Dear Globe and Mail and Toronto Star:
For 15 months, I’ve been saving your respective front pages from the glorious weekend of January 27-28, 2007, when you simultaneously declared your mutual jihads against man-made global warming.
I knew they’d come in handy some day and now, they have.
Heh.
DAVID SUZUKI,AL GORE,MUARICE STRONG,JAMES LOVELOCK and other eco-freaks who are so bent out of shape by this global warming poppycock bull kaka they have gone crazy and nutty
Late to the party here, but I’d just like to say that high gas prices based on the actual cost of a barrel of oil are bad. That means some CAPITALIST is getting the money.
High gas prices are only good if the government gets the money. Taxes good, capitalism bad.
In regard to food prices, have none of you “its not the oil price!” people never heard of the futures market?
To those who insist we declare war on global warming, all I can say is: give peace a chance.
Peter: Re gas prices, it’s bread, circuses & subsidies:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jan/18/oil.venezuela
John V; you didn’t watch the video, did you?
The Message:
1. Pick someone stupid to do your dirty work.
2. Undermine their leader.
3. Make the stupid think they are the leaders.
4. Stampede the masses.
(The comic was made in 1943; very significant.)
Harper can’t do anything about your list except look silly. They will hold anything up in Senate/Committee/etc: as they did with the crime bill (and then complain he is not keeping his promises). The only strategy left is to placate marginal voters who know the earth is round, but have suffered 30 odd years of “Conservative=evil” McCarthyism by the MSM.
Why don’t you join the Party where you will have a voice? Or are you just a Liberal trying to undermine CPC support?
Samuel;
Drought in Australia? Tell these people that.
http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emadisasters.nsf/83edbd0553620d8cca256d09001fc8fd/3e188b3746519191ca257425001ef790?OpenDocument
http://www.truveo.com/Mackay-Floods-2008/id/1441935463
And, No, this isn’t just a one time occurence. Many floods have been reported in Australia over the past few years especially in the June monsoon season.
Here is a link to a national newspaper in the country.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/climate/
Best read what the inhabitants have to say before you trumpet the UN dictum.
Gunney99
Ya got’im with a right hook
Gunny,
You can stop tossing out “are you a Liberal” You sound like a liberal when you ask that question. It is a trait of the left that you cannot question your own.
If I was a Liberal I would be reading Kinsella or Dr Dawg and bobbing my head like one of the back window doggies.
I will not join any collective, even a Conservative one. I will only vote for a right leaning party or I will not vote at all. I voted for the CPC in the last election, but if I see the continued move to the middle left by Harper I may just stay home on election day. That is my prerogative is it not.
If the CPC does what Mulrony did in giving the GST for example, then it won’t make much difference who is in power will it?
There is much wrong with Canada and it needs to be addressed. We cannot wait for fifty more years to start on the road back to a nation of self-reliant people. The socialist welfare state and big government along with freedom inhibiting laws must be dismantled sooner rather than later.
We have had forty years of Trudeaupia and I am out of patience with this loser philosophy. We need leadership with balls and purpose. Again I ask you, what has Harper presently got on his agenda to move forward with? Sitting around Ottawa waiting for the Liberals to gain momentum due to Conservative lethargy is not on.
Even Liberals like a strong leader. Harper is lying in a hammock at this point. He would do better change the subject from putting fires lit by his political enemies and moving forward a quality conservative agenda.
Joining the collective and reading their mail outs for more money is a waste of time.
John V writes, “Harper is lying in a hammock at this point.”
I’ll say I’m not pleased with the utter silence on the HRC issue, but saying he’s lazing around is ridiculous. PMSH has accomplished more than most minority governments, including holding on to power as long as his government has.
The alternative to a Conservative government is unthinkable–well, not really, but I don’t want to spoil my evening. If one’s conservative, not voting for the Conservatives is, IMO, cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face: not a very smart or productive idea.
Kudos to Lorrie Goldstein for sticking to his guns on the Kyoto issue over the years.
Only he and Lorne Gunter have any credibility in MSM insofar as Kyoto and carbon credit hysteria of the left has been propagandized.
