Here’s some of the latest totally scientifically sound consensus of opinion on the liberal-left’s “man made global warming” theory which means the science is settled and the debate… why it’s over:
(First two polls emailed from Maureen)
Are you doing anything to recognize Earth Day?
Yes
25%
162 votesNo
75%
479 votes
And at their big sister, CTV.ca:
CTV.ca poll
With Earth Day upon us, what are you thoughts on global warming?
Optimistic, we can stop it 353 votes (29 %)
Pessimistic, we’re too far gone 339 votes (27 %)
I don’t believe in it 541 votes (44 %)
Total Votes: 1233
Excellent column—a MUST READ—at Ottawa Citizen by Lorne Gunter. Here’s a tidbit:
… Talk about the road to hell being paved with good intentions. But watch: in typical liberal fashion, green crusaders will look to blame someone else for their colossal error, in this case, likely, greedy corporations and conservative politicians. Indeed, the revisionism has already begun.
Time magazine, long a champion of environmentalism, recently called the biofuel craze “the clean energy scam.” But who did it blame for the fraud?
Al Gore, David Suzuki and the Sierra Club? No. Biofuels, according to Time, have become “the trendy way for politicians and corporations to show they’re serious about finding alternative sources of energy and in the process slowing global warming.”
In other words, George Bush and Big Oil are to blame. …
And today, the leftist Toronto Star barely gets 14 words into their article about it before informing us: “Today, Earth Day Canada is a registered charity that relies mostly on money from large corporations.” In fact the sub-headline reads “As corporate sponsors mount, some activists believe the charity strayed from its purpose”.
Corporate sponsors ruin its “purpose”? Huh. Well now that kind of points to what those of us in the smart set on the right have been trying to tell the world all these years with regard to the real “purpose”, doesn’t it?
How dare those damned corporations ruin the hitherto yummy left-wing, socialist feel to our decidedly left-wing advocacy movement!?
Naturally, the article bolsters that with a quote from a leftist: “…the spokesperson for the Toronto Climate Campaign, organized a downtown Toronto protest on Sunday, naming it “Reclaim Earth Day.” The coalition of unions and social justice organizations take particular offence to Earth Day’s sponsorship by corporations.”
Hey! Get out of our left wing political/socialist movement! I mean our totally altruistic “green” movement!
But don’t worry, the President of “Earth Day Canada” reminds us in that article that “None of our donors has any input whatsoever into our programming, communications, marketing. Nothing. These are our programs. They choose to support them because they feel we are effective, but they have no impact at all in the way we conduct ourselves.”
As we can see, only “man-made global warming ‘deniers’” like me are all universally and secretly supported by and are completely mesmerized by multinational corporate polluters who dictate what we write in our blogs. Earth Day folks are immune from that. And in contradistinction, those wily Earth Day -type folks aren’t at all swayed by unions and social justice organizations and other left-wing interest groups. Nope.
EXTRA:
Good article at Wall Street Journal by Patrick Moore—one of the founders of Greenpeace, who split with the group on the basis that they are a farce.
By PATRICK MOORE
April 22, 2008; Page A23In 1971 an environmental and antiwar ethic was taking root in Canada, and I chose to participate. As I completed a Ph.D. in ecology, I combined my science background with the strong media skills of my colleagues. In keeping with our pacifist views, we started Greenpeace.
But I later learned that the environmental movement is not always guided by science. As we celebrate Earth Day today, this is a good lesson to keep in mind.
At first, many of the causes we championed, such as opposition to nuclear testing and protection of whales, stemmed from our scientific knowledge of nuclear physics and marine biology. But after six years as one of five directors of Greenpeace International, I observed that none of my fellow directors had any formal science education. They were either political activists or environmental entrepreneurs. Ultimately, a trend toward abandoning scientific objectivity in favor of political agendas forced me to leave Greenpeace in 1986.
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