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Love this! Your dripping sarcasm is like maple syrup on pancakes, and as on the mark as William Tell piercing the apple atop a climate crusader

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Thank you! Especially for the food analogy. :)

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As much as I love our equine friends I am quite looking forward to the carnage of a four horse pile-up on the Zero-Carbon carriageway

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I hope the horses survive.

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I wonder if we could convince Al Gore or Greta Thunberg to recite this wonderful piece...

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Liam's Neeson did a dramatic reading of the Trump indictments, so we can hope...👌

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Only with the tailpipe of a running diesel car to their temple, I imagine.

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Great. Thanks for getting my day to start well.

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Always a pleasure.

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All cults eventually collapse under the weight of their lies. So how much longer can the climate cult persist? I'm worried that it can last for many more years, since they have control of the media, academia, government, Hollywood, etc...

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While you are correct, they do control that, I have a feeling this will be like Steinbeck's description of bankruptcy, slowly at first then all of a sudden

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I share the same suspicion but we may be underestimating the power of the internet. Everything comes to light more quickly these days because of it. There's hope.

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So much for the four equestrians. After you finished assaulting them with rational, logical thought, they'll never be able to find their saddles again. And we know they can't ride bareback. I have a great idea for a tshirt. "Proud Pedestrian that Survived the Boiled Roast Apocalypse!" 🤘😎🤘

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I'm saving this idea and will let you know how the design goes. Thank you!

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Fourth horse should have been "spotted or speckled" not pale... Just my thoughts... M

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I love an apocalypse story. The grannies in the EU take the cake and symbolizes all the irony of the climate activist. Btw, I’m enjoying my month long, unseasonably cool spring in Texas. We even had a spectacular celestial show this week. No doomers here, just shaking our heads at the madness.

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Enjoy it while it lasts, before all those heatwaves begin, as predicted by our betters. :D

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Those four equestrians are astride some Monty Python “Holy Grail” horse. Today, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably something built by the Klaus of the WEF.

When a society can be made to fear a carbon atom, actually 1 part of 7500 of the molecular mix in our air and the essence of life, the reason life chemistry is called organic chemistry, that society is primed for manipulation.

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In real life, a man can outwalk a horse over a long distance.

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No sure where you get your science on that.... but we can outsmart most of them!

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It's true for very fit values of a man. Humankind are cursorial hunters, which means we don't catch our prey on the short burst. We just keep following it until it falls over.

Of course, with the big brains, we also figured out things like traps and ambushes which are somewhat less work.

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Love it - "The rider (on the black horse, settled science) keeps its finger on the scientific consensus (scales) pan at all times. If it lets go, the pan with the grain of scientific fact will send the consensus flying and we can’t have that." What a fantastic analogy, despite the fact that you must have meant it was the grain of fact that would go flying. It could also apply to the mRNA vaccines, nuclear fusion dreams, 20 ton backup batteries that will only provide 250KW for 4 hours, EV pickups that can't pull a trailer uphill on a cold day, and the hypothesis of evolution and that life miraculously and unscientifically came from non-life.

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The grain of fact is heavier than the consensus because it's real, or so my thinking went.

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Oh, OK - good point. A grain of truth is worth a ton of lies.

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Brilliant!

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Love this - of course it's horses in the conversation... what's not to love? We are all trying to rein in those horses and their most useless of horsemen.... sorry equestrians.... but unfortunately they seem to be well out ahead for now.

The "grandma" ruling was a sad blow for us old ladies and I have to say these old rich ladies must be suffering from a large dose of dementia and hypocrisy as you pointed out. For they know not what they have done! The even more sad thing is that they have been played by the puppet masters and are to stupid to even realize! But they got their pictures in the paper, more of the Greta syndrome!

Waiting for the pile-up... not soon enough.... you are more optimistic than I am today and I hope those horses can just leave their demented riders behind and run free.

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"Free the horses" is definitely a slogan I can get behind!

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Irina, great writing. I'd ask you to marry me, but I'm 72 yrs young and going into my 51st year of being married to the best woman on earth.

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You flatter me immensely. May you have another 51 years with your soulmate as I hope I get to have with mine.

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Great One 😄. Much wealth and capital destruction in this fiasco of boondoggles.

VW probably at or near the top of the list. First their $38 Billion loss with Dieselgate, now EVs. Arrogance punished?

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Yes, the punishment always comes, sooner or later.

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Ah yes. A Googolplex number of people are so deserving. Line em up.

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To be honest, I think the likes of VW that demonstrate said degree of arrogance are a tiny minority within the species but I may be too optimistic.

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The Four Equestrians by Metallica

THE EQUESTRIANS ARE DRAWING NEARER

ON VEGAN LEATHER STEEDS THEY RIDE

THEY’VE COME TOO OFFER MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING

ON THROUGH THE DEAD OF NIGHT

WITH THE FOUR EQUSTRIANS RIDE

OR CHOOSE YOUR DATE AND RECEIVE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING

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This is brilliant!

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