Links tagged “exr”

Shellenberger: People in the UK are at risk of dying from natural gas shortages. Still, the climate activists with “Just Stop Oil” think it’s outrageous that their government is desperately trying to produce more natural gas for its people. ... The various media stunts appeared authentically grassroots but were, in fact, financed by a $1 million grant from a philanthropic group called Climate Emergency Fund, which is funded by their heirs to the Getty and Rockefeller oil fortunes, and founded in 2019. The Board of Directors consists of a who’s-who of climate alarmism including “Don’t Look Up!” film director, Adam McKay, who donated $4 million, New Yorker writer Bill McKibben, and New York Times columnist David Wallace-Wells. The Fund and their grantees have been cheered on by the Secretary General of the United Nations and much of the mainstream media. ...

Fanatics are people with more ambition than talent. Notes Hoffer, “most of the Nazi bigwigs had artistic and literary ambitions which they could not realize. Hitler tried painting and architecture; Goebbels, drama, the novel and poetry; Rosenberg, architecture and philosophy; von Schirach, poetry; Funk, music; Streicher, painting. ‘Almost all were failures, not only by the usual vulgar criterion of success but by their own artistic criteria.’”

Via Washingtonian Mag: Various climate change groups and leaders will join together to deliver a smaller version of New York’s “climate clock” to the White House. The original clock in Union Square counts down the amount of time left for the world to prevent the effects of global warming from becoming irreversible. ... Activists with Extinction Rebellion DC will dump “heaps of cow shit” from bright pink wheelbarrows in front of the east side of the White House “in response to Biden’s bullshit climate plan.”

Climate Depot's Morano: "There are times when even climate skeptics can wholeheartedly agree with the 'climate emergency' activists from Extinction Rebellion. Today is one of those times. Kudos to Extinction Rebellion for their clear messaging and accurate portrayal of Biden's climate plan. I join in with Extinction Rebellion and second the notion that Biden's unscientific, anti-free market & mad climate efforts deserve to be buried in cow dung."