Sanity rules in the “global warming / Kyoto protocol” debate in the Sun media and of course on Kate McMillan’s SDA website.
John V.
Me Air Force? Was.
Re: PMSH – I don’t agree with everything he does, so I joined the CPC to get my voice heard. The fact that he is an economist (and not yet another lawyer) gets my support. I did join the BCLibs only because they were the only centre-right party and we had to keep the NDP from getting back in. So, the same approach with Campbell in BC as PMSH in Ottawa, but Campbell has gone seriously off the rails. I’ve written two very explicit missles to him outlining the fact that he is the premier, not David Suzuki!
Could somebody call Bill O’Reilly and ask him what the original topic was? Also can he get a picture of Harper in a hammock?
P.S.Ask him if lions get their reward by lying in hammocks or lying in wait?
from New Scientist #2624 October 6 – 12 2007 pg 5
(look for the words mendacious, cynical, and blatantly misrepresented)
climate change skeptics are clutching at straws, and that’s bad for everyone.
we need climate change skeptics. Not because they are right – at least not on the big issue of human culpability in recent warming – but because they ask hard questions that lead to deeper knowledge. What we do not need from them is misrepresentation and cynical trashing of scientists’ work.
Take the latest claims attributed to Fred Singer, arch-exponent of the idea that solar cycles explain everything about climate change, and economist Dennis Avery from the Hudson Institute, a think tank in Washington DC. They made headlines with their list of 500 scientists who they say have refuted “at least one element of current man-made global warming scares”. The list says Avery “makes a mockery of recent claims that a scientific consensus blames humans as the primary cause of global temperature increase since 1850”.
There is sleight of hand in here, and the words “at least one element” and “since 1850” leave plenty of wriggle room. Sadly, some members of the press have chosen to interpret the release as saying that 500 scientists are “doubtful” that present global warming is down to human activity.
Now some of the 500 are demanding that their names be removed from the list. Leading the field is Joanna Haigh of Imperial College London, an investigator of possible solar influences on climate via cosmic rays, She says: “I believe that changes in the sun influence climate, but I have never claimed that solar forcing is responsible for recent global warming. It is mendacious of them to include me in a list of those refuting human activity as the major cause.” Another on the list, climatologist Michael Mann of Penn State University , adds: “This is a dishonest and cynical misrepresentation of my findings and views, and those of many of my colleagues.”
Singer responded with a note saying: “I was not involved in this exercise – or consulted.” Avery explained his interpretations, helpfully telling Haigh: “I carefully avoided saying that you agree with our interpretations.”
and so forth. (thats where the “blatantly misrepresented” comes in)
word trickery, spin spin spin, denials by those scooped up in the infamous ‘list’, why is this not included in the right wing citations of this group of 500? why is that?
If you haven’t all ready seen this interview with the founder of the weather channel in the USA ..
HERE it is and it’s good.
If you haven’t all ready seen this interview with the founder of the weather channel in the USA ..
HERE it is and it’s good.
Sorry for the double I got caught in the Forest Gump thingy and thought the first one was rejected.
It happens.
jesussavesthepure
Interesting, but hardly surprising.
John V
speaking of the “Forest Gump” thing, can someone please tell Kate that it she’s missing an “R” in “Forrest”?
(bugs me every time)
“Why did he increase the funding for the Status of Women to the highest level ever?”
My understanding is that the govt cut their funds but a committee made up of mps and dominated by the abortionists restored the funding. The govt didn’t have any choice.
Thanks John V, great interview, seems to recapitulate the positions I’ve arrived a through my own investigations. He, of course, has (or should have) far more authority than I.
I too am somewhat frustrated by the slow pace at which the present Federal government is proceeding with some more sensible legislation. However we must stay the course and support the CPC. At present it’s the only credible entity to get us out of the mess all these years of Liberal ineptitude have wrought. Imagine trying to run fast with a 50kg weight chained to your ankle.
Harper has fewer than 1/2 the seats in the house of commons, the senate is by far mostly liberals, the bureaucracy of government is still loaded with people who will do all in their power to slow anything the CPC wants done, and most of the media are left leaning.
