The United Nations has rejected all attempts by a group of dissenting scientists seeking to present information at the climate change conference taking place in Bali, Indonesia.
The International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) has been denied the opportunity to present at panel discussions, side events, and exhibits; its members were denied press credentials. The group consists of distinguished scientists from Africa, Australia, India, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The scientists, citing pivotal evidence on climate change published in peer-reviewed journals, have expressed their opposition to the UN’s alarmist theory of anthropogenic global warming.
Ross McKitrick served as an external reviewer for the IPCC report in 2005;
Scientists who attribute warming to greenhouse gases argue that their climate models cannot reproduce the surface trends from natural variability alone. They then attribute it to greenhouse gases, since (they assume) all other human influences have been removed from the data by the adjustment models. If that has not happened, however, they cannot claim to be able to identify the role of greenhouse gases. Despite the vast number of studies involved, and the large number of contributors to the IPCC reports, the core message of the IPCC hinges on the assumption that their main surface climate data set is uncontaminated. And by the time they began writing the recent Fourth Assessment Report, they had before them a set of papers proving the data are contaminated. […] Confronted with published evidence of an anthropogenic (but non-greenhouse) explanation for warming, they dismissed it with an unproven conjecture of natural causes. Who’s the “denialist” now?
Flashback – Exerpts: Memorandum by Professor Paul Reiter;
The scientific literature on mosquito-borne diseases is voluminous, yet the text references in the chapter were restricted to a handful of articles, many of them relatively obscure, and nearly all suggesting an increase in prevalence of disease in a warmer climate. The paucity of information was hardly surprising: not one of the lead authors had ever written a research paper on the subject! Moreover, two of the authors, both physicians, had spent their entire career as environmental activists. One of these activists has published “professional” articles as an “expert” on 32 different subjects, ranging from mercury poisoning to land mines, globalization to allergies and West Nile virus to AIDS.
And from the suppressed to the absurd;
China is being heralded as a leader on environmental initiatives at an international conference on climate change in Bali, Indonesia.
This isn’t science. This is Alice in Baliland.
And the guppies who bob in our media fishbowl will simply blink, gulp, and swim on.
Great comment about the media, Kate. I agree for the most part as there are some exceptions, the non-guppies if you will.
The reticence of our public broadcaster in particular to present both sides of the MMGCC debate indicates how incredibly political the issue has become. It is the politics of the whole thing that leads me to believe it is a massive sham. Well that and the incredible list of scientists lining up against the science that underpins the whole Kyoto-Bali socialist recipe for saving the earth.
After reading that last link if anybody even dares to suggest this isn’t political I’ll beat them to a zero carbon footprint.
Just admit it: This is a leftist, one-world government movement to re-distribute wealth from the west to the rest of the world.
Weird, though… I thought lefties were against globalization. I guess they just oppose it unless it occurs on their terms.
I have to agree with you on your last point, Kate. When I read yesterday that environmentalists were viewing China as the saviour for speaking up to counter the “evil triumvirate”, and giving them kudos for even saying the word “commitment” in their speech, I just shook my head.
Of COURSE China is going to champion Kyoto – it doesn’t have to do anything and receives a SH-T pile of money from it. Sometimes I think that these environmentalists have to get their heads out of the sand and actually view this stuff – including the politics of it – more objectively.
an excellent rant
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22885161-5007146,00.html
NUCLEAR winter, mega-famines, global cooling, acid rain, bird flu, death by fluoride, Chernobyl. I’ve seen it all and nothing scares me now.
I can’t remember exactly what I wrote that was so evil. So much to choose from.
Was it that I refused to be freaked by this latest panic attack that global warming was blasting in and . . . Oh, God, WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!
Or was it that I wouldn’t listen to that frenzy of activists insisting the genetically modified canola oil I use to fry my chops would nuke us all into an explosion of pustulating tumours?
Anyway, one young reader was furious that I’d yet again stood snobbily apart, while his mob ululated warnings of some fresh horror.
“You’d be on your own,” he sneered in an angry email.
True enough, my young critic, I do often feel lonely in this astonishing age when to panic is a sign of virtue and to reason a sign of a cold heart.
But you know my problem?
It’s not just that I hate mobs, knowing there’s no wisdom in them.
It’s not even that I’m stubborn by nature, and like the answer Albert Einstein gave to One Hundred Authors Against Einstein – that all it took to defeat his Theory of Relativity was not 100 scientists but just one fact.
My real problem is simply that in my 48 years I’ve lived through so many pack-panic attacks over nothing that I won’t fall so easily for the next.
Your parents or grandparents may know what I mean. Go ask if they remember all those plagues we were told would surely smite us if we didn’t sign some cheque, praise some god, or vote for some politician.
