I’m sorry but I just had to point out Lorrie Goldstein’s column published in yesterday’s Sun – Copenhagen sure was a gas. Goldstein at his best, IMHO.
He’s packaged all the Copenhagen hypocrisy into one zinger of carbon-spewing roast:
Now that the enviro nuts have finished handing out their “Fossil of the Day” and “Colossal Fossil” awards, unfairly smearing Canada at the just-completed Copenhagen climate summit, let’s return the favour with some well-deserved honours of our own.
Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, we present the Copenhagen Flatulence Awards, honouring those who raised the art of generating hot air and gassy emissions to new intensity levels during the UN-sponsored festival of indignation.
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The “I’m Not Really A Climatologist, I Just Play One on TV” Flatulence Award:
To Al Gore, who, having made a career out of mocking opponents for “getting the science wrong” on global warming, gets the science wrong on the melting of the polar ice cap, according to the scientist he says he got the science from.
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The “That Old Man River, He Just Keeps Rolling Along” Flatulence Award:
To David Suzuki, for suggesting during a CBC interview — twice — that anyone worried about lost jobs if Canada’s oil sands are shut down, would also have endorsed slavery in the American south….
Please read the whole thing. Bonus chuckle near the end. I don’t want to spoil it for you.
The comments in response to Lorrie’s column are worth checking out too and include kudos for some of those who were actually looking out for our best interests in Copenhagen:
Patsplace
December 20th 2009, 10:19pm
Don’t forget to send the PM a note telling him that he did a good job. Nice that he was so polite in waiting until the Empty Suit repeated what he’s been saying for years. Nice of him not to make the big O look more frantic than he was.
HarpeS@parl.gc.caJim Prentice deserves a pat on the back too.
Prentice.J@parl.gc.caTwo men that Stood Up for Canada.
This is probably as good a time as any to thank Lorrie for all his dedication and effort in putting forward the truth regarding the true motives of the carbon-credit industry and environmentalists in general. Goldstein has done a terrific amount of research in this field and is extremely knowledgeable as well as objective. He is always ready to discuss the issues with readers, bloggers and colleagues.
Canada needs more in the media like Lorrie Goldstein.
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Related:
Then They Came for the Toilet Paper and I Did Not Speak Out – John Stossel (another one of the good guys) (H/T Moose & Squirrel).
Oh what a tangled web we weave – Falling carbon price could result in higher bills, energy firms warn - Guardian
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Now back to your regularly scheduled shopping, wrapping and baking.
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Tuesday Update:
Lorrie Goldstein gives well-deserved kudos to PM Harper and Jim Prentice – Enviro nuts blow smoke (H/T Liz J):
Congratulations to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Environment Minister Jim Prentice for receiving both the “Colossal Fossil” award and the most “Fossil of the Day” awards from the enviro nuts at the now-concluded Copenhagen climate summit.
This means Harper and Prentice remembered their duty in Copenhagen was to represent Canadian taxpayers, not radicals who would happily destroy our economy, primarily for ideological reasons...
“Canada needs more in the media like Lorrie Goldstein”
Are you paying attention
Tom Clarke,
Robert Fife
Lloyd Robinson
Evan Solomon
Craig Oliver
Jane Taber
Julie Van Dusen
HEAHER MALLICK!!!!!
Kevin Newman
Peter Mansbridge
and the majority of the PPG and CP.
The REAL journalists are doing their jobs…why aren’t you?
I’m listening to Bing sing “White Christmas” as I write. I can multi-task!!!!
‘Read Lorrie Goldstein’s GR-8 column last night. LOL and right on. I’m going to send the link to Prime Minister Stephen Harper — just in case he hasn’t seen it — to lift his spirits. (It must be really hard to be surrounded by idiots at these conferences …)
pm@pm.gc.ca
TimesUK says: The AGW cover has been stripped away.
AGW’s Choo-Choo trains have crashed headlong in a Chunnel of Reality.
All the AGWarmers have is Hope and Fear: a pairofducks and “the out-and-out “contrarians”. That’s you.
Here’s your contribution: “who do so much to reinforce people’s uncertainty and confusion.”
Is that all there is to this AGW clap?
“to bill the Copenhagen accord as anything other than a failure is simply dishonest.”
“Paradoxically, the greatest cause for hope lies in the depth of that failure.”
Here is the best part:
“It will provide new ammunition for the out-and-out “contrarians” scattered through the UK media who remain unpersuaded by the overwhelming consensus on the science of climate change, and who do so much to reinforce people’s uncertainty and confusion.”
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“Selling a low-carbon life just got harder
With no global deal, the Government lacks the cover to enforce controversial, but vital change”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6963387.ece
(H/T SDA)
Lorrie stands out because instead of falling prey to the claptrap of bias, doesn’t give it any credibility at all but instead creating his own news and views via his opinion.
I also wouldn’t call Lorrie “objective”. He’s actually leaning in one definite direction. It’s one that suits our own and ours is not objective either.
I’d call him objective IF he presented both sides equally – he doesn’t. He speaks for the underdog more often than not and we(and he) knows that all the world loves an underdog.
He says in clear language what many are thinking but afraid to say openly. Lorrie does so on the behalf of all of the Fossils who don’t have the capacity to reach millions AND he isn’t deterred or taken off-course by the left-leaning media.
