From the dim recesses of the 1970s comes SUPERKIDS, a free educational comic published by the Office Of Energy Conservation of the Department Of Energy, Mines, and Resources of Canada…
Via Colby Cosh.
From the dim recesses of the 1970s comes SUPERKIDS, a free educational comic published by the Office Of Energy Conservation of the Department Of Energy, Mines, and Resources of Canada…
Via Colby Cosh.
There are hardly any cars … and no lights in the stores.
That’s precisely what Jack! Layton would like.
So they cached their Superkids suits …
Blech! That in itself is godawful.
Adscam gets uglier and older!
And most schools accept whatever Ministry junk that comes down the tubes. Although, by law, they have to carry out the Ministry’s mandate, one would think administrators would stop acting like lemmings and use some discretion. The good thing about the mindless pap misinformation and propaganda–Green’s definitely the flavour of the decade–is that kids and their parents are so inundated with info that most of it gets ignored anyway.
Most of the kids in my school, who live less than five blocks away, get picked up in Mom’s super-duper, state-of-the-art SUV: She’s too busy to read anything because she’s on her cell phone, while waiting and driving. Obviously, she somehow missed out on the Superkids’ message. What a colossal waste of newsprint. Darn!
These comics were being produced by Energy Mines and Resources. This was just before a collapse in commodity prices brought on by low cost producers in emerging markets. A very difficult period for the mining community in Canada. So instead of cutting taxes and allowing generous write offs for equipment to help productivity in our mining community (the best in the world at the time) and allow Canada to get competitive with Indonesia etc – what do our Trudeaupia baby boomer bureaucrats do now that they’re fresh out of college with BA’s in the Social Sciences? Draw cartoons. Actually they can’t even draw, they hire Adscam folks to do it.
Instead of worrying about the miners they pretend to themselves that they got a job with Mad Magazine and proceed to kill the mining industry. They’ve never been in a mine. They think the hard rock miner is a precursor to a Hard Rock Café where they hang out with the Adscam folks mutually congratulating each other on how they’ll save the world from big bad business. Ottawa is a comic book.
Who’s the leading contender for head of the Liberal party? Iggy. Another Trudeau utopian academic with zero idea of what it takes to compete in the world.
I can remember getting this thing in school. It was just one more piece of propaganda about how the world was going to run out of energy, how we were going to experience another ice age, etc.
oil consumption continues to accelerate, plus China is now positioned to add greatly to demand.
new discoveries have fallen behind the rate of consumption for the first time since the beginning of the hydrocarbon-driven industrial era.
how long did it take in the past to create those deposits, regardless of the mechanism? let me make a guess and say it took a least 1/2 million years. veeeeery conservative.
well, I can hardly wait for any new deposits from current formation to accumulate so we can pump them out too.
we *are* going to hit the wall. deriding a ridiculous 1970s cartoon isnt going to stop that from happening. its just a question of when.
will it be before or after we run out of clean water?
gee, maybe I can make a vast fortune setting up recruiting system for mercenaries hired to defend da great white nort’ from the invading hordes below the 49th….
“gee, maybe I can make a vast fortune setting up recruiting system for mercenaries hired to defend da great white nort’ from the invading hordes below the 49th….”
What do you have against the tourism industry? 🙂
sig:
you havent seen the headlines? tourism from the US of A is way DOWN. feel free to verify this with the appropriate authorites.
armed invasion however, has been attempted once and contemplated numerous times by a string US white house and senate occupants. once in regards to a major doofus idea in the 60s to reroute water south along the rockies into the very thirsty amurcun southwest.
Robert, you’re off topic. Go somewhere else with that crap.
Is it just me or is that kid look a lot like Harry Potter?
Welcome to the Trudeau era of brain washing… hey, you’re standing on my cape!
This is not reassuring.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-08-26-iran_x.htm?csp=34
“Iran’s hard-line president on Saturday inaugurated a heavy-water production plant, a facility the West fears will be used to develop a nuclear bomb, as Tehran remained defiant ahead of a U.N. deadline that could lead to sanctions.
The U.N. has called on Tehran to stop the separate process of uranium enrichment — which also can be used to create nuclear weapons — by Thursday or face economic and political sanctions…
Though the West’s main worry has been enrichment of uranium that could be used in a bomb, it also has called on Iran to stop the construction of a heavy-water reactor near the production plant that Ahmadinejad inaugurated…
The spent fuel from a heavy-water reactor can be reprocessed to extract plutonium for use in a bomb…”
And three years ago Iran was talking about a CANDU connection.
http://www.wisconsinproject.org/countries/iran/nuke2003.htm
“In a letter dated May 5 [2003], Mr. Aghazadeh informed the IAEA of Iran’s intention to build a heavy water power reactor using Canadian CANDU reactor technology. The announcement complemented Iran’s numerous statements of its intention to build additional reactors in order to generate about 6,000 megawatts of electricity. Immediately following this announcement, Canadian officials vigorously denied any intention of selling CANDU technology to Iran.”
More here.
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2003_06/iran_june03.asp
One wonders how many Iranian-origin scientists have been working at AECL or Ontario Power Generation.’
