John Stossel explains how to get a free golf cart – all in the name of bolstering the economy and fighting global warming of course.
More from Fox Business:
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Related:
Adrian MacNair: Duck and cover for climate change – Full Comment
Woo-hoo! Keep those Fossil Awards coming!!! (H/T Frmgrl)
Copenhagen summit has biggest-ever carbon footprint: report
- National Post (And yes, I did that on purpose.)
Huge stakes for Canada in climate change deal – Vancouver Sun
Don Martin: Canada’s worst enemy at Copenhagen is itself - National Post (H/T Maz2). For once, Don has a column worth checking out. Premiers McGuinty and Charest should take note!
Vaunted emissions trading market at a standstill – Globe
Sunspots do not cause climate change, say scientists (H/T Bourque)- The Independent. (Yeah but which scientists?)
…Messrs Svensmark and Friis-Christensen stand by their studies and continue to believe there is evidence to support their sunspot theory of global warming, despite the doubts first raised by Laut.
“It’s not a critique of the science or the correlations, it’s a critique of person,” Mr Friis-Christensen said. “It’s a character assassination. [Laut] is not interested in the science, he’s interested in promoting the idea Henrik did something unethical.“
John Stossel and Glen Beck make a good team! A great example to prove there’s no shortage of inanity out there thanks to the infiltration of the gospel of the save the planet GW loonies in all segments of a gullible society who must rely on a media with an agenda for information.
Anyone hear of any mainstream media outlet questioning money grabbers like Al Gore or Suzuki lately? Neither will debate Lord Monckton, that tells us they haven’t really got a handle on the subject they arrogantly profess to know all about; for them the science is settled on climatology, their version is it.
More great reasons to watch Fox News – you can get it from your digital provider in a complicated package for $7.95 per month (6 additional channels included too – your choice). Mind you CNN is “free” and local TV matters.
Do those golf carts come with heaters and snow tires?
What a hoot that would be hey? Folks out here on the Prairies tooling around on their golf carts in minus 50 degrees to get their groceries.
Who dropped these fruitcakes on their poor heads?
Anyway o/t you Ontario/BC kids may be interested in Rutherford today because he will be discussing the HST.
Also he reported that a PHONEY letter has been released on Government of Canada letterhead stating that the government will SUPPORT all Copenhagen targets.
What a riot hey.
Man I LOVE Glenn Beck! There are times during the day, listening to his radio show, I am howling in laughter with tears streaming down my face! Listening to him and his producers read Al Gore’s global warming poem nearly did me in last week, I tell you!
Rutherford @9:00am CHQR 770 discussing the phoney story….. A blockbuster!
“A Chicken in every pot, a golf cart in every garage, and a HUGE carbon tax on your paycheque.”
P.S. I still don’t buy that the planet is warming up, even after watching Stossel on the second clip.
I really REALLY don’t understand the obsession with this issue. Most folks I know aren’t tuning in to watch the goings-on in Copenhagen because they’re not buying any of it.
I haven’t tuned in to any of it myself and don’t feel guilty or that I need to inform myself or anything like that.
Common sense tells me that Harper is playing this exactly right and I wouldn’t be surprised if others including the mighty B+ Obama. Why? Because in the end Canada is still sound economically and MAYBE, just maybe one of the reasons we’re weathering the economic storm better than other countries is that we are NOT giving in to the climate-change hype.
Fossils Rule!
Worthwhile Canadian Iniitiative is as he says a mainly Canadian economics blog. Much of it gets pretty technical but in this piece he examines Jack Mintz’s dissection of the recent Suzuki/Pembina Institute report and concludes that Mintz gets it right.
http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2009/12/suzuki-pembina.html#more
For those who like subjecting themselves to torture-by-economics, he also provides a link to Mintz’s op-ed.
His conclusion – “Memo to journalists: Disregard the Suzuki-Pembina report on the costs of climate change policy”
I see over at Drudge report,the Obamasiah’s approval rating is now at lowest ever (44%)..heh,our friends to the South are really catching on to what a phony this guy is!
Joanne great post
check out
Roger Pielke Jr’s Blog he makes reference to article The meaning of Copenhagen
he belongs to *The Breakthrough Institute” also worth checking out
Waxman-Markey Climate Bill is worth checking just google
hope your daughter and grandson are keeping you busy they are what count
I cannot watch Canadian news such gossip they spew and call it news
fh
Goreacle Report: Kevin, Gavin, Mike, Help. My limo is ice fogged.
