Surfing's stenographer thrilled that America is great again!
Last week Donald J. Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris Accord. The international environmental agreement had been signed by 196 countries last year including then President Obama and sought to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. It was non-binding and considered generally flawed but also many found it a positive step toward recognizing the dangers posed by climate change.
As Trump stood in the White House’s rose garden on a cloud dappled day he said, “We are getting out. We want fair treatment. We don’t want other countries and other leaders to laugh at us anymore. I was elected by the citizens of Pittsburgh not Paris.”
And the globe melted into a collective puddle of bewilderment and rage. Tesla founder Elon Musk withdrew from Trump’s advisory council in protest. The deposed president of the Maldives declared that Trump had sentenced the planet to death.
Halfway across the world, though, on the bucolic islands of Fiji, professional surfing’s favorite stenographer adjusted his red Make America Great Again hat and applauded. He is not from Pittsburgh nor is he from Paris. He hails from La Jolla, California but took to Facebook in praise of his supreme leader. After noting various Trump’s accomplishments…
3.3 trillion added to the economy already, recent overseas trip netted 350 billion in investment creating 1000 of new jobs, repealing crappy healthcare… PK turned his eye toward the Paris Accord.
(Trump) saved America by getting ripped off in the pointless Paris Accord. Funny that not many people know that ONLY OBAMA signed us into that deal. No congress, no voters… Under that agreement India would double their coal mines and China can build hundreds more…but we are supposed to get rid of ours? Makes sense…it doesn’t eliminate coal, it transfers it to other countries…complete scam…
Before going on to write about the 100 billion dollar fund the United States was supposed to pay into and other problems he has with not only the financial burden but also the suppositions underpinning the environmentalist argument.
Later, on his feed, he posts a YouTube video of energy theorist Alex Epstein, author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, disputing the notion that scientists are in agreement as to what actually causes global warming.
It’s a classic blood feud! Peter King vs. Climate Change!
But what do you think? Do you believe, like Elon Musk, that the United States of America and its industrial revolution has polluted for more, and far longer, than any other nation on earth or, like Peter King, do you feel the US was fed a bad deal under the Paris Accord and if China and India get to keep their coal mines we should get to keep ours too?
Are you a fossil fuel fan? Do you argue their moral case?
Is America officially great again?
PK and Richie Collins what a couple of douchebags
SO MANY SOCAL PRICKS THAT HATE TRUMP ARE COMING UNGLUED. socal people are brainwashed sheeple
Former president’s kids running and holding office has to end. Bad idea JFK jr.
Goo goo da… dump!
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No further questions, just wanted to be the last man standing here.
used to think PK was cool. met him once pretty funny. Dakota had some killer songs. Just can’t believe he’s still Christian with a post like that. what happened to being a good steward of the earth?..Revelation 11:18 – The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great — and for destroying those who destroy the earth. (NIV)
Dude, kids are a great joy in life. Teaching your kid to surf, and pushing them into waves at his first mini-grom comp is about as good as life gets. Having said that, I’ve never been to Cloudbreak, so maybe you’re right. One day I’d love to go there with my kids.
I missed BG for a day and started thumbing these comments and got RSI. Is this article a PB in comments?
A hard rain is gonna fall.
Population pressure plus the guaranteed sea level rise (we can only work to lessen it slightly now by eliminating industrial-scale anthropogenic carbon emissions altogether…right fucking now.)
Vast swathes of people moving from lower lying areas.
Fresh water tables turning brackish and unusable for even watering crops.
People are going to get kinda cramped, hungry and pissed off.
Tempers will fray and the nukes will start flying. Probably not from the big boys, but from newly armed countries with less to lose and a more mouths to feed.
I feel bad having had kids to be honest.
Holy shit, this is true? Fuck, I’m sorry. I was wrong because of the extremity of your vision. How long do we have? 10 years?
Sky is falling Al Gore, January 2006: “we have ten years before the planet will die!” January 2016: nope, still here, and no sign of impending doom.
Upvote for the Dylan reference, though. One of the best songs of the 20th century.
Actually, it would be pretty sweet to surf the new break in Las Vegas, so this doesn’t sound so bad.
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Ah, you must be right because [insert meme].
Follow the Money.
Booya. Righto. Bigly. Al-I’ll sell my network to oil-spewing Arabs-Gore stood to make a pretty penny from Paris.
Now, thanks to Trump, the little people get to make the money.
I know this is a very busy thread, but you never did answer Michaels’ question:
“what do you have to gain from being a denier?”
And I’ll further ask: What financial / personal connection tethers you to that position. Own up, even in general terms please.
You’re bustin my ball here (I gave up one in solidarity with Bruce Jenner), it is a busy thread.
Tell you what, when Ciaramella renounces Skeleton to stand in solidarity with the little people to whom he would deny a living for the sake of persistently wrong computer modelling, I’ll answer the question in full. It won’t be very exciting, mind you, and I’d hate to see him miss out on Skeleton to prove a point to a cynical Beach Grit commenter.
are you saying that Trump stands up for the little people?
