Part 1 has been extended to Part 2. Part 1 grew larger than WordPress can accommodate in a single post, the same problem I discovered on the original Covid hypocrites list. Too many hypocrites!

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah on Sustainability, the Environment, Earth Month (oprahdaily.com), Oprah & Climate Change | Discover Magazine

She travels around the world – frequently – by private jet: Climate Advocates Swift, Oprah, Spielberg Called Out for Private Jet Use (newsweek.com)

On Instagram in recent months, she posted photos from travels around the world—dancing in Marrakesh, riding camels in Jordan

Oprah, Ozempic and Apologies: WeightWatchers’ New Formula – WSJ

Climate Activists Argue for Property Destruction and Acts of Violence

Malm argues that while the majority of climate action should remain non-violent, no social sea change — from the suffragettes to the Civil Rights Movement — has succeeded through completely peaceful activism. “We shouldn’t engage in assassinations or terrorism, or use arms and things like that,” he says. “But until that line or boundary, we need virtually everything … all the way up to sabotage and property destruction.” 

Should the Climate Movement Embrace Property Destruction? – Bloomberg

To this end, they slash SUV tires – which means more oil will be consumed to manufacture new tires, and more trash will end up in landfills – and time, expense and more oil will be consumed towing the vehicles to repair.

They oppose democracy and the use of facts and logical arguments to persuade others to adopt their agenda. Instead (see Part 1 for their own words on this) they believe they need only 3.5% of the population to force change and mandates on the other 96.5%. In other words, they oppose democracy and favor authoritarian dictatorships ruled by a tiny technocratic elite – who are clearly smarter than you and I.

The climate elite believe destroying others’ property and ending democracy are appropriate measures. This screen capture is from the Bloomberg News main page, taken on January 1, 2023:

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Update – In 2023: Climate change protesters target famous sculpture at National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC (msn.com) USA Today notes they make demands based on threats of more criminal acts against the people – to get attention. They believe a minority can force change on the majority – because democracy sucks. Instead of facts, logic and persuasive argument, they hold the public hostage to enforce their viewpoint. The protestors believe they and they alone should be in charge. Your views, and harms to you do not matter. There is only one solution and it is the protestors solution. Down with Democracy!

“Last Generation”/”Letzte Generation”

Adults with the behavior of six-year-olds, representing the “Last Generation”, a self described environmental group in Germany, destroyed the “Monument of Fundamental Rights” near the Parliament building.

“It [the monument] stands as a reminder to respect our fundamental rights,” she added — including the right to freedom of expression and assembly that they [activists] themselves enjoyed.

Anger As Climate Activists Smear German Monument | Barron’s (barrons.com)

These six-year olds did this before: Climate Activists Throw ‘Black, Oily Liquid’ at a Klimt Painting in Vienna in Second Attack in the City in a Week (artnet.com)

Besides being childish, none of this leads to a reduction in carbon emissions.

Their actions have led to many becoming disenchanted with climate activists and reducing carbon emissions. Polls indicate the public is losing enthusiasm for “climate action” in part, due to behaviors of these activists.

Elite stay in “ecofriendly” Luxury Hotels

Because they can fly everywhere and spend $500 to $1000/night and you cannot. As long as the new luxury hotels brand themselves as eco-friendly, you’re good and virtuous!

This is not a parody:

Surrounding myself with nature in a secluded spot, away from life’s stressors but with creature comforts, sits high on my travel wish list, which is entirely the point of this “landscape hotel” in Alaska. Borealis Basecamp was a trendsetter with its glass-ceiling igloos, but the latest glass cube additions take it up a notch. Lie in your queen-size bed and watch an epic aurora borealis light show through 10-feet-high floor-to-ceiling windows in tiny homes tucked in Alaska’s wild forests. The cubes are spaced out so you’ll feel like you’re the only guest around. Add a hot shower with heated towels, flushable toilet and a steaming cup of cocoa and it’s easy to imagine not wanting to be anywhere but here. Two-night packages start at $1,793 per person.

New York Times, Michael and Jennifer Monteiro

Their Cape Cod Home Isn’t Small, but Its Carbon Footprint Is – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Michael and Jennifer Monteiro built a $7 million, 6,000 sq ft ocean front home ($1,200 per square foot!) with a small carbon footprint. Their hypocrisy is on fire. Rather than have modest housing, they go full hypocrite. They bulldozed the existing home (so much for restore, repair and re-use), and then built a massive mansion home right on the ocean (which is supposedly rising and will inundate their home). And this is their SECOND HOME. Total hypocrites. Was this perhaps intended as a parody?

Good grief:

Their solution was to assemble a team of French, Canadian and American specialists and import the spray rig from France.

The elite demand we alter our lifestyles while they build ocean front mansions, using imported teams and equipment, and fly their private jets. Shame on this couple and the NY Times – their hypocrisy is stunning. The media is run by incompetent morons who view themselves smarter than all the rest of us – but routinely publish garbage like this, oblivious to how it looks.

German Climate Activists Skip Court Trial … and Fly 7,000 miles to Vacation in Bali (Actually Thailand)

Two of the “no one should fly” protestors flew to Thailand, from Germany, to avoid going to trial. (The initial headlines said Bali but this was later revised to Thailand.)

Climate movement defends members who flew to Bali and skipped trial (telegraph.co.uk) (Paid link)

Alternate link: Climate movement defends members who flew to Bali and skipped trial (archive.is)

Yannick and Luisa Sonnenberg. skipped attending their trial for alleged crimes in Letze Generation protests- and instead flew 7,000 miles to Bali for a “vacation”. After called out on this, they said they flew to Thailand – because Luisa long dreamed of going there (and probably has a prior history of world travel). The activists blame “everyone else” and say we should not blame climate activists for their hypocrisy.

Many in Germany pointed to the hypocrisy of demanding others make sacrifices while they fly about the world. Indeed, they have shut down air transport because, they say, air transport is evil.

Their defense: “Letzte Generation defended their actions, saying: “They booked their flights as private people, not as climate activists. One must keep these two things separate.””

Seriously – climate activists, in their private life, can have carbon footprints the size of planets – it’s science!

The Letzte Generation children stamp their feet and glue themselves to streets to shut down traffic. In November 2022, the group stopped an emergency vehicle responding to an injured cyclist that was involved in a collision with a truck. The cyclist died in a hospital, after the delay. They have also shut down air traffic by disrupting airports – because air travel is bad, when it is done by other people.

Self-centered and opposed to democracy, they demand everyone agree with them – or else. Whiny kids that block roadways to prevent scientists and engineers working on climate solutions, and health care workers saving lives to get to work. Last Generation is funded by Getty (see part 1) who made her money from an massive oil inheritance.

Don’t fly – except it’s okay for climate activists when their climate change hat is off. They are more righteous than you. It’s ok for them to fly 7,000 miles on vacation to avoid going to trial – but if you fly, shame on you. Their two faced double standard has enraged the people of Germany, say reports.