This old world has been around for a long time it’s more than a little ironic that at the Copenhagen shriek fest it just started gettin’ colder and colder, Eurabia is now in a deep freeze, trains won’t run, -3 celsius is apparently severe cold there and wheres Waldo? Gore and Suzuki have apparently retreated to the Bat Cave to come up with a new plan. I understand from “Moose and Squirrel” the greenies are now gonna save the planet one Sheet of T.P. at a time. The tragedy of all this is that it is going to be very hard for real Scientists to be listened to.
I agree Joanne I had e-mailed both PM Harper and MP Prentice before the Copenhagen Conference I think a followup is in order. I thinking I will also let Lorrie Goldstien know he is a treasure, a very rare find in the Lefty-lockstep that the media is. How very fortunate we are that PM Harper was wise enough to hold back, joining the U N Lemmings lining up to go over the cliff was never a viable option. If Africa, Burundi wherever wants to succeed there is a time tested and proven recipe, democracy, get up in the mornin’ go to work, repeat. It isn’t easy but it beats the heck out of what they are doin’ right now.
Trouble over tree rings
The climate question: second of two parts
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=2365992
you are totally forgiven Joanne
as long as we are fortunate to have a true leader at the helm Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Canada is in good hands
I worry about the violence that is erupting around this global warming issue
I hope there will be more level heads like Lorrie Goldstein in the media
anyway return to turning off the news
come back refreshed in 2010
Happy New Year
I am glad I stopped by today
fh
Fabulous! Thanks for thinking of us and posting this, Joanne.
Jim Prentice, will be on Rutherford this AM. Sounded like first up but I’m not sure.
Cheers!
Sure glad the media dissed our PM for not being involved in the final deal before it was finalized. Think of the ink they could have used blaming it all on the PM.
Almost time for new year resolutions. Let us all hope for a PMSH huge majority, via the budget.
If iffy is prepared for 3-4 yrs in opposition, it would be a great time to cancel the 1.95/vote, lower equalization payments, for a start, iffy will vote for it.
Terence Corcoran, editor of the Financial Post, has done a fantastic indepth series of (long) posts on Climategate.
He was even named in one of the Climategate e-mails!
The work this journalist has done could easily be a submission to any future committee, if there is one, on Climategate.
http://www.financialpost.com/opinion/columnists/TerenceCorcoran.html
great article at barrelstrength.com
about cheating and greenie’s
fh
I’m taking a break from blogging this week, but had to stop by to thank you for the heads-up about Lorrie Goldstein’s column. I have a lot of time for Lorrie and have enjoyed his work over the years. Yet again his column is dead on target.
Have a Merry Christmas, Joanne.
Three-part documentary “Global Warming – or is it Just a lot of Hot Air?” presented by Bret Baier last night on Fox
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqi7fxERiqk
Sorry, the three parts are on Youtube, it was presented as a one-hour special last night by Baier. Very interesting.
Just sent e-mails to Prentice and the PM. Already received back an acknowledgement from Prentice. Standard reply, but within minutes I got it.
Oh! Charest and McGuinty still gonna attack Alberta?
Media still gonna insist that there are 3 provinces against Alberta on the ghg issue?
Imagine that, the only province with a CARBON TAX is the only province where ghg’s INCREASED.
B.C. only province with rising greenhouse gases
December 21, 2009
”British Columbia was the only province in the country to report an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from major industries in 2008, according to figures released by Environment Canada…
British Columbia’s dubious distinction was largely the result of oil and gas extraction, Environment Canada said…”
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/12/21/bc-greenhouse-gas-increase.html
The complete FOX 6 part documentary is up athttp://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/21/video-mcintyre-mckittrick-on-fox-news-global-warming-special-mann-chickens-out/#more-14372.
Did a show the other day when it was very cold out. A girl said, “Perhaps God is giving us the cold and snow so that He can tell the Global Warmers that He is still in control”
With the blizzard on the East Coast and cold snap we had, as well as the bad weather in Europe, perhaps she is right. (They must have interesting parents and conversations around the table.)
The “privately-owned” Chicago Climate Exchange is heavily influenced by Obama cohorts Al Gore and Maurice Strong.
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/the-privately-owned-chicago-climate-exchange-is-heavily-influenced-by-obama-cohorts-al-gore-and-maurice-strong/
It sounds like you are advocating the murder of innocent polar bears. I want to steal Christmas.
Marx, you are one in a million.
Polar bears numbers are increasing…marxists are the grinches who want to steal our tax dollars and ruin our Christmas.
AGW/Choo-Choo’s Death Watch.
Bad: “In Britain, more airport delays hit passengers while snow forced the postponement of Wigan’s English Premier League football match against Bolton Wanderers.”
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“Big freeze kills at least 80 across Europe”
“The breakdown of the Eurostar service under the Channel, linking London with Paris and Brussels, has symbolised Europe’s suffering.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2368004
“Hundreds of passengers on a Ryanair flight to France were stranded for hours on the tarmac by the snow with nothing to eat or drink but ice cubes.”
Red-Green’s AGW is a mean bully.
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“Transport chaos: blizzards bring Britain to standstill with more snow on the way
Heavy snow has brought swaths of Britain to a standstill as forecasters gave warning of further travel misery with up to four more inches to come.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6861343/Transport-chaos-blizzards-bring-Britain-to-standstill-with-more-snow-on-the-way.html
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