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

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

Done!

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.

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.

Afterwards, do you store this in the poll vault?

If they don't win a bronze they should at least get a nobel prize.

Won't someone please think of the children!

Again Erik, you come up with a winner.

This is even more nauseating than Bono.

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!

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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.

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!!!

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

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...

"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,".
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"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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Oh look! Edmonton gets the big 'ol hockey stick of hide the decline handed to it. Who fudged these charts? LOL

We're truly effed!
http://ow.ly/i/bnK/original

Also
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/fourteenday/caab0103?ref=qlink_st_14day

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?.

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?

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.

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

Can we just cancel the whole UN?

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.

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?

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.

Its my understanding many 'scientists' are signing a petition to save Copenhagen from climategate.
Check out this link on signing petitions:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/013117.html

Erik- Yes, and I believe that poll vault is found in a snow(job)bank.

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.

i say cancel, at least, the team luge event

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.

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/free+condoms+Vancouver+Olympic+athletes+officials/2299578/story.html
Shouldn't they be going to we taxpayers? We're the ones getting screwed...

and only in Canada are midgets called men.

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/hockey/news/newsid=21249.html

take out the space in the mol ests
but here is a link to the level of womens hockey. playing against 15year old boys.

http://distinctkickingmotion.com/2009/11/30/hayley-wickenheiser-mol ests-dane-phaneuf/

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...

Adler's on this now .

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

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.

"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.

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"

"Are you excited about the arrival of the Olympic Torch Run in Brockville on Monday?

Yes 27% 4
No 73% 11

Poll ID: 12916"

http://recorder.ca/Poll/Default.aspx?pid=12916

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

Check out this link on signing petitions:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/013117.html

Posted by: cryptic cynic

A MUST SEE!!!!!!

Thanks cc

Isn't Hayley Wickenheiser Merlin Ford's spokesperson?
Merlin Ford says they are committed to serving our friends and customers via the Internet and look forward to hearing from you!

http://merlinford.dealerconnection.com/?lang=en

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”

Hockey without hitting is more than abysmal.

snow volleyball, with skin tight tops , I can relate.

o the weather outside is frightful..
but those perks are so delightful

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and. make no mistake, mother nature
& friends are fighting back.

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These guys should stick to the slopes, the ice rinks, and their beer.

Who the heck cares what they think? They're hardly experts in climatology -- and they'll be some of the worst offenders with the biggest carbon footprints when they jet to Whistler, stay in first-class accommodations, and get multi-million-dollar endorsements.

And, while they're ratcheting up the greenhouse gas emissions, so will the jet-setters who play Olympic camp followers.

This scam is so transparent, it's astonishing that these empty mouthpieces can't see through it themselves. Well, I guess that's the problem with mouthpieces: They're myopic, self-interested, entitled toadies.

Ghost of Ed, check out the er, um, interview Ross Rebagliati did a month ago in McLean's.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/11/the-interview-ross-rebagliati/

It's pretty clear he's a pot smoker; he obviously thinks he sounds really profound.

And, natch, the Librano$ have picked him up as a candidate: Dumb and Dumber.

Now wait just a minute here, Toronto finally got the 2020 Pan Am Games and our council is going all out to meet that date with construction due to start in 3 or 4 years once all the new people are hired in the public unions and the necessary consultants are on board.

You can't cheat us of this opportunity to finally showcase our city with the 2020 games! CO2 be damned. Its just not fair.

Oh, its the 2015 games...never mind then..guess we could safely forget it.

How much damn colder do these lunatics want it to be?

These rent seekers are no different from the other whining rent seekers you hear from. They want you to increase funding their favoured sport, social program, marxist advocacy group etc, but cut back on the useful activities, like the oil sands, that provide the tax dollars to do it. Not only are they hypocrites, they are dumb-as-a-sack-of-hammers hypocrites. They have no fricking idea how the wealth, of which they are demanding redistribution in their favour, is really generated. Most so-called journalists are like that too.

Can we cancel all whining leftist activist groups until the planet's CO2 level has returned to "normal"?

If da thought don't fit,
(You can always)
Become an Olympic git!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=git

"Are you excited about the arrival of the Olympic Torch Run in Brockville on Monday?

