NBC late-night comedian Seth Meyers recently dedicated one of his “comedy” diatribes to denouncing “scaremongering about socialism.”
Liberals have a right to lecture us on some things, but scaremongering ain’t one of them. These are the same people who relentlessly scaremonger the American people about “climate change.”
In a recent video to promote a World Government Summit in Dubai, legendary “Star Wars” actor Harrison Ford offered the usual litany of doom.
“What does living in a 4-degrees-warmer world look like? Freshwater shortages. Higher greenhouse gas emissions. Unprecedented fires. Worldwide destruction. Is this the world we want?”
Ford added: “Our planet, the only home we’ve got, is suffering. This is the bare truth. This is our reality. It’s up to you and me to act now to face the greatest moral crisis of our time, to take action. It is time to make a difference.”
Leftists can make this kind of unproven doom case forever, and it never loses its “moral authority.”
It doesn’t matter that they’ve been selling the end of humanity since at least 1968 when Paul Ehrlich published his ludicrous manifesto “The Population Bomb.”
Did we all die over the last 50 years? Does anyone point and laugh at the elite media who eagerly pushed that “fake news”?
In 1989, Ehrlich himself narrated several long “news” segments with comical predictions on NBC’s “Today” show.
He actually predicted that end-of-days flooding would force folks to hitch their boats to the Washington Monument. Thirty years later, we’re still on terra firma.
The next year, actress Meryl Streep hosted a 10-part PBS documentary series called “Race to Save the Planet” and predicted: “By the year 2000, that’s less than 10 years away, the Earth’s climate will be warmer than it’s been in over 100,000 years. If we don’t do something, there will be enormous calamities in a very short time.”
It wasn’t true, and it never mattered, because doom is apparently always 10 years away. People didn’t believe Streep is an actual science expert. She enjoys a higher qualification.
She is a movie star, used like a commercial pitchman, the same way George Clooney tells you to drink Nespresso coffee.
Ford has used his movie star charisma for this cause for years on behalf of a group called Conservation International.
As part of this crusade, he told CNN at the summit in Dubai that this isn’t a left-right issue: “It’s not about political ideologies. … we’ve been disaggregated into political ideology groups, and we’ve got to find this middle ground to get things done.”
Touching but untrue.
As you can see from the laughable details of the “Green New Deal,” the left’s prescriptions are in no way in the middle ground, unless government being mandated to end the scourges of airplane travel and cow flatulence is mainstream.
Ford gave a speech and pointed the finger at President Trump and “climate deniers” in general. True to form, Ford muttered: “In 10 years, it may be too late.”
“We are the only member of the animal kingdom whose behavior, whose hubris can destroy the planet,” Ford lectured. “Around the world, elements of leadership — including in my own country — to preserve their stake in the status quo, deny or denigrate science. They are on the wrong side of history.”
And yet, it’s history that these people keep denying — that the ecological scaremongers have been wrong for 50 years. The hubris of the left is overwhelming, and it is shameless.
Read more at CNS News
How can you run around in a private jet and then preach to people that humans use of fossil fuel causes climate change . Same shit from people like fruit fly scientist David Suzuki , multiple houses , five kids and consumption of fossil fuels that would rival scary climate promoter Al Gore .
The sun and clouds drive climate as they have for billions of years .
Thank God we are in a warming phase . Nobody exiting New York and California is moving to Antarctica .
The Haarp Project is responsible for Global warming you can get the Patent online Harrison is right . The Haarp project is what causes Super Storms . Patent is online and any science teacher can explain . We need some one with a Voice
The HAARP project is in SE Alaska
right next to the Aleyeska pipeline.
It is a gigantic antenna array powered by a
gigantic diesel array that runs on straight light crude oil.
It pumps giga / terawatts into the ionosphere for
” weather research ”
They’re trying to develop using weather as a weapon.
Like the Pope, some has gotten to Harrison Ford. He does not have the background to understand the science and junk science. He has been told what to say. People who have celebrity status should be responsible enough to check things out before supporting a cause.
He says that 4 degrees would be a disaster. What is this based on? No one on either side of the issue can predict what a world that is 4 degrees warmer would be like. It is my guess is that it would be better. Yet, that isn’t the issue because it is obvious that carbon dioxide has little if any impact and the earth’s average temperature. The data the Al Gore presented in his “Inconvenient True” shows that temperature controls CO2 levels though he wasn’t smart enough to realize that.
Even the more moderate measures outside of the Green New Deal to fight the fake problem of climate change are very extreme and would significantly degrade our life styles and cripple the economy. The only way the environmental left has to push such an agenda is by scaremongering.
Ford said that this isn’t a left-right issue. The article pointed out that with the socialism attached to the Green New Deal it definitely is such an issue. Aside from the socialism it still is a left-right issue in that those on the left are stupid enough to buy in to the fraud where as those on the right are smart enough to recognize anthropological climate change as a scam.
Doesn’t ~4° warmer describe the Roman Warm Period? Seems like it might be pretty nice. Northern hemisphere farmers would like a bit more growing season.
Finding out how much warmer the Roman Warm Period or the Medieval Warm Period were is really difficult. In the Climate Gate emails they found statements “something had to be done” about Medieval Warm Period. The obvious reason is these warm periods show that carbon dioxide is not controlling the earth’s temperature. Some warmest web sites claim that it is warmer today than during the Medieval Warm Period. Yet, the descriptions of what it was like back then make it very clear it isn’t warmer today. Other web sites claim that the warming was limited to just England. However, data from other areas show it was world wide. The effort to do something about these warm periods shows that the climate change movement is not science but a political movement and a dishonest one.
Bald faced hypocrites. What else do you need to know?
They’ve maximized, monetized their potential. The rest of us must resist the temptation to emulate our heroes??? We should look elsewhere for role models.
The silver screen is escapism.
Turn in the keys to the Melenium Falcon Han
What a disappointment that Harrison Ford is revealed as yet another Hollywood hypocrite scold. Now, he’s the same as his Citation Sovereign, a source of overheated CO2.
Surprised Harrison Ford would not do his homework .
The scary global warming industry underpinning is based on human created climate climate models that are proven to grossly overstate warming .
Yes climate changes … congrats you pass grade 3 . Yes it has been warming and Co2 (plant food ) has increased to levels previously experienced long before Henry Ford started producing cars .
NO … humans are not going to regulate the earths temperature to some arbitrarily temperature target .
Yes the global warming fear industry is intended to be a globalist ATM .