In case ( :lol: ) some folk never bothered to listen to this monologue, here's a transcript so you can see what it is about.
They call it the silver bean. Well, actually they don't that's just me. But Chicagoans come by the dozens to see where taxpayers go to die. Speaking of magic beans... is the debate about man-made global warming really settled?
Former Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach says it is. Last month when the Alberta PC surprised pollsters and pundits by beating the Wildrose party, Stelmach said what tipped the balance was a statement by Danielle Smith, the Wildrose leader, that the climate debate was not settled.
So... its settled apparently! So, don't get any big ideas in your pretty little head! We all agree that the Earth is warming, that people caused it to happen and obviously we have to raise taxes and give governments more power. We all agree to that! And we agree that we agree that no one disagrees. And if you disagree, you're wrong, you actually agree!
I'm joking… but only a little bit because so-called scientists have become high priests, not welcoming questioners, but hunting them down and rooting them out like religious heretics. St. Suzuki himself once proposed that global warming skeptics be jailed, he really said that! A writer for Forbes magazine, a magazine that calls itself a 'capitalist tool' recently wrote that if a skeptics home burns down... we shouldn't send the fire department and skeptics are routinely compared to Nazis and are called deniers and equated to holocaust deniers... seriously!
And most journalists who are most normally the most skeptical people in the room turn into obedient stenographers when faced with global warming salesmen. Any other multi-billion dollar industry would be treated cynically by reporters, not so the Global Warming industry or its high living jet setting tycoons. Journalists become fanboys! Yeah, no thanks. I'm not that obedient. Political correctness accounts for some of this, I mean it’s still fashionable in elite circles to follow the global warming fad and journalism professors are usually left wing.
So, any 'crisis' that proposes, surprise, more taxes and more government is going to be welcomed.
But I think the largest factor is the simplest! Follow the money. There are billions of dollars spent each year on global warming, not on fixing the so-called problem. But rather funding the political, diplomatic and journalistic class that keeps this so called crisis bubbling and keeps beating the drum for big government solutions. And if you're a professor try getting a research grant if you're a global warming skeptic. You can't! Universities have been bought too!
But here’s the good news. Normal people are not buying it. A new survey by Atticus research shows when Canadians are asked to rank their environmental concerns, global warming comes in dead last, out of 7 choices. People are sick of the propaganda, sick of being told what to think and sick of being told that we are in a perpetual crisis and I think people are sick of high energy prices, high gas prices for your car, high power prices at home. And we're sick of the hypocrisy of David Suzuki with his 3 homes lecturing the rest of us to cut back.
Look, the debate is not settled. And it’s not settled that it's settled. The Earth warms and cools over time. Anyone whose heard of the ice ages, knows that’s true.
Is the Earth warming right now? Has it actually been cooling since 98? And if its warming or cooling, why? Was it really because you and I drove to work instead of bicycling or does it have to do with, oh, maybe the sun? Or are there natural processes that dwarf any impact that man could have?
And even if the world is warming and even if we caused it, well what should we do about it? Should we de-industrialize? Should we stop living like man or start living again like cave-men? Or even like animals? Would that really make a difference?
We're going to spend money on the environment. Should we do it in ways that would actually make a difference? Fighting Malaria in Africa, clean water and sanitation in places like India, tackling smog in China rather than harmless Co2.
These are real questions. And they are just not being asked by pundits like me. Here in Chicago, they're being asked in the international conference on Climate Change, hosted by the Heartland Institute. It’s a conference jam packed with PHDs and scientists of every stripe from climatology and to economics to geography to even a group of Astronaut appalled at the fact that NASA itself has turned into a propaganda outfit.Hundreds of people came to debate and to learn and to study. Now, the pro-global warming lobbyists, well they didn't come inside to make their case. They were outside, picketing and protesting.
Well, count me with the skeptics on the inside. There is no ideology or religion that should be above criticism or debate including global warming. Look I don't care what Ed Stelmach says. The debate is not over. Stay tuned. Over the course of the next hour, we'll prove it to you.