Yes 27% 4
No 73% 11

Poll ID: 12916"

http://recorder.ca/Poll/Default.aspx?pid=12916

"Are you excited about the arrival of the Olympic Torch Run in Brockville on Monday? "

Personally, I'm thrilled to bits! I'm in B.C....;)

If this Thomas Grandi fellow really feels this way, he should bow out. I worked at Vanoc as a contractor and I saw them coming in the morning and I saw them dragging their butts out at night; most who worked there gave their all. That is to say nothing of the thousands of volunteers. You got a problem with the Winter Olympics, don't go and don't watch it on TV and don't partake in the national pride of putting on a great Olympics and winning gold medals!

"You got a problem with the Winter Olympics, don't go and don't watch it on TV and don't partake in the national pride of putting on a great Olympics and winning gold medals!"

How about you don't spend my hard earned money so a bunch of rich kids can ski and party all year all over the world without putting in a dime of their own.

There is a poll at oceansidestar.com that is needing to go terribly wrong.

Adler was speaking to the original founder of Greenpeace today who stated that, historically, "normal CO2 levels" would mean the current CO2 level would acutally have to rise.

normal historically is 2000 ppm in the Holocene and Pleistocene

it has been up to 100 times higher in the Cretaceous , that is why our Holocene trees have more leaves. they need them to eat.

Hey Kaley - I just picked the female hockey team that I am going to cheer for in the upcoming tourney.

Thanks for the assistance in my selection. You will look fine in silver, or bronze.

Exertion during competition produces CO2. The gold medal winners should be those that finish the event with the minimum CO2 produced.

Thanks for letting us know, Kate! Listening to you on Adler.

Hello Kate: Just listened to your discussion with Adler. Sounded great and to the point. Athletes should stick to what they do best - sports.

Give them all a Nobel prize to stay at home.

That was hilarious Kate!

Syncro

There is a poll at oceansidestar.com that is needing to go terribly wrong.
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That's one of the best things about Kate's blog and her fans. She can rally a huge number of folks to go and throw any left side poll "horribly wrong". Love it.

Maybe the sporty set will support Journalists whose freedoms have been trampled on by Armed Guards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUtzMBfDrpI&feature=player_embedded

What next in Copenhagen, "special" trains to remove the NonBelievers to work camps in the East?

I wonder if these clowns (remember Bread not Circuses) were paid by the "fruit fly foundation" to lend their names to the cause. It wouldn't surprise me.

If you go here: http://beta.davidsuzuki.org/do/tell-the-pm-you-want-action-on-climate-change/, you'll find a convenient web form that goes straight to the PM, Layton, Ignatieff, and Duceppe, and it's ready to be edited as you wish. here's what I sent:

"Today I’m joining millions of people around the world who have finally come to understand the full extent of the vile attempt to establish totalitarian world government, led by the power-mad failed Presidential candidate Al Gore, that is the Anthropogenic Global Warming hoax.

I’m calling on you as Canada’s Prime Minister and on all world leaders to call for a full review of the falsified, politicized pseudoscience used by NASA GISS, the CRU, and in consequence the IPCC as revealed in the shocking scandal now known worldwide as "Climategate" at the crucial UN climate change summit in Copenhagen this December. I strenuously urge you to become familiar with the daily stream of revelations regarding the true nature and extent of this scandal by reading the non-biased, non-industry statistical information at http://wattsupwiththat.com/, http://climateaudit.org/, and http://www.surfacestations.org/.

Action on climate change is designed to be destined to be the greatest waste of human talent and taxpayer's earnings in world history. Global action on climate change will eliminate countless jobs and business opportunities and see many more thousands of Canadians forced onto the unemployment rolls, as has already happened.

Climate change is a massive hoax perpetrated by those best poised to benefit from it. But, the greatest threat is our own inaction.

For the sake of the health of our economy, environment and future, I’m urging you to ensure that Canada show leadership, foresight, and most importantly of all, genuine understanding of the purpose and nature of this hoax, and establish a strong position of rejection of the purposes of the UN climate change summit."

Have fun! I did. :)

Dear ex-Skier and other noteworthy winter activities enthusiasts,

Ha ha ha ha. Athletes! Poor, poor athletes. OK, I mean poor, poor ex-athletes. I guess after the glory has faded, it's still important to feel important. Why not jump onto the global warming bandwagon, dress up as an ex-skier, visit the absent Prime Minister's office (who's away somewhere being important), with..... a piece of PAPER. Yeah! Awesome! Back in the limelight. Ahhh...feels good to "give back"; to be able teach the know-nothing rubes a thing or two. (Hopefully, also, you can be on TV!!)