Nicole Systrom, CIO Galvanize Climate Solutions

Her history from college studies on ward has focused on “urgent climate change solutions” to this “essential threat“. She also has an extensive dozen+ year history of domestic and global air travel to multiple continents documented on her Instagram page (she is married to the co-founder of Instagram). She has traveled, many times, to Europe, Brazil, Japan, China and other locations. As best I can tell, she has not told others to avoid flying, at least, so not as hypocritical as others on these pages.

Jack Dorsey, Tech CEO, ex of Twitter

He spent much of Covid era living on a private island in the Pacific, flying back to the U.S. on a private jet, as needed. But it’s all okay – he’s donated millions to “climate justice” organizations. He’s also vacationed in places all over the world, said he was moving to Africa for 3 months in 2020 after vacationing in “Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa”.

Larry Page, co-Founder Google

Read the story about how the hyper wealthy elite escaped to remote Pacific Islands during Covid. Google co-founder Larry Page had his $45 million yacht in the Fiji Islands. It’s okay, Google is carbon neutral... The Google co-founders really care, as they’ve jetted about the globe, lived in foreign lands (Page has residency in New Zealand), and sailed their yachts across the seas.

Stephen Spielberg

Outspoken climate activist Steven Spielberg sailed his mammoth superyacht just to enjoy the Italian Riviera. The $250 million vessel, which is longer than two Olympic-sized swimming pools, burns around 700 liters of diesel every hour even when it is not moving. – Luxurylaunches

Sean Thomas, Travel Writer

Is your pet killing the planet? | The Spectator

He travels all over the world – like A LOT – but it’s okay since he writes about evil humans and how we are killing the planet. He writes in the above column, that having several dogs – or just one malamute – is as bad for the environment as a flight on a private jet. We need to ban all pets to save the climate. So he can continue flying around the world as a travel writer – shouldn’t we ban travel writers?

George Monbiot, Activist story teller, The Guardian

Monbiot says we need to ground all air travel: On the flight path to global meltdown | George Monbiot | The Guardian. He acknowledges his own extensive world travel (by air!) shaped his world views and career. The benefits he derived from his own global travels must be denied to others because if we don’t, billions will die and the earth will catch on fire. We must destroy the aviation sector for decades to come (it would take many decades to recover from a multi-decade shut down of aviation), and be vegetarian, because what works for him, will work for you.

In late 2023, he argues for the return of mandatory face masks, and his commentary indicates lathe does not understand how the immune system works: Covid deaths are on the rise again, so what happens? Mask-wearing in hospitals is scrapped | George Monbiot | The Guardian

Emma Thompson, Actress

Emma Thompson Chills on $200 Million Superyacht Eos Like a Millionaire Hypocrite – autoevolution

She helps out Extinction Rebellion, predicts the earth will get “gloomy” and things will be so bad that we will have to “eat our pets” to obtain protein. (See Sean Thomas, above – take are of the pets problem and feed the population, and save the climate -all at the same time!)

Meanwhile, hypocrite Emma Thompson hangs out on super yachts and flies private jets. Because she is elite and you are not, and she talks the right talk, so buzz off, peon.

Burning Man Festival of Hypocrisy

80,000 people travel to the middle of no where, mostly from eco-conscious southern and northern California, to a playa in the northern Nevada desert, where they hold the largest Leave No Trace event in the world. They arrive by the thousands, driving SUVs and pick up trucks towing large trailers, or come in RVs. Burners galore run generators to power the festivities (generators are 5% of their massive carbon footprint).

They wrote “We’re in the midst of a global climate crisis.”:

The climate emergency impacts everything we value as humans and as members of the global Burning Man community. That’s why we published our 2030 Sustainability Roadmap. Our goals are to handle waste ecologically, be regenerative, and be carbon negative.

2022 Sustainability Call: Year Three Update | Burning Mandate/

Meanwhile, Burning Man filed a lawsuit to block a geothermal “clean energy” plant in northern Nevada.

In 2023, they began operating their own charter airline to fly wealthy burners in from Reno, Burbank and Oakland, CA.

They expected to fly up to 10,000 passengers to the event:

One way to typically avoid the miles-long traffic jam on the way into Burning Man — whether it’s caused by climate protesters like it was earlier this week or made worse by extreme heat and gas shortages like last year — is to charter a flight in and out of Black Rock City’s airport.

Burning Man allows single company to charter its flight program (sfgate.com)

Flying is a way to … avoid the hassles of climate protestors. Prior to operating their own airline, about 2,700 flight operations (take offs and landings) took place at the event, mostly in light aircraft carrying 1-4 people.

Is Burning Man bad for the environment? ‘Of course it is’ (usatoday.com)

Burning Man’s climate protesters block road to Black Rock City – Vox – “Building a temporary city of 80,000 people in the desert is actually bad for the planet…..The many tens of thousands of people the event attracts must travel through some of the most remote parts of the country to a destination where there are few natural resources, where everything gets trucked in, and where vast structures are lit ablaze on the last night of the festival, pumping carbon-filled smoke into the atmosphere. But over 90 percent of the event’s carbon footprint comes not from the fires themselves but from travel to and from Black Rock City”

Watch this aerial view of the thousands of huge RVs powered by huge oil-powered engines – stunning: https://youtu.be/6INIzHP3Q-o?si=FLev1yb6W-QFSloz

As long as they talk a good story about ClimateCrisis, and Climate Emergency, and Sustainability, and “we care”, it’s all good!

Burning Man is a colossal bonfire of climate hypocrites.

United States Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm

Granholm set out to demonstrate the utility of EV vehicles with an EV car trip from North Carolina to Tennesee. Her staff discovered that one of the EV charging stops they planned to use did not have sufficient working EV chargers for their small caravan of EVs. No problem – her advance team was driving a gas fueled car that they parked at one of the few “working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy”. Separately, a family with a baby on a very hot day arrived to charge their EV and found the gas car blocking the only available EV charger. They then called the cops. See Electric cars have a road trip problem: slow and unreliable charging : NPR

Further, enormous planning efforts had been made for this demonstration drive – including picking routes that would enable stopping at the few hotels that had Level 2 overnight charging.

Very hypocritical to use gas vehicles to support your EV campaign, and then use the gas vehicles to block and reserve EV chargers for yourself. A related, but obvious issue is that politicians have zero understanding of how long it takes to building large scale infrastructure. Oregon is building a new 20 mile main water pipeline – construction time is about 20 years. California is building a high speed rail line – and after 25 years of work, they will have only built half of what they promised. Bloomberg want shut down 40% of U.S. electrical generation plants by 2030 – with no plans to build replacement power generation just as we shift everything to electricity (gas stove, gas water heaters, gas cars all switch to electricity).

UK Labour MP David Lammy

Climate preacher flew from the UK to Brazil to give a talk about the environment.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan

He’s accounted for 441,000 miles of air travel since 2016 – while telling everyone else that flying is evil. As is typical, travel for him is important because he does stuff: “Climate change is the biggest threat facing our planet, with cities responsible for 70 per cent of carbon emissions worldwide. This is precisely why Sadiq has attended events overseas to lead critical discussions on the direct action major cities can take to help tackle the climate crisis while creating millions of new green jobs.” He’s made “climate action” a centerpiece of his administration.