Ask if they remember scares like the nuclear winter, DDT, mega-famines, global cooling, acid rain, Repetitive Strain Injury, bird flu, the millennium bug, SARS, toxic PVC, poisonous breast implants, the end of oil, death by fluoride, the Chernobyl doom, the BSE beef that would eat your brains, and other oldies and mouldies.
It’s amazing we’re still alive after all that, let alone richer and healthier.
So, my furious friend, don’t try to panic me now about global warming, GM food, peak oil or ADHD. I’ve seen too many.
You want to know how they’re tricked up? First, you get a possible problem – preferably with some skerrick of truth.
You then get some expert, or maybe an Al Gore, to make wild assumptions or faulty extrapolations. You know the kind: that if a dodgy levee breaks in New Orleans, the whole world is gonna drown.
And then you whistle for the carpetbaggers – journalists keen to sell a sensation, business keen to sell a cure, and politicians keen to sell themselves as the solution.
And bang, you have a mass panic, with more people gaining from the scare than are game to expose it.
I guess you’re shocked by my cynicism. Would it help if I gave some examples of the panics I was once fed?
Here’s the very first I remember. When I was a student, too, my earnest teachers used to tell me the world was running out of food, and show pictures of starving Indians, which made me worry a lot.
They were repeating the hot theories of people like green guru Prof Paul Ehrlich, whose 1968 book The Population Explosion sold in the millions.
“The battle to feed humanity is over,” Ehrlich preached. “In the 1970s and 1980s, hundreds of millions of people will starve to death.”
He was wrong, of course. Better crops, better communications, better transport, better education – and see now. Famines are now virtually unknown outside of war zones.
But such apocalyptic talk was everywhere then. Take the Club of Rome, a top think tank, which in 1972 warned the world’s economy was about to hit a wall. We were running out of oil, gas, silver, tin, uranium, aluminium, copper, lead and zinc, it warned in Limits to Growth, which sold 30 million copies, becoming the best-selling environmental book in history.
Panic spread. “We could use up all the proven reserves of oil in the entire world by the end of the next decade,” warned US president Jimmy Carter.
Except we didn’t. Instead, we’ve now got bigger reserves of all the things the Club of Rome said would soon be used up, except for tin.
But those panics about resources were nothing compared with the full-blown hysteria that was now being whipped up over the environment.
These eco-scares really took off in 1962 after Rachel Carson published her Silent Spring, using now disputed or discredited evidence to claim DDT was such a menace in the food chain we had to ban it to save whole species.
So DDT spraying was largely halted to save birds and fish, even though that meant killing tens of millions of Third World children, who were left with no good protection from the malarial mosquitoes against which the DDT had been used.
Never mind! We were too busy then panicking over a fall (sic) in global temperatures. In April 1975, for instance, Newsweek ran an article, The Cooling World, warning of “ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change”, exposing us to floods, “catastrophic” famines, “the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded” and “drought and desolation”.
The panic attacks were now coming in waves. There was “acid rain”, which the United Nations in 1986 blamed for damaging a quarter of Europe’s trees.
Now, of course, we know “acid rain” is hardly harmful, and Europe’s trees are blooming.
There was then the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, also in 1986, that was said to threaten millions of people with death and so terrified women that the International Atomic Energy Agency said as many as 200,000 had abortions. Now we know that the true death toll so far is fewer than 60.
There was the warning by British officials in 1996 that more than 500,000 people faced death by BSE, a brain disease they could catch from infected beef. Now we know – after eight million cattle were slaughtered – that the threat was wildly exaggerated, and the 100 or so victims might not have even got the disease from eating beef.
But don’t stop panicking! So we panicked instead about bird flu, with newspapers running screaming headlines such as: “Pandemic Could Kill 150 Million, UN Warns”.
But now we know the UN was just plucking figures from the air, and there’s still no proof this disease, caught from heavy exposure to sick birds, can leap from human to human.
How many more scares should I describe, each quickly buried in embarrassment, rather than held up as a warning to be slow to panic?
Remember the fear that the world’s computers would crash the second the clocks ticked over to the year 2000? Planes would fall from the sky thanks to this Y2K bug, which the world spent an estimated $300 billion “fixing”. But what happened at midnight? Tick, tick, tick . . . er, tick.
It was in the 1980s that I first declared my personal war against panic, after thousands of Australians suddenly started to complain of what they called Repetitive Strain Injury.
The theory was that typing for hours gave them a crippling wrist pain that would never go away.
So firmly was this believed here that by 1985, RSI was blamed for a third of all claims for compensation for disease, and every federal public servant who put out a sore hand was simply paid off.
