You Get A Certain Feeling

     We know the wire services are as politicized as the media that consume their offerings. Still, now and then one must wonder whether they care whether anyone is paying attention:

     “People over-assign [climate-change] impact to actually pretty low-impact actions such as recycling, and underestimate the actual carbon impact of behaviors much more carbon intensive, like flying or eating meat,” said Madalina Vlasceanu, report co-author and professor of environmental social sciences at Stanford University.
     The top three individual actions that help the climate, including avoiding plane flights, choosing not to get a dog and using renewable electricity, were also the three that participants underestimated the most. Meanwhile, the lowest-impact actions were changing to more efficient appliances and swapping out light bulbs, recycling, and using less energy on washing clothes. Those were three of the top four overestimated actions in the report.

     Now, being a former scientist and a rational man, I’m on the “denier” side of the “global warming” / “climate change” “debate,” so none of that would have been on my agenda under any circumstances. But here’s a supposed “professor of environmental social sciences” hectoring the warmista faithful that You’re doing the wrong things!

     You get a certain feeling about these people and the ones who hearken to them. You can sense that it troubles them that those who believe their bilge aren’t sufficiently devout. Why, look at them! They’re happy! How can they allow themselves that luxury when the Cause isn’t yet triumphant?

     A priest I knew, back in my fond and foolish youth, called this “calling for the hairshirts.” And indeed, if the bull goose loonies at the pinnacle of the “global warming” / “climate change” lunacy could have their way, we’d all be wearing hairshirts 24/7 and sleeping on beds of barbed wire. They aren’t nearly as concerned about the supposed plight of the planet as they are about extinguishing the very last embers of human happiness and flourishing.

     I’ve said it before (and I type that phrase so much lately I should have a macro for it):

They hate you.

     Do not take advice, much less commands, from people who hate you.

     BY THE WAY: If you aren’t yet aware of it, Mike Hendrix has granted me contributor’s privileges at Cold Fury, so if you want more Fran – there’s no accounting for tastes, but some do, you know – you can find more there.