While touting a new People magazine story about his recent trip to Alaska to warn of the dangers of climate change, during the Third Hour Today show on Thursday, NBC weatherman Al Roker lectured “climate deniers” to abandon their skepticism and think “about your grandchildren and your children.”
“We’ve got Mr. Cool right here, in People magazine, talking about climate change,” fellow 9:00 a.m. ET hour co-host and meteorologist Dylan Dreyer gushed at the beginning of the discussion.
She added: “It’s really awesome that they picked it up and what you did….up in Alaska.” Co-host Craig Melvin praised: “That’s a great spread, too.”
An image appeared on the screen of the glossy magazine profile with the headline: “Al Roker’s Climate Crusade.”
The sub-headline cheered: “An outspoken activist on global warming, the Today weatherman heads to Alaska to expose the effects of Climate Change.”
A pull-quote featured from Roker urged: “We have to take action.”
Roker fondly recalled that the writer he talked to from People, Casey Baker, “just really loves climate and was very excited about what we were doing.”
Melvin applauded his colleague’s activism on the issue: “I do love that you have made this – and your platform is massive – I love that you have made this your cause.”
It was at that point that Roker climbed atop his soapbox and admonished “climate deniers” who had a difference of opinion:
Well, look, I think it’s – even if you’re one of these climate deniers, if you don’t care about yourself, how about your grandchildren and your children?
Because this is an issue. I was so thrilled Prince Harry yesterday mentioning that the two things that he’s most concerned about, mental health and climate change.
It’s a big deal. It’s happening. And what we tried to bring to people that, what happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic. It is affecting our entire planet.
Roker has indeed spent years pushing the climate change agenda. In December, he even preached that it was a “sin” not to address the issue.
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The statement that climate change deniers should embrace the climate change agenda for the sake of their children and grandchildren is very revealing. Why would deniers (a more accurate term is climate realists) embrace an agenda they don’t believe in for the sake of their children? This gives insight on how Roker and others like him think. The only way this could make sense is if they believe climate realists actually buy into the anthropological climate change dogma. The only reason for opposing it would be economic or protecting life styles. This assumes universal buy in to a need to drastically limit emissions. I’m sure this assumption comes from telling a lie often enough and loud enough until it becomes the truth. The Nazis of the 1930’s would be envious of the success of this movement.
I very much care about the future of my children and yet to be born grandchildren. That is why it is important to protect them from the real threat, the climate change movement. In it is extreme form such as the Green New Deal it would send us into a new set of dark ages that would take generations to recover from. In less extreme forms it would result in high energy prices, more unemployment, and a significantly lower standard of living. For the sake of my children and grandchildren it is important to oppose this movement.
. When you hear “think of the grand kids you know they are out of ammo .
The grand kids are going to inherit $trillions of debt and hopefully some warming will stop them from dying from fuel poverty as the debt becomes a black hole .
China and India, nearly 3 billion people altogether. The number of new coal-fired generators they’re building is staggering. More cars, more air travel, too. Aspirations. The GND would be American capitulation, passing the torch to Asia. Why? I’m pragmatic, not a denier.
Another mistake these global warming fear-mongers make: We’re not deniers. We who know better and fight the gibberish about human-caused climate change are REJECTORS. I completely trash the idea that human activities impose a negative force on planetary processes.
How many Alaskans want to ban fossil fuels ? How many think that 2 degrees of warming is not enough? Fighting climate change in Alaska is definitely a mental health issue ( thanx Prince Harry)
What total idiot and another bald headed idiots just like Cory Booker how long has this Nit-Wit been around without his brain anyway?
So Roker polished his bonafides as a true climate warrior by flying to Alaska to preach to us about the dangers of “climate change” and use the “denier” tag to prove it’s true. What a disgusting no-nothing.