxfam has access to their investment details.)

That’s the equivalent CO2 output to the whole of France and makes the average billionaire’s annual emissions a million times higher than a person in the poorest 90% of the world’s population, the global poverty charity says.

Billionaires emit a million times more greenhouse gases than the average person: Oxfam (cnbc.com) (That’s sourced to Oxfam which tends to cherry pick their way to conclusions.)

But it’s okay – they talk the talk about everyone else lowering their carbon footprint and buy scammy carbon offsets to not cut forests that no one was planning to cut anyway. And they use biofuels in their private jets so all is good!

Hollywood Celebrities

Leonardo DiCaprio is well known for his climate change activism. But the lifestyle changes he demands of others to mitigate climate change do not apply to him.

In 2016, he was in Europe at the Cannes film festival, and flew back to the U.S. on a private jet to receive an environmental award (yes, really), and then flew back to Cannes the next day (saying he rode along, on the return flight, with someone else who was headed to Cannes – he jet pooled!)

Shirtless Leonardo DiCaprio yachts in Saint-Tropez and more star snaps | Page Six –> Leonardo DiCaprio funneled grants through dark money group to fund climate nuisance lawsuits, emails show | Fox News

Lots of celebrities enjoy the high life while telling us how to live ours. “We” (meaning you but not him) must act immediately.

More Hollywood Celebrities

In late July, Leonardo DiCaprio, Katy Perry, Chris Martin, Harry Styles, Nick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra, and Orlando Bloom flew by private jet to an elite Google conference [in Italy] to discuss new ways to moralize about climate change. (Prince Harry lectured the crowd in bare feet.)

The Real Reason They Behave Hypocritically On Climate Change Is Because They Want To (forbes.com)

Dr. Lise Van Susteren

Dr. Van Susteren is a psychiatrist who has a specialty in the mental health impacts of climate change.

She travels the world lecturing on climate change: “In September 2006, she was chosen as one of the first fifty persons to be trained in Nashville by Al Gore to give her version of his global warming slide show, the basis of the documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.” She returned several times to Nashville as a Senior Trainer and was subsequently named to the Board of Directors of The Climate Project. She has presented her slide show to over 100 educational, religious, political, environmental and business audiences in the United States and abroad. She has traveled to the Arctic to lecture on the impact of global warming there and frequently lectures on the health effects of climate change

Dr. Van Susteren, a global traveler, appears in this article about “flight shaming” and is quoted in the context of discouraging air travel. The elite do what they want, and after spending a lifetime of air travel, turn around and tell us to be ashamed of traveling by air. She says climate change advocates must “lead by example“. But what is their example? That it’s okay for elite to do as they damn please while telling us useless peons to walk everywhere?

From Wisconsin in the U.S., she traveled to France and attended medical school in Paris in the 1970s, did an internship in Togo in West Africa, and then a residency in the U.S. Am guessing she traveled to France prior to deciding to attend med school in Paris, on family trips, or study abroad or for recreation, or all of those.

She is the sister of elite Greta Van Susteren who has traveled extensively all over the world. Greta has 3 homes and an 80-foot yacht. Climate change is following the Covid public health playbook – rule by technocratic elite who ignore their own guidance because they are more important than us worthless peons.

World Climate Leaders Fly Private Jets to Scotland Climate Meeting COP26

More than 400 private jets, many of which were airliner class jets, not small biz jets, flew to Scotland to attend the COP26 climate meeting.

There were so many private jets that some were relocated to airports as far south as London (meaning a flight to Glasgow to drop off the elite, then a flight to southern England to park, and then a return flight at the end of the conference, before returning to their home country).

Private jets flying to COP26 in Glasgow will blast more CO2 than 1600 Scots pump out in a year – Daily Record

This hypocrisy will be repeated at COP27 in November 2022 in Egypt (Update – again over 400 private jets to Egypt, and COP28 in 2023). Conference success is determined by how many rules, restrictions, and expenses the elite foist on the commoners while continuing to jet about the globe, exempt from their restrictions.

30,000 (or more likely 40,000 as that is how many attended COP26) delegates have flown to Egypt from about 200 countries to attend COP27. Presumably, like COP26, hundreds of private jets will have made the trip to Egypt.

27 in Egypt to lecture on climate change initiatives.

COP27 40,000 delegates in Egypt

I do not know where this cartoon came from – was shared on social media.