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“Ice fog triggers 60-car collision near Ottawa”
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/738503–ice-fog-triggers-60-car-collision-near-ottawa
I e-mailed the Premiers of Ontario and Quebec suggesting that their Environment Ministers never learned the meaning of “minding your P’s and Q’s”. Their public comments in Copenhagen are extremely divisive and should be retracted.
I added to Dalton’s wee greeting, that my family contributed a fair amount of $’s to the Ontario economy this past summer and
“Mr Premier, you are welcome, it’s to bad your government has now made ME feel unwelcome by isolating my province and OUR country”.
I am finding these politicians that are criticising their own, very upsetting.
o/t the TorStar still trying to keep the Coalition of Losers alive, commissioned a poll on Uniting the Left.
50% of Liberal voters and 50% of NDP supporters support a full merger. (which = 1/3 of Canadians)
55% of Liberal voters and 51%of NDP supporters support running only one candidate in ridings where vote splitting is a problem.
64% of Liberal voters and 70% of NDP supporters want a formal government sharing coalition (43% of Canadians)
http://www.visioncritical.com/2009/12/conservative-lead-narrows-as-liberals-bounce-back/
From a Conservative perspective (mine),
A formal Dippers in cabinet style unification is the most popular LibDipper arrangement,
and the only one that could reasonably be cooked up in the next election:
with 36% of Liberals and 30% of NDPers not on board!
Latest Angus Reid poll here.
http://www.visioncritical.com/2009/12/conservative-lead-narrows-as-liberals-bounce-back/
What is interesting is the stuff that was not in the news release. I was polled as part of this survey, and while there were certainly a number of questions about a potential coalition, there were also a number of questions about Climate Change. As in “what is your opinion of the science of climate change, are you following Climategate, and what do you think of it, do you believe the scientists”. Also some questions about trust. As in “who do you trust to report the news, generally and on on issues such as climate change : the media, the government, business, scientists.”
I guess the answers to these questions were not what The Star had wanted/expected.
Roald Amundsen
1872-1928
“On December 14, 1911,
Amundsen and four others stood at the South Pole, a month before Robert Scott. This expedition was an incredible masterpiece of organization. Here is the story.”
http://www.south-pole.com/p0000101.htm
GooGooracle Report: “‘More will be revealed tomorrow,’ climate prankster says Globe and Mail (blog)”
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“Fake news release links Canada to major emission reduction targets
Canada.com – Kelly Cryderman – 1 hour ago”
“A bogus website that went online Monday morning mimics the official Environment Canada website and announces that Canada has promised to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent below”
“‘More will be revealed tomorrow,’ climate prankster says Globe and Mail (blog)”
“Extreme cold in Prairies; snowstorms in BC
National Post – 1 hour ago”
(via google)
We got another fossil award today, so did the US. They came in first. This says it all.
“Day 7: USA Wins First Place Fossil for Weak Target, No Cash”
http://www.fossil-of-the-day.org/
It’s all about the money! Not about the environment.
Gaia’s Worshippers: “45,215 people”.
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“Hundreds queue in cold for global warming talks
(AFP) – 8 hours ago
COPENHAGEN — Hundreds found themselves waiting in near-freezing cold on Monday to collect passes for the UN climate talks, as the sheer volume of people overwhelmed staff at the conference venue.
Police set up cordons to marshal the huge queue at around 10:00 am (0900 GMT) and temporarily closed the metro station next to the Bella Center, police spokesman Henrik Moeller Jakobsen told AFP.
“The police told us there would be around a six-hour wait to reach the accreditation desks,” an AFP journalist reported after joining the queue at around midday.
A police officer on duty at the conference centre said: “There are too many people and we can’t get them inside at the moment, that’s the problem.”
The temperature in Copenhagen just after midday (1100 GMT) was zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit), with cloudy skies.
Negotiations for a new global agreement to combat global warming entered their second week on Monday, prompting an influx of new arrivals — notably from ministerial delegations. The conference ends Friday.
In total, 45,215 people — including delegates, journalists, lobbyists and campaigners — have registered for the conference, more than double the Bella Center’s maximum capacity of 15,000, the UN organisers told reporters.”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5je1GYFERKjmaVvyKr5Qrc4HOOflg
frmgrl says:
December 14, 2009 at 4:48 pm
We got another fossil award today, so did the US. They came in first.
You mean to tell me, that the opposition parties and beloved media love god Obama plans, is MORE OR LESS following in the prime minister stephen harper’s shoes.
