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PostPosted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 12:20 pm
 


Rex Murphy: There's no hypocrite like a rich, jet-setting anti-global-warming one


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The official count of private jets wafting into Palermo for the 'great consult' stands at 114, for a maximum of 300 attending — three per jet


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Today’s text is from the Gospel of Matthew, KJV: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

Every issue has its hypocrites, those who preach the cause but act its opposite.

But there is no issue on this orbiting Earth, nor has there even been, that has the burden and depth, the volume and intensity of the rawest hypocrisy — that burns on the flames of hypocrisy itself — as that of global warming.

The hypocrisy of politicians is as a bead of sand, a pimple in the shadow of Everest compared to the hollow, fake piety of the mega rich and famous gospellers of global warming.

Those howling loudest at people to use public transport — “for the planet’s sake” — should not, per exemplum, own $400-million yachts, travel themselves by private jet, have a dozen vast mansions in a dozen countries, and hold suppers that cost $100,000 in ancient Greek temples. But they do. Check out the Google Summer Camp.

This week the richest of the rich, the famousest of the famous, the most pretentious of the pretentious, convened a three-day summit in a high-luxury resort on the island of Sicily to — discuss? bemoan? illustrate? — the crisis of climate inflammation wrought by fiendish fossil fuels. It was sponsored by the two founders of Google (personal worth, 2017, US$81 billion).

The chosen ones gathered to save us all from a humid world was a rare mix, including Woody Harrelson, Diane von Furstenberg, David Geffen, Chris Martin, Leonardo DiCaprio (discoverer of the Chinook), Sacha Baron Cohen, Orlando Bloom, Katy Perry, Prince Harry and a clutch of egotist billionaires and trendoids too numerous to list.

How do I save thee (Earth). Let me count the ways?

How did this coven of illuminati get to Sicily? Did they walk and row? Come by Greyhound? Hitchhike? Nein. Official count of the private jets wafting into Palermo air for the “great consult” stands at 114. This for a maximum 300 people attending — three persons per jet.

Not all came from the carbon-rich sky. Some came by personal super-yacht.

Eric Smidt, CEO of something called Harbor Freight Tools, came on a 69-metre luxury barge Intrepid (US$150 million); a New Zealand tycoon cleaved the Mediterranean on Andromeda ($US165 million); and David Geffen floated in on Rising Sun ($US400 million).

These are not self-propelling bathtub toys. Outside of aircraft carriers and (“hi, irony”) supertankers, none want oil more. Super-yachts are vultures, gluttonous for fossil fuels. They can be rivalled only by the excesses of private jets flying thousands of miles to hold meetings to persuade the poor of the world to cut down on the consumption of fossil fuels.

It is impossible to mock this. Al Gore selling his failed cable-television network to Kuwait for US$300 million (originally purchased for US$12 million) was but a bend in the road compared to this full-on racetrack of hypocrisy. Jonathan Swift, resurrected to satirize “Google Camp,” would look on this and return to his crypt, dejected, despairing, and defeated.

A few highlights. It is reported that Prince Harry gave a “barefoot speech.” This is strange. In my experience speeches don’t even have feet. I expect what was meant was that Harry was barefoot when he gave a speech, though how that supplemented his faltering eloquence is difficult to discern. Unless going Tom Sawyer or Robinson Crusoe while staying at a $2,000-a-night resort gave the russet prince and fellow Googleites a frisson.

The world-savers rented the Temple of Hera (goddess of childbirth, scourge of mistresses — you can Google it) in the 2,500-year-old Valley of the Temples for an evening meal (US$100,000). Not everyone can light up a UNESCO World Heritage site for a private supper while being yodelled at by a pop star. What, I wonder, did they have for breakfast? Faberge eggs on nightingale tongues? For a little sightseeing, high-fuel, 200-grand Maseratis were available for all.

To their credit there were no plastic straws — silver tubes embroidered with diamonds is my guess.

I reckon this high-class global warming missionary retreat wiped out in a mere three days the presumed benefits of Canada’s useless carbon tax. Ten such summits and the Earth will barrel into the Sun: not from overheating — from perfect embarrassment that it shelters such a band of plutocratic Uriah Heeps.

It comes down to this. Those who most harangue and harass the rest of us on our “carbon” usage are the greatest wastrels of all. They owns numerous mansions, live in palaces (Harry), travel on private jets and yachts the size of Sweden, burn money by the bucket load, and toss more of those fatal carbon emissions into the air than any single person since Saddam Hussein set fire to the oilfields at the end of the Gulf War.

The great maxim of Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, was never more richly illustrated: “I’ll believe that it’s a crisis when the people who claim it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”

The motto for Google Camp: Hypocrisy, thy name is global warming. “Whited selpuchres” is too kind.




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So people don’t always live up to the rhetoric they espouse, hardly a newsflash. What is Murphy’s plan to reduce global warming exactly? Personal attacks are surprisingly ineffective in keeping those glaciers cold.


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From the OP:

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The great maxim of Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, was never more richly illustrated: “I’ll believe that it’s a crisis when the people who claim it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”


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...Why do they have to go all the way to Sicily, of all places?

With modern technology, why don't they just chat over Skype, or hold a Twitter discussion?