Naw that’s boring. You’ve riled us up now.
Put up or shut up.
If you are not part of the solution, then you’re part of the problem, and some people (like you I suspect) are not neutral in this but active agents of doom (usually via small-mined self interest rather than actual evil-conspiracy-type stuff.)
Why are you so set on being a denier?
I have put up and not shut up here more than almost anyone, been called a cunt, stupid, etc.
But sure, I’ll add you on to my SURFERS AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING CHALLENGE. I swear to answer you in detail and in full if you and Ciaramella swear to give up international surfing in perpetuity. Local breaks only, within biking distance, or you are killing Gaia.
I await your response. After all the miners gotta go home and tell their wives to apply for food stamps, and sell the Chevy. Surely you can give up a little surfing?
Oh yeah, a new rule. You can’t watch the dream tour, and you must actively advocate for the WSL to only surf a single break, after all, and I quote:
“Population pressure plus the guaranteed sea level rise (we can only work to lessen it slightly now by eliminating industrial-scale anthropogenic carbon emissions altogether…right fucking now.)”
So stop it right fucking now. Or was it just the other guy that is supposed to do it?
To be fair, I don’t have (never had) the resources or familial leeway to go swanning off to climes abroad to bro it up at Macaronis etc.
I walk 20 mins down to my local break, even when i have a car available. So consider my end of that bargain. I have probably soaked up enough negative airmiles over the years to account for MC going to Skeleton.
As for calling you anything, I have not labelled you with any abusive slurs. (Apart from ‘Denier’)
I think the WSL is pretty boring actually. More callous money-making flappadoodles really. Selling shit to the masses ultimately.
You have provided plenty of your beloved ad hominem (in a very wide sense) attacks to slander the work and motivations of countless scientists researching various aspects of climate change. I grew up in an academic / science household and knew (know) many research scientists who in some part or another had a handle on similar issues relating to climate change: ocean chemistry etc
Let me assure you that I cannot remember a single one who was doing it for anything other than the love of scientific exploration and the joy of analytical rigour. Yeah sure they got paid a modest amount from various universities and government bodies, but they’d have gotten paid the same if the data had led the other way (no climate change). They’d have made more money doing… just about anything really. These scientists are not the sellouts you are looking for. (I know you won’t listen though)
I’m pau.
off to bed.
Sleep well, but I disagree with your analysis. Ad hominem (to the man), is when your argument is based on attacking the person, rather than the merit of their argument. For example (and I am not saying this to you in particular), when an argument consists solely of “You’re a dick, therefore you are wrong.”
One or two “dicks” may have slipped through in my comments, but on the whole, I’ve argued against positions, rather than by pure insult.
Well, I’ve not slandered scientists on this thread, and I’ve not argued that they were on the gravy train. Nevertheless, were I to do so, it is not ad hominem to question motives if the argument is that being paid by the government that supports greater limitation of freedoms, or taxation, based on your results, is a conflict of interest.
With regard to walking to surf, good for you. But Gaia doesn’t have a credit card, and gifting your carbon indulgences to Mikey doesn’t make his actions any less hypocritical. If the planet has to be saved, everyone should be like you, or there’s no point.
By the way, I, like you, have commitments that prevent international surf, so I’m forced by circumstances into doing my part. Were that to change, I’d be off faster than a Ciaramella chasing a purple African blob on a carbon-spewing, flying can.
“After all the miners gotta go home and tell their wives to apply for food stamps, and sell the Chevy”
Or, you know, accept that the world has moved on and learn a new trade. Are you shedding tears for steam engine mechanics too?
But of course, the world hasn’t moved on. There is a huge demand for coal, because it is reliable and very cheap energy. And, alas, it can’t move on because renewable tech simply isn’t affordable and the energy isn’t storable.
And, I’ll say it again, because it bears repeating, with the Paris commitment to around 25% reduction in carbon emissions, the miners are the tip of the iceberg. The US economy, which relies on consistent, affordable power, would undergo a massive contraction.
And for the record, I’m not against the idea of renewables, in fact I looked into getting some installed, it’s just a fact that you can’t run a modern country on them.
The world is moving on, rapidly and you know it. Your beloved free market is quickly figuring out that clean energy is the future. You’re being argumentative because you like it and for the sake of being argumentative. Otherwise you wouldn’t still be responding to the dozens of people calling you out. You like pissing off progressives, for some bizarre psychological reason.
I luv PK… but I hate PK’s politics! #TourNotes rule, but The Surfers sucked! https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
What would Jesus tweet?
slater is a zionist jew puppet and product of the nwo. he wants to see all surfers die so he can have all the waves on earth to himself
I agree that we need to develop a better means to store energy, as it might make renewables possible, but the fact is the tech isn’t anywhere close to implementation.