Nathalie Kelley, Actress

Nathalie Kelley SLAMS Burning Man festival for ‘contributing to climate collapse’ | Daily Mail Online

Born in Peru, then later growing up in Australia, visiting South America when she was 16 on which she “witnessed poverty for the first time”. Her current television series was filmed mostly in Puerto Rico. She now has permanent residency in the U.S., living in Los Angeles. In 2022, she flew to the Egypt climate conference COP27 to whine about awful people not doing enough about climate change. Global traveler, she complains often about “green washing” and supports youth “climate activists”. From her Instagram page, she travels all over the world. Her trips to Europe are done “carefully”. ….”I personally did not create this climate crisis and relieving myself of that guilt has helped me greatly.

She traveled to and spent a week partying at Burning Man – while bashing the event for not doing enough for the climate.

As long as you complain about what others are doing about the climate, your own planet sized carbon footprint is fine! Nathalie Kelley is a climate hypocrite and fraud. As bad as Sophia Kianni.

Monica Humphries, Writer

Humphries is a writer for Business Insider. From her Twitter feed, she is greatly concerned about climate change – a small selection of her many posts on the topic:

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Regarding “carbon footprints”, she objects to those who “refuse to do anything meaningful to reduce theirs”:

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Prior to Business Insider, she worked for a social activist organization, and has a minor in “sustainability”.

From her writing, and her Instagram page, she has traveled to Europe multiple times, Japan, Canada, Puerto Rico, Australia and New Zealand, gone on cruise ships, and more, for many years (she’s about 27 but has extensive travel experience as a privileged writer). Recently she began staying in 5-star hotels and has flown Business Class, per her writings. Her climate concerns seem in conflict with her activist work and interests. FYI a LOT of Insider.com writers are very young global travelers – who complain about climate change. Insider.com is a “content mill” that produces tons of trashy articles created for click-bait and search engine optimization sending eyeballs to algorithmic ad generation networks (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc ad networks).

Author Amy Benson

Snapshots of the End of Travel: On Trying to Enter a Personal No-Fly Zone ‹ Literary Hub (lithub.com). Author Amy Benson documents her extensive global travel experience (massively extensive)- and that of her husband – and how it has benefited her – but today, after she has benefited extensively from travel – everyone else must embrace “sacrifice” and should give up air travel. She quotes a philosopher who says that your choices to travel mean the death of one or two people in the future. Seriously.

She is a global elitist – what was good for her is bad for you. Know your place, you non-elite peons.

Erica Berry, Writer

In the NY Times, she writes a column saying she ditches potential boyfriends who do not share her extreme anxiety and thoughts over climate change (and anxiety about nearly everything). She implies she and others want to date those willing to make necessary sacrifices such as “to do the inconvenient work of reimagining our own lives”. She ends the column by saying, basically, she will only date someone who has anxiety at least as bad as her. She attended Bowdoin College for a BA in English and Environmental Studies, and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Minnesota. The tuition, fees and housing costs at Bowdoin, in 2023, are about $85,000/year or $340,000 (obviously, she paid less in the past, and it is unknown if she received a discount – the point is that Bowdoin is an elite school.)

She did a study abroad at the University of Edinburgh. She has taught at Oxford Academia (England, France and Italy). Like so many of the literary elite, she has done much global travel – but you, dear peon, should not travel now and you should make sacrifices to help her address her mental health.

Céline Semaan Vernon, Fashion Activist and Decolonizer

She is working to reduce the environmental footprint of the fashion industry (good) but shows some hypocrisy. She is an elite, global traveler, a Canadian and Lebanon national, who speaks 4 languages and lives and works in New York. She has studied in Canada and France per her LinkedIn profile and has a BA in cybermedia and media arts. She is working with organizations in the U.S., Canada, Lebanon and Qatar. She is focused on “existential crises such as climate change and human injustices”. Fashion industry is naughty, she says, but her global travel footprint is okay because she is important and working for the right causes?

Reporter Jocelyn Timperley

She has a Masters in chemistry and a Masters in journalism and now lives in San Jose, Costa Rica, after previously living in London and working in Helsinki. A global traveler, fluent in English and French and a working ability in Spanish, she has traveled to at least 3 continents but is not happy about carbon emissions from air travel. Now that she has benefited from global air travel, she writes many stories about how awful air travel is for the climate, and we need to fly less, even suggesting we must ban all air travel until netZero aircraft are available. (FYI – shutting down the aviation industry for 20 years would put 11 million direct workers out of jobs, collapse Boeing and Airbus, eliminate jobs of aviation engineers and mechanics – destroy the entire aviation ecosystem including eliminating college aerospace engineering programs – and in 20 years, we would have to rebuild a global aviation industry from zero as there would be few people then working in any aspect of aviation- a rebuilding process that would take decades. The harms would greatly exceed the tiny benefits.)

European Council President Charles Michel

European Council President “…regularly covers the short distance from Brussels to Paris or Strasbourg to Brussels on a private jet.” In fact, 64% of his travel is via private jet, including private jet flights to climate conferences. But he’s on top of climate actions by you, just not by him: “We have a climatic gun to our head. We are living on borrowed time,” he said, before adding: “We are, and will remain, champions of climate action.”

Senator Diane Feinstein

From her web site (May 2023) climate change is really, really important:

Senator Feinstein has a proven record of fighting to protect our climate and eliminate harmful greenhouse gases. California knows all too well the dangers that climate changes poses. From worsening wildfires to longer droughts, we’re already experiencing the negative effects of climate change. Senator Feinstein supports reducing our carbon footprint through efficient technologies, reducing vehicle emissions to zero and investing in renewable energy sources.

She has a short booklet on the topic (PDF file).

In her own words: “Diesel trucks and airplanes are two of the largest sources of carbon emissions

In May of 2023, she flew back to Washington, DC by private jet.

Dianne Feinstein, one of the nation’s wealthiest senators, often flies on her husband’s private jet from Washington to California, and has reportedly offered rides on the jet to other Western senators

How the President, Cabinet Officials, Congress and First Family Fly – The Points Guy

In fact, she owned private jet. Because she’s a Senator and you are not. (Sen. Feinstein died in 2023).

Rep. Nancy Pelosi

2022: Pelosi spent almost $500K on private jets since October 2020

“Flying on a private jet is probably the worst thing you can do for the environment,” T&E aviation director Andrew Murphy said in the report. “And yet, super-rich super polluters are flying around like there’s no climate crisis.”

2023: Pelosi continues massive private jet spending after relinquishing leadership post (yahoo.com)

2023: Pelosi reaches $700K in gas-guzzling private jet payments despite pushing green energy

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

After being helicoptered from Davos to the airport, his private 737 jet broke down: Blinken Stuck in Davos After Boeing Plane Problem – Bloomberg. But it’s okay, he’s big on climate change and he’s important and you dear peon are just a worthless piece of scum. He’s doing real work, and he cares, so private airliner travel is cool for him!

