From a Government of Saskatchewan press release that quotes Premier Lorne Calvert.
“I am very pleased that former vice-president Gore is coming to Saskatchewan the day after Earth Day,”
(In a nod to famed prairie populist Tommy Douglas, April 23rd is also known as the “day after Lenin’s birthday“).
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And all this time we thought it was a scientific issue!
Big Al’s fee is a cool $125K US. The major sponsor? SaskTel. Costs for the venue and advertising will bring the total to around $200K – a “break even” prospect only if all tickets sell.
Which makes the announcement by the premier a little odd – as a crown, the day-to-day operations of SaskTel are supposedly out of scope of politicians.
Of course, it helps if another member of the Saskatchewan Family Of Crown Corporations helps prop up ticket sales;
SaskEnergy is sponsoring 250 tickets enabling Saskatchewan high school and university students to attend as part of their ongoing commitment to supporting environmental education. Teachers interested in sending a team from their school can find registration information online at SaskEnergy’s web site at http://www.saskenergy.com/. All participating student teams will receive a complimentary DVD copy of “An Inconvenient Truth” so they can organize an educational event in their school or community.
That had to hurt. SaskPower is the nation’s number three C02 emitter.
This won’t be Gore’s first Canadian appearance. At Concordia…
The former U.S. vice-president’s speech was effectively his Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth with updated statistics, and presented by an angrier, fist-shaking Gore.
His presentation was halted at least twice as opponents to his agenda began to shout out.
They called him a liar and a villain, and screamed, “What about your swimming pools?” in regards to recent allegations that the monthly electricity bill of Gore’s estate rivalled a year’s bill for the average American home.
But, none of that interests me a whole lot.
What really interests me is knowing whether Mr. Gore is flying into Regina on the pride of the Air Canada Jazz fleet.
Because when it comes to carbon footprints – size matters!
So here’s the deal: I have $50 for the best original, unretouched photo of Al Gore’s plane at Regina airport.
$25 if you can catch him near a limo.
Travellers Advisory: Environment Canada has issued a travel advisory, as the well documented Gore Effect has the potential to push unseasonably cold temperatures the province is currently experiencing to dangeorus lows.
Motorists planning to travel to the event are urged to have an emergency survival kit on board.
I dont work for big oil, or little oil for that matter, and the goriacle is full of BS.
Just because you love Al Gore doesn’t mean his message isn’t full of …….
Al should consider wearing a maternity top, he’s showing off sitting in one chair.
Albatros39a said, “It’s not surprising that those who make the most money from emitting carbon in this country also happen to be the same ones showing the greatest degree of denial about man made global warming.”
Really, I wonder why that would be? When someone makes a specious claim that your industry is destroying the planet, most people would naturally roll over and shut their doors, right? After all, the science is proven, and not based on computer models that use hundreds of hand-inputed variables, right?
Besides, how much money has Gore made out of this issue? Both sides, I mean.
Come on, albatros39a, that was the easiest knockdown I’ve had to hand out in the World Warming War. You can do better.
“It’s not surprising that those who make the most money from emitting carbon in this country also happen to be the same ones showing the greatest degree of denial about man made global warming.”
How about those who are deceptively pumping it?
‘Man-made’ GW is already a multi-billion dollar industry destined to grow by billions more every year. What, with his own carbon trading conglomorate, a hit movie, rock concerts and an endless speaking tour at $125k a speech, Al Gore is richer than ever. Scientists are flocking to it for grants, etc. And here come the entrepreneurs.
The amount of money is unprecedented for a brand new industry. Pioneers of the internet would be jealous.
It’s the moonbat holy grail.
C’mon Kingstonlad, get real. Here is proof of climate change:
Summer is coming
Climate change is responsible for:
– the seasons
– cold weather
– warm weather
– earthquakes
– backed-up plumbing
– longer seasons
– shorter seasons
– Leafs not making the playoffs
– Harper being a big, fat meanie
– Oilers not making the playoffs
– air pollution
– malaria
– killer bees
– Jean Lafleur returning to Canada
– Dionsky having to go negative (from day one)
– Holland reading confidential personal files
– and anything else anyone can think of
Does that clear it up. Hope it didn’t “heat” up the debate.
Gee – when I was a kid “climate change” was called “the weather”.
And a bunch of scientists were trying to scare us into believing there was another Ice Age coming (wonder what caused the other 3 or 4 before man was around).
