Asking the right kinds of questions gets you some revealing answers. Mainstream Canadian journalists should take note.
“As a source of finance for climate change mitigation, nothing makes more sense than borrowing.”
“Borrowing money today is almost free.”
That was rather enjoyable. You’d never get a Ryerson journalism grad doing that! Canadian journalists are more like Leo than Julia.
I admired her patience
She has just the right attitude to confront this poseur. I would love to see a two hour session to see if he can maintain his oh so selective arguments. She should have asked him for his opinion on whether Paul Erlichs book the Population Bomb was prescient or simply mindless babble such as he presents today. After all that was 53 years ago and the end of the world is still nigh. How much is he paid by his non profit “charity”. What charitable deeds has he performed to justify his existence.
He would have answered with the exact same cognitive dissonance as he used to answer every other one of her questions. He’d simply lie. He’d claim Ehrlich was right … but … the evils of capitalism were rescued by free government cheese and EBT cards. People were starving … but massive government programs rescued them.
Where is the proof that A) there is a crisis, and B) (which assumes the first) that you will save BILLIONS of lives? (There isn’t any, but don’t let that small point distract the moron elite).
Sheeple still believe it. Otherwise Aztec priests would never get away with cutting peoples’ hearts out and sacrificing them to the sun god. That too, was to stop climate change. That evil Cortez made them stop.
How appropriate a comparison, sir.
Brilliant Mike T. Brilliant. What a perfect parable to describe the High Priests of CAGW today.
This is why leftards sprint away at top speed from anyone challenging them to a debate.
They are simply liars and cowards and know that they will be publicly humiliated and fully exposed as the virtue-signaling frauds they are.
That evil prick use to run a climate change charity called 10 10 this is one of their propaganda efforts from 2010 https://youtu.be/vM3J7jDqYDs
What the Hell!!! That was pretty horrific.
Goddamned sociopaths.
It’s not just them that uses this sort of tactic.
Any church that preaches the “social gospel” and “liberation theology” is equally as guilty. While the Sixth Commandment says, “You shall not kill,” those same churches shamelessly support any third world revolutionary group that seeks to overthrow an “oppressive” government.
I sat through numerous Sunday sermons in which groups such as the African National Congress were held out as doing the work of Christ and they did so by bombing and shooting whites.
Not to mention the 10th commandment, which is explicitly violated by any form of socialism, and all modern western governments for that matter.
“Render unto Caesar” was during a time when total taxation rate was less than 3%.
Modern governments are much, much worse than even Caligula was.
Good Lord … I used to think Peter Crouch was a right good lad … but to whore himself out to this Marxist tripe is simply shameful. And let me add … may The Spurs never finish in the top 10 ever again. They can always blame climate change for their crap play.
So they do believe in free money. And just to show us he understands the value of business investments he cites the example of green corporations putting money into building a carbonless world.
Money which is from government dumping taxes into green schemes. Free money.
And let’s not forget that he mentioned borrowing without cost – which is where the subsidies come from in Canada. The bill always comes due and budgets do not balance themselves.
As soon as this turkey started to speak I had to shut it off. If he stopped the waste of oxygen by stopping breathing he could save a life. Could I offer him a tourniquet for his neck? All his problems will be solved and he could lead by example.
As soon as this turkey started to speak I had to shut it off.
Same here. I switched it off after he started his smug “save billions of lives” spiel. They don’t have any proof that this will happen, nor do they want to present evidence to support this bogus claim.
Simply believe, embrace their nonsense, and all will be right in the world.
Yep. Ice-core records all show warming precedes CO2 increase, that warming begins at CO2 minima, and cooling begins at CO2 maxima.
Then there is the fact that long-term predictions of deterministically chaotic systems like the atmosphere are impossible, even in principle, even more so if you want to tie these predictions to a single data point like CO2 content.
Then there is the fact that all the carbon is fossil fuels was taken from the atmosphere and sequestered in the ground in the first place, thus escaping the carbon cycle, and that even if we burned every scrap of coal and oil even theoretically available, we’d only return less than 1% of the carbon taken from the air in the first place.
That being said, we should leave the methane clathrates alone.
Billions will die. Bangladesh will be under water.
A CAGW heat death epidemic not seen since the medieval warming period (notwithstanding far more die from cold than heat) .
Carbon taxes save money due to wind turbines and solar, the former pathetic, the latter decades away from prime time.
Fossil fuels are a diminishing resource, therefore costly while borrowed money is free.
More rope? Certainly. She got a good lunatic list from him. Remember the disaster is always in the future, never the present.
And of course it’s the Bangladeshis who will all be dying. Poor, underserved, brown people will be underwater … not white folk living in their $20M Malibu beachfront homes. Ohhhhhhhhhh Mo’mmmmmaaaaaaaaa … think of the poor, overpopulated, Dot.Indians …
People like Murray are anti-human and climate change hysteria is the perfect vehicle for their wickedness. Give him a slug of Sodium Thiopental and he’ll tell you phasing out the human race to the very last man is their end game.
Well he finally came out with it, he’s not a fan of electric vehicles but only after spending a minute arguing for them.