Everyone at Davos

1500 private jet flights, chauffeured by helicopter, pigging out on exotic foods from around the world – where billionaires tell you not to fly, to avoid eating meat and to eat bugs and manufactured fake crap, sold by companies they own, that barely resembles meat: Climate hypocrites: The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland – Coldstreams

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg

Buttigieg has criticized others for traveling on private jets but it’s fine for him to do it: Sec. Buttigieg insists use of private planes more efficient, saves money, for some DOT travel. But it’s okay because he worries about climate change a lot and vowed to fight for NetZero emissions.

His staff argues he uses commercial flights and only uses private jets when it is a more efficient use of his time. Because his time is important and yours is not. Know your place.

Update: Except when he and family member flew to the Netherlands for a sports event honoring injured military members – on a private military jet. Because he can and you can’t.

Sen. Krysten Sinema

Former Green Party member and advocate, former Democrat but now “Independent” Senator from Arizona, flies by private jet: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has spent more than $200,000 of taxpayer funds on private jet travel: report (msn.com) She flies by private jet to “avoid wasting time”, because her time is important, but your time is not important.

Elon Musk

Musk is famous for his founding of SpaceX, buying Twitter, founding Tesla, building electric vehicles, solar panels and large-scale battery banks.

He is a prolific business jet flyer: Elon Musk’s Private Jet Travels More Than Some of the Richest US Billionaires (bloomberg.com)

In 2022, his jet flew 171 private flights equivalent to flying around the planet over 12 times.

But remember, as long are you are talking about climate change (Bill Gates, etc) taking pictures of the environment (artists bemoaning climate change while traveling around the world), or just saying you care, the lifestyle changes you demand of everyone else need not apply to you – because you are more virtuous!

Chris Stark, Chair of Britain’s Climate Change Committee

Chris Stark has directed a program to eliminate gas heating in Britain, and to replace gas heating with electric heat pumps.

This has resulted in an issue with supply and pricing of electricity.

To deal with that, Stark has directed citizens to stop heating their homes at night, and instead, heat them warmer in the afternoon, to hopefully bank heat in the home’s thermal mass, to reduce overnight electricity usage and expense. (Sounds slightly like climate rationing?)

Britain is phasing out the use of gas furnaces and replacing them with electric heat pumps (mostly). As of 2026, the sale of new (or replacement) gas furnaces will be prohibited.

Chris Stark uses a gas furnace because he is special:

“I have a gas boiler. I wish I didn’t, but I live in a flat and heat pumps are a very difficult thing to put in there,” he told the Commons environmental audit committee. “The gas boiler guy who comes round and fixes my gas boiler – it breaks very often – tells me they will never work.”

Millions Of Brits Told Not To Heat Homes At Night As Part Of ‘Net Zero’ Climate Goals | ZeroHedge

Sultan al-Jaber, CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company

He is also the president of the Conference of Parties 28, otherwise known as COP28, which is the “decision-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)”. In other words, the guy who is telling us how to survive the ClimateCrisis. COP28 meets Nov 30-Dec 12 2023, and before and during, ClimateCrisis propaganda messaging will become intense.

His company spends $1 billion per month on fossil fuels. Which is 7x more spent on fossil fuels than on low carbon options during this period.

COP27, COP28

COP28 is the event, more of a party celebration, where tens of thousands fly in from around the world (70,000 attendees in 2023) with literally hundreds and hundreds of private jets. The COP meetings are themselves hypocritical. There, the elite bemoan that folkx are flying and not everyone is vegetarian while feasting on salmon flown in from the Pacific and Atlantic. That is documented elsewhere on this blog. Update: Yes, at COP28 they are scarfing up a meat rich diet while telling us to eat fruits and vegetables and avoid meat. Their hypocrisy is unbounded. The COP meeting today use climate as a pre-text to push everyone’s agendas about everything unrelated to climate.

And of course:

The prime minister, foreign secretary and king have all taken their own private jets to travel to Cop28 in Dubai [in 2023]

Gosia Wozniaka, The Oregonian

She is the “environmental justice reporter” for The Oregonian newspaper. One recent story tells us Oregon lacks sufficient electricity generation but we should

  • replace wood stoves with electric furnaces
  • buy an electric vehicle to replace gas vehicles
  • replace your home’s gas furnace with a heat pump
  • replace your gas stove/oven with an electric one
  • install solar panels (which are not very efficient west of the Cascades due to frequent cloud cover all year) – I have solar PV on my home but I live east of the Cascades where the weather is favorable to electricity generation

Is this reporting or evangelism?

What would these “improvements” cost a typical home owner in Oregon?

  • Cost of a new electric furnace installation varies widely: $1,500 to $9,500; may require installation of 220v line, may require electric panel upgrade which can add low thousands of $s in cost.
  • Cost of replacing a gas furnace with a heat pump: $4,000 to $12,000. If using fuel oil, decommissioning the fuel tank can cost thousands of $s.
  • Cost of replacing a gas stove with an electric stove: $400 to $2,000. Cost of running a new 220v line for our kitchen cost just over $1,000, where we had to do that several years ago, which is in addition to the cost of the new electric stove and installation.
  • She did not mention it, but presumably one should replace a gas water heater with an electric water heater or even newer heat pump electric water heaters (2x to 3x more expensive than traditional water heaters).
  • Cost of solar PV: Our small system, half the size of most of our neighbors’ systems, was about $18,000 before tax credits. Cost of our neighbors’ systems was about $30,000 before tax credits. Because we heat our home using local wood pellets, our overall electricity use is about half that of our neighbors, who heat with electricity.
  • Cost of an EV comparable to a mid-range ICE vehicle: $50,000. Costs of adding an EV charging station is variable and depends on proximity to electric panel and having a circuit available for a 220 line. This can cost low hundreds to low thousands of dollars.
  • Electric cooking, heating and water heating cost up to 6x to 8x more per month to operate. Since these are the largest consumers of electricity in a home, this can easily double the monthly electric bill.

The cost of these alterations to your home, not including the purchase of an EV, could reach $50,000. Throw in an EV and we are at $100+k. How sustainable is this for the general population, when the same newspaper tells us everyone is struggling financially? How much sunk lifetime energy and emissions costs of old appliances are thrown away?

Maybe you get a 5-10% subsidy with the government giving your future tax money back to you today.

I suspect she is a very nice person, very talented at what she does and is a good reporter, but per her own web page, she appears to fly back and forth between Europe and the US frequently and likely enjoys dual citizenship privileges. She refers to herself in her Twitter bio as a “world citizen”.

Wozniacka was born in Poland when it was still a communist country. Her family became refugees in France when she was 12 years old, just a year before the Germans dismantled the Berlin Wall. Two years later, unable to stop moving, the family immigrated to the United States. Wozniacka has studied and worked on both continents and is often on the road between the two. She is fluent in English, Polish, Spanish and French (which means immersion in those cultures from likely having lived in such countries) and received her Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. She also spent a year training in long-form narrative writing at the Institute of Reportage in Warsaw, Poland.

