Flygskam, the New Cool Word of 2020

The depths of stupidity seem to be bottomless, and the word flygskam is the latest example of what I can only call one of the best examples of stupidity I've ever seen.

Flygskam, for those of you not completely avant-garde is a Swedish word that literally translates as flying shame. The home of Greta Thunberg has birthed yet another candidate in the battle for the best example of stupidity ever and this time it's a word that is supposed to make you feel guilty for flying in an airplane. Doesn't matter if you're a passenger or the pilot and it doesn't matter why, now you're worthy of shame for those engines running for the entire time of the flight. If you can make it fly without the engines running, I guess it's ok ... Good luck with beating the physics of flying, though. Airplanes fly because lift overcomes gravity when thrust overcomes drag. It's that dang thrust problem that's killing the climate, I guess.

The history of man demonstrates there is no shortage of doom and gloom predictions; just read the Bible for starters. Then read about the groups of people who have climbed mountains and sat there waiting for the world to end (It hasn't so far). Add to that the nutjobs that have offed themselves in their entirety believing the mother ship was on the way to pick them up, or some other form of nonsense.

Peruse the covers of old Time magazines. Why, we were going to freeze to death in the coming ice-age predicted less than 50 years ago. Now we're all going to burn or starve, or drown if you live in a coastal city.

Fast forward to today and look what's happening. We're being told fossil fuels are going to be the end of us all and that we should stop using them. Greta even has numbers on how much more mankind can put into the air before we're all goners. Why, she's an expert because she read ... somebody else's opinion and learned to snarl.

This is, of course just another trip up the mountain. Those who choose to make the trip are free to do so, of course. The rest of us are going to go about our daily lives and watch the foolishness. There's an irony in the word flygskam, just pronounce the word a few times and I'm sure you'll pick up on it.

In a nutshell: Flygskam is ... a scam.

Here's a heads-up: Google Dr. Judith Curry. Please read what this well-credentialed in the field scientist has to say about the climate. Read about the reaction from the climate-change industry when she dared tell them the emperor has no clothes.

As the clock keeps ticking past these doomsday dates, watch for the goalposts to keep being moved time and time again. The shame and scam here are, of course ... about money, specifically government money.

Country Joe Fish was ahead of his time when he sang the Vietnam war protest song with these lyrics:

Whoopee, we all gonna die!