https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/never-waste-a-crisis-climate-alarmism-surfs-coronavirus
Coronavirus is a serious and unique global public health challenge that has crippled and shutdown much of the US and global economies with unprecedented speed and shock.
[NOTE: First posted at ClimateRealism.com]
Not surprisingly coronavirus alarm has pushed most other issues and concerns out of the news — much to the dismay of climate alarmists. But the alarmists aren’t taking displacement by coronavirus lying down.
In fact, many climate alarmists are trying to use coronavirus as a means of advancing their agenda. They are trying to surf it.
Included here are 60 tweets (a Top Ten, Dishonorable Mention & The Rest) from a wide variety of climate alarmists — activists, celebrities, media and politicians — all trying to harness coronavirus alarm for purposes of advancing climate alarmism.
Remember, as President Trump recently tweeted about the coronavirus crisis:
Top Ten
1. A silver lining of coronavirus – CBS News says you can see dolphins
2. Sky News Ed Conway in The Times (UK) – Coronavirus will kill climate skeptics
3. Democracy for America – $2 trillion coronavirus proves we can afford the Green New Deal
4. Democratic Socialists of America – Coronavirus proves we need the Green New Deal
5. DeSmogBlog – Coronavirus-type lock downs are good for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
6. Oxford historian Peter Frankopan – Coronavirus pandemic is good for the climate by collapsing industrial production
7. Greta Thunberg: Coronavirus lockdown and spending proves we can do the same for climate
8. Extinction Rebellion: Humans are the disease. Coronavirus is the cure
9. Teen climate activist Jamie Margolin: Because young people gave up spring break so old people can live to see next year, old people should consent to climate action
10. Socialist Party USA: Capitalism gave us COVID-19, so socialism now!
Dishonorable Mention: UN Chief Antonio Guterres suggests coronavirus could devastate the economy enough to ‘rebuild’ the world more ‘sustainably’
Dishonorable Mention: Angry at Trump rollback of Obama’s fuel economy standards, Obama likens (imaginary) ‘pandemic denial’ to (imaginary) climate denial and urges voters to dump Trump
The Rest (View these tweets here.)
- Inger Andersen, Director, UN Environment Programme
- Max Boot
- Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer
- Ceres
- Keith Boykin – CNN
- Andrew Cuomo
- Pascal Canfin – EU Commission, Environment Committee Chairman
- The Elders
- Christina Figueres – Former UN Climate Chief
- Financial Times
- Gizmodo
- Greenpeace UK
- Grist
- Katharine Hayhoe
- Eric Holthaus
- Inside Climate News
- Jane Fonda
- Naomi Klein
- Fred Krupp – EDF president
- League of Conservation Voters
- Seth MacFalane
- Lisa Savage – Maine Senate Candidate
- Michael Mann
- Ed Markey
- Gina McCarthy – Obama EPA chief, Current NRDC president
- Bill McKibben
- Bill McKibben
- Mother Jones
- New York City Democratic Socialists of America
- New York Times
- Niskanen Center
- Peoples Climate
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Shyguy Shawn — Radio DJ
- Dan Rather
- John Schwartz, New York Times
- Marshall Shepherd
- Steve Silberman
- Stanford Woods Institute
- Sunrise Movement
- Teen Vogue
- Thomson Reuters Foundation
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- UNEP
- Elizabeth Warren
- Marianne Williamson
- World Bank Climate
- World Health Organization
- World Resources Institute
- Yale Center on Climate Change & Health
