If you’re one of the benighted few who still can’t comprehend that WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE FROM GLOBAL WARMING, part-time actor and full-time warming scold Ed Begley Jr. has got news for you:
Whew! Too bad Stuart Varney’s desk doesn’t have some sort of spittle-guard. Sounds like Ed Begley’s bridgework is made of 100% recyclable materials.
Now, on principle, there’s nothing wrong with the lifestyle Begley wants you to lead. Frugality and conservation and respect for the environment are self-evidently noble goals. But people like Begley have turned them into a sort of secular religion, which is why we see this zealous fury at the heretics and unbelievers who dare to challenge their most cherished beliefs.
Notice the phrase Begley keeps pounding on: “peer-reviewed.” Global warming is real and you can’t prove it isn’t and shut up shut up shut up, because it’s been peer-reviewed. Well, one of the most damning revelations so far in these Climategate e-mails is that AGW researchers have been conspiring to prevent anyone who disagrees with them from being published in peer-reviewed journals. They’re saying, “If you disagree with me, you’re not my peer, and therefore you deserve no review.” There’s even discussion of having editors fired for daring to publish articles critical of AGW.
They’ve fixed the fight. Any evidence that contradicts them is inherently illegitimate because it doesn’t appear in the appropriate publications — thanks to the very people being contradicted — and any publication that disagrees with them is inherently illegitimate. They’re claiming consensus because the dissenters simply don’t count. What’s scientific about that?
To put it in terms even Ed Begley could understand: It’s kind of like casting agents stereotyping an actor as an unlikable, intensely geeky jerk, and then being reluctant to give him good roles that don’t involve being a jerk who’s intensely geeky and unlikable. Don’t you hate that sort of groupthink? How can you stifle somebody’s career just because you can’t open your mind and admit you might be wrong?
I sympathize with the guy, though. What he’s going through right now… it must be what the Pope would be feeling if Jesus came back and did a duet with Adam Lambert. What do you do when your whole life is a lie?
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I get hit every morning with the same Ed Begley commercial on the radio, driving in to work. He starts out by telling us he’s ‘Ed Begley — actor by day, dedicated environmentalist — well, pretty much all the time.’ I can’t even remember what it’s a commercial FOR; I reflexively start punching the buttons on the radio for something else. A drive-time DJ… NPR… A bouncy narcocorrida… Anything but Ed!
Begley’s meltdown in this video is faster than that of an iceberg drowning those poor polar bears. His entire reason for being – to bring us around to his way of thinking no matter what the consequences – is teetering on the brink. It’s no wonder he practically spit out his dentures on Stu Varney’s desk.
Begley has\bviously either completely misread his brief on the Climategate emails or is actively engaging in some misinformation.
His own criteria completely dismisses his most important source.
I caught his show a few months ago and he was constantly saying things like “when my house is complete I’ll produce 60% of my own energy (but he only produces 12% now).
He then announced he has lived in that house for thirty years.
Simon, I agree – there’s nothing wrong with recycling, keeping your car tuned to lower pollution, and trying to leave nothing but footprints.
But when government force tells you what to do and what not to do…well, then it’s not as noble.
I’m sure I’m saying this wrong. For some reason, the right words aren’t coming to me. So if this sounds bad, you’re probably right.
I’m fine with Ed Begley making his carbon footprint as small as possible. He’s already done a terrific job of reducing his cultural footprint.
I’m with you, Dave. You can’t legislate morality. Hey, that sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
Begley does walk the walk, more so than other global warming scolds like Dicaprio and Big Al. It must be hard to find out your religion is a sham. Still waiting for Al Gore’s comment on the whole thing…
I imagine this will be what happens to John Travolta when he finally realizes that Scientology is a scam.
Let me help out anyone that talks to Begley from now on and he starts to rant, look him in the eye and say with authority, “Shut the F Up ED”.
“it must be what the Pope would be feeling if Jesus came back and did a duet with Adam Lambert.”
If Jesus comes back, the Pope is screwed, regardless.
His points are valid–ALL of them. It’s the validity istelf that is lacking.
1) He walks the walk. Good job. No hypocrisy there.
2) He tells us all to not take our info from non-experts. Very good point.
3) He tells us to get our info from peer-reviewed studies. Still correct.
4) He tells us that our impact on the commons is what’s at stake. Still very correct.
The problems are not with his statements, but what is behind those statements:
1) No issue. Except he DOES try to influence people, contrary to point #2.
2) See point number 1.
3) Peer-reviewed suddenly doen’t hold the same meaning anymore. Now peer-reviewed means “approved by like-minded individuals.”