And in between what passes for discussion at these forums, do they spent their time tut-tutting to one another about their intellectual inferiors for liking professional wrestling, NASCAR or Call Of Duty? :roll:

Seriously, some of these activists are their own worst enemies.


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Sunnyways Sunnyways:
So people don’t always live up to the rhetoric they espouse, hardly a newsflash. What is Murphy’s plan to reduce global warming exactly?
Well for one he doesn't scurry all over the place in a private jet. And I can personally attest to the fact that Murphy doesn't own a fuel hogging mega yacht. So so far, he's doing more than the ultra wealthy fuckers that play make believe for a living and won't shut up about melting glaciers and global warming.

In 2016, Lenny DeCrappio, George Cloney, and some other Hollyweird shmuck (who's name escapes me) who won't shut up about global warming, burned more fuel flying in their private jets than 300 commuters would burn in 300 years.

Nothing worse than progressive, inbred, jet setting retards admonishing the rest of us about AGW.
Just like the stupid climate conferences. 200 private jets, lots of limos and luxury SUVs and then the asswipe politicians have the temerity to tell the rest of us we need to curb our emissions.

But here's the thing Sunnyways. Most of the loudest and most obnoxious proponents of AGW are the worst offenders. It's not a case of not always living up to their rhetoric. It's a case of them continually refusing to walk their talk. Kind'a hard to take idiots seriously when they scream about a potential climate disaster and then continue putting out more emissions in a week than the average family of four puts out in a year.


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 04, 2019 10:12 am
 


The one that always get me is how Al Gore was buying beachfront property with the money he was making preaching Warmageddon - starting with the flooding of coasts.

Stuff like that is when you start to think you might be getting scammed.


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Jealousy won't get you guys anywhere. :lol:


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 04, 2019 1:47 pm
 


Jealousy? Why are you assuming we don't have beachfront property? What's missing is the hypocrisy in claiming the world is coming to an end starting with flooding beaches before buying beachfront property. Are you assuming we're jealous of your guys' hypocrisy?

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 04, 2019 5:36 pm
 


Given that Murphy is a Climate Change ‘skeptic’, why is he bothered by all this fossil fuel use? He’s hardly the right man to deliver such a message.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 9:59 am
 


Because this "hypocrisy" bullshit is their standard straw man angle of attack. Has been since the "Al Gore is rich" chant.
Only beggars in sandals and rags are qualified to speak on environmental issues. Because no one will listen to beggars....


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herbie herbie:
Because this "hypocrisy" bullshit is their standard straw man angle of attack. Has been since the "Al Gore is rich" chant.
Only beggars in sandals and rags are qualified to speak on environmental issues. Because no one will listen to beggars....
You're an idiot. At least have people who walk their talk instead of a bunch of spoiled little prats who scream about a so-called climate crisis and then continue their jet setting lifestyles.

I guess Geffen and company aren't big on sailing yachts. Nope, need the fuel guzzling luxury mega yachts to make up for their little pee-pees. I guess the idiots who flew in to Sicily are just too important to fly commercially right? God forbid they might have to sit beside some non-famous non-wealthy peon, even in first class. Right?
I wonder though, did they discuss the climate crisis before or after they tooled around in some 15mpg luxury Maserati SUVs?

All the Americans who arrived on private jets would have needed long range jets to make the flight. Looking at the more popular makes, we're looking at an average fuel burn rate of well north of 550 gallons PER HOUR. Yet these are the same feckless c*nts telling us we're in the middle of a climate crisis. Yeah, fuck right off.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 10:41 am
 


herbie herbie:
Because this "hypocrisy" bullshit is their standard straw man angle of attack. Has been since the "Al Gore is rich" chant.
Only beggars in sandals and rags are qualified to speak on environmental issues. Because no one will listen to beggars....


One more time then...

“I’ll believe that it’s a crisis when the people who claim it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”

That's not a straw man. That's a valid point. Not the only point opposing the religion-like yet politically charged, eschatological zeal of warmiac nuttery but a point.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 12:25 pm
 


And if only they'd paddle canoes or walk halfway around the world barefoot, the crisis would be over by the time they got there.
You imply that any opinion I might have on environmental issues is invalid as I own two cars.
The point is, you can't argue climate change so you're arguing the means of travel. That's what a straw man IS.


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herbie herbie:
You imply that any opinion I might have on environmental issues is invalid as I own two cars.


I'll forgive you if they're solar. :wink:

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The point is, you can't argue climate change so you're arguing the means of travel. That's what a straw man IS.


More than just travel, and anytime you want to argue what you doodleheads are calling "The Science" come forward with it and I'll show you what actual science says that challenges it.

I was just struck by something though. You never are one of these puffed up doodleheads trying to put forward what they call evidence of what they call "The Science" so I guess I might owe you an apology there...except you're all the time insinuating that you have it. Go ahead then show it to me. Show me what's convinced you I shouldn't laugh at people nodding their gullible heads at dime-store, socialist scam artists like AOC telling them the end of the world is just around the corner cause, nice weather, unless I support them getting more money and power.

In the meantime:

“I’ll believe that it’s a crisis when the people who claim it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”


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“I’ll believe that it’s a crisis when the people who claim it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”

Fiddy, that should be your signature! :D


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