GOSIA WOZNIACKA | journalist

She returned from the U.S. to go to college in Poland, then pursued more education in the U.S., then returned to Poland later for another program – and as she notes, “is often on the road between the two”. She has done reporting from Central America and India, as well as Europe and the U.S. While she has not – yet – advocated everyone else should not fly – this seems at odds with “environmental justice” that advocates we cut our carbon emissions to zero.

It is OK for elite to travel the world – and the most successful do so by private jet while telling the rest of us to stay home. Since they are global and we are not, they are elite. Frequent global travel is fine if you document how awful the world is and how climate change is destroying life on the planet.

Update: A few months later she wrote a new report where she acknowledged the high cost problem, and took a more realistic approach. Glad she did that.

CNBC Producer Katie Brigham

She has no STEM background, but she’s a “Journalist-Artist-Activist” who reports on climate change and energy technology for CNBC. From her Twitter feed, she’s very scared about climate change. She is, while young, already a global traveler, saying she spent her summers volunteering abroad, and for her BA in international relations she almost certainly studied abroad (and likely did other travels abroad). She also worked in Germany for a while.

Davos World Economic Forum 2023

At the elite confab, they tell us to not travel and some participants have said we must eat vegetarian food in the future – or fake meat products – while they travel and enjoy foods (even meat!) flown in from throughout the world, prepared by top chefs. But it’s okay, all of this is just conspiracy theory say the media, even though WEF has posted past items on their web site suggesting these changes to society.

At Davos, everything is in “crisis”. (“Crisis” is the go-to word for propagandists – just search Google news for “crisis” – and everything is a crisis): “it’s more that so many Davos attendees arrive with an ambitious plan to save the world, and that plan to save the world usually involves making the rest of us change to fit their visions.” A “crisis” gives an excuse to let the global elite run wild – because it is all for our best interests. Of course.

Sun Valley 2023

The same group as above, flew their private jets to Idaho for a cozy get together to discuss many things, including climate. Private jets are descending on a small-town airport as the ‘summer camp for billionaires’ kicks off (yahoo.com)

Elite Travel Expeditions in Pursuit of Learning About Climate Change

The National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society has numerous web pages and programs devoted to climate change education and that climate change threatens everything in existence. NGS tells us we should travel sustainably. and provides helpful suggestions on how we should travel sustainably.

Meanwhile, the National Geographic Society does this:

“Exploring by private jet with National Geographic is one of the most exciting ways to travel, whether you’re circumnavigating the globe or encountering the world’s legendary wildlife.

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The NGS also owns an enormous Arctic capable ship, the Endurance, providing extreme luxury to the extraordinarily wealthy virtue signaling global travelers who have already seen everything in the entire world. In fact, the NGS has a fleet of 16 luxury ships – (it is now 17 ships) so the elite can travel the world – while the NGS runs propaganda about the ClimateCrisistm

The National Geographic Society is a bonfire of hypocritical behavior. But it is all okay – as long as you document the trashing of the earth, it’s cool:Proceeds from all travel programs support the Society’s efforts to increase global understanding through exploration, education and scientific research.” See how that works? NGS wants their cake but eats it too.

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(Reminder – the National Geographic Society admitted in 2018 that for decades the NGS engaged in intense and long standing racism, cherry picked topics and sources, and presented people of color as savages, and “sexed” up stories of developing nations to make them appear more exotic. The NGS is a rotten organization – and today continues that history with their climate hypocrisy. Read the above link for details. What NGS did is appalling and I no longer consume any NGS authored content.)

Aurora Expeditions

Like the National Geographic Society that preaches climate change while selling $100,000 private jet travel trips with a fleet of cruise ships, we have Aurora Expeditions:

Aurora Expeditions Announces 2023 Climate Expedition | Adventure Travel Trade Association (adventuretravelnews.com)

In partnership with Dr Earle and Ocean Geographic, the expedition’s mission is to address the warming climate and loss of ice in the southern polar region. It will develop creative strategies to radically reduce carbon emissions. Each expedition member will help formulate 23 resolutions to inspire transformative changes for global net-zero emission by 2035

Limited to 110 expedition passengers from around the world, will join conservationists, high-profile personalities and ocean luminaries to raise public and government awareness of the splendour and importance of the Antarctic. 

“This will be a climate expedition like no other. One that can have a real impact on the future of our relationship with life on Earth,” says Dr. Earle. 

Remember – AS LONG AS YOU DOCUMENT CLIMATE CHANGE DANGER, ANY AMOUNT OF CARBON EMISSIONS FOR LUXURY TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD IS PERMISSIBLE! IT’S SCIENCE!

This is Sciencetm for the virtue signaling crowd of ultra hip, ultra wealthy whose carbon emissions are the size of a planet! Because Science! Because virtue! Because climate change!

Related from a writer who advocates visiting the Antarctic:

There’s no doubt that there are moral complications that come with traveling to Antarctica and the sub antarctic islands: How do you measure a carbon footprint against the transformative power of witnessing the world’s last remaining wildernesses? South Georgia, refreshingly, offers one example of how human intervention can turn our past mistakes around.

Journeying to South Georgia Island, the Wildest Place on Earth (msn.com)

Atlas Ocean Expeditions

After flying half way around the world to the origination port, you are then flown by private jet to access the extreme luxury Atlas Ocean ships. But it’s all okay because:

Dr. Ed Sobey, a polar oceanographer, on what we’d been seeing as well as other issues relating to Arctic wildlife, exploration, and climate change.

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It’s hard to wrap our heads around the impact of climate change on the polar regions unless you see it for yourself – seeing the majesty of the Arctic first-hand, with expert guidance to understand how fragile the region is and aboard a ship that’s at the vanguard of sustainability-minded cruising — really helps bring perspective back home.

Atlas Ocean Voyages World Navigator — Cruise Ship Review | Condé Nast Traveler (cntraveler.com)

As always, any amount of global and private jet travel and extreme luxury accommodations is fine – as long as you are learning about climate change!

White Desert Tours

White Desert Tours Antarctica Opens Wolf’s Fang Camp (travelandleisure.com)

Prices start at $62,500 to $98,000 for two people for 8 days or starting at $45,000 per person. Guests need to first fly to Cape Town, South Africa from their own home country (plus return). From Cape Town, guests are flown by private Airbus A340 or Gulfstream G550 air charter to the destination, and may also visit areas via Basler BT-67 turbo prop. But they are “carbon neutral” and provide air charter services to some scientists by using SAF and they invest in seagrass to absorb carbon. As long as you are documenting climate change, it’s all good!

The New York Times

From 2012 to 2020, The New York Times ran a global travel business called Times Journeys, both for students and another program for adults. The program ran travel tour groups all over the world – even to Antarctica.

The newspaper even offered a $135,000 around-the-world tour by chartered jet that included meetings with the Times publisher and an op-ed columnist along with a stop in Iran.

The NY Times has run several stories on the impact of private jets on climate. And features a special Climate Hub section. Private jets are bad except when the Times uses them for itself. The NY Times is inconsistent – running articles bashing private jet use while simultaneously promoting their use because some of their readers and customers are wealthy private jet flyers.

