The latest New York Times Sunday Review was graced by Justin Gillis, who served as chief environmental reporter for the paper until late 2017 and is now a contributing opinion writer free to spout in even more partisan and hysterical tones about the “troglodytes” and dangerous deniers who don’t see impending climate catastrophe: “Our Climate Future Has Arrived.”
The text box? “We ignored warnings of wildfires, flooding, heatwaves and rising oceans.” He also loved teenaged climate activist Greta Thunberg.
The online headline deck was a call to vote Democrat: “Fire, Floods and Power Outages: Our Climate Future Has Arrived — The most urgent imperative now is to turn our fear and frustration into votes.”
The tone was confidently alarmist:
Now we suffer the consequences.
In Northern California, power was cut to more than a million people this week. Near Houston, houses that flooded only two years ago just succumbed again. The South endured record-shattering fall heat waves. In Miami, salt water bubbled through street drains yet again as the rising ocean mounted a fresh assault.
All of it was predicted, in general outline, decades ago. We did not listen. Ideologues and paid shills cajoled us to ignore the warnings. Politicians cashed their checks from the fossil fuel lobbyists and slithered away.
Today, we act surprised as the climate emergency descends upon us in all its ferocity.
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As tempting as it is to blame the politicians and the fossil fuel executives for the fix we find ourselves in, that is too easy. At any time in these last three decades, we could have woken up. We could have heeded the warnings of scientists like James E. Hansen of NASA, who told Congress in 1988 that the planet was warming sharply and would continue to do so if we persisted in burning fossil fuels. We could have voted James Inhofe, the climate-denying senator from Oklahoma, out of office. Had we been aroused and angry, we could have wielded our democratic power to bring the fossil fuel companies to heel.
I remember sitting with Dr. Hansen in his NASA office the week he retired, in 2013, wondering along with him when the public revolt over the climate crisis would finally begin.
Now we have our answer. Under the unlikely leadership of a brave 16-year-old schoolgirl from Sweden, Greta Thunberg, we are marching in the streets now by the millions. We are making demands. We are angry, and should be, but let’s spare a moment to be angry at ourselves for waiting so long.
People keep asking: Is it too late?
Yes, in some sense it is. What the events in California and Miami and Houston tell us is that we are living through the risks of an altered climate now, not a hundred years from now. Expect the situation to keep getting worse for the rest of your life. The ocean will keep rising for centuries, probably much faster than today. We will lose our great coastal cities.
Gillis pivoted to voting Democrat and was unctuously servile toward “schoolgirl” Greta Thunberg:
The most urgent imperative now is to turn our fear and frustration into votes.
The climate troglodytes must be thrown out of office, starting with Donald J. Trump. We need laws with teeth to propel the clean energy transition: hard targets, bans, taxes, mandates. We cannot stand back for another presidential election in which the Republican Party lies about this issue while the Democratic Party hides from it.
Granted, “Curtail future damage!” is not an inspiring battle cry. “To the Bastille!” it is not. Yet millions of young people have begun to understand the stakes, their fears given voice by that young lady from Sweden, with her moral intelligence and her capacity to wield the truth like a rapier.
Gillis also appeared in the paper in June 2018 to mark the 30th anniversary of NASA scientist and climate scold James Hansen’s jeremiad to Congress on global warming (now “climate change”).
The Cato Institute checked up on Hansen’s predictions and came away less than impressed.
Read more at NewsBusters
The guy sound utterly delusional.
Instead of the ongoing vilification of energy PROVIDERS, I offer a constructive suggestion. This is NOT about a “climate crisis” it is about an energy TRANSITION and attendant environmental protection. If you don’t frame the debate correctly, you have no possibility of finding any SOLUTIONS. As such, the NYT editorial Board, Environmental activists, media enablers & uninformed politicians (really) face only ONE fundamental question. If fossil fuels are eliminated, then: “What CLEAN, SCALABLE & SUSTAINABLE alternative do you suggest to REPLACE 95% of domestic transportation fuel & industrial heat & 65% of our electricity generation?” All the rest of this “drama & theater” is a useless exercise and a disservice to our nation when we need to be having a thoughtful, well informed discussion about a U.S energy strategy…
Would everyone who desires advice from NYT
PLEASE STAND UP
Maybe Jeff Z ( S ) ucker would
No one with any brains would.
The climate change agenda’s by various Democrats range from a trillion dollars to several trillion. Remember that one trillion dollars is $6,800 per household. Polls have shown that most people are willing to spend $10 a month on climate change, that falls to 27% when it is $40 a month. Obviously the “troglodytes” are much more in tune with the desires of the voters. The problem is awareness. With the extreme censorship of and campaigning by the media, people may not be aware of what they are voting for.
Founders of the NY times must be spinning in their graves .
There isn’t even a pretense of balance .
I must have missed the very reassuring announcement by 500 scientists that there is NO climate emergency . We are told by a 16 year old to listen to the scientists
err …well as long as they confirm the hoax global warming .
The lead author of the first two IPCC Reports announced two weeks ago that
the whole thing is overblown . Some how I missed that cheery news in the MSM .
The global warming fear industry has made the rich richer and tens of thousands dead from fuel poverty . People will look back in disbelief that
the scam ever got air borne . One look at the people pumping its tires says it all .
Anyone who works for the New York Pravda(Times)is ether Stupid or a total socalists or both this liberal rag has never told the truth and covered up for Stalin Mao and Castro
Yeah, a great slogan would be “Vote Democrat and Destroy Our Economy”. I’m sure that will be a winner!