A further point: many say the Iranians should be believed when they say the programme is peaceful; should we then believe their 2003 statements about a CANDU link?
Mark
Ottawa
Well, Kate, the comments section to your earlier post (Is anyone else keeping track) reads like a bad, outdated cartoon, too.
“CO2 is essential for life on earth.” No kidding. Plants need it, and we need plants. But let’s look at something more immediately essential for human life: oxygen. Oxygen levels have been extremely stable for millions of years. It wouldn’t take much of an increase in oxygen, and fire hazard would shoot up until even wet stuff would burn. Just because something is good for you, doesn’t mean more is better.
“THIS year has been one of the coolest on record here in the Yukon. Have a look at circumpolar tilt…” As if climate scientists haven’t heard of orbital effects on climate. They knew, a century ago, about the small long-term shifts in orbits and their correlation with cyclical changes in climate, but they couldn’t explain how these small orbital changes could produce large climate changes. That’s why they came up with the greenhouse gas hypothesis – as a magnifying factor that would explain how orbital effects could work! Yet willful ignorance/deception keeps parroting the idea of orbital effects as if they disprove that CO2 has any effect.
“4 million years ago the north was a block of ice and CoCo levels were 10 times greater than they are today. Something weird here!” Umm – some quick Googling, and I don’t see any figures that match this. 4 million years ago, CO2 levels were similar to present, and the north was warm. Could you be thinking of 450 million years ago, the time that Patterson likes to talk about? Sure, the correlation doesn’t hold for that period. But at that time, the first land plants were just starting to appear! We are talking about a planet with zero land vegetation, all the land in one place and the rest of the globe as ocean, and – surprise! – the models for more recent climate cycles don’t hold. So you want to throw out the models?
“…the infamous Hockey Stick, is really not proven.” The so-called hockey stick graph, from Mann et al 1998, is only one of many reconstructions based on numerous different techniques of estimating past temperature regimes. There is substantial agreement among these reconstructions, indicating that the last few decades are the warmest in the last 400 years. Look at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences report (requested by Congress), “Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years (2006).”
“in the early part of this past winter, it was big news that North America was having ‘one of the mildest winters on record.’ Of course, the ‘global warming’ nuts all came out to say, ‘See, we told you so.'” The “nuts,” yes. Those that actually did some reading and thinking about climate change (like me) noticed the cold Russian winter long before it was news here, and realized that this was just a normal regional shift. Not evidence of global warming. But not evidence against it, either.
I could go on. Personally, I don’t think we will ever do anything significant to reduce greenhouse gases. And I don’t have much interest in collective efforts to fix things like that – I don’t think collectivism works except on a very small, local scale. Although we do seem to be able to agree that things like murder are harmful to us all. Anyway, the agreement that global warming is harmful is just not going to develop when we have so much willful ignorance/deception overwhelming any rational discussion.
Robert, you’re off topic. Go somewhere else with that crap.
Posted by: Kate at August 26, 2006 04:56 PM
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OT ?
how so?
the cartoon is about a supposed run on the oil wells and exhaustion of the supply. so is my posting. so how is that OT?
and anyway sig was OT first. s/he just fell for it as do most of your other subscribers…
regards!! etc etc
No more need to worry about the Earth heating up.
The plan will be laid out for Global Cooling shortly, Elizabeth May is now head of the Greens and she will give us all the low down on how to go cool.Hope there will be enough C02 left to sustain life.
Those ads must have worked ’cause there’s still cars, SUV’s even, and lights in the Walmarts. But for how much longer… let;s put on our SuperKid suits and find out!
Another site that may educate.
http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?ide=3
OK lets conceed that global warming is taking place.
Is it an absolute normal process?
Why would man try to stop it, if it’s normal?
Is man not a normal part of earth’s ecosystem?
Do we have the ability to change anything, even if we choose to?
If we can change anything, do we really know whether it would help or hinder?
Please, treehuggers, answer the above, and you’ve got a convert.
Any quotes attributed to David Suzuki are automaticaly discounted.
I’m lazy, so I’ll repost from the previous thread. 🙂
Stephen:
You were right about the quote the first time:
“There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who ‘love nature’ while deploring the ‘artificialities’ with which ‘Man has spoiled Nature’. The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of ‘Nature” – but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers’ purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purposes of men) the ‘Naturist’ reveals his hatred for his own race – i.e., his own self-hatred…”
-Robert A. Heinlein- (circa 1973)
Further, worrying about man-made climate change is a fools game, IMHO. Sure, lets not s**t in our own sandbox, but climate is a huge and chaotic system, and thinking we can affect it, positively or negatively, is insufferably arrogant.
We don’t know exactly how it works, it’s way too big to model in any way, we don’t know if we’re affecting change or not, and we don’t know whether the potential change is good or bad.
Tilting at windmills doesn’t affect the windmill, it just gives you a sore neck.
So, what to do? Back to Kates’ original comment…
Adaptation is always the answer, it’s really the only thing we humans KNOW we can successfully DO.
😉
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