Your adoring fan, etc. etc.

Dave's going to piss himself wondering why the spike in web site traffic on a friday afternoon.
Speaking of friday afternoon... who's on watch for the dreaded friday afternoon big announcement from our fearless leaders? the countdown begins...

Ok Beckie Scott's signature is disappointing. :-( I still think she's a class act, though.

However, I rather the female cross country ski team stick to skiing and posing nude for calendars
. :0

I remember when the Canadian alpine ski team was referred to as The Crazy Canucks. In keeping with Kate's comments on Adler I would like to suggest a new nick, The Brain Brothers as in brain dead, brain damaged....

Syncro

BTW, I do think it's time to close the Beckie Scott High Performance Training Centre.

All that propane burning and helicopter drops up on the pristine Haig Glacier can't be good.

Thanks for the list of names. I'll be writing them down and then looking to see how they do.
I'll be probably seeing all these personal bests along with placings you'll need tracking dogs to find. I guess they don't realize that when my tax money will be going to fight fictional AGW, there'll be nothing left to support their jet-setting lifestyle.

Totally oblivious....

I sent an e-mail to Merlin Motors regarding the hypocrisy of Hayley Wickenheiser signing this letter and having her as a spokesperson. Hope other Saskatoon and area residents will do the same.

(Kate, did your new/used truck originate at Merlin?)

rmgk, I just sent an email to Merlin. I was polite and mentioned that I had been considering Ford for my next vehicle purchase because of Ford's stance during the government automobile industry bailout.

What a bunch of nobodies. I read the list and the only two names I recognized were (1) Becky Scott but I don't know why or what she has achieved but I have seen her name before. (2) Wickenheiser who plays female hockey which is a joke. I remember her and the dismal fool she made of herself when she tried to break into men's hockey in Finland. She couldn't stick on the fourth line and came home looking like a beaten dog.

If I was PMSH I wouldn't worry too much about what "Suzuki's athletes" happen to think.

wow. 2,000 WHOLE votes.

Yep.

Prentice is hiding in his 5-star hotel in Dopenhagen, shivering.

You've already been sent down the river fools. You don't matter as much as Quebec.

Is there a podcast or something buried on the page of the interview?

Their web designer needs to find new employment.

I don't like women's sports. As for the olympics, once they announced that Vancouver was getting the games I made my mind up to be out of the country while they were on. Politicians, athletes, brian williams.... nauseating.

I was living in Calgary during the '88 Olympics, that's when the whole Olympic thing died for me. The money, the bigwigs, the money...it has nothing to do with athletics and everything to do with money, BIG money. At least Calgary came out ahead. I predict the 2010 winter Olympics will be a huge financial wash that British Columbians will be paying for, for a long long time. Of course Gord Campbell can always just bump up the good old carbon tax on everything, that outta help a bit with the bottom line AND stop global warming, um, climate change.

I think Sports Canada had more to do with this petition, like sign it or we cut your funding, or you don't compete.......etc. pretty simple, eh?

Geez, Kate, Shaunavon is spelled SHAUNAVON.

Ugh. Corrected.

And to think I've spent half my life spelling out D-E-L-I-S-L-E

LOL (thank you!)

Its disconcerting to me that when some people attain fame - if not fortune - something happens to their moral bearings. The number of celebrities who hang on to the skirts of jerks like Suzuki and Gore is, I think, indicative of them having to fit in with the beautiful people.

If you don't drink the Kool-aid - you don't belong. With k.d. Lang its explainable because she's just plain goofy to start with but Haley W signing up is just plain disappointing.

Haley - stick to hockey. Go Canada Go!

Hayley Wickenheiser , one that doesnt even think of herself as being on the government dole for more than half her life.

Isn't this politicizing the Olympics? Where is the outrage??

(sarc off)

I followed the link to the 'Signatories' at the top, I dearly wanted to change the text of suzuki's message to Canada's leaders, but I didn't want to increase his 'letters sent' graph. Also, the site may have changed my content back to the version they wanted to send.

Thanks Kate

I'm glad it is now global warming that is the greatest threat to Canadian winter sports... during the last winter games it was funding... at least we got that fixed.