What struck me, though, was that all the sufferers I knew seemed to be moaners by nature, or already unhappy. Even odder was that this disease seemed to hit only Australians and only in some workplaces, such as Telecom and the Commonwealth Bank – often heavily unionised or soggy with complaint.
You see, as psychologist Prof Robert Spillane says now, RSI was actually not a medical problem but a social one, suffered largely by unhappy people “who chose to become patients” and who had there-theres murmured to them by compensation lawyers and the new breed of occupational health therapists.
But who gets RSI now? It’s like a magic wind blew it away, overnight.
So that, my young friend, is why I refuse to join your latest panic party.
Sneer at my loneliness all you like, as your howling, screaming, gasping mob gibbers in unison with a fear you seem to catch from each other.
I’ve learned that if I wait long enough, you’ll come to your senses. Until you panic all over again, that is.
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Wow Fred — a tad of mental illness going on there?
China is being heralded as a leader on environmental initiatives at an international conference on climate change in Bali, Indonesia.
I’ll comment the next time I can breath the air in Bejing — 2 out of 3 days on average the air is dangerous.
Well said Fred! I am a Sask farmer that has adorted no-till to farm my land.As a result I can farm more land with less fuel but because my fuel usage went up because of more acres, but less per acre,I am a bad guy.That sort of logic makes sense to the UN. O,by the way,when China buys the oil sands to satisfy their thirst for oil,will the resulting pollution be Canada’s or China’s?
Perhaps it time for Canada, USA, and a few others to withdraw from the UN. They don’t seem to accomplish much except rampant graft, and without the few western countries footing the bill they’d rapidly disappear into obscurity.
Frank, thanks for the article.
If you’ve done any outdoor survival training at all then you’ll know one of the first rules of thumb is not to panic but to sit down and remain calm. Why?–because when you panic you’re no longer able to think clearly or rationally.
Apply this truth to the panic of global warming and we see why there is such utter irrationality springing forth from the likes of the UN and MMGCC kool-aid drinkers.
I’m surprised that population size, and density hasn’t been picked up by the AGW mafia as an evil that needs to be combated. The larger your population, the more energy you will consume. Energy use=GHG emissions. We can lower C02 levels to below 1990 levels by reducing the world’s population to 3 billion.
We spent all this time being scared of wars, famine, and disease. Turns out they’re the solution to AGW.
” I’ll comment the next time I can breath the air in Bejing — 2 out of 3 days on average the air is dangerous.
Posted by: Orlin”
and what has that to do with the theory that CO2 from human activities is the sole source cause of “global warming” ??
here’s some more truth & common sense for ya
EcoWorld: How would you say that current conventional wisdom regarding climate change has gotten it wrong?
Pielke: In terms of climate change and variability on the regional and local scale, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) report on surface and tropospheric temperature trends, and the U.S. National Assessment [of Climate Change] have overstated the role of the radiative effect of the anthropogenic increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) in relation to a diversity of other human climate- forcing mechanisms. Indeed, many research studies incorrectly oversimplify climate change by characterizing it as being dominated by the radiative effect of human-added CO2. But while prudence suggests that we work to minimize our disturbance of the climate system (since we don’t fully understand it), by focusing on just one subset of forcing mechanisms, we end up seriously misleading policymakers as to the most effective way of dealing with our social and environmental vulnerability in the context of the entire spectrum of environmental risks and other threats we face today.
EcoWorld: What about experts’ predictions of rising sea levels, extreme weather, melting polar ice caps, and so on?
Pielke: Global and regional climate models have not demonstrated themselves to be skillful predictors of regional and local climate change and variability over multidecadal time scales. For example, in the case of sea ice, the models are consistent with the decrease in Arctic sea ice in recent years, but they cannot explain the multiyear increase in Antarctic sea ice (including a record level this year). With respect to extreme weather, a much more important issue than how greenhouse gases are altering our climate is society’s greatly increased vulnerability to extreme weather events – a direct result not of changes in weather but of increased settlement by expanding human populations into low-lying coastal regions, floodplains, and marginal arid land.
EcoWorld: But what about the northern icecap shrinking this September to possibly possibly its smallest size in history (exposing more than 1 million square miles of open water) or the comments of Robert Correll, chairman of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, regarding recent observations in Greenland (“We have seen a massive acceleration of the speed with which these glaciers are moving into the sea”)? Is something new and alarming happening?