The program was ended in 2021, but not because of climate concerns – a NY Times reporter accompanying a youth travel group was accused of making racist and sexist commentary to the students, and subsequently resigned. The student tour program had been suspended during Covid and was not resumed after the 2019 allegations became public knowledge. Shortly after, Times Journeys was terminated. Prices for the adult trips ran almost $1000 per person (double occupancy assumed so 2x that) per day of travel.

Climate Crisis Travel Tours A Growing Business

Four Tours Designed To Teach Travelers About Climate Change (msn.com)

Visit the Arctic, the Anarctic, Iceland, Svalbard, the Far North – as long it’s to learn about the “climate crisis”, “boiling oceans” and the end of life as we know it today, any amount of travel is fine – even in luxury.

Sir David Attenborough

He’s likely traveled the world more than almost all of the world’s population, mostly by air. Now that he has done it, at age 92 (in 2020) he said he thinks air travel is terrible, he won’t do it again, and you should not have even 0.001% of the life experience he has had. He wants air travel “to be more expensive” to discourage others. But his planetary size air travel was okay, since he made a career out of making nature documentaries letting you know how bad everything is.

Opinion Columnist Paul Brandus

He says climate change is horrible and to question any aspect of it is politics. He doesn’t say what we are supposed to do about climate change but we should be really scared and terrified. Brandus has traveled to 53 countries “so far” and lived in several of them. According to his Linkedin bio, he’s a frequent keynote speaker at events in Europe.

Taylor Swift

She has downsized her private jet fleet but kept the bigger one: Taylor Swift Quietly Downsizes to One Private Jet (businessinsider.com). Of course, she buys scammy carbon credit indulgences from the Church of Climatology.

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Michael Bloomberg

According to a 2020 article in Vanity Fair, Michael Bloomberg owns eight houses in New York state, and “he also reportedly owns several properties in London, Florida, Colorado, and Bermuda.” Thus, Bloomberg may own a dozen homes …. According to Vanity Fair, while he was mayor of New York, Bloomberg “was known to spend weekends” at his house in Bermuda, “traveling back and forth on private jets.” And what is fueling those private jets? I’m guessing here, but it’s probably not organic shade grown quinoa.

The Billionaires Behind The Gas Bans – Robert Bryce (substack.com)

Laurene Powell Jobs

Forbes recently reported Jobs owns a Gulfstream G650 (list price $66 million) that burns about 500 gallons of jet fuel per hour. When not zooming around on her jet, she spends time on a $120 million yacht called the Venus, says The Billionaires Behind The Gas Bans – Robert Bryce (substack.com)

Her private jet travel is justified because (a) she’s important, and (b) she’s pro-ClimateCrisis and has donated $3.5 billion to climate action group The Waverley Street Foundation. From their web site, it is unclear what they do and how it would impact the climate. I cannot find anything concrete they are doing to have an impact on climate. But there is a lot of word salad on their web site.

Lynn Forester de Rothschild

Her parents made their money running a general aviation services business; she sits on the Board of Directors of the Gulfstream Corporation. She says we must make carbon so expensive it hurts enough that it causes regular folkx to modify their behavior. Says life will get really expensive for a while (like perhaps a quarter of a century). Meanwhile, people like her, and the customers of Gulfstream can continue to go on about their lives, galivanting about in their private jets – just because they can afford to purchase Carbon Indulgences, and you cannot. She married into the Rothschild dynasty, one of the wealthiest family dynasties in the world.

She is a total hypocrite and out of touch with the real world. She has likely found a way to profit from higher carbon prices and nothing is better than lobbying to force governments to make laws mandating profits to her businesses.

Jeff Bezos

Bezos reportedly owns two Gulfstream G-650ERs. After Bezos flew to the 2021 climate meeting in Glasgow, a representative from the Bezos Earth Fund told Business Insider that all was well because the billionaire “uses sustainable aviation fuel, and offsets all carbon emissions from his flights.”

Note – billionaires can afford to purchase what are regarded as scam carbon offsets. You can’t. But they use this to justify their carbon footprints the size of a planet.

Bezos is a climate change activist too – but spent $68 million on water front property in the Miami, Florida area. That makes sense for an activist who believes we are going to die form rising seas. In fact, Bezos owns numerous multi-million-dollar enormous mansions and properties all over the place – totaling about $500 million dollars worth. These are located in Washington, Texas, Florida, California, Hawaii, New York, and Washington, DC. He flies between them by private jet. But that’s all fine because he really cares about climate change believes you should radically change your life so he can continue on having a carbon foot print the size of a galaxy.

The Billionaires Behind The Gas Bans – Robert Bryce (substack.com)

Bezos is an absolute climate hypocrite.

Jeff Bezos – Again!

Jeff Bezos’ yacht produces 7K tons of carbon emissions per year: report (nypost.com)

Bezos’ half billion $ 417 foot “yacht” is eco-friendly. But he’s concerned about climate change, so no worries! Yes, it has sails (when or if they are used) but this large ship uses energy for many other functions, including the heli-pad (his fiancee is a commercial helicopter pilot). But hey, rather than not produce excess carbon emissions, he buys lots of scammy carbon credits – because he’s rich and can buy carbon indulgences. You, on the other hand, must be locked down at home, talking the once per hour bus to the grocery store, and never, ever being allowed to travel by air. Because.

Bill Gates – Again.

After traveling around Australia by private jet – to discuss climate change – as of February 22, 2023, he’s headed off to India, via private jet – to discuss climate change.

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Yesterday I read (see down below) that a group of scientists proposes we should ration food, energy and travel to protect the planet. The news article referred to Climate Lock Downs. You can be certain such unsustainable rules will never apply to any of the scientists, because they are doing God’s work.

I do not like to speak badly of Bill Gates (I have met him, several times) but he has no intention of altering his jet set lifestyle among his multiple mansions – because the wealthy will do as they please, and carry on as always while demanding the rest of us endure climate lockdowns while eating bugs. It’s called buying climate indulgences from the Church of Climate:

Meanwhile, the rest of us are asked to change our lives:

Bill Gates Again

Bill Gates gets ‘called out’ for being a ‘climate hypocrite’ (youtube.com)

He defends his massive carbon footprint – says he spends billions on climate investments and carbon offsets so he can do whatever he wants – but you dear stupid little poor peon must eat bugs while living within your 15-minute city, under climate lockdown. Travel is for the super-rich – know you place plebian!

As seen repeatedly, the uber wealthy will do whatever they please – while ordering you into lock down. They will never meaningfully change their own lifestyles. That do not seriously give a damn.

Climate Jet Setter John Kerry – Again

John Kerry’s Taxpayer-Funded Fight Against the ‘Climate Crisis’ Takes Him to Five-Star Island Resort

In addition to Kerry’s government travel, the climate official in 2019 took a private jet to a climate conference in Iceland, a decision he defended in an infamous spat with a local reporter. “It’s the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle,” Kerry said at the time. Kerry went on to quietly sell his family’s private jet to a New York City hedge fund amid accusations of environmental hypocrisy, Fox News reported Wednesday.