Well I BE.
The more they drum up the heat in Copenhagen the more I feel that we should dig in our heels – if not walk out.
You must visit Sort of Political and watch the Carlin video on global warming, hilarious.
What was the point of the phony press release, unless whoever did it thought we would believe it and turn against PMSH.
How low will the liberals/ndp go. The truth will come out.
Haven’t heard much about it, except at Taylor’s blog. Had tv on Fox all day.
Gore has expanded his predictions the ice cap will melt, in 5-10 or maybe 15 yrs. Will he still be around when it doesn’t happen.
Don’t we all feel sorry for those protesters out in the cold. How can that be, they want warming stopped.
If they don’t want to be cold, they must have warmth.
Imagine them, destroying property, hurling bricks, yelling and screaming, and then complaining about police doing their job. Another do as I say, not as I do thingy.
How much is this fiasco costing taxpayers of the world. They should have all stayed home and reduced emmissions.
So a phony “news” release and the Lame Stream Media are all over it. A release of 10000 e-mails showing fraudulent activity the biggest REAL news story of our generation and they ignore it, lame indeed.
Listening to the “developing Country’s” whining about the lack of Mega-Billions, to make up for the Developed Country’s being successful and paying for our “implied guilt” for ruining the planet, drowning polar bears, giving the “divine” Miss May a soapbox to stand on and screech glo-bull warming and other falsehoods. I had a couple of thoughts I would like to share with you. How is China a “developing” country? haven’t they had a functional culture language etc for thousands of years? Listening to the squawking from the folks that feel “entitled to their entitlements” after the U.N. has skimmed their “share” of course. Are these folks Liberals? There was a time that the less fortunate countries were kind of like wards of the British Government the “White mans burden” I believe the term was, as everything old is new again is this a reincarnation of the “British Empire” kinda thing? Just some thoughts as I said, we seem to be being bullied by these eco-nuts, I guess they haven’t figured out that HM PM Stephen Harper was on to them a long time ago, another day another “Fossie” boring Green cultists.
What’s the real reason Rocco Rossi bailed out of Ignatieff’s service when he says everything is going so well? It’s going to be tough for Toronto Liberals with two horses in the race to run their Socialist paradise.
All the jabbering about Carbon gives me a huge headache but I have a question about the math. Where does Canada get a credit for its forests which reduce carbon? In other words are the emissions to be reduced a gross amount or net of forest absorption?
SCRU Canada? “What Should I Do?”.
BTW, is Don Martin an Albertan?
G-M headline reads:
“Don Martin: Canada’s worst enemy at Copenhagen is itself’.
Rewrite: Canada’s worst enemy is Copenhagen itself. Tha’s better.
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“It doesn’t pay to needlessly rile up Albertans. They do not wave the separation threat easily or often. But if the feds impose economically punitive caps on oilsands production to block expansion, well, easterners will be freezing in the dark while the Republic of Alberta prospers.
To vilify a safe and reliable energy source that emits just 0.01 per cent of global gas emissions for cheap political gains is not worth the risk of dividing a country.”
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/14/don-martin-canada-s-worst-enemy-at-copenhagen-is-itself.aspx
Dillon – Good question and sorry I don’t have the answer. Anyone else?
AGW’s ball of wax is melting, melting.
NYSlimes’ Revkin has jumped (or, was pushed; see WUWT~), and now Moore has deserted the AGW Ark of Hope**.
“*John Moore is the host of Moore in the Morning on Newstalk 1010 Toronto.”
>> The AGW rats are jumping off Mao Stlong (Canadian “Liberal leader” Bob Lae’s Uncke Mo) Strong’s/O’s Ark of Hope**.
Here’s Moore’s bitter Parthian shot as he gallumphs off into his cyberAGWsunset:
>> “And so with those words I leave the climate change cause to those who genuinely care — although I do hope that one day the deniers get the upbraiding they deserve.”
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“*John Moore: Why I don’t care about global warming”
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/14/john-moore-why-i-don-t-care-about-global-warming.aspx
**ARK OF HOPE: The Ark of the New Age Covenant
The Ark of Hope, the vessel designed to carry the Earth Charter, is as unholy … [1] Maurice Strong, a founding co-chairman of the Earth Charter Commission and …
http://www.contenderministries.org/articles/arkofhope.php
“~Andy Revkin to leave Dot Earth and NYT”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
‘Where does Canada get a credit for its forests which reduce carbon?’
Canada waived that credit because forest fires dump way more co2 into the atmosphere than the forest draws in.