Seems to me that in comparison the guy with 50 kg weight chained to his ankle has almost no handicap at all in a 100 metre dash.
Hang in there gang, this is not the time to wimp out.
“Hang in there gang, this is not the time to wimp out.”
Thanks loads Len. You will never get the Government we want by bitching, moaning and abandoning the only possibility of right decisions. For myself, I like the tremendous reduction in insanity in Ottawa. Can you imagine the alternative? Every moonbat lobbyist having direct government influence? Wendy Cukier in the PMO?
That is exactly what is wrong with Campbell out here in the Left Coast. He is going with the Global Greens because the polls are telling him that the new generation of voters are thoroughly propagandized. Putting the alternative back in Victoria is unthinkable.
Can you imagine 38 years of Liberal appointments in the civil service with complete freedom to extract revenge on us conservative voters? A ten+ year battle to get pennies out of the DVA? I could go on and on but….
We are the reason the oil companies won’t build new refineries. The special interest groups have pressured governments for subsidies to development alternative fuels. Since a new refinery takes billions of dollars and many many years to build it could quickly be mothballed if the new energy sources prove financially feasible.
What we have to do – and no one is taking about it – is to increase or electrical generation capacity. Remember the blackout in 2004? That happened because the system was running at almost 100% capacity. With all the new homes being built the past 5 years you have to ask “where is the new capacity coming from?” Ontario isn’t building any new ones and wind farms only work under ideal conditions. Maybe we should start putting turbines in the middle of rivers and harness the rivers’ flow.
Someone who works in the industry of marketing grain recently posted here explaining how recent poor winter wheat crops have affected grain pricing.
Samuel points out drought conditions in Australia. “FAO forecasts dismal rice production for Australia, reflecting extremely low water availability.”
I have posted on hording by governments. Limiting supply brings higher prices. “The traditional rice exporting countries of China, India, Egypt, Vietnam and Cambodia, have either imposed minimum export prices, export taxes or export quotas or bans. Such moves are expected to reduce rice exported from these countries”
In other countries like India, the mass manipulation of farming by corporate interests has forced many farmers into such dire straights that thousands have committed suicide.
In Vietnam where the government controls seed and fertilizers for planting rice crops, the materials to plant have been held back in some areas so long that many are worried they will not be able to get a crop in.
Then there is this; A reduced crop is also expected in the United States, mainly as a result of a cut in area caused by mounting competition from more profitable crops. Sounds a lot like CAPITALISM to me.
Yet even with all of this, “Rice production is projected to be up for 2008 by 12 million metric tons or 1.8 percent”. It’s not land used for bio fuel that’s the problem, it’s demand. “The international rice market is currently facing a particularly difficult situation with demand outstripping supply and substantial price increases,”
http://deltafarmpress.com/rice/world-production-0404/
I know that in our province and our neighboring province there are literally tens of thousands of acres of land that used to be farmed but now lies dormant because there hasn’t been any money in farming for over 30 years. Except maybe Dairy and that’s now undergoing big changes. As it is now, if you aren’t milking 200 cows, you are not keeping pace.
And again I say that the reduction in refining capacity did not start in the era of bio fuels and alternative energy initiatives. It started 2 decades ago, and it has more to do with maximizing profit than anything else.
Recently I read that due to the increased price of wheat, many Afghans will be planting wheat this year instead of Poppies.
Is the cull on? I don’t know, but it sure as heck looks like the fix is on.
Hugger
Fiumara,
This river energy you speak of is interesting but unfortunately not yet feasible. Some effort has been made in the East River (NYC) but that’s due to the tides more than the rivers.
What you’re interested in is Run-of-River hydropower. Check out cloudworksenergy.com or plutonic.ca (Publicly traded!) to see what these guys are doing. Essentially they divert half a mountain creek or river into a pipe and use gravity and flow to drive turbines.
Unfortunately though, even power like this is not entirely reliable. If there is less snow or rain than expected they have to shut off the diversion of water so they don’t starve the creeks. Also the BC Hydro union is against this green power tech.
Check it out.