Instead of owning a private jet, his family likely now charters or rents flights. Apple, for example, has CEO Tim Cook fly on rented NetJets for security reasons. While the jet can be tracked, the flight is no longer associated to Apple and no one knows what plane he might be on.

Note the Buttigieg argument – sometimes it’s important and efficient for me to fly on a private jet while I tell the rest of you to remain in your residential lockdown. Because being efficient for your travel is wrong for you but right for him. If you need to go somewhere, take the 72-hour train to Chicago, or the 10-day ship across the Atlantic. But only if you have an important, elite-approved reason for travel.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA)

Here is how climatecrisis enthusiast Rep. Swalwell lives his life:

Swalwell has consistently used donor funds on limousines, flights, yachts, and posh hotels, including internationally. 

Eric Swalwell spent more campaign cash on travel and luxury accommodations than Nancy Pelosi | Fox News

He calls the climatecrisis “climate chaos”. But by his actions, he is a ClimateHypocrite.

He is exempt from the limits he will be impose on your life choices. He’s more important than you.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

On the eve of international climate talks, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited globally-important Antarctica, where ice that’s been frozen for millions of years is melting due to human-caused climate change, to send the message that “we absolutely need to act immediately.”

UN chief gives interview from melting Antarctica on eve of global climate summit (msn.com) (FYI That AP “news” story is funded by non-profit groups that give money to the AP’s climate reporting initiatives.)

He flew across the world, then ended up on a ship – for a publicity stunt – in advance of COP28, where he flies to next. By flying around the world for publicity stunts, he’s solving the climate problem.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

She is the editor and publisher of The Nation and co-founder of the Covering Climate Now “collaborative initiative”, a climate propaganda operation to persuade the target audience to adopt their agenda and through which the media should spin everything as climate related catastrophe. She has an undergraduate degree in politics. She went on to spend much of her life as a reporter, covering the USSR, and living and working in the USSR, later Russia, traveling back and forth. She likely traveled to other global locations too. Her global travels were okay because she was telling you about stuff and she is elite.

Chris Hedges

Pulitzer prize winner, Presbyterian minister, serial plagiarist, and anti-war and anti-corporation activist, he says climate change will cause “the ravaging of the planet”. He writes novels about a future “climate dystopia” and supports Extinction Rebellion (see other comments on ER in these pages – ER would like to end all air travel). He (and friends) believe we are in the “The Dawn of the Apocalypse” and support Occupy Wall Street. He has lived and worked in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Buenos Aires/Argentina, Paris/France, Israel, and other areas of the Middle East, and Sarajevo/Kosovo. Global travel was okay for him because he is elite – but travel by plebeians like you is wrong and should be forbidden, as his ER pals urge.

Hedges says strange things but being a literary elite, he’s a God – this statement is nonsense promoted by a fear monger: “The country experienced an epidemic of mega assault rifles, armed personal drones, and weaponized biological agents, all easily downloaded at home on 3D printers.” Huh? What?

Greg Dalton, Climate One

Global traveler, he headed to the Arctic in 2007 in a trip “organized by the Commonwealth Club, provided an up-close view of the effects of climate disruption in the region… Greg came face to face with the reality of climate change”. Remember, traveling around the world to exotic locations is fine, as long as long you document the ClimateCrisis. He previously worked in Beijing, Vancouver, New York and San Francisco. As an elite, he attended Occidental College (in 2023, cost is about $75,000/year) and Columbia University (MA in International Affairs, News Media/China). He left journalism to found the Climate One group within The Common Wealth Club organization, to focus on climate messaging. The Common Wealth Club, among other things, also has a Commonwealth Club Travel organization to travel “around the globe.” A future trip to Patagonia is priced at about $9000/person, double occupancy or just under $1,300/day (includes air fare to Chile).

Chris Ramsey, Adventurer

Ramsey is a global traveler and social media influencer who drove an EV “from pole-to-pole” with a supporting cast of fossil fueled vehicles, ships and aircraft. He took 10 months to cover 18,000 miles – which at 59 miles per day is just 1/4th the speed of the American West’s Pony Express. The whole thing was an absurd stunt to promote himself and his sponsors – in other words, a stunt for PR and advertising. But this pointless exercise, which actually emitted lots of carbon, was all good because of the climate golden rule: as long as you are documenting something about the ClimateCrisis, you can emit as much carbon as you want! It’s Science!

Ramsey is a clown and climate hypocrite – more here: EV Climate hypocrisy: “Pole to Pole on (Almost) Entirely Electric Power” – Coldstreams

Esther Horvath, Climate Change Photographer

As previously noted here, as long as you are documenting the climate crisis and how awful everything in the world is, you can do an unlimited amount of global travel – while insisting that others not travel and we (meaning you) must stop your evil ways. That’s how The Science works, duh. Photographer Esther Horvath, born in Hungary, worked in Vienna, and all over the world, apparently now lives in New York, but may spend most of the year traveling. From her Instagram page, she’s traveled widely by air, sea and undersea submersible.

Nimi Sarikhani, Amateur Photographer

Amateur photographer flew to Svalbard from the UK, then spent several days on an expedition ship traveling around looking for polar bears so he could take an award-winning photo of a sleeping polar bear on floating ice – because – “‘Whilst climate change is the biggest challenge we face, I hope that this photograph also inspires hope. There is still time to fix the mess we have caused.’” See how that works – you can fly around the world and travel on expensive ships as long as you are taking photos and documenting things for the ClimateCrisis! If you are not taking photos and urging others to do-something-right-now-about-the-ClimateCrisis – then you should not be traveling! Also, to get to Svalbard from the UK, you must first fly to Oslo, then transfer to a flight to Svalbard (Svalbard is part of Norway). And it works: Napping Polar Bear Photo Wins Award, Drives Climate-Crisis Awareness

See how this works? It’s “heartbreaking” (why? It’s a bear taking a nap).

Agnes Callard, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, this global elitist wrote a well publicized column arguing that we should not be traveling because us ordinary folkx are not “transformed” by travel, unlike elites like herself. As a commenter to a critique of her piece notes, this is prep’ing us to know our place – we are peons who cannot get from travel what the elite get from travel. Therefore, we should know our place and recognize that travel is bad for us – but good for the elite like Agnes Callard.

She, however, is a global traveler of great experience. In addition, she being an elite, is off on more travel that will be transformative for her but merely entertainment for idiot peons like you and I:

Past Travels and the elite travels of her children:

She’s also sufficiently elite that her children are being trained to follow in her eliteness:

This next item is a hop and a skip from suggesting we kill older people because they no longer contribute and are too old to gain anything and be transformed by travel – wow:

Would self-centered, arrogant, elitist, snob, hypocritical ass hole and jackass be appropriate ways to describe Agnes Callard? What do you think? She looks down with disgust upon the commoners from her lofty ivory tower. All she has accomplished is to convince many of us that modern philosophers contribute nothing to society and are a waste of time.

Kurt Johnson, Creative Writer

Is it possible to travel without ruining the environment? (msn.com), he asks.

These days, flying makes me uneasy beyond vertigo. After eight years of covering the climate, I have seen the conversation turn to travel and the choices are pretty grim. Enjoy this world while you can and contribute to the problem, or stay at home and watch it burn.