Cop27 in Egypt: Activists hit out at VIP menu featuring beef, chicken, fish and dairy products | Daily Mail Online – elite climate activists tell us to stop eating meat and eat vegetarian – while they feed on meat products. The salmon was flown in from the North Atlantic. Because. Climate.

The menu:

And like COP26: FOUR HUNDRED private jets arrived in Egypt during COP27 as climate delegates accused of ‘hypocrisy’ | Daily Mail Online

Of course. Because they are more important than you. Shut up peons.

Having Children is an “act of cruelty and barbarism”

Throughout history, the lives of nearly everyone have improved over time. Take a look at global poverty and literacy rates, life spans, and other metrics, over time. Everywhere we look, life is getting better, over time. And not just a little bit but by huge amounts. (See the book SuperAbundance.)

The global fertility rate is about 2.3 and dropping rapidly. It’s been dropping since about 1960. The U.S. dropped below 2.1 in 1972/73. But you didn’t know that. See the Demographics series on this web site or read the book “Empty Planet”.

The brain of @Ecowarriorss is stuck in 1970 – the baby boom was a bizarre anomaly since reversed – but many of us did not know this because of experts preaching disinformation that was swallowed hook, line and sinker by non-skeptical media:

US Fertility Rate

The global fertility rate will soon cross below 2.1. 75% of the world’s population now lives in countries with negative population growth rate below the 2.1 value (per Zeihan).

Dozens and dozens of countries have been in decline for decades. Read the Demographics posts on this web site or read the book “Empty Planet” or “SuperAbundance” (or other books on this topic), or reach books by Peter Zeihan or watch his free videos on Youtube, to understand why and what this means.

Global Travel is Fine If You Document How Bad Everything Is

There is a gaggle of writers, journalists, artists, environmentalists, photographers who extensively travel the world to document “environmental catastrophe”. If you are documenting a “catastrophe”, you can fly as much as you want and have a carbon foot print the size of the moon!

For example, from the author bio of Planet Ice: A Climate of Change, we read this modest travel itinerary (multiple times to the same areas, as this was over a 15-year period).

A trip leader for Joseph Van Os Photo SafarisJAMES MARTIN has contributed to Outdoor Photographer magazine and has seventeen books to his credit. For the Planet Ice project, he has ventured to Antarctica, Greenland, Baffin Island, the Alaska Range, Mount Everest, Patagonia, Central Africa’s Ruwenzori Mountains, Mount Kilimanjaro, the Alps, the Canadian Rockies, Glacier National Park in Montana, Ecuador’s volcanoes, Washington State’s Cascade Mountains, Alaska’s North Slope, the Three Gorges in China’s Yunnan Province, and Shishapangma, also in China.

Amazon.com: Planet Ice: A Climate for Change: 9781594850851: Martin, James: Books

The author’s past work was leading “photo tours” all over the world. But if it’s for a worthy cause, no problem!

Of course, as you may know, those who have traveled all over the world extensively now tell us only the elite who are documenting problems are acceptable people!

Peter Kalmus, NASA (He is not a hypocrite)

Peter Kalmus is a NASA scientist who had the privilege of studying at elite Harvard and Columbia Universities and now works for NASA. As an affluent government employee, he has chosen to not fly on airplanes since 2012 due to climate fear; his carbon footprint is 1/10th that of average American (Mine is 1/4th and we plan to hit 1/8th). He is a scientist working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration yet founded an organization to discourage air travel. Seems a conflict of interest that would not “fly” in the private sector.

Did he do his global travel earlier in life and can now be virtuous in saying he will no longer fly? He wants us to end fossil fuel use immediately. Those of us that have not traveled will be forced into travel lock downs and denied the experience and knowledge the elite previously obtained. They really do not want the rest of us to fly: We should be taking the high-speed rail service from Los Angeles to Honolulu… and Iceland!

He has engaged in childish pranks like chaining himself to the doors of a bank and encourages kids to go on school strikes (a strike is when people withhold labor from a job, a school strike is when kids cut class – and no one cares because they produce nothing).

December 2022. Peter Kalmus kicked out of American Geophysical Union climate conference and threatened with arrest. Kalmus is based out of Los Angeles but refuses to fly, which means he drove or took a train to Chicago to attend the conference:

He could have attended the conference online – but he chose to travel there to do a stunt that got him kicked out of the conference.

Since he does not fly, he may have taken up to 4 days to drive from Los Angeles to Chicago (paid or unpaid time?) and a similar amount afterwards. Because NASA has loads of money to waste on inefficiencies like this. Further, as he was kicked out of the conference, his attendance provides no benefits to NASA or taxpayers who likely paid his salary and travel costs.