Pielke: These examples represent selected observations that promote the view that human-input carbon dioxide is dominating climate change. However, the climate is – and always will be – changing. Thus, although human activity certainly affects the way in which climate varies and changes, actual global observations present a much more complex picture than that represented by the two examples listed above. For example, Antarctic sea ice reached a record maximum coverage in 2007, and the globally averaged lower atmosphere has not warmed in the last nine years (and, in fact, is cooler than it was in 1998). In addition, there are regions of the world where glaciers are advancing (such as New Zealand, parts of the Himalayas, and Norway). However, this information – which conflicts with the projections of the multi-decadal global climate models and the 2007 IPCC report – has been almost completely ignored by policymakers and the media.
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http://www.ecoworld.com/home/articles2.cfm?tid=445
Thank you Fred for covering so much ground, as it brought back many memories of previous doomsday claims.
What is so frustrating to most people to whom I have talked is their lack of power to turn things around. No matter how they vote, no matter which party gets in power, the government of the day charges ahead with the flavour of the day ignoring the wishes and will of the voters.
Thank you Fred for covering so much ground, as it brought back many memories of previous doomsday claims.
What is so frustrating to most people to whom I have talked is their lack of power to turn things around. No matter how they vote, no matter which party gets in power, the government of the day charges ahead with the flavour of the day ignoring the wishes and will of the voters.
“If you’ve done any outdoor survival training at all then you’ll know one of the first rules of thumb is not to panic but to sit down and remain calm. Why?–because when you panic you’re no longer able to think clearly or rationally.
Posted by: mark peters at December 7, 2007 12:55 PM
Mark – EXACTLY. That’s why when the wolf pack or lion pride goes hunting, the first thing they do is panic the herd, get it running & confused and then pick off the slow, weak and lame.
Gotta give the eco-jihadis credit, they learned from their past mistakes and have developed very slick public relations. It will be interesting to see how they handle their GBL (Great Big Lie) as the planet is now entering a cooling phase, temperatures have started to decrease, sea level is not going up, etc.
The Emperor can only walk around naked for so long before somebody guffaws and breaks the spell.
The debate is over!! The earth is flat and any non believer is to be silenced!
So How come they don’t hold these ‘climate change’ meetings in Saskatoon in December?
The agenda of the UN and IPCC is actually to promote panic; then, the people, moved to a mass hysteria of an apocalyptic end, will pressure their govts into Kyotoism.
And Kyotoism is the latest mass scam of the UN. It’s a gigantic money laundering scam, trasnfering money from the western industrial nations to the non-west, non-industrial nations.
It has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with reducing emissions or pollution. The money grabbed by the UN to ‘give’ to the developing countries is for industrialization. Cheap and fast industrialization, such as China’s one-coal factory per week…which spews more emissions and pollution than any country in the world.
Oh, and the UN and its ‘friends’ will act as financial mediators in this money transference. They’ll take their percentage before the developing country gets anything. So, in true UN corrupt fashion, their money launderers will reap billions out of this scam.
Emissions and pollution will be reduced, only in the West, as they develop new technologies. It will increase globally, by virtue of the new factories set up by the developing countries.
The UN. Have we ever seen an agency as corrupt?
“Gotta give the eco-jihadis credit, they learned from their past mistakes and have developed very slick public relations. It will be interesting to see how they handle their GBL (Great Big Lie) as the planet is now entering a cooling phase, temperatures have started to decrease, sea level is not going up, etc”
the will claim success even if the temperature hit iceage lows by next year.
The debate is over!! The earth is flat and any non believer is to be silenced!
” China is being heralded as a leader on environmental initiatives at an international conference on climate change in Bali, Indonesia.
This is Alice in Baliland.”
🙂 🙂
ROTFLMAO…you’re really on yer game today Kate this is a gem!
Back home it’s Borat in do-do land! LOL
ET — you’re right on in your synopsis of UN management of global money-bloated affairs. Great comment.
China is a mixed bag with the thickest smog from old oil burning engines and way too lax on toxic waste safety standards and the breaking up of old contaminated ships.
They do have 300 makers of enviro-clean electric bikes and motor scooters.
They have a growing electric car industry and sell EV and flex-fuel bodies to US EV manufacturers.
With draconian policing, China could ban polluting vehicles and become enviro-clean very quickly, but a small hiccup in the economy is so revolting to them, they will continue to choke through the smog for some time to come. = TG
Global warming is the last best ‘state of fear’ tactic left in the bag of tricks foisted upon us by the elites in their quest to bring in a global feudal state of misery.
They will no facts stand in their way of destroying freedom and prosperity for all but them.
End of story.
Look, we keep arguing the facts of the matter, and that’s why we’re conservatives. The truth is important to us.
A long time ago probably the truth about matters was important and did have relevance.
But now we have what I call the Elvis Presley effect.
Let me ‘splain.