So it was taken off the table.
That huge BC (?) forest fire last year coughed out more co2 than a years operation of all the Oil Sands projects.
What If
What if Canada had an Elected Senate with fair regional representation?
Would Ontario and BC be facing the imposition of the HST
Fascinating, Wilson @ 8:59. Thanks.
What If
What if Canada had an Elected Senate with fair regional representation?
Would Ontario and BC be facing the imposition of the HST
and no way (other than the Dippers) to stop it?
Would Western Canadians have to be so deeply concerned about a wealth redistirbution via envrio file,
a scheme that once Liberals get their hands on, will make the NEP looks like a picnic?
Would Quebecers need the BLOC?
Goreacle Report: Al Who? Al Fresh?
The climate changers are turning against Goreacle.
Gore has been “poleaxed”. I told him, Big Al, don’t go.
Tomorrow is >>> the Ides, Big Al; beware of the Poles; them’s Catholic Christians. Don’t go, Big Al; don’t go to Copensnuffed; you will be poleaxed.
“There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday.”
More: “Perhaps Mr Gore had felt the need to gild the lily to buttress resolve. But his speech was roundly criticised by members of the climate science community. “This is an exaggeration that opens the science up to criticism from sceptics,” Professor Jim Overland, a leading oceanographer at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
“You really don’t need to exaggerate the changes in the Arctic.””
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“Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don’t add up
There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday.
The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row.
Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.
In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.”
However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast.
“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”
Mr Gore’s office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr Maslowksi as a “ballpark figure” several years ago in a conversation with Mr Gore.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6956783.ece
Govt website that explains why Canada did not include forests in Kyoto
http://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/news/544
Thanks for that forest info Wilson. Good grief but it’s complicated!
O/T: further to an earlier post by maz2:
World Health Organization advisors paid by pharmaceutical companies:
http://www.examiner.com/x-22920-Atlanta-Alternative-Spirituality-Examiner~y2009m12d1-WHO-advisors-paid-by-pharmaceutical-Companies
“People around the world are calling the Swine Flu Pandemic the most ambitious scam and corruption of our time.”
“Several Danish journalists have been examining the links between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.”
“JP Morgan, the international investment bank, has reported the pharmaceutical industry will make between seven and ten billion euros this year on the sale of A/H1N1 vaccines.”
“Many are (questioning) the justification of the pandemic status placed on the disease.”
“The main cause of the hysterical response to the swine flu epidemic, according to reporters from the Danish newspaper ‘Information’, is not because it is so dangerous, but because of a strong public relations campaign by experts from WHO.”
“It is disturbing that many of the scientists who sit on various committees of WHO, are presented as ‘independent experts’, but they carefully conceal the fact that they receive money from pharmaceutical companies”, Professor of epidemiology, Tom Jefferson, who works at the Cochrane Center in Rome, told reporters.”
“The WHO is biased in their recommendations – says Professor Tom Jefferson. – Normal hygiene measures provide much greater effect than these little-studied vaccines, and at the same time WHO refers to the use of masks and hand-washing as a means to combat swine flu only twice in their documents. Vaccines and other medications are referred to 42 times!”
“A strong healthy immune system should be everyone’s focus for disease prevention. A diet rich in fresh, organic fruits and vegetables together with proper exercise has been reported as a much greater defense than vaccines that have not been properly tested.”
“The government of the Netherlands is conducting an emergency investigation into the activities of ‘Doctor Flu’. Dr. Flu is a Dutch doctor by the name of Albert Ostenhaus, who gained his nickname, after the vaccine Tami-flu, he has actively promoted mass vaccination of the population through WHO and the Western media. Recently it has become known that he receives a salary from several vaccine manufacturing companies.
WHO announced the swine flu pandemic under pressure from a panel of advisers headed by Ostenhaus.”
It looks like the Harper govt’s best bet for a majority in the Senate will be to prorogue:
‘The Prime Minister has promised to fill the five Senate seats that become available on Jan. 2. But, the makeup of Senate committees changes only when parliamentary sessions end. So, even with the new appointments, the Liberal-dominated committees that have recently amended government bills – to the consternation of Conservative cabinet ministers – would remain exactly as they were a year ago unless there is a prorogation.’
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-buzzing-with-talk-of-proroguing-parliament/article1400284/
Gee, scientists that dispute the sunspot theory, quelle surprise! Bet they have peer reviewed data to support their position. Riiiight……
Lyle
By the way, I got a call Monday night from CPC fundraisers looking for a donation. Despite the fact that I have been a conservative supporter since I was old enough to vote, more than 35 years ago, they will never get a nickel of my money or any further support from me if they agree to the rape of Canada by the warmists. That’s what they were told.
