Y2Kyoto: I Say We Start By Canceling The Olympics

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See how easy that was?

We should cancel all Olympic games until the planet’s C02 level has returned to normal
Yes, it’s the least we can do.
No, I’m just a hypocrite in tight pants.
  
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(bumped for Charles Adler listeners – new posts below)
The signatories. Of all the names I see listed, Hayley Wickenheiser’s is the most disappointing. Good grief, Hayley – you’re from Shaunavon. Talk about the k.d. lang of oil exploration.
p.s –> Go to CJOB’s Audio Vault. Get the December 11th, 1:00 PM Hour Kate starts at about 34 minutes in.

97 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: I Say We Start By Canceling The Olympics”

  1. Thanks ‘Kate’, Your right to post this pole, this is a very sensible question, that should be asked.

  2. All Olympic athletes concerned about global warming should walk, bicycle, cross-country ski, or sail to Vancouver for the upcoming games.

  4. At least the Women’s Ski Jumpers are doing their part. I could think of a number of sports that shouldn’t be in the Winter Olympics including Women’s Hockey, Curling and many of the Snow Boarding events to name a few. Think of the reduced Carbon footprint if we culled the lame competitions from the Winter Olympics. Sorry Robert W, but the level of competition in Women’s Hockey internationally is a joke.

  5. All the exercise and practice these athletes put in is for muscle development.
    Not much time or effort put in by these dufus heads towards brain development.

  11. After we cancel the olympics we can start getting rid of all that wastefull pesky govenment beaurocracy.
    Would not a small,lean,efficiant cival service and govenment have a lower carbon footprint?
    Start at home, start at the top!

  13. I don’t the olympics canceled to save the environment.
    I want em canceled to save my hard earned tax dollars from being wasted on these idiots.

  14. One of the real oddities of all this is we British Columbians (Well, your kids. I don’t have any) have p***ed away billions on the Olympics. While all this has been going on (and VANOC has been pretending to be Hitler), various folks are attempting to raise money for a NEW Children’s Hospital. With all the money we’ve wasted on the Olympics, we could have built TWO Children’s Hospitals.
    CANCEL The Olympics NOW!!!

  15. All that needless heavy breathing releasing CO2 into the air….I think they should ban all forms of exercise.

  16. sport is much like art. If it can’t stand on its own merit why should the tax payer fund it?
    I once had an argument with a Olympic hopeful in some obscure sport on how “evil Harper” wasn’t funding their “dreams”. My response was, my dream is to sit on my couch with a beer and play xbox all day where is my funding? Oh yeah I go to work 40-60 hours a week for it…

  17. “Olympic aversion”.
    RedCBC spreads the virus.
    >>> “Those that are saying anything to us are telling us they are going to avoid the Vancouver like the plague,” said Smith.”
    “The Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort has been running an expensive ad campaign to fight the Olympic aversion,”.
    …-
    “Olympic aversion grounds Vancouver-bound flights
    There are signs a phenomenon known as Olympic aversion is already hitting the travel industry in B.C., even though the 2010 Winter Games are still more than two months away.”
    “In other host cities, the well-documented Olympic effect has been shown to keep people away for months before and after the Games.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/12/10/bc-olympic-aversion-vancouver-airlines.html

  18. Indeed. We should discontinue anything other than neighbourhood sporting events, i.e. road hockey, x-country skiing and tobogganing (downhill only where terrain permits with walking up becoming as important as flying down), ice skating on naturally occurring ponds/dugouts etc.
    Think of the energy that goes into powering t-bars, lifts and trams for the sole purpose of repeatedly hurtling oneself down a hill. How now can we justify the expense of powering snow-making and grooming equipment? What must it cost to keep ice rinks frozen for practice during the dead heat of summer? Surely skating in the summer must be recognized as both unnatural and an expensive luxury! We’d also rid ourselves of the need for much highly manufactured sports equipment.
    Imagine the fuel we could save in not having to transport children to formal practices, games, and tournaments. Money spent on supporting world-class athletes and sending them around the world in polar bear bombing aircraft could be redirected to a myriad of more important human endeavors that do not contribute so massively to AGW.
    Naturally professional sports would not be immune to similar constraints. The excessive travel requirements and wasteful lifestyles of the well-paid professional athlete cannot be sensibly supported when trying to combat such a menace.
    Besides, competition isn’t good for anybody anyway.

  19. another bunch of elitist athletes on the dole.
    I wonder how many of the womens hockey team are impregnated already to increase their red blood cell count for the olympics. not to worry , they get aborted after so we are stuck with their spawn till they are ready to go on the single moms program sponsored by your same governments.

  20. Time to put these climateocracy quislings on ice. LOL
    When you think about it, global melting puts these ski lodge playboys and snow bunnies out of a job and off the public teat, I can see their drinking the AGW cool aid

  21. Instead of Olympic coverage wasting all that tv time for stuff nobody watches anyway, perhaps a reality show next spring and summer showing all of them sweating bullets trying to plant saplings month after month on newly logged BC mountain slopes. Priceless.

  22. RFC @ 12:37
    Careful what you wish for.
    With that G&M piece about calling for one-child families?
    The old-fashioned (and fun) way involves heavy breathing. Recreational “practice” will be banned eventually as well.
    Let the leftards go first to set the example.

  24. Those whom signed the letter to PMSH should lead by example. They should state that ‘they are causing to much “CO2” and quit the Olympics.
    That’s not asking to much is it?.

  25. Remember that snowboarder who lost his medal because of reefer smoke, then got it back. Said he inhaled it from the air at a party.
    Little did we know then about his next party. The Liberal party, where he plans to run as a candidate.
    Has he ever had a job or is he still sponging?