When a lot of us were kids, bands really were outgrowths of adolescent grassroots expressing themselves and meeting a commonality of feelings from other adolescents.
Up until Elvis Presley.
Elvis demonstrated to Madison Avenue that huge amounts of money were connected with rock n’ roll bands.
Today promoters artificially create a band that already comes equipped with a record deal, the band logo on roach clips, and the band’s specialty tatoos. Probably the Monkeys were the first artificially created band, and what do you know? They went over just fine and made a lot of money for a lot of people.
Sell the sizzle, not the steak.
Today the Harmonic Convergence, the Aquarian Age, and Global Warming have been created because they are a “product” that can be sold to idealistic, naive populations and that will allow global elite operators, many working in the UN, to make huge profits.
Somehow they began to realize that you could “sell the sizzle” and not even have any steak.
This is not especially weird when you consider how many decades operators have had to survey various events. Probably a lot of them have worked on the Olympics.
Global Warming is simply the current swindle. Probably in the beginning there were a few ivory tower eggheads with their sliderules who thought there was global warming.
But the very fact that they won’t allow scientists with competing positions to even present their evidence demonstrates that the operators have the situation in firm control.
If conservatives and truthseekers really wanted to confront this fiction of global warming, we would stop arguing facts, and we would begin to create an elaborate global cooling “counter idea-product” and not let any of the global warming people come to our meetings because of all sorts of publicly-stated, noble-sounding reasons.
ET has it exactly right.
Now if only some Canadian MSM journalists could be made to understand.
The Kyoto protocol is essentially a UN sponsored wealth transfer scheme, by employing phony ‘Carbon credits’ into the global warming hysteria engine.
Kyoto = Rent-seeking!
China is being praised by environmentalists?
Maurice Strong is a dick.
And Canada’s issue with Kyoto is we sent children to negotiate whereas others sent adults.
why is Australia willing to sign on to Kyoto? because they are barely, .5% over their target I beleive. Despite being a HUGE coal exporter.
Reason is they negotiated reasonable targets that took into account what they are, looking out for the best interestes of their citizenry.
Canada, went an extra 1% to be more than the Americans….idiots. We set environmentalists and politicians not economists and scientists and no senior foreign affairs people. Thanks Mr Chretien.
And there I thought this couldn’t get any more crazy.
Thank goodness that at least for *once* we have a Prime Minister who is prepared to act sensibly in the face of utter stupidity.
Global warming meltdown proceeding on glide path. We are now reaching the part where the media has to start trying harder every week to ignore the inconsistencies in the AGW story.
Now the next part is going to be interesting. This is the part where making fun of global warming is going to start looking hip. Watch for the smart “A” list crowd to stop talking about AGW while the “C” list Whoopie Goldberg types keep on blabbing.
This is the back side of the slope that Britney Spears finds herself on. They make money building you up, then they make money tearing you down.
You notice they just had a multiple shooting in Nebraska, but there’s not many DemocRats out there screaming GUN CONTROL!!! today? No presidential candidates making fiery speeches about how they are gonna BAN those eeeeevile assault weapons. CNN isn’t sticking a mic in Obama’s face and fawning over his extempore excoriation of the National Rifle Association. MSNBC isn’t getting up with Hillary to discuss how the Assault Weapon Ban would have prevented this tragedy.
That’s because that hobby horse is dead. The smart ones know it ain’t going to get up and pull their little red wagon. The dumb ones are still beating it, but even their hope is dwindling.
I predict 2008 is the last year of AGW as a political issue in the USA. It may not even last until November, given the mood in the country around the UN. The Liberals and NDP will keep beating the corpse just like they are with gun control, but the smart money will move on to the Next Thing.
Nice rant Fred, I’m with you all the way,well said.
No matter what hysteria or panic is promoted, Canada cannot meet Kyoto promises. This prescription, as ET succinctly points out, cannot have any result other than more pollution, the real thing, not the government fiated CO2 type.
Now we hear the nonsensical argument that China is OK, because, get this, their PER CAPITA EMISSIONS are lower than ours. Hmm, we are a more northern country, with infrastructre, incidentally demanded by everyone, we have more cars, more industrialization (per capita of course), and on and on.
But, no Dion tells us we must send carbon credits to China (honestly, how else can we comply)so THEY CAN DEVELOP ALTERNATIVE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY!!
Maybe the voters aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer, but I predict they will be plenty smart enough to see this for the nonsense it is.
Canada should show “leadership” by basically shutting down our economy (at 2% of worldwide emissions)? Yeah right. Notice how these proponents define leadership for issues they believe in, but not for others, such as Canada doing its part on WOT in Afghanistan.