The polite young man at the other end of the line said he understood completely. I can only hope that the message will go further up the line.
Lyle
Liberal Iffy’s liberal.caca: a liberal-left projection.
“In this picture you can see the PM [PM Harper] apparently shouting out in pain as he’s being shot.”
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“Ignatieff’s Liberals sink to a new low
Between an animated crapping bird and this picture below, I’d give the edge to this pic as being the new low in juvenile partisan stupidity – the PM fisting a cow (NB: read the fine print, he’s not wearing any pants): {…]
“Where is it from? Liberal.ca the official website of Michael Ignatieff’s Liberal Party.
It’s up there as part of a photo contest put on by the Liberals. One other entry jumps out too – not so much for being juvenile, but for being unbecoming of a major federal party. In this picture you can see the PM apparently shouting out in pain as he’s being shot.”
[pic]
“The Liberals posted these pictures today – December 14th. Not that there’s a good time to publish things like this, but to do it today, right after that attack on Berlusconi – the one attributed to an atmosphere of poisoned partisan politics – it’s ignorant:
“I am very worried by this escalation of hatred against a single person,” said Senate Speaker Renato Schifani, a close Berlusconi ally.
Even left-leaning commentators who have led anti-Berlusconi campaigns over his corruption trials and personal problems acknowledged the attack represented a symbol of political tensions that had boiled over dangerously.”
http://rjjago.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/liberals-sink-to-a-new-low/
ed: SDA has this up.
“I Say They Pump It Into News Directors Until It’s All Gone
Provinces unsure what to do with extra H1N1 vaccines”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/012897.html#comments
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Next target is the Cancer Industry:
“Radiation from CT scans causing cancer: study
Diagnostic tests may be responsible for overexposure”
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Radiation+from+scans+causing+cancer+study/2341069/story.html
Hope* and Fear*.
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“Still hope for climate treaty”
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/12/15/12157461-sun.html
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*Hope and Fear:
“Charles Lamb (1775-1834):
“Hope* is charming, lively, blue-eyed wench, & I am always glad of her company, but could dispense with the visitor she brings with her, her younger sister, fear*, a white liver’d-lilly-cheeked, bashful palpitating, awkward hussey that hangs like a green girl at her sister’s apron strings & will go with her whithersoever she goes.”
(Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb)”
“Hope* is charming, lively, blue-eyed wench, & I am always glad of her company, but could dispense with the visitor she brings with her, her younger sister, fear*,
Very poetic, Maz2. I always appreciate your literary embellishments.
the rape of Canada by the warmists. – That’s a good way to put it, Alberta_Lyle.
And if we submit willingly, what does that make us?
Will the media advertise the pictures the Liberals posted depicting the PM being shot? That’s really going beyond the pale. Their extreme hatred is taking them far out of contention to even be considered fit to sit in the HOC.
“LIBERAL.CA PIC OF MOCK HARPER ASSASSINATION
IFFY LIBS SINK TO NEW LOW(sic)”
http://www.bourque.org/
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Left-liberal ignorance is bottomless.
Re: JFK, an “icon” of the left-liberals, shot dead by a son of the left-liberals; a communist.
“He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights . . . . It’s — it had to be some silly little Communist.” — Jackie Kennedy, on hearing that a leftist had been arrested for her husband’s murder”
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm
BTW, any evidence the mighty Donolo brain has kicked in yet?
Rossi seems to have gone to great lengths for an excuse to bail out, running for the Mayor of Toronto could be a long shot at best, but, wait, we’re talking about Toronto………
[...] The official Liberal Party of Canada’s website displays some of its brilliant strategy and great taste. (H/T Liz J and Maz2) [...]
I’m so sick of hearing about the oil sands and greenhouse gases.
Does anyone know how much sewage that Toronto dumps into the lake, and to think they even have to dump their garbage in another Country.
Let’s get new treatment facilities for all our towns and villages, and make the water cleaner in our Country and in other countries of the world.
Clean water for the world is a far bigger problem, in my opinion.
“Paul Crutzen, an atmospheric chemist at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on understanding the hole in the ozone layer”
There are many more scientists who debunked this bogus theory. If you want to know their names, finish reading the article.
Do conservatives forget how to read as soon as they can vote?
You fail.