The other scientist evicted is Rose Abramoff; she has worked all over the world and now works for the government in Oak Ridge, TN. She studied abroad in England, has worked in Japan and France and undoubtedly has been to conferences all over the planet. Jet travel for her is fine, but not for you. She is part of Scientist Rebellion – which along with Extinction Rebellion are anti-democracy groups that want to end democracy by disrupting civil society and putting the technocratic elite in charge.

They do not believe we can use facts and logic to persuade a population with a democratic government – we must overthrow the government by acting like six-year-olds because this is how smart scientists get things done! Gosh us folks are stupid – how dare we question our betters?

Update: Kalmus may be suffering an anxiety disorder and climate hypochondria. He believes we must shut down all fossil fuel usage immediately, as in tomorrow. Billions would likely die if we did that. He says he wants everyone else to suffer the same “personal hell” he is suffering – in other words, he wants you to have an anxiety disorder too. Rather than seek treatment for his anxiety, his preferred approach is to shut down the world’s economy and people’s livelihoods, make you as mentally ill as he may be, as he thinks this will make him feel better.

Gianluca Grimalda, Ph.D.

Global traveler and researcher Grimalda refuses to return back to Germany, via air, from Papua New Guinea. He says he now suffers mental illness at the thought of flying – because climate change. He would like to continue traveling the world for his research, taking weeks to months by boat or train, where possible – but his employer said he needs to return now, not in months. He is not a “climate scientist”, as portrayed by CNN – he is a “social scientist in the psychology of cooperation and in equality“. On his Twitter profile he calls himself as a social psychologist.

He traveled to Papua New Guinea by rail, coach and ferry. He departed on Feb 13th . By March 23d, he had made it to India, and had to take a flight as it was impossible for him to travel via land across Burma. His thread continues… After about a month, he arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan. I never did manage to find how long his surface travel took to reach Papua New Guinea – probably 2 months?

As a coddled white collar professional, he can afford the time and expense to travel the world by land and sea. Suspect he was paid while traveling – most people are not in a position to forego 2 months of wages.

As a privileged European scientist with possibility to manage my time flexibly, I also feel the moral duty to do all of what I can to reduce carbon emissions.

gianluca grimalda on X: “As a privileged European scientist with possibility to manage my time flexibly, I also feel the moral duty to do all of what I can to reduce carbon emissions. Others such as @ClimateHuman & @KevinClimate have given up flying altogether. Others such as @Steinberg11/” / X (twitter.com)

He says “any use of energy should be made for truly necessary reasons” (like his social psychology research in the south Pacific?) As someone pointed out, couldn’t this work and data collection in Papua New Guinea be done by some other researcher closer to the island nation?

He has studied or worked in Spain, Italy, the UK, Germany, Columbia and Papua New Guinea (and likely more). He speaks English, Spanish and Italian. On his long travels to the south Pacific, he appears to have crossed through perhaps two dozen countries.

He argued in the past that we should trust public health authorities vis a vis public health NPIs for Covid (NPIs which did not work). “Prosocial” people are more likely to adhere to Covid-19 NPIs, he says. He has also glued himself to the floor as part of climate protests at VW. He was bothered that VW would allow them to leave but then not allow them back in to VW’s property…. he later left for medical reasons and was hospitalized (at public expense), but then went on a hunger strike. He opposes democracy and seeks that their small groups’ demands be fulfilled as public policy (see his Twitter comments) – rather than using facts, logic and persuasive arguments to convince the public.

Update: He was fired by his university. Standing by his principles is not being a hypocrite, however, he apparently has options (like 4 months to travel to and from his destination for six months of work) that most of the rest of the employed world does not have. He seems unaware of his privileged status to continue traveling the world, albeit, very slowly – an option not available to most. Yet he expects the rest of the world to travel as he does – and continue to pay him a professional salary while he spends 1/3d of his work time, traveling. From his social media account of his travels, this was not the kind of travel that most of us ordinary people could do due to complex cultural, language, and logistical issues that we would have no idea how to handle. The effect is that his demands (no air travel for anyone) will de facto ban travel for most of the world – except for the elite like himself who can spend months going from place to place – taking us back to the 17th century and sailing ships.

