Archive for the ‘Climate Change’ Category

Survey to hell

- January 20th, 2010

A recent survey commissioned by the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute and conducted by the Innovative Research Group has revealed that Canadians believe climate change is a greater threat to the country than international terrorism. Which leads us to a quite startling conclusion. Canadians are dumb.
Actually no more and no less dumb than most smug, affluent people in the western world who have the luxury of obsessing about climate change, animal rights, women’s ski-jump equality and other such pressing issues rather than what actually matters. Until, of course, someone you love has their head sawn off in front of a video camera or is blown to meat parts by what our media now insist on describing as “militants”.

Unlike most journalists these days I don’t have a graduate degree in climatology and a doctorate in statistics and physics so I don’t really understand the nuances of alleged global warming. By the way, it’s amazing how many internet chat-room warriors as well as journalists have such sophisticated qualifications – they must otherwise they wouldn’t constantly fill the wretched places with their eloquence and expertise.

Frankly I doubt most of the outlandish claims made by the climate change fundamentalists and I know the motives of many to be weird and perverse. They are religious fanatics who try to silence those they regard as heretics. I also know that international terrorism kills scores of innocent people every day.

Yet what this new survey shows once again, of course, is the great conceit of the white middle classes – they assume that foreigners being killed by terror is irrelevant to Canada but that Al Gore movies are big news.

If people thought for just a few moments they might realize that with Yemen, a country of more than 23 million people (yes, yes, I know you thought it was tiny and inhabited by a few dozen tribesmen) rapidly falling to Al-Qaida and the rogue terror state of Iran close to becoming a nuclear power international terrorism may be visiting a town near you a lot quicker than you think. Guaranteed to be a lot quicker than the time it takes for your local polar bear to melt.

The United States, the United Kingdom and Spain have all been hit at their very heart and most European countries attacked. Citizens from virtually every nation considered part of the west have been murdered and hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the Middle East slaughtered.

Canadian soldiers, bureaucrats, aid workers and journalists have been killed by terror groups but as yet the country itself not bombed. If it is, or perhaps when it is, will those comfortable types who told the survey that carbon was more of a threat than carnage finally change their minds? Perhaps for a moment or two, and then sink back into their complacency.

The price of freedom and security is vigilance and courage, the cost of indifference is death and defeat. It would be horribly sad if Canada ended not with a bang or a whimper but with the tedious chorus of moans about pollution and certain entreaties that it could never happen here. Go tell that to the pollster.

Categories: Climate Change, Crime and Punishment, Religion, Terrorism | 76 comments

Climate Change Fun In Copenhagen!

- December 7th, 2009

The Copenhagen conference begins and the carbon footprint from a mere few days will be that of a medium sized European city. Thousands of extra limousines hired throughout Europe, airlines having to land their planes in Sweden because the Danish airports are so busy, and millions of dollars that could go to the starving in Africa and Asia going to the emotionally and physically obese in Western Europe.

What is so wonderfully ironic is that a group of politically organised sex workers in the city will be giving their services free of charge to anyone who can prove they are a registered conference delegate. In other words, prostitutes acting as charity workers as scientists act as prostitutes! “All fetishes and fantasies accommodated, including that weird one about man-made global warming.”

Back in Canada two dozen Greenpeace thugs invade the parliament buildings in Ottawa, thus taking time and manpower away from the emergency services who could be dealing with unimportant things like fires, ill children, assaulted women, knife-gangs and drug-dealers. We also have to ask why these so-called activists don’t have jobs to do. Most of us are busy trying to provide for our families but not the usual mob of rent-a-cause types.

The result of this utterly pointless show business stunt by people who dare to misuse the word “peace” in their name will be increased security in Ottawa and a more difficult time for people who want to visit their MPs or see constitutional democracy at work. As I’ve said before, these zealots seem to care much more about the planet than they do about people.

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Categories: Climate Change, Politics | 19 comments

Climategate Again

- December 4th, 2009

One of the most charismatic and compelling climate change skeptics is Lord Christopher Monckton, former science advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He appeared on television on The Michael Coren Show recently and for an hour explained his position on the issue and challenged critics to open debate. He added, however, that almost all of the major global warming zealots from Gore downwards refuse to take him on.

He also stressed that Al Gore will only accept questions, allegedly from the floor, when they have been vetted by his people and that his average speaking fee is around a quarter of a million dollars. This hypocrisy and self-interest is the main problem for me. Climate change might be true – frankly I have no idea – but the conversation has been stopped by an organized campaign of intimidation.

That isn’t to say that all subjects are open to discussion, because some are intellectually irrelevant and merely the fantasy of eccentrics and haters. This is the case with, for example, Holocaust denial. People should have the right to deny the Holocaust but they tend to lie about their motives. I don’t meet many ordinary, gentle people who obsess about Hitler not having been a mass murder. I do, though, meet a lot of skinheads and full-time anti-Semites who do!

So it’s not a morally or politically neutral position. If the Holocaust didn’t happen the Jews are lying. People who lie are bad, people who are bad should be hated. This is far from the case with climate change, where numerous educated and ethical people with no alternative or ulterior motive merely want the subject to be openly discussed. The term “denier” is used precisely because it equates those who question man-made global warming with supporters of arguably the most repugnant political regime in history.

The global warming crowd have acted in a similar way to student leftists who have closed down pro-life clubs and stopped pro-life speakers from appearing on campus or the thugs who prevented the now Israel Prime Minister from speaking in Montreal. We won’t argue with you but we will silence you.

I’m also profoundly tired of journalists who’d not heard of climate science two years ago pretending to be experts and dictating to people, especially on talk radio, information they read in a paperback last week. If the science is absolute the arguments will always be won. Debate, argument, discussion and disagreement. Freedom of speech and all that sort of thing. Surely not a lot to ask.

Categories: Climate Change, Freedom of Expression, Politics | 33 comments

Climategate

- December 1st, 2009

My column on the weekend was one of a handful in Canada to expose the scandal involving Britain’s University of East Anglia and the revelation that evidence contradicting man-made global warming has been covered up, information supporting the theory made up and editors willing to publish articles on both sides of the argument fired for daring to be balanced and objective.

What is extraordinary is how few other columns and articles have appeared in the press and how little attention this story is receiving on television and radio. Imagine if hackers had found hundreds of e-mails discrediting global warming skeptics – the story would dominate for weeks if not months.

There is increasing evidence that journalists at the BBC, for example, have been told to downplay the issue and a columnist for a major Australian newspaper who wrote about climategate was stunned to pick up the newspaper to find a different column, from years earlier, published in place of his latest one!

This is serious, worrying stuff and should be of concern even to global warming believers if they genuinely care about freedom of speech.

But somehow I don’t anticipate much protest from that quarter. It’s odd how people who claim to care so passionately about the planet frequently seem to care little about the people who live on it. Climate change zealots tend to exhibit an intolerance and aggression that would make anyone question their cause.

This isn’t about saving the world but imposing on the world’s population an agenda, a conversation and a way of life that satisfies the usual types who obsess about telling others how to live and behave.

Categories: Climate Change, Freedom of Expression | 64 comments