Then weather became “global warming” until about 4 years ago when the inconvenient truth was that the earth was no longer “warming”.
So then the one world government eco-Gods changed the slogan from “global warming” to “climate change”.
And, in my opinion, it is STILL just the weather.
Always changing-ever changing- part of living on an evolving planet- and mankind has survived thousands of years by adapting to the changing weather patterns- NOT trying feebly to blame everybody but mother nature for personal power and gain.
Reminds me of the Incas who could predict an eclipse so they ruled the people by threatening to “make the sun go away” and then VOILA on schedule the sun would go away and the people bowed down to the despots.
So Gore and Strong and the boys have said “If you don’t give us a bunch of money we’re going to make the weather change and VOILA – as in centuries past there are storms or droughts or heavy rainfalls so we too will bow to the Eco-despots.
The first time Gore gets up and begins a presentation with:
“I make 20-30 million dollars a year from my Global warming Enterprises”
Is when I might start to listen to what he says. In the meantime he has as much credibility as the guys selling “real” Rolexes in Times Square.
I bet Gore and his bunch are in league with those clowns who try to tell us that smoking causes cancer.
Shrieking moonbats, the lot of them.
“I could find half a dozen experts to claim the reason that Winnipeggers are freezing their dingles off instead of raking their lawns right now is Global Warming.
Posted by: Yukon Gold”
And that’s why it’s called GLOBAL warming, not WINNIPEG warming. The globe’s average temperature rises, and the climate gets more extreme and further from what is ideal for human life. It’s not really hard to understand, and the meanings are built right into the two word phrases.
“When someone makes a specious claim that your industry is destroying the planet…”
The world is now taking the problem of man-made global warming seriously, even Australia, who neither signed nor ratified Kyoto. But is seems Albertans, Saskatchewanians and many in the US are confused on whether to stick their fingers firmly in their ears, or cover their eye to hide the facts of global warming from themselves. The reality of it all for Alberta and Saskatchewan is that they have two choices. Wean off that oil-sand teat and get on with something else, or let global warming destroy your provinces economies.
Saskboy: “… The globe’s average temperature rises, and the climate gets more extreme and further from what is ideal for human life.”
Now that you bring it up … what is the ideal global temperature for human life? … how do you know what it is?
Same question about sea levels.
or let global warming destroy your provinces economies.
albatros39a its not global warming destroying our economies its scum like you trying to steal our hard earned money from us and give to china and india, all the while making sure it all slide thru uncles mo’s and of course the goricles hands so they can skim off there share.
“So then the one world government eco-Gods changed the slogan from “global warming” to “climate change”.”
Wrong!
The term “climate change” was popularized by Frank Luntz, who advised the Bush administration that they should use that term rather than “global warming,” because “climate change” sounded less scary and less urgent.
http://www.desmogblog.com/node/170
“The phrase “global warming” should be abandoned in favour of “climate change”, Mr Luntz says, and the party should describe its policies as “conservationist” instead of “environmentalist”, because “most people” think environmentalists are “extremists” who indulge in “some pretty bizarre behaviour… that turns off many voters”. “
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,906979,00.html
“because “most people” think environmentalists are “extremists” who indulge in “some pretty bizarre behaviour… that turns off many voters”. “”
Hmmmm…
“albatros39a its not global warming destroying our economies its scum like you”
Get those fingers firmly in your ears.
By the time your type recognises there is a problem, agriculture will be long forgotten in the Prairie Provinces and there will not be enough water to supply the needs of Calgary and Edmonton’s present populations.
“Now that you bring it up … what is the ideal global temperature for human life? … how do you know what it is?
Same question about sea levels.”
The idea temperature is the one where we can grow enough food to sustain the population we have. Unfortunately we are now too warm for that and are overstressing the water supplies that we have.
Sea levels? I guess you don’t live on a coast, do you?
“The world is now taking the problem of man-made global warming seriously”.
Seeing as there is no such thing as man-made global warming, that is quite a worrying statement. Watch the Great Global Warming Swindle and please learn some facts.
The Earth has warmed and cooled in the past without any input from humans or industrialization. Carbon dioxide does not cause global warming – it is an effect of global warming, released by the oceans as they gradually warm.
The best models for understanding the current warming trends involve sun activity.
It is irresponsible of you (like Al Gore) to spread these lies – are you also making money from the Great Swindle?