There is no credibility here. Fred, thanks for that great article. I will be sure to have a copy to give to people when I go doorknocking for PMSH in the next election.
Posted by: TG at December 7, 2007 2:00 PM
TG: You need to get off this donkey. Where the hell do you think the electricity comes from for electric powered propulsion? China is bringing on new coal fired power plants every day. Eliminating vehicle tailpipe emissions DOES NOT stop emissions globally. It just moves them from the car tail pipe to the boilerhouse stack.
Stephen, you are correct..it was all optics to be seen to be bettering the Americans in % of reduction of GHG…problem was, no matter what number the Libs put, it would not have mattered as they never had any intention of acting on the file.
That the Americans actually reduced their greenhouse gasses and were not a signatory to kyoto, whilst Canada’s went up in the same time period(and were signatories..), is just too delicious not to throw back into faux liberal green types faces..
hey just to be clear . . . that’s not MY rant, although it reflects my thoughts.
I have a daily check on a couple of sites that cover the Inconvenient Scam.
this one http://antigreen.blogspot.com/
is where I first read the rant the real author is one Andrew Bolt of the Herald Sun in Melbourne
however THIS was my rant a while back
Mister Speaker, since the Liberal dominated Senate rushed approval of the Bill, I rise today to announce measures that my government must take to comply with C288, otherwise known as the “Pablo Rodriguez Law of Unintended Consequences”.
In order to comply with the Bill and Kyoto, it is necessary to take some drastic measures to either reduce emissions I Canada. Because it is not a money bill, we cannot buy credits from other signatory nations of the Kyoto Protocol who do not need to reduce their emission but get to sell these credits. We can force ordinary Canadians to use their disposable income to buy the needed credits.
Canada got hosed at Kyoto. Jean Chretien’s Liberal government signed Canada to a treaty that means we must reduce our standard of living in order to comply. Bill 288 further obligates Canada to reduce its economy in order to comply and because of the way the Bill is worded, our Government must achieve the 2008 – 2012 targets within 180 days of the Bill being granted Royal Ascent, so we must act NOW.
I am instructing a number of government department and agencies to enact the following emergency measure so that we can comply with the will of Parliament, or at least the Liberal, NDP and Bloc Quebecois parts of parliament.
1. Immediate shutdown of all coal fired power plants in Canada. We realize that this will hit Ontario very hard – 1/3 of Ontario’s electricity is coal generated, but look on the bright side, the lack of power will also cause the shutdown of thousands of plants and factories, throwing hundreds of thousands out of work. While we are it, we’ll close down all the top ten GhG emitters, as researched by Pollution Probe, listed below:
Rank Company Name Province
1 Ontario Power Generation On
2 Transalta Utilities AB
3 Sask Power SK
4 Alberta Power Corp AB
5 Nova Scotia Power Inc NS
6 Syncrude Canada Ltd. AB
7 Suncor Energy inc. Oil Sands AB
8 EPCOR Generation Inc. AB
9 Petro-Canada AB
10 Dofasco Inc. On
2. Immediate shutdown of the entire Petroleum industry across Canada – we will need to import our oil but we are only going to import oil from countries that will sell us Kyoto Credits. Besides we won’t need gas or oil because we won’t have the money to buy these big GhG emitters.
3. Immediately ban all wood burning fireplaces, charcoal and propane BBQ’s and summer campfires. All recreational vehicles and activities are deemed frivolous and will be banned. Sorry Bombardier, you are jusr screwed. No more skidoos and water jet boats. We are investigating how to ban forest fires as well, but that has its challenges.
4. A 50 cent per litre “GhG Kyoto Credit Buying Tax. Based on recent data that we use about 45 Billion liters of gasoline every year, this new tax revenue should make up the shortfall in general tax revenues caused by the overall collapse of the Canadian economy caused by the cheap political theatrics of the Liberal Party of Canada. It will not make up for the billions in lost income taxes the Federal and Provincial governments will not collect by the 35% contraction of our economy we need to achieve to be Kyoto compliant.
5. We will not be able to afford generous EI support for all the laid off workers because the numbers will reach in the millions. Shutting down the oil sands alone will result in huge job losses in Alberta, but also in Quebec and Ontario, where tens of thousands of workers make the pipes, valves, machinery, trucks, tires, computers and other equipment that would have been purchased had we not put these actions in place to meet the requirements of the “Pablo Rodriguez Law of Unintended Consequences” Bill. Buzz Hargrove is going to be really, really, pissed off at Steffi & his best buddy Pablo “The economy Killer” Rodriguez. Shutting down the transportation industry will also be hard on employment, but we haven’t had time yet to count how many truck drivers there are in Canada, so we can’t tell you yet how many of their jobs will be toast.