4) Well, I still got to give him this one.
Ultimately, like many extremists, he tries to control the argument by forcing HIS rules of the argument on us; peer-reviewed studies (regardless of the validity); ONLY take information from “climate scientists,” not those crazy physicists and geologists and weathermen; don’t listen to anybody who’s not a PHD “climate scientist” unless it’s EBG or Al Gore (science fail).
I really do like the guy for living his convictions. That’s a breath of fresh air. However, look at all the cults that have existed, and regardless of the logic presented on why the cult is dangerous or makes no sense, they all have the same issue:
BELIEVERS regardless of logic, truth, or facts.
We will NEVER get through to these fanatics.
“Why would you listen to somebody who’s trained in the scientific method? I was on St. Elsewhere!”
He tries to live an environmental lifestyle, more so than the others, yet he still works in the entertainment industry. According to the UCLA Institute of Environment, the TV and Film industry in California is a significant contributor to “America’s dirtiest skies.”
I work with a myriad of public tree-huggers, and about three months ago they adopted the party line of “now that science has reached a consensus on global warming”, or “now that everyone agrees that global warming exists”, etc.
Yesterday morning I printed up the leaks and taped them to everybody’s monitor.
Coffeepot scuttlebut initially seemed to lean towards the disgruntled janitor.
I’m going to have to let him off the hook somehow.
I spent 6 years and $16,000 about 25 years ago obtaining a BS and MS in Chemical and Fire Protection Engineering. I’m a registered Professional Engineer.
Normally I review this website for amusement in hypocrisy. It makes me chuckle. Ed Begley is nothing more than an ecologist who drives a Prius who feels he is superior. In my town we call Ed and his ilk a colostomy bag.
Just so the readers know, I’m currently working as a consultant on a project that can extract medium molecular weight hydrocarbons from recycled plastics and sell the refined distillate back to refineries. It’s amazing to me some of the research and viable science that will help solve our nation’s energy independence. Ed Begley needs to be hawking vacuum cleaners with roller balls and cinnamon scented condoms. What an idiot.
It’s fun to watch him get all mad. It’s like a fifth grader.
The science isn’t settled.
“NAH-UH, IT IS SOOOOOOO SETTLED.”
CFLs give a large portion of the population severe headaches, by the way. So…uh…what, is the government going to give me some opiates with that lightbulb regulation?
**i don’t know how to do it, but what needs to be created is a video of the various liberals screaming OVER their interviewers or partners in debate.
i can guarantee there could be a 4 hour clip of 5 second bytes without a SINGLE repeat.
**another showcase for the wonderful, tolerant, inclusive actions of Left would be a compilation of Liberal violence against those with whom they disagree. Deceivers Extraordinaire!
Wait. Is that someone with a contrary opinion on Fox News? I thought that channel was the media arm of the Republican party. I mean, that’s what the dear leader’s mouthpieces were telling us earlier this month wasn’t it?
Oh, and protecting the commons does not necessitate belief in global warming.
That smacked of awesome.
Look: I watched an ep of “Living With Ed”, which should be titled “Living With Ed and Somehow Managing NOT to Sink a Flaming Axe in His Head”. That episode featured Begley spending upwards of two hours on a treadmill–or maybe it was a stationary bike–TO MAKE TOAST. TWO. PIECES. Oftoast. His poor wife. I’d find some ecofriendly pillows with which to kill him in his sleep, if I were her. I’m not saying he’s retarded, per se. I’m saying the factory’s still there, but it’s making something different.
Mr Ed has his own line of green household cleaning products. they are sold in the health food store in my town. He also sells a water purifying system. I remember seeing this lifesize carboard Ed next to his water purifyer out in front of the store (don’t know why but it is kinda ha ha funny to me). So Ed is heavily invested in all this envirowacko stuff. Once in awhile the real Ed shows up and does a product promo.
mermaid, you should go and ask him what he thinks about the fact that the science isn’t settled. And bring your videophone. I smell Youtube.
He seems to have learned something from the last 8 years of right-wing defamation tactics. Don’t you remember that anyone who criticized a sitting president during war time was automatically a traitor? Seems that no longer applies if the president is liberal. I hate these tactics on both sides of the fence. As a scientist, I do not believe the doomsday forecasts and don’t buy that the “sky is falling” as I have not been convinced yet that the facts support this conclusion. I felt the same way about the “war on terror”. But the biggest irony here is that the environmental lobby is now using the same scare tactics that that kept Bush in office and the right is offended that the left would dare co-opt their very successful tactics.