Kate: “$25 if you can catch him near a limo”
By the sound of most of the comments here, he should be forgiven for riding in whatever vehicle affords him the most protection.
during the meanwhile.
The carped crusader , Sir Al of Gore and his faithful champagnion the nude wonder Bono Suzuki have made their way down to Regina where in secret meetings with forLorne Calvert in his now shiney red tights has declared Saskatchewan not only a money sink but a carbon sink as well. Lip syncing to an old Borat Dion CD. forLorne raps out a song about absorbing CO2 into the wheat fields of Saskatchewan and sequestering it by only selling through the “canadien whit bort” thereby keeping it in the fields. the “whit bort” now run out of Quebec by a series of adscam survivors doing community service through the Homolka and Khadr society has not sold a single bushel of “whit” as it is now required to offset “grin ‘ouse gizzes”
…he should be forgiven for riding in whatever vehicle affords him the most protection
albatros39a, there are a few Saskatchewanians and Albertans too who realize there are changes coming and we’re doing something to prepare. Some even post in the comments here when we feel like beating our heads against the deniers’ wall.
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Lew, watch The Denial Machine, it’s also online and explains why you’re thinking the way you are.
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“Now that you bring it up … what is the ideal global temperature for human life? … how do you know what it is?
Same question about sea levels.”
The idea temperature is the one where we can grow enough food to sustain the population we have. Unfortunately we are now too warm for that and are overstressing the water supplies that we have.
Sea levels? I guess you don’t live on a coast, do you?
Posted by: albatros39a
ditto by Saskboy
Ural, you don’t like the climate we have now?
No, Saskboy, the climate we have now is no damn good.
Let’s experiment!
It’s not that I don’t think that the earth is not warming, it’s this arrogant pric(k) telling us that we should curtail our lifestyles all the while he is not willing to do the same because he can afford these so-called carbon credits[(indulgences)look it up ].
Now is the time for someone to nail some sort of theses to the church door.
It also chaps my skivies that if climate change is happening that these bozos think that they have the power to change it .
Go to friendsofscience.org and get a lesson.
Mind you ,all that advice is predicated on your having a open mind.
Is it a coincidence that the first April 22 Earth Day was organised by somebody named Gaylord? I think not!
The belivers in gore/suzuki are in for a big, painful shock to their wallets. Anyone stupid enough to believe all the costs of kyoto implementation will not be passed on to the consumer is kneeling in front of gore/suzuki and muttering some mantra. Should they not be allowed to pass on their costs, they will close their doors and move to some country with common sense.
“By the sound of most of the comments here, he should be forgiven for riding in whatever vehicle affords him the most protection.”
My god, you righties sure are a threatening bunch.
http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=MURDOCK-04-05-07
It was a dark and stormy night.
actually it was noon in July when the Gorecle of Doom rolled into town. The climate changed that day.
Snow began to accumulate, soon Saskatchewan and the entire mid west were covered in snow. years later old sages would refer to the early 2000s as the years of plenty,thereafter were called the Suzuki Tsunami of Snow.
People would listen to a herd of monkeys if they told them what they wanted to hear. friendsofscience.org is funded by oil companies, and they have not presented their arguments to scientists, a critical step in ensuring the legitimacy of their research. Never mind what the peer-reviewing scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change say. friendsofscience.org seems to confuse science and politics, and they seem to be succeeding in convincing people that their is significant debate about global warming within the scientific community. (which there isn’t, for all you geniuses out there)
“People would listen to a herd of monkeys if they told them what they wanted to hear”
What did the herd of monkeys tell you snooty?
Saskboy: “Ural, you don’t like the climate we have now?”
Sure beats the Little Ice Age doesn’t it? … or the big one 16,000 Years ago.
Some of the Ice Ages:
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/specmap_graph.html
Think man knows what he is doing when he tackles nature? Read “Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America’s First National Park” By Alston Chase
BTW: I do have a glimpse of the Strait of Georgia from my backyard … is that coastal enough?
“Seeing as there is no such thing as man-made global warming, that is quite a worrying statement. Watch the Great Global Warming Swindle and please learn some facts.”
You are basing your entire argument on a TV show? As a earth science major I am learning the fact.
“The Earth has warmed and cooled in the past without any input from humans or industrialization. Carbon dioxide does not cause global warming – it is an effect of global warming, released by the oceans as they gradually warm.”
If you’d get your information from sources other than the television you would realize it’s far more complicated than that.