6. For the tens of thousands of workers in the Financial sector, we are aware that the mortgage and credit crisis these moves will cause will result in the devastation of your industry as well, but we expect that the Barons of Bay street will be able to salvage a few jobs scamming a few bucks in the International Carbon Credit Trading Market, or as some have come to call it, the Kyoto Hot Air Credit Socialist Money Sucking Ponzi Scheme. Hopefully you will be one of the few out of the tens of thousands Financial Sector workers who will get one of these new jobs – you might even make megatonnes of money.
7. Since there will be a huge rise in the number of corporate and personal bankruptcies, our government will be enacting new legislation to simplify the process. Simply nail a sign to the front door of your home saying “WE QUIT” or for consumer debt, place your cut up credit and bank cards in an envelope and mail them to Pablo Rodriguez. That’s all, no lawyers or courts needed
8. We will also be reducing the size of the federal government payroll by at least 35% to meet the requirement to keep the budget balanced to the new and much lower levels of Federal revenues. That should be a few hundred thousand fewer Civil Servants at the Federal Level and many, many more at the Provincial level. We understand this will devastate the economy of Ottawa, but what the Hell, the rest of Canada doesn’t care about what happens in Moonbat Land sur Rideau, so no worries. To the 150,000 or so Civil Servants who will lose their ticket to the Golden Pension Plan, tough shit.
9. We will be forced to make massive reductions to the Federal government’s transfer of Social Services & Health dollars to the provinces to fit within the new fiscal capabilities of Canada’s Federal government. We will leave it up to individual provinces to decide to close schools or hospitals, or both, or whatever. It’s a provincial responsibility, but at the very least, expect much longer waits for even basic medical service. Since Canada, in addition to using “more than our fair share of Carbon” also uses more than “our fair share of global health care”, it’s about time we cut back, suffered more, did away with excessive health care and just suffered along with the rest of the world.
Its not all bad news. Canada should be able to save a fortune in Immigration costs. We have a forecast from government experts that Canada will go to last place in the quest for skilled immigrant labour. Somehow they don’t want to come to a country with power shortages, no air conditioning, limited winter heating, no jobs a Health Care system modeled on Zimbabwe and a devastated economy. Go figure. The USA and Australia will benefit from these immigrants and their skills.
Mr. Speaker, let me close by thanking the Liberals, especially Mr Chretien who’s stupidity, ego and driving need to buy himself a political “good-guy” legacy got us into this mess, the current Liberal mega green leader Citoyen Dion, the NDP, under the leadership of Jack “Talban” bin Layton, the Bloc Quebecois and their inspired of Gilles “Hairnet” Duceppe for voting for Bill C288. But especially all Canadians want to thank Liberal Pablo Rodriguez for devastating our economy and depressing our standard of living to upper third world status. And of course, all those unelected, self-serving Liberal Senators with a life long lip-lock on the public, taxpayer funded teat would actually have to work for a living instead of sucking the blood of taxpayers like a swarm of malarial mosquitoes.
As we huddle in the cold and swelter in the summer heat, as we stare at our old car we can’t afford to drive, as we fondly remember how hard it was to get out of bed on a Monday morning to go to the job we used to have, we can take pride in being the best-est, wonderful-est, the most moral-est international goody-goody boy scout country supporting the great socialist ponzi scheme called Kyoto and proving we are doing our part to help the planet be saved.
Thank you Mr. Speaker
yukon gold. i like your comment. but folks, lets face reality. when you take all you can from those you can take it from, they have no choice but to take it all back plus all you had before.
fred, that was very good.
greg, harmonic convergence. too much.
And the guppies who bob in our media fishbowl will simply blink, gulp, and swim on.
Is there a more perfect analogy?
CBC pravda’s headline… “Canada fourth-worst climate sinner, study finds.”
The religous implication is enough to make me puke, but then since the eco-inquisition has already begun, it is rather fitting.
The Kyoto Fraud: The “carbon traders” have been allowed into the church/tent on Bali while hawking their indulgences. The hedge funds, the hoaxers, etc. are gambling in the Temple Of Gaia. It’s an incredible display of greed/avarice.
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Carbon traders bet on Bali climate talks’ success
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec 7 – Traders are already betting on a new global climate deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, as talks in Bali on Friday inched towards a two-year negotiating agenda for an expanded global climate pact.
Financiers are buying rights to emit planet-warming greenhouses gases after present Kyoto commitments expire in 2012, hoping that countries will agree new, tougher emissions limits — and drive demand for such permits.
“It’s a great bet,” said one trader attending the talks on the tropical Indonesian island. The new, more speculative offsets came at a substantial discount, the trader, who declined to be named, added.