China and renewables? I am very skeptical that the country that produces the most solar panels looks to exempt itself from using them.
Personally, I hope some fascinating work being done on producing an artificial sun, can produce limitless, carbon free, and cheap energy.
what about all the houses that already are off the grid , with Solar and wind power , isn’t that proof that if all buildings were based on the same technology , that there is a case that we are very close to a tech that can replace Fossil fuel tech?
So far China is part of the Global discussion about climate change , and ways to slow down the affects , and technologies that will replace dirty fossil fuels , the USA has chosen now not to be part of these talks , the Don has not shown any Global leadership , unless of course he can use his military , such as Syria and Nth Korea , now there is something to be skeptical about!
As for your hope , try looking a bit deeper into some of the technologies , we don’t need an artificial sun , we already have a sun …try looking to the heavens , and all will become clear with a great white light showing you the path to responsible stewardship of our planet!
Put some panels on the roof of your factory, stick a windmill out front, and pile up a load of storage batteries in the closet next to the dunny… when your lights go dim and your sander can’t finish the latest batch of boards because it’s overcast and calm… blame trump
Narrow minded thinking based on ideology not facts, good luck with that. Better to be off the grid 80% of the time than not at all. Besides, that’s what storage is for.
There better be an abundance of battery storage way beyond what’s currently available and affordable for a small business…that’s not ideology.., and if you can’t produce and meet the orders you accepted, that’s third world bullshit… I’ve dealt with this non performance from Brazilian blank manufacturers since 2007. Fuck your cliche’d “narrow minded thinking” quip
you’re shaping Brazilian blanks?
Up until 2 years ago..(SurfBlanks Brazil)
No I can blame Trump for not wanting to take part in the discussion on climate change , as the USA is now no longer leading the Western World , and wants Team Merica great again ,, by becoming more nationalistic !
Ameeerica, Fuck Yeah, comin’ again to save the mother fuken day, yeah.
so is that your answer to the USA becoming nationalistic thru Trump , and not being in the global discussion on climate change?
You’re not laughing?
Chas, where were you during the presidential debates? Would have been much more watchable.
I was dying! Tears streaming down cheeks on the floor cracking up I was laughing so hard! Oh… and in my house!
Imagine a debate hosted Venice-adjacent? BG, Inert, and Stab?
Chas: Mr. Trump, you advocate grabbing women by the pussy. Me too, particularly a sockless Gabriel Medina. But, riddle me this, what is your surfing when menstruating policy?
Hahahaha! I want so bad….
ah so you and Chas , birds of a feather , watching the Buffoon vs the “anti-Christ” .
Woah turn up the HEAT !
[Ah shit, politics] Aside from who the fuck cares what Peter King thinks, everything he purports there is easily refuted crap, I’ll just clip this little bit as an example:
“…remember that $110 billion arms deal with the Saudis that he cut on his Wildly Successful Overseas Trip? It wasn’t really a deal. It was, as Bruce Reidel of the Brookings Institution deftly points out, actual fake news:
I’ve spoken to contacts in the defense business and on the Hill, and all of them say the same thing: There is no $110 billion deal. Instead, there are a bunch of letters of interest or intent, but not contracts. Many are offers that the defense industry thinks the Saudis will be interested in someday. So far nothing has been notified to the Senate for review. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the arms sales wing of the Pentagon, calls them “intended sales.” None of the deals identified so far are new, all began in the Obama administration.
Hey, speak with your contacts, and they will inform you that the president doesn’t negotiate the specifics, but opens the door to make it happen. This is exactly what happened, and your buddies will be pretty stoked if they are part of the upcoming deal.
Peter King is the dumbest person I’ve ever had the misfortune of encountering online. He understands nothing about the world, he’s uneducated, he regurgitates the angry garbage he reads on Infowars, and SURPRISE–because the world confuses him, he’s an angry person.
See you here in the comments soon, I’m sure, PK.
#IMWITHPK — ad hominem is not an argument.
Hi PK
WAZ UP, Blunted, I loved seeing you at that Trump rally.
Fuck that white supremacist pussy grabber. Fuck Jeff Sessions and his war on minorities too. Correta Scott King warned us about them in the 80’s.
MLK was a repub. pussy grabber.
Who fucking cares. he’s not the president right now
It appears that almost every comment on Peters facebook page is in complete agreement with him, yet the screen shot above shows many unhappy and angry emoji’s (now missing). So, he deleted many of the comments/commenters that disagree with his point of view. #SAD.
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so it wasn’t taken from his page, I remember reading it in a comment thread few days ago. Forget who’s it was though.
ahhhh, I retract the comment above then… so his fb friends are just like minded fools, I guess that makes sense.
Well yeah na I don’t think many friends would be siding with him. It was a pretty heated thread going on. I’m friends with him and I certainly don’t agree with him