“The best models for understanding the current warming trends involve sun activity.”
Ok good, is solar output presently nothing extraordinary but they are incorporated into climate models..
“It is irresponsible of you (like Al Gore) to spread these lies – are you also making money from the Great Swindle?”
How can spreading a warning of what could be the greatest challenge to mankind be irresponsible?
What is irresponsible is ignoring the warnings. You don’t have to like Al Gore (and personally I don’t), but somebody has to deliver it. No I don’t make money from global warming, I’m just trying to ensure my children have a future on this planet.
The herd of menkeys told me that someone, somewhere should present to me just one peer-reviewed paper in a major scientific journal that refutes the science of global warming
“The herd of menkeys told me that someone, somewhere should present to me just one peer-reviewed paper in a major scientific journal that refutes the science of global warming”
Well you kmow what they say about herds of monkeys, people will listen to them if they say what they want to hear.
major scientific journal?
How do you think the major scientific journals are funded?
What a ………….. (Kate has mentioned being gentler to the trolls)
Oh and I can see the ships at anchor in english bay.
Saskboy
“albatros39a, there are a few Saskatchewanians and Albertans too who realize there are changes coming and we’re doing something to prepare. Some even post in the comments here when we feel like beating our heads against the deniers’ wall.”
I know I shouldn’t lump all Saskatchewanians and Albertans all into one pile, but it seems that’s where all the denial comes from. Keep up the good work.
My humble apologies if I happen to offend any Albertans or Saskatchewanians who actually give a rat’s rectum about the environmental health of this planet.
The region in Sask where I am from has had the wettest two years on record along with the coldest spring in 25 years. Shrill doom and gloomers like Albatross who believe in the church of globule warning scientism use it as way to apppear superior to us heathans that do not beleeeeeve in Jeeeesssusss I mean…….al gore.
The science is flawed and self righteous knobs like Albatross and Al gore will fade into histories garbage bin just like all the others that claimed the world is coming to an end.
The rest us care about the environment but not in a way that is grandstanding, loudmouth and selfrighteous like the gore’s and Suzuki’s of the world.
Canadians conserve while Gore vents.
Conservation reduces power demand: Study
Utilities say programs save enough electricity to take 34,000 homes off grid.
by Tyler Hamilton, Toronto Star, April 4, 2007
Six of Ontario’s largest electric utilities say conservation programs saved enough power last year to take nearly 34,000 homes off the grid.
The utilities – Toronto Hydro, Hydro Ottawa, Horizon Utilities, Veridian Connections, PowerStream and Enersource Hydro Mississauga – represent 1.7 million customers in southern and eastern Ontario.
According to a conservation progress report released yesterday, the utilities collectively reduced power consumption by 302.5 million kilowatt-hours in 2006, a 274 per cent increase over savings achieved in 2005.
Over the past two years, the group has invested $62 million in conservation and demand-management programs, including the “Fridge & Freezer Bounty” developed by Hydro Ottawa and Toronto Hydro’s “Summer Challenge” rebate program and “Peaksaver” air-conditioner return program for residential and business customers.
Last year saw more than 8,000 old fridges and freezers unplugged, 12,671 energy-hogging air conditioners retired, and nearly 79,000 incandescent Christmas light strings replaced with energy-efficient LED lights.
Customers of the big-six utilities also obtained about 1.5 million compact fluorescent light bulbs through various coupon and promotion programs.
= TG
“How do you think the major scientific journals are funded?”
have you ever tried to subscribe to one? they can cost thousands of dollars a year, and this is not including the price of site licences. If you can find a free-access journal article that disputes the science of global warming that would be great too. It is astounding the number of people who have never set foot inside a university lab or stuck their noses into a scientific journal, yet declare themselves knowledgable enough to debunk global warming.
snootpanzer
I’m one of those whom have never bin in a UNIvercity,and I can sure as hell tel you that there ain’t no one who can “prove” or disprove squat as fas as “gorball warming is concerned.
There ain’t a program written nor a put’r fast enough to run it,to accomodate all the variables that effect the “weather”
so’s you see it’s simple math, just too damn complex, thusly those whom claim otherwise are just sh#tin ya
“Big Al’s fee is a cool $125K”
I’m warming up to the idea of global warming. I could see myself scooting all over the globe warning people to cut back on travel.
Of course, I would always turn the lights out upon leaving my swank hotel room.
Is there a speaker’s bureau?