The media twits are celebrating him as a “climate researcher” hero (never mind that his own bios describe himself as a social psychologist). He emphasizes that he is a hero for being the least efficient traveler on earth (whose cost burdens of his least efficient travel were to be borne by others). Grimalda insists we must shut down all air travel. The author of the news article has a BA in journalism.

Kimberly R. Miner, Ph.D., NASA JPL Climate Scientist

Dr. Kahlmus (above), Dr. Miner and Dr. Marvel (next, below) are undoubtedly smart and hard working scientists, highly specialized within their domains. Their domain knowledge is likely similar for other climate science colleagues at NASA too.

Miner wrote a “Career Column” for Nature, about her “climate grief” leading to crying on the job.

Researchers must find personal ways to cope with impending losses — one way is by taking small solutions-oriented actions, says Kimberley R. Miner.

I’m a climate scientist. Here’s how I’m handling climate grief (nature.com)

In her column she says she is in her mid-30s. From her online biography pages, she has traveled (possibly multiple times) to the Arctic, the Antarctic, the Himalayas – “the high-mountain ranges in North America, Europe and Asia. My entire life I have pursued adventure…”. She has been to Chile and possibly Peru and probably many more countries.

As long as your are doing science, art or literary expression about climate, or you are an elite, any amount of global travel is fine. Their travel leads to profound transformative experiences for themselves (see Agnes Callard, Ph.D.) – but travel for the little people, like you and me, must be curtailed if not prohibited, as stated by many climate activists.

(Seriously, what we need is a community from diverse backgrounds that works to develop workable, sustainable solutions that lead to a better quality of life – instead, we get people immersed in a mono-culture who only see the world through their own blinders and who propose unworkable, non-sustainable climate lock downs for others (but not themselves). They take a narrow, top-down perspective, unaware of harms their actions will likely cause to others (see what public health did during Covid years) – because from their lofty elite perspective, they are the rulers of the world and with Sauron’s all seeing eye, they know the truth and the best possible solution – and you don’t. From their view, the world would be better if ruled by a technocratic elite.)

A few scientists, in the past couple of years have begun to say that the fear-mongering is a turn off – and it’s time to focus on workable solutions.

David Ho, Ph.D., Climate Scientist

He teaches at the University of Hawaii, Columbia University in New York, and also teaches in London, England and Paris France and also works for an outfit in Colorado. He developed the bamboo bike project and taught people in Africa how to do this. Undoubtedly, he rides his bike between Hawaii and the other campuses, Colorado and Africa.

Kate Marvel, Ph.D., NASA climate scientist (probably not a hypocrite)

She has tied climate change to “white supremacy” (Tweet, June 1, 20202) as part of the conversion of climate change to political science:

She says she does little field work due to the nature of her specialty. Fair enough. She did her BA at Berkeley, her PhD at Cambridge in the UK, and mentions presenting at a conference in Iran. It is likely she has traveled to other countries for research and conferences.

The very next day (June 2, 2022), Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, a public health researcher, said protesting was more important than fighting a virus – the virus for which many of us had indeed been locked down, ordered to stay home, and prohibited from accessing health care when I had a broken foot:

Modern science has become indistinguishable from political activism – based on their own actions. Perusing Twitter and Facebook, many scientists seem more politically active than in other fields. I have not posted a political item on social media since January 2016, when I concluded the primary purpose of social media was to spread propaganda messaging.

Not a Hypocrite – Yvon Chouinard

Patagonia’s founder transfers ownership into two entities to help fight the climate crisis – CNN

His company, Patagonia, was long known for its unique open workspaces, a good place to work, with childcare and other benefits, and advocacy of environmental issues, including direct financial support. However, when younger, he extensively traveled the world, including Europe and parts of Asia, in search of climbing challenges.

In 2022, he donated the entire company to a trust, so that future profits would be used to address climate change. He does have a conflict with his past global travels but he has and is putting forth what appear to be legitimate efforts to promote changes.

Neil Oliver’s Comments on the Hypocrisy of the Elite (he is NOT a hypocrite)

Neil Oliver is an archaeologist, historian, and television documentary presenter. In this video talk, he cites the hypocrisy of the elite who tell us how to live our lives while they go about spewing tons of carbon emissions and buying indulgences from the carbon church. Says it all much better than I can.

Neil Oliver points to the elite that tell us how to live their lives, but continue living their lives as usual, with carbon footprints the size of countries.

This post has been Part 1 of 2 Parts – the list grew too big and is continued in Part 2

Important – We We Have Done and Are Doing to Reduce our Carbon Footprint

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