The Kyoto Protocol allows 36 rich countries to meet limits from 2008-12 on their production of greenhouse gases by buying emissions rights from developing nations.
About 190 countries attending the Dec. 3-14 meeting in Bali are edging towards launching negotiations on a successor deal to Kyoto, which is deemed too weak to win the battle against climate change.
Delegates were expected to draft on Saturday the first details of a negotiating agenda.
“You’re seeing the hedge funds come in and say this is a great gamble,” said Odin Knudsen, managing director of environmental products at JPMorgan Chase and former head of the World Bank’s carbon finance unit, which pioneered carbon trading under Kyoto. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936285/posts
This just in…
“BALI, Indonesia – China insisted Friday the U.S. and other wealthy nations should bear the burden of curbing global warming, saying the problem was created by their lavish way of life. It rejected mandatory emission cuts for its own developing industries. ”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071207/ap_on_re_as/bali_climate_conference;_ylt=Aumk_q.tSXX6qMSX0RDc_2ZvaA8F
Fred, that was a fun read and useful for getting fired up, but unfortunately I think such musings can sometimes do the cause more harm than good.
DDT is indeed a nasty pesticide, and banning it did do good because much better pesticides were invented as a result.
Some of the other points the author argues are not entirely true either.
So while I agree 100% with the sentiment of the article, I think those of us who believe that the global warming hype is a complete scam should always be careful to stick to the facts lest we look like fools ourselves.
Reid,
Maybe you could read up a bit before unleashing the *donky*.
Canada and the US are building coal-gen almost daily. 52% of grid power in the US is coal-plant generated.
Cities anywhere, China included, benefit greatly when vehicles revert to electric or compressed-air drive.
City smog and the huge health costs that go with it are vastly reduced while emmissions at outlying coal plants increase only slightly.
If 1/2 the vehicles were too convert to electric drive, the added power grid, off hours demand goes up only 14%.
China is advancing quite well with e.bikes and EVs.
Clean tech retrofit for Coal-gen plants is a worthy priority cause. You are welcome to jump aboard. = TG
TJ, with respect to DDT I would offer there would be no such ban if it could save the lives of millions of Europeans.
So, basically what China and the rest of the USA haters are saying is that “you had your turn and now it’s our turn to finish off the planet?”
Does that make sense? It sounds childish, but then we are talking humans … the race that never grew up.
Does anyone think that once China has a middle and expanded upper class with cars and homes and appliances etc. that at some point, they will say, “okay that’s enough pollution, now we have to go back to peasantry”?
I think it’s more likely they will say, “it’s time for us to marker cheap oxygen masks to sell to the world”.
‘Perhaps it time for Canada, USA, and a few others to withdraw from the UN. They don’t seem to accomplish much except rampant graft, and without the few western countries footing the bill they’d rapidly disappear into obscurity.’
Posted by: skuleman at December 7, 2007 12:53 PM
Precisely Skuleman, wonder how long Putin, Chavez and China would be willing to foot the bill?
The IPCC/China/moonbat argument is based on some sort of moralityissue about the West consuming more than its fair share of the world’s resources so we “owe” them.
Many leftoids & wannbe be marxists find this argument appealing ad it fits into their concept of social justice.
We also consume far more than our “fair share” of medical resources, of the internet, of music, entertainment and professional sports etc, but you never hear them calling for social equity for these things.
Now about a reverse equity gap in democracy, freedom of speech or immigration.
Phantom, I think you’ve got a good handle on this, Ghost Who Walks.
ET, needless to say, I’m in complete agreement.
I mentioned the “Elvis effect”. As a point of trivia, Elvis’s stepbrother lives down here in Valley Ranch (where the Cowboys train). He says that he constantly gets emails asking him to pass on greetings to Elvis. To say “that we completely understand why Elvis would prefer to drop out and retain his anonymity… but please ask him to do just one more album.”
This probably explains a lot about the level of gullibility floating around.
For this scam to work, they need a lot of useful idiots. I wonder if Gore is a true believer or just a scam artist.
Regarding the health effects of DDT
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/710158/posts
From the linked article
“Other chemicals are available, but they are generally less effective, shorter-acting and – most importantly for the Third World – more expensive. And DDT is extraordinarily safe for humans. Prof Kenneth Mellanby lectured on it for more than 40 years, and during each lecture he would eat a pinch.”
The Kyoto Protocol allows 36 rich countries to meet limits from 2008-12 on their production of greenhouse gases by buying emissions rights from developing nations.
Meet limits ? There are no limits ….. especially to the money about to get sucked out of western economies . Kyoto has nothing to do with climate change , never has , never will .