In trying to make sense of what some of the bloggers have written I’ve come to a few conclusions. 1) There are those who believe that the planet is indeed warming but the effect is natural. As evidence, they reference melting ice caps Mars. Solar system warming advocates I guess. 2) There are those who don’t believe the planet is warming because of the weather today, or this week etc. 3) A vast majority speak with malice aforethought, showing little respect for anyone with an opposing view, snidely eschewing comtempt, replete with self congradulations and bravado. Where’s human respect? It’s disintegrating. 4) Someone needs to tell y’all that being an asshole doesn’t make you funny. It makes you an asshole.
Too funny….
The the Great Global Warming Swindle is just that… complete bull… and I build renewable energy facilities for a living (and make good money at it I might add).
I even get (not that I pay for it) an “offset” certificate once a year to bring my home carbon foot print to zero. However I do wish they would change the paper they use for the certificate as it’s tough to wipe my a$$ with it. I do sometimes forget to keep my thermostat up and my 4×4 running a little longer to compensate.
The hypocracy is not lost on me but it “warms” my heart to know I’m making money from lemmings such as Saskboy and Albatros. Something about a fools and money… can’t remember the whole thing….
My appologies to the rest of you.
It’s clearing up right now. Damn.
Not that spring is here yet. Damn.
I hope the Goricle has a warm jacket, and boots with good grip.
It seems like his trip to Concordia was poorly advised, at any rate…
http://no-libs.com/?p=1588
I’m curious,
What if Gore is half right. What if, in 10 or 15 years, things really begin to heat up and dry…a lot. Because not enough was done now. And half of what Gore and Suzuki and all says comes to pass.
What are you guys going to say then? What will your kids say?
Al Gourge. It’ all about money. Also i”m sooo”w good. I also love my self.
Bjorn Lomborg has challenged Gore to a debate. Gore weasels out.
Tim Ball has challenged Suzuki too. Dave weasels out.
Patrick Moore will debate with anyone from the chicken-little crowd. They run ( in jets) around in circles.
The Jimmy Jones of the world would not debate anyone either. They only preached to the converted, like Fat Al will do in Regina.
Maybe some Sask farmers will attend and ask Al some questions. Call Gore’s bluff. Demand answers. Corner Al. Sit on Al till he says uncle. Choke him till he quits fear-mongering our kids. Says pretty-please.
Sask types have always been known for their ‘salt-of-the-earthness’ and ‘let-the truth-be-know’ types. Wouldn’t it be nice if Big-Ass-Al, the yank, meet his Waterloo in good old Sask. It’s time.
“Gore and Suzuki half right” ???
Not a snowballs chance in hell !!
Not even one in a billion.
And what if the earth cools, like the X-Spirts predicted in the 1970s ?? And the world started to freeze up !!?? Again !! Like it did only 15000 years ago. Ice a friggin kilometer thick over most of Canada.
Would our kids then say “why-in-the-hell-did-ya-guys-cool-us-off-even-more !!??
Georgine: “What are you guys going to say then? What will your kids say?”
Precautionary principle … idiot’s last stand.
“Let us not forget that Alberta and Saskatchewan will likely pay the biggest price of all Canadian provinces because of an excess of CO2 in the atmosphere.”
HUH????? Never heard of weather patterns and how it gets distributed all over the globe?
“”Seeing as there is no such thing as man-made global warming, that is quite a worrying statement. Watch the Great Global Warming Swindle and please learn some facts.”
You are basing your entire argument on a TV show? As a earth science major I am learning the fact.”
And the Goresky’s power-point thing is any better? And please give some examples of your “fact”, not just strawman examples.
“How can spreading a warning of what could be the greatest challenge to mankind be irresponsible?
What is irresponsible is ignoring the warnings.” Fortunately Albie29, we Neocons are NOT ignoring the warnings about leftard syndrome and are working diligently to eradicate it.
Now get out of your mommie’s basement and protest something worthwhile, like the drain on society leftard syndrome causes!!
“Bjorn Lomborg has challenged Gore to a debate. Gore weasels out.
Tim Ball has challenged Suzuki too. Dave weasels out.”
Maybe because neither Ball nor Lomborg have any credibility as scientists. Gore and Suzuki don’t need to lower themselves to debate those two idiots.
If Ball had any credibility as a climatologist, he would publish to back up his claims to against man made global warming. So far he hasn’t bothered.