They, like many vegans or animal activists, think that they and their way of thinking is superior and that anyone who disagrees with them is a lesser human being. What they don’t realize is that just because they think they are superior doesn’t mean I have to live their lifestyle.
No. I do remember anyone who criticzed a sitting president being a teabagger, a Nazi, un-American, an evilmonger, etc. Oh wait, that’s what’s happening now. And that’s coming from politicians and news anchors, not whichever blogs you want to point to that called Bush critics traitors.
Pearce – lol I’d probably get a more honest answer if I asked the cardboard Ed.
But it wouldn’t be nearly as Youtube-worthy. I want a temper tantrum on video.
All I know is the U.K. papers are all over this. There are way to many links to add here, but they’re easy to find. It’s awesome and I am happy that Global Warming™ is quickly becoming a punchline. Ooh here’s a joke…
Q. Why did the chicken cross the road?
A. I have no idea because all of the data from CRU, and the IPCC is now seen as fraudulent.
I think that’s hysterical.
I lol’d Pasta
I think you could make toast over a Zippo in less than two hours, but I guess that’s probably less eco-friendly.
Actually, you could rub two ecofascists together, really fast, and start a cozy blaze. The screeching usually dies down within a couple of minutes, and those hemp Phish T-shirts burn AWESOMELY.
“lifesize carboard Ed”……
1. were trees cut down to make this cardboard facsimile of Ed?
2. ink-making can’t possibly be good for the environment.
3. was fuel used by truckers to take the product from the factory to the places of sale?
4. how were those trucks manufactured? was it an eco-friendly process?
5. is the product’s packaging manufactured using eco-neutral materials and eco-neutral methods?
6. did Ed FLY to the interview in a big nasty jet or did he walk or ride his bicycle (which does not have eco-neutral materials or manufacturing, incuding rubber tires and plastics attached to the bike).
shall we go on??
Ironically, Ed’s behaviour here reminded me of many arguments I’ve had with Creationists – ironic, because the Climate Dementors* reflexive response to any degree of skepticism is to lump the skeptic in with Creationists, Flat Earthers, etc.
It’s all there: the aggressive posturing, the flat-out denial of any contrary evidence, the parrotted stock statements and finally, when they have no argument whatsoever to fall back on, bluster and outrage.
I almost feel sorry for them – like I’m the mean kid in 1st Grade who tells them that Santa Claus isn’t real … almost.
*See this link for Climate Dementors: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2747744.htm
I happened to catch one of those cable cake decorating shows, one featuring the happy Begley couple.
Mrs. Begley just happened to order a cake from a bakery which co-inky-dinkally had a camera crew following them around that week. The encounter totally summed up Hollywood ecoconscience.
Mrs Begley: (To Cake Baker) I want to order a cake for my very famous husband.
Baker: Sure, what sort of occasion is it?
Mrs B: Uhhh, well, I dunno. I just want to celebrate our love. Yeah, love. And it’s got to be a green cake
Baker: Uhm, sure. A green colored cake. For how many people?
Mrs: Oh, a biiiiig cake! But just for us. And not green, but GREEN. Greeeeeeeen.
Baker: Oh, like an enviromental theme? What do you have in mind?
They edited out 20 minutes of peroxide yammer, Mrs finally nails down I wanna green cake with love and it’s all gotta be greeeeeen green with lots of stuff and the love is green greeniness.
They show hours of agonizing of the baker deciphering greeeeeen. The baker spends decades hand crafting a 3′x3′x1′ organic green tea & pistachio cake, free form sculpted, featuring 3 large white chocolate wind turbines which spin. She decorates it all in subtle shades of swirly green buttercream and accents it with a ton of handmade hearts which appear to be propelled out of the turbine wake.
Camera then cuts to the Begley pick-up.
Ed: Oh honey! Wow. You got me a greeeeeen cake? Wow. Wow. Oh wow. It’s perfect! Wow. I can’t believe it! And it’s greeeeen. And it’s mine. For me! You got me a cake, honey! Wow. I’m so lucky to have a wife like you! Great work, honey!
Baker stands there picking dried green frosting from her work-torn fingers…
Mrs: Yep! I totally bought you a cake! I’m wonderful!
Baker props herself up in the corner, her first sleep in a week, as the snoggers continue to congratulate themselves.
Geeze. We’re the bakers, folks. We’re all the effed-over bakers.
Minnow – I saw that episode too. I wonder how much electricity it took the poor baker to make that thing. Do they think she pulled it out of her ass?
I wish she really HAD pulled it out of her ass. That would rock.
“Here’s your cake, you Aryan skidmark.”