Pretty good illustration of what’s going on inside his head not to mention his childlike understanding of economics which if I didn’t know any better was a ruse only because he knows the insane logic of free money will resonate with stupid people.
He’s highly educated and a millionaire landlord to boot, you don’t become one by having the economic literacy of a ten year old.
Thought I saw him before…he was the instigator of the “Trump Blimp” which was flown on Trump’s arrival to London England. He likes publicity…stop giving people like him and that hippy numbnut from Extinction Rebellion face time and they’ll eventually fade away.
Of course he hates electric vehicles. He hates FREEDOM. Freedom is his enemy. He doesn’t have a single FACT to back up a single one of his claims … nothing but “consensus” and other rubbish words. And mockery. Whenever she posited a logical question … he resorted to mockery. The equivalent of calling her a “conspiracy” believer.
This entire CAGW nonsense can never stand up to REAL scientific examination. Why? Because it went directly from Theorem to Orthodoxy without any of that troubling PROOF nonsense.
In times of universal deceit a journalist doing her job is a revolutionary act.
Every word you say is the truth. Total agreement from me.
Remember that the guy is making a good living talkin bullshit all the time.
That it makes no sense is completely beside the point, is irrelevant.
The only relevant point is money.
“The only relevant point is money.”
Not true. I don’t care if people make money by spouting bullshit. People have been making money by spouting bullshit since money was invented. What I do care about is state goons using this kind of bullshit to screw me ever, say, with carbon taxes, banning ICEs, adding onerous regulation to stuff, thus driving prices up, etc.
I’ll argue your point, since the REAL reason every major corporation … even the major fossil fuel corporations … are signing onto the climate change nonsense is $$Money$$. Lots of it. If it wasn’t so lucrative to join the Green Revolution … it’d die and wither along with the crap science underpinning it. But EVERYONE is making BIG BANK on this ruse. Governments levy all manner of taxes. Utility monopolies raise rates. Scientists get Grants$$. Green Charities rake in emotional Polar Bear donations.
Climate Change is $$$$$$
Who cares? They are not the ones who are sending out goons to take my stuff, threaten business owners, tell me what I can and cannot do to make a living, etc. This can only occur with state connivance, governments are the only ones who are using force to push the agenda. I don’t care if someone gets rich by spouting BS, I do care if someone uses force to impose that BS on me.
Lastly, the reason the oil industry is spouting climate BS is just an attempt to be the last eaten by a voracious state. The same voracious state that ate Alberta’s energy sector.
Wealth is not a zero-sum game. Power is.
Sorry. Wealth IS Power
No. Wealth and power are not the same thing.
The two are different things.
Invest in a dictionary, and get out of the land of fruits and nuts, it has affected your thinking.
The fact that there exists a relationship between them in no way implies that they are one and the same thing. It is that kind of mushy thinking that has helped to lead us to where we are today.
“Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns–or dollars. Take your choice–there is no other.”
Take the MONEY away from the UNIONS and the Democrat Party … and see what happens to their POWER. Take the MONEY away from our military and see how Powerful we are. Take the subsidies (money) away from “clean, green, energy” and see how much “green” POWER is generated.
Dictionary definitions are sorely lacking
The simple facts are that there are those that have connived their way into power and are ruling, and there are those that have allowed the conniving, and are ruled. When you blow away the chaff, all you are left with is power and money, or money and power = same result either way.
The enablers of the connivers, (middlemen such as this current idiot) are duped, or were duped, due to either their stupidity or ignorance by said connivers, while the connivers have amassed fortunes. Now they have realized that due to the planetary population using resources, their lives and lifestyles might be affected, and therefore they need to control the connived, to reserve those resources for themselves and their progeny. So, for one example (one of many) they disallow access to the landlocked energy in Alberta, that they can then access in the future when “they” need it. The CAGW bullshit is just their way of convincing the connived, that it’s harming the planet, and therefore the future of all, when in reality, they just want to conserve those planetary resources for themselves, and the rest of us are just an, in the way nuisance, and they intend to deal with us accordingly, and as they see fit. Those that refuse to climb on the bandwagon (Trump etc) will be, are, or were, dealt with. We plebes have no say, until or unless we wake up and start the walls and blindfolds thing. As long as they can keep the lies and deceit going, and not be exposed (though that bubble keeps expanding) then the connived will accept the contrived reality they are enforcing.
Those that see through the conniving and have a platform are dealt with in multiple ways, (Arkencide for example) those without a platform are just considered white noise. Others such as SDA poster types, (Conservatives) are monitored if considered a “problem”, and will also be considered for control if required. So yes, due to our own complacency, we’ve allowed the connivers to wrest away our freedoms and liberties, with only small whimpers.We are now just beginning to pay the very large price for our complacency. It will be a dark ugly and bleak future for the connived. The connivers will continue to fly their private jets to Davos and other places without restraint. (See, John Kerry example)
To the best of my knowledge all those places set to sink under the waves are guilty of higher population increases as the beneficiaries of sanitation, economic development and trade with Western industrialized nations. I await their efforts to lessen the impact of these benefits. Higher temperatures = savings on heating bills.