Tucker Carlson said climate activists want to shrink America's kids. The Fox News host aired another climate nonsense segment on his show on Monday evening, during which his guest mused that the Left could have "climate vaccines" and Carlson pitched an idea that we have endorsed on this very website. I watched it all to make sure you don't have to. Let's start.
Liberal politicians use private jets. Pete Buttigieg was the secretary of transportation. Carlson compared Buttigieg's focus on carbon emissions in transportation to a religion in which Buttigieg is a central figurehead. Carlson made a joke about our climate being in heaven. Tuck, think you should return that one to the writer's room.
Private jets are used for some of Buttigieg's travel. Carlson compared Pete to the popular and disgraced 1980s televangelist. He names and shames other climate activists, including Jeff Bezos and Taylor Swift. Taylor had a problematically large carbon footprint from her private jet use this year.
Carlson says that the true crime is against the climate. None of the planes Pete Buttigieg was flying were powered by the sun. They didn't run on a windmill or recycle French Fry oil. I would like to see a windmill on a plane.
Carlson shows how private jets emit carbon dioxide and how carbon-intensive private flights are. As damaging as private jet use is, I don't think Tucker Carlson is concerned about it.
He seems to advocate for abolishing private jets altogether, an idea we have written about favorably on this website before. He wants anyone who is serious about fighting climate change to demand a federal law against private air travel. I agree. This seems like a trap.
Carlson thought that the climate movement was about creating a permanent caste system that would allow rich and powerful people to continue to emit CO2, which is not really true. It's so close to being done, Tucker.
Joe Bastardi, author of books like The Weaponization of Weather in the Phony Climate War and a history of bad scientific takes, was introduced by Carlson. Bastardi used to work for the right-wing for-profit weather service AccuWeather before starting his own weather forecasting company. He ranted about climate change and Democrats on Fox News in September.
I will post a transcript of Bastardi's comments here.
Carlson: I’m not sure you buy the whole program that they’re laying out here, but let’s say for a moment that you did—that you really thought carbon emissions were causing climate change, and it was not just one of the many cycles this Earth has seen over the past 20 million years. Let’s say you believe that. Why wouldn’t you be mad at Pete Buttigieg and everyone else who flies private?
Bastardi: Well, I don’t know. I’ve been giving this a lot of thought today, because I had to drive from Iowa City all the way to Pittsburgh, and when I went by South Bend, oddly enough it hit me. There are three possibilities here, in my opinion, just looking at this, okay.
First is, they’ve all got climate vaccines. We don’t know about them, but unlike the covid vaccine, they actually work, so whatever they do, they’re immune from it. So that’s a possibility. That’s a long shot.
The second, Tucker, is, that if bad weather stops air travel, and it stops car travel, if you can cause more bad weather, right, then guess what? Everybody can’t drive. For instance, next week, and the week after? Watch how much bad weather comes into the United States. It’s going to be the coldest, snowiest period around the Christmas time since 2000. So we’re gonna see planes, and trains, and all these other things shut down. So if you just dump all this CO2 in the atmosphere, your assumption is, hey, CO2 causes bad weather, if I could cause more bad weather, then guess what? Other people won’t be able to fly, and we’ll have less CO2 emissions.
I'm aware that Bastardi is making jokes about vaccines and people who still fly, but also about the need to cut our CO2 emissions. Some Fox News viewers will take him literally because the jokes are bad.
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