CBC Fruit Fly Guy: Even the Aussies are onto him now;
If Fairfax retained even a shred of journalistic integrity, Suzuki’s screed would have been fact-checked, spiked and his submission returned with editors comments, just to let him know that a pronounced sense of moral superiority doesn’t grant permission to make stuff up – or leave inconvenient stuff out.
h/t wallyj
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http://web.archive.org/web/20080708230357/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2007/pr20070810.html
How isolated is Suzuki that he won’t feel the Australian sting?
Suki ain’t stinging…he’s exposed… internationally even.
You expect the media and publishing industries to fact check, to demand accuracy and completeness?
That’s like hoping that whores to develop a sense of morality.
Jamie, stop comparing whores with Dr. Fruitfly; whores provide agreed upon services for money whereas the fruit fly researching climate “expert” provides nothing but inane drivel and convinces the state to take your money. His stupidity becomes more and more obvious over time except to the similarly brain damaged CAGW koolaid drinkers of the left coast.
It’s good to see some climate realism from the Aussies who are wasting little time in dealing with the watermelon scam that someone tried to pull on them. If only Canadians had the same amount of common sense.
Rrrrrrrrrrrrippped Dave a new one!
“…If only Canadians had the same amount of common sense…”
Balls come to mind, too.
Loki, small suggestion. “If only Canadians and Canadian federal and provincial governments had the same amount of common sense”.
Snake oil salesmen just do not give up as long as they get an audience.
Suzuki ‘s clown show is almost done.
Not only has he become a joke in Canada , but now even outlanders see through the money mask.
His green salad days are almost over.
But hey he’s had a good run.He has been a consummate con man.
Suzuki’s influence is coming to an end, unless he runs for office and wins a seat somewhere somehow.
His chances of winning a seat in BC are good too, seeing as how as a child he and his Japanese Canadian family were rounded up during WWII, stripped of their home and business and shipped inland + he’s been a CBC star for many a decade.
Actually, given recent history and his minority status, as a CBC star he has a good shot at even being appointed Governor General.
I cannot believe that old whore is still peddling bark beetle nonsense. For one thing, we had spruce beetle in the ’80’s (pre warming), which exploded due to our refusal to deal with a massive blowdown in a park. The pine beetle exploded in the CHilcotin the very same way. As well, for all the evidence that the earth has warmed a degree or so, there is no evidence that CO2 has caused BC weather to change so much that we no longer get cold snaps. FOr the edification of anyone interested, prolonged cold, or more importantly UNSEASONABLE cold is what is supposed to knock back the beetle. Here in PG British Columbia I have been listening to the local entomologist (a friend of mine) on the news every year explaining how the various cold weather incidents are not likely to affect beetle populations. Did you get that? 25 years puts our beetle weather problem back to pre-1988, just after the mild weather allowed the spruce beetle to kick out asses in the ’80s.
It was the beetle BS that made me into a skeptic. I am surprised that idiot Suzuki is still promoting it as an effect of AGW.
Well john s, Suzuki did his doctorate in fruit fly mutations at UBC so he once was a bit of a bug expert, …different species though. That said, he isn’t any more of an expert on climate than my dog is. Correlation does not prove causation, that’s basic science.
Finally, even if warmer weather in BC is behind the bark beetle problem, that’s local weather not global. Even if it was global, which it isn’t, that still begs the proof of the climate being affected by man-made activities instead of just a very long natural cycle which predates short term recently kept temperature records.
Oz, I dearly hope that the next GG is Don Cherry. Hmm I wonder if Harper would be convinced by a write-in campaign…
The mighty, they do fall.
Couldn’t happen to a nice SOB.
John, the first I remember hearing of the pine beetle in BC was in 1980 when there were just a few isolated patches in S. central BC. Of course, the prevailing policy in BC was to fight forest fires and not let natural regeneration processes deal with the problem. One solution back then would have been to clearcut huge areas of pine forest but I’m sure the outcry from the watermelons would have been extreme.
What’s interesting is that I ran across an account of someone traveling in central BC sometime during the mid 1800’s and they commented on the vast expanse of dead pines that they were passing through. This suggests that there was another epidemic of the pine beetle back then. Presumably, once the beetles have eliminated their food source their population crashed again for a century or more. Such oscillatory predator-prey situations are almost the norm in ecology although nowadays anything which deviates from an absolutely static garden of Eden scenario has watermelons announcing CAGW as the cause and that sinners must pay carbon taxes to atone for their sins.
The primary effect of the pine beetle on local populations is that many peoples heating bills are little more than the cost of fuel for their chainsaw and pickup and I see patients who have strained their backs while getting their winter fuel supply. The next generation of pine trees is already growing and the cycle starts anew. Maybe when those pine trees have grown the population will have the wisdom to clearcut the necessary area of forest to prevent all of the pines from dying should the pine beetle make its inevitable comeback.
Loki;
When beetle infestations were identified the areas used to be logged off to prevent a spread. When the NDP took over they mandated logging plans with input by anyone who wanted to. The result was authorization to log infested areas ground to a halt. Eco nuts argued the bugs were natural. Billions $ of wood was lost. The NDP never had to answer for this.
The whole approach of judging climate impact by the amount insurance companies have to pay out is just stupid. 75 years ago people didn’t build multi-million dollar houses on barrier islands because they knew that barriers islands were named so for a reason – they were barriers against sea storms and hurricanes.
Similarly people didn’t build multi-million dollar homes in areas that were prone to wild fires or on hill sides that were prone to slides when there was lots of rain or on riverbanks that were prone to flooding.
Somewhere along the line we lost all common sense. But that doesn’t mean that global warming is happening.
It gets sillier, Maureen.
Headline in Monday’s Financial Post: No Flood coverage until maps redrawn, firms say.
Opening Sentence: “Insurance Executives say homeowners will never have access to comprehensive flood insurance in Canada unless there are new maps of flood-prone areas that take climate change into account.”
There you have it folks. The records of 100 years of flooded basements isn’t sufficient – our Insurance companies need a bit of Voodoo to truly justify their risk abatement procedures. I’m betting you’ll be okay if you relocate to the alpine zone of Mount Robson.
So your insurance premiums are now going to be determined by the same shysters, liars and parasites who brought us the apocalyptic future of rising seas, droughts, and the extirpation of humanity…all because of AGW.
David Suzuki is evil and his fanboys give me violent urges. I think his influence is waning.
LAS, what are you on? You agree that Suzuki’s a scumbag?
Or, are you just being provocative?