Exaggerate much? He then goes on to describe his travels in Europe, after traveling from Australia.

Then, from his LinkedIn Bio:

I wrote a book The Red Wake commissioned by Random House Australia. It is a hybrid of travel writing, journalism and historical inquiry which took me through Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, the Baltic states and the Caucasus.

We understand he rode his bike from Australia to the other continents, because climate. Obviously.

He has traveled all over the world because he is self-important and deserving, but you dear peon should not travel because he suffers climate induced anxiety (which is so far, the only documented health effect of climate hypotheses). He is a climate hypocrite who, after gaining the value of travel for his own self-esteem and skills is telling others that their travels are causing the world to “burn” (hyperbole much?) But you can be sure he will continue to travel, but it is all okay because he is documenting a burning world, and as long as you are telling others about your climate fear, everything is fine!

Scientists Say We Must Go to Climate Rationing and Lockdowns

This is the celebrity scientist technocratic elite’s solution – it is unsustainable, accomplishes nothing but causes actual harm. 100% guaranteed that coddled affluent elite scientists will be exempt.

This is based on a belief that (a) models are correct (see Disease Models), and (b) we can manage the climate as effectively as we managed Covid (a 100% failure). All we need is some non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) like lockdowns and face masks and we will prevent the spread of the ClimateCrisis!

Juxtaposed Headlines of the Day

CNBC, March 30, 2023

Private jet flights, mostly short runs, rose to over one half million in Europe in 2022.

The most popular destinations for private jet flights in Europe in 2022 were the French Riviera city of Nice, France’s capital of Paris and Switzerland’s second-most populous city of Geneva.

The passengers on these flights promote climate change lock downs for you but not for them.

After A While

After a while, “climate change” has little to do with climate and everything to do with a predetermined goal of a future controlled by technocratic elite authoritarians. Their solutions are heavy handed, in opposition to democracy and freedom – and in favor of rule by elite authoritarians. Their solutions are non-sustainable. This is not how we should be solving big problems – but it works for them.

The hypocrisy on display is stunning: they intend to impose draconian measures on everyone except themselves.

I have no way to know if climate change is real or not. As explained in Part 1, we do everything we can to reduce our own footprint and support continuous efficiency improvements. Our household carbon footprint is already at 10% of the average American home.

BUT the last 3 years of public health bull shit, dueling experts, inconsistent, contradictory, and incoherent messaging, and outright lies, caused me and others to distrust Expertstm. I do not believe The Expertstm understand the damage wrought by authoritative actions that proved completely wrong and failed to control Covid.

Why should we have confidence that government mandates on climate change will be effective? Or will they be like Covid, where public health NPIs had little or no positive impact but plenty of negative impacts? The elite’s track record implies the latter.

Research shows Experttm projections about the future are almost always wrong – usually worse than random guessing.

The Experts are setting us up for policy disaster – just as was done with Covid. Their position is the public is stupid, our concerns should not be listened to and we have no right to ask questions of their highly trained and experienced experts (I saw public health experts and scientists make similar claims on Twitter during Covid.) Of course, labeling anyone who disagrees with you as “stupid” is not an effective way to bully a change in perspective… but that is the path they are pursing.

As explained at the end of Part 1, I have assumed human induced climate change is real and I have been doing everything I can do to reduce my carbon footprint. BUT – when the promoters of climate change have carbon footprints the size of planetary systems, have multiple mansions and demand the rest of us ruin our lives – while they gallivant about the globe in private jets – it does not look like they believe a word of what they are proclaiming. When Sofia Kianni co-authors a “manifesto” demanding an end to air travel – and then proceeds to spend several more years up to the present as a globe trotter telling the rest of us not to travel – all I see is elite hypocrisy. They don’t care about climate – they care only about self-promotion and milking a gravy train.

The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group proposes we each be limited to one round trip air flight per two years. This will never apply to the elite of the world. (Never mind this is infeasible, unsustainable and would cause immense harm while accomplishing nothing and utterly decimate the airline industry and aviation ecosystem, collapsing aeronautical engineering programs at universities, putting Boeing and Airbus out of business, up through the airlines and airports closing, and maintenance workers. It would take decades to recover from this. In fact, the UK Fires academic group is calling for a shutdown of global aviation from 2030-2050 – which would wipe out the entire industry and education ecosystem and take generations to recover from – and what would it accomplish? Nothing.)

This is not a persuasive argument for us to sacrifice our lives so billionaires can invest in companies selling government mandated products and services that enrich other billionaires (ala Pfizer and Moderna and Covid, or Musk and EVs). It is Animal Farm where everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others – or maybe it is just communism as nearly all solutions turn our lives over to un-elected technocratic elite, since they are smarter than us (just like public health and Covid, right?)

If climate change is real, then everyone should be equal.

Messaging should focus on solutions and hope – not fear, doom and gloom causing massive mental health problems worldwide. See above – Chris Hedges, and others, have their entire shtick focused on fear, apocalypse, dystopian sci-fi nightmares, we are all going to die – when you see this messaging, it’s the same as the guy on the corner holding “The World Will End” sign and we learned long ago to laugh at these folks. It’s the same as Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb bull shit of 1968, or the inept Malthusian thinking of The Club of Rome in 1972, that set-in concrete 50 years of government policies – yet Ehrlich’s predictions were wrong, spectacularly wrong. Read Chapter 10 of SuperAbundance for a shocking list of outrageous predictions made by “experts” in the 1970s that proved false, and in retrospect look absurdly foolish – but at the time, these nonsense predictions were taken seriously, and they impacted public policies for decades.

In each case, the idiot-savants believe they were smarter than everyone else and the world would be a better place if they were in charge. Literally, governance via communist technocratic central committees.

Solutions must be oriented towards the practical and sustainable. Never flying again, never driving again, locking yourself in your own home for the rest of eternity is not sustainable and will not lead to a better future for anyone and will not make a bit of difference to the global climate. Yet this is the climate lockdown mindset, which worked so well for Covid (not).

Labeling anyone who asks questions as a “climate denier” is the propaganda technique of name calling, often coupled with bullying, and intentionally links any skeptic with “holocaust denier” – this is by design. It is modern cancel culture. Go back in history and take a look at people who were canceled, but who were in fact correct. We need to listen to all inputs.

This is identical to what occurred when people disagreed with Ehrlich’s Population Bomb bull shit, which was wrong the day his book was published. Yet his flawed ideas became the basis for 50 years of government policies. His theories became a meme where everyone knew he was right (based on the appeal to authority argumentative form) and those who disagreed were canceled and thrown off the bus. In the 1970s and 1980s, he did the talk show circuit and his wrong ideas were widely disseminated, while the few who said he was wrong, were canceled (especially economist Julian Simon).

In fact, fertility rates were already collapsing – a point few knew about because the doomerism media morons cheered and promoted Erhrlich:

U.S. fertility rate chart

I will continue to do my part to seek out continuous efficiency improvements – in a way that is sustainable. I will not, however, live my life in a cave, freezing in the darkness, and nor should you.

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