  26. Excellent comments! As one who’s been excoriated by all and sundry for my opposition to the Gordon Campbell Games,it’s nice to see others feel the same.
    We simply cannot afford the Olympics,we aren’t the forestry and mining superpower we once were. In place of those industries,we have TOURISM,with all the benefits of that type of economy.
    “the level of competition in Women’s Hockey internationally is a joke.”
    For years now I’ve dreamed of entering one of our Tier 2 Junior A teams, in drag, at the women’s tourney, just to give the fawning proponents of that sport some perspective,and the answer to why it isn’t a big draw.

  27. Maybe the amateur Olympians should ask the professional Olympians to pony up the dough and leave us alone.
    “Canada’s amateur athletic community is hoping to light a $22-million fire under parliamentarians today. Representatives of the Canadian Olympic Committee and other groups are bringing the Olympic torch to Parliament Hill, along with a pitch for a permanent increase in federal sport funding for the Own the Podium program after the 2010 Winter Games.”
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gHXsAzFepG4eIUs8Ad231WqAsP2g

  29. Ghost of Ed,that was /is Ross Rebagliatti,who now lives here in Kelowna. Met him a few years back when a local real estate company took him om board as I guess they figured his name might attract business. He’s not selling RE anymore, but has decided to run for the Liberal Party of Canada in the next federal election,against Stockwell Day.
    If the LPC really thinks he can upset Day in this riding, they must have attended some of those same smoky parties.

  30. Love it until it cries “hypocrite”!
    Ban the Olympics,travel by government officials and academics, private jets,imported luxury vehicles,taxis (let them use the subway), limousines,…am I missing any?

  31. Have you all bought your red liberal mittens.
    If the logo can be compared to the conservative logo, why not call those red mittens liberal mittens. Not buying them or watching any olympic coverage on ctv.
    As far as owning the podium, didn’t our tax dollars buy it, so don’t we already own it.

  34. I’m wondering how much carbon we can save by abolishing the senate and governor general offices. What about reducing the number of MP’s so that travel is cut down. This might even lend itself to moving toward equal representation in all parts of Canada. I think we might be onto something here.

  36. Thanks DMorris for that visual about the juniors in drag, you owe me a keyboard, I hope tea dosn’t ruin it but that was funny. And I totally agree, a neighbor has a daughter that qualified for the olympic girls hockey team but after her 7 or 8th concussion she had to quit, and when you talk to her you can tell. Just not worth it and I admire the girls for what they accomplish, but what have they really accomplished.

  40. I love it when celebrities pretend they know what the’re talking about. Makes me giggle every time.
    Hey, I wonder what Ian Bruce, “Dr. Fruitfly’s climate change expert” can demonstrate in the way of actual credentials. Let’s find out…I love Google. Okay, first of all, he is repeatedly called “Mister” Bruce in any article I can find regarding the Fruitfly Foundation. So no PhD there.
    Uh-oh, I am seeing him called a “climate change CAMPAIGNER” in some articles. That’s a bit more like it I suspect – kind of like the homeless schizoid guys downtown who are self-appointed “Jesus was an alien” campaigners. If anyone really wants to know, here’s his phone number:
    Ian Bruce
    Climate change specialist
    David Suzuki Foundation
    Cell: 604-306-5095
    Might just ring the bastid up myself…

  42. I really think we are on to something here, cancel the Olympics, have all politicians on minimum wage no pension till 65, the same pension every body else gets. No golden pension for you! Otherwise they will have too big a house, fly all over the place, too much consumption! If you own more than on house (like fruitfly) gotta go down to gas town and find homeless people to shelter there. No tax free exemption for political activists disguised as “enviro-mental-ists. (see fruitfly) I think this is all good stuff, we want you to feel Gaiia’s Pain!
    Cheers Bubba

  43. At the end of the Copenhagen Conference all flights out of Copenhagen should be cancelled. Let the politicos and delegates find their way home by tramp steamer as a symbol to all of their concern with growing carbon emissions.

  44. “the level of competition in Women’s Hockey internationally is a joke.”
    I’ve been taken out of context here. I’m speaking to the abysmal level of COMPETITION regarding women’s hockey at the Olympics. Personally I believe the level of competition is far superior in domestic Women’s Hockey leagues in N.America, and always will be. The point is, I tune into the Olympics to see the level of sports raised, not lowered in the name of political correctness. This is why I’ve boycotted Olympic Boxing(mens) from the day they went to the ridiculous amateur scoring system. Once again, the level of competition is bunk; therefore I abstain from watching.
    I enjoy many Women’s sports including Tennis, Gymnastics, Track & Field and others regardless of the fact that an elite male at 15yrs could probably compete at that same level.

  45. I think they should have “Snow Volleyball” with gals in eensey weeny tiny winy bikinis; because it is so blessed hot due to AGW.
    Man I remember skiing in June in my bathing suit, years ago. But we did it for fun, not because of AGW or AGFreezing. The whole object was not to fall down and experience “SNOW RASH”!
    On the other hand maybe you don’t want to see me skiing in my bathing suit…
    BTW what do carbon footprints look like in the snow?
    Hailing Frosty, Frosty…!
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  47. What do you mean by “normal” CO2 levels? It seems pretty normal to me right now.

  50. RE: GRANDSTANDING WITH GRANDI
    Link to comment on Thomas Grandi’s “Grandstanding”
    http://www.olympic.ca/en/athletes/thomas-grandi/
    you just have to register to comment.
    Link to Andre Brin who is in charge of Communications/Media Relations at Hockey Canada (re: Wickenhieser)
    abrin@hockeycanada.ca
    Link to Brian Rahill who is the High Performance and Olympic Program Director for Speed Skating (Re: Groves)
    brian.rahill@speedskating.ca
    Drop them a line and let them know what you think of the athletes “Grandstanding with Grandi”

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