SDA gets results! Suzuki resigns from the David Suzuki Foundation. (Sure, he gives all the credit to Sun News, but we all know who got the ball rolling.)
SDA gets results! Suzuki resigns from the David Suzuki Foundation. (Sure, he gives all the credit to Sun News, but we all know who got the ball rolling.)
kevinw: “Your side has won. Taking action on AGW has been delayed by ten to twenty years at least. You won’t be bragging to your grandkids about it though.”
A few questions for you.
1: Were you aware that the Earth is currently in an Ice Age? (We have been for ~2.7 million years). What we’re currently experiencing is referred to as an ‘interglacial’ period, where the glaciers retreat to the poles for a period of approximately 10,000-12,000 years.
2: Were you aware that we are currently about due, or perhaps even a little overdue, for the return of a ~100,000 year period of glaciation? This is the period most commonly associated with ice ages, where glaciers advance over significant portions of the globe, and the ability of the planet to support life decreases sharply.
3: Were you aware that the earth has been much warmer in the past – both distant (prehistoric) and relatively recent (medieval)? By all historic and geographic evidence, warmer eras marked periods of massive prosperity, both for life on earth, and in terms of progress and culture for humanity. By contrast, when humanity has experienced cooler eras, they have been marked by famine, disease, and warfare.
4: Were you aware that the IPCC, one of the primary drivers of the AGW theory, and an organization that relies on the continued threat of AGW to receive additional funding, acknowledges and does not dispute any of the above facts?
5: Keeping all these things in mind, what is your argument for the importance of combating global warming? Do you believe the earth finally leaving its current Ice Age would be a negative thing? If so, why?
I look forward to your response.
Hey Kevin, yout grankids (if yout green grande wizard allows you despoil mother earth with your cagon creating spawn) will probably make jokes about how easy it was to con a bunch of fuzzy headed tree worshippers into self deprivation back in geanpa’s day.
As for the Soozook I suspect he’s line his jeans with enough filthy corporate cashola that he can live off the didvidends from his Swiss bak investments to retire to a sunny beach in a part of the globe that escapes the latest cooling cycle.
@ Bastiat Fan
You want to carry on with this nonsense you had better get in line with the rest of these “experts”.
http://www.lowerwolfjaw.com/agw/quotes.htm
This is starting to have the same appearance of the Adscam debacle. First we heard rumours, then a few names got banded about how these few individuals where the tip of the ice berg, then a top senior official gets bumped out, and then a government report gets tabled and all hell breaks loose and a government program is ended because somebody was using it to fund their own agenda illegally.
Just stay clear of the blast radius.
…this has made my sunday.!! If there is anyone I would wish to see in a face to face with a Polar bear..it is Suzuki.!
Sorry, fellow SDAers; I can’t see or hear “The Fruitfly” without needing to hurl. Someone pass the Buckley’s, please!
David Suzuki’s resignation letter.
Dear friends,
Some of you may have seen media coverage about my decision to step off the board of directors of the David Suzuki Foundation. I am writing to tell you more about this and what it means.
After my children and grandchildren, my greatest pride is the David Suzuki Foundation.
I am fiercely proud of how the Foundation brings science and solutions to environment problems. I’m determined to ensure that the Foundation continues to have the ability to solve critical environmental issues and bring hope for the future.
But I have reached a point in my life where I would like to consider myself an elder. I want to speak freely without fear that my words will be deemed too political, and harm the organization of which I am so proud. I am keenly aware that some governments, industries and special interest groups are working hard to silence us. They use threats to the Foundation’s charitable status in attempts to mute its powerful voice on issues that matter deeply to you and many other Canadians.
This bullying demonstrates how important it is to speak out.
The Foundation’s science-based, solutions-oriented research and educational work has enriched our democracy and reflected Canadian values for two decades. While not always happily received by governments or industrial interests, this work is strictly non-partisan, as required by the laws governing charities, and has made the Foundation one of the most trusted environmental voices in Canada.
Our opponents, however, are redoubling their efforts to marginalize the Foundation by getting at me, personally.
So last year, I made the decision to step off the board of directors of the David Suzuki Foundation. I remain one of its most active volunteers and committed major donors. This way I can fulfill my personal mission and the Foundation can continue to build on its inspiring work—for us and our grandchildren—in finding solutions to our shared, and very real, environmental challenges.
I hope you understand this decision and will continue to show your, steadfast support for my work in this concrete way:
Please share this letter with your family and friends and, at this critical moment, invite them to become supporters of the David Suzuki Foundation, by joining our online community or donating today.
Sincerely,
David Suzuki
.
Suzuki’s resignation letter off his website:
Dear friends,
Some of you may have seen media coverage about my decision to step off the board of directors of the David Suzuki Foundation. I am writing to tell you more about this and what it means.
After my children and grandchildren, my greatest pride is the David Suzuki Foundation.
I am fiercely proud of how the Foundation brings science and solutions to environment problems. I’m determined to ensure that the Foundation continues to have the ability to solve critical environmental issues and bring hope for the future.
But I have reached a point in my life where I would like to consider myself an elder. I want to speak freely without fear that my words will be deemed too political, and harm the organization of which I am so proud. I am keenly aware that some governments, industries and special interest groups are working hard to silence us. They use threats to the Foundation’s charitable status in attempts to mute its powerful voice on issues that matter deeply to you and many other Canadians.
This bullying demonstrates how important it is to speak out.
The Foundation’s science-based, solutions-oriented research and educational work has enriched our democracy and reflected Canadian values for two decades. While not always happily received by governments or industrial interests, this work is strictly non-partisan, as required by the laws governing charities, and has made the Foundation one of the most trusted environmental voices in Canada.
Our opponents, however, are redoubling their efforts to marginalize the Foundation by getting at me, personally.
So last year, I made the decision to step off the board of directors of the David Suzuki Foundation. I remain one of its most active volunteers and committed major donors. This way I can fulfill my personal mission and the Foundation can continue to build on its inspiring work—for us and our grandchildren—in finding solutions to our shared, and very real, environmental challenges.
I hope you understand this decision and will continue to show your, steadfast support for my work in this concrete way:
Please share this letter with your family and friends and, at this critical moment, invite them to become supporters of the David Suzuki Foundation, by joining our online community or donating today.
Sincerely,
David Suzuki
.
Both posts got hung up in the spam filter. Don’t know why but possibly Suzuki is now a bad word 🙂