They call it the silver bean. Well, actually they don't that's just me. But Chicagoans come by the dozens to see where taxpayers go to die. Speaking of magic beans... is the debate about man-made global warming really settled?
Former Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach says it is. Last month when the Alberta PC surprised pollsters and pundits by beating the Wildrose party, Stelmach said what tipped the balance was a statement by Danielle Smith, the Wildrose leader, that the climate debate was not settled.
So... its settled apparently! So, don't get any big ideas in your pretty little head! We all agree that the Earth is warming, that people caused it to happen and obviously we have to raise taxes and give governments more power. We all agree to that! And we agree that we agree that no one disagrees. And if you disagree, you're wrong, you actually agree!
I'm joking… but only a little bit because so-called scientists have become high priests, not welcoming questioners, but hunting them down and rooting them out like religious heretics. St. Suzuki himself once proposed that global warming skeptics be jailed, he really said that! A writer for Forbes magazine, a magazine that calls itself a 'capitalist tool' recently wrote that if a skeptics home burns down... we shouldn't send the fire department and skeptics are routinely compared to Nazis and are called deniers and equated to holocaust deniers... seriously!
And most journalists who are most normally the most skeptical people in the room turn into obedient stenographers when faced with global warming salesmen. Any other multi-billion dollar industry would be treated cynically by reporters, not so the Global Warming industry or its high living jet setting tycoons. Journalists become fanboys! Yeah, no thanks. I'm not that obedient. Political correctness accounts for some of this, I mean it’s still fashionable in elite circles to follow the global warming fad and journalism professors are usually left wing.
So, any 'crisis' that proposes, surprise, more taxes and more government is going to be welcomed.
But I think the largest factor is the simplest! Follow the money. There are billions of dollars spent each year on global warming, not on fixing the so-called problem. But rather funding the political, diplomatic and journalistic class that keeps this so called crisis bubbling and keeps beating the drum for big government solutions. And if you're a professor try getting a research grant if you're a global warming skeptic. You can't! Universities have been bought too!
But here’s the good news. Normal people are not buying it. A new survey by Atticus research shows when Canadians are asked to rank their environmental concerns, global warming comes in dead last, out of 7 choices. People are sick of the propaganda, sick of being told what to think and sick of being told that we are in a perpetual crisis and I think people are sick of high energy prices, high gas prices for your car, high power prices at home. And we're sick of the hypocrisy of David Suzuki with his 3 homes lecturing the rest of us to cut back.
Look, the debate is not settled. And it’s not settled that it's settled. The Earth warms and cools over time. Anyone whose heard of the ice ages, knows that’s true.
Is the Earth warming right now? Has it actually been cooling since 98? And if its warming or cooling, why? Was it really because you and I drove to work instead of bicycling or does it have to do with, oh, maybe the sun? Or are there natural processes that dwarf any impact that man could have?
And even if the world is warming and even if we caused it, well what should we do about it? Should we de-industrialize? Should we stop living like man or start living again like cave-men? Or even like animals? Would that really make a difference?
We're going to spend money on the environment. Should we do it in ways that would actually make a difference? Fighting Malaria in Africa, clean water and sanitation in places like India, tackling smog in China rather than harmless Co2.
These are real questions. And they are just not being asked by pundits like me. Here in Chicago, they're being asked in the international conference on Climate Change, hosted by the Heartland Institute. It’s a conference jam packed with PHDs and scientists of every stripe from climatology and to economics to geography to even a group of Astronaut appalled at the fact that NASA itself has turned into a propaganda outfit.Hundreds of people came to debate and to learn and to study. Now, the pro-global warming lobbyists, well they didn't come inside to make their case. They were outside, picketing and protesting.
Well, count me with the skeptics on the inside. There is no ideology or religion that should be above criticism or debate including global warming. Look I don't care what Ed Stelmach says. The debate is not over. Stay tuned. Over the course of the next hour, we'll prove it to you.
