Global Warming And David Suzuki's Lies

[CDNBear]

David Suzuki's reputation among his peers, and internationally, has not suffered. This is a man held in high esteem in the manner of Carl Sagan. The guy has about fifteen honorary doctorates from universities outside of Canada.

Anyone of them in climatology???

 

[#juan]

Anyone of them in climatology???

One is not educated by "honorary degrees". What you don't understand is that a lot of scientists educate themselves across disciplinary boundaries. If you already have the math and basics, you can do that. It is like an clarinet player taking up the saxophone.

 

[darkbeaver]

I wouldn't dissagree with you on that for a million bucks(sorry I had to say that), but from where I sit, Kyoto has all the ear marks of a socialist global welfare scheme. If it truly were, "just about the environment", there would be no exemptions, there would be no credit selling/trading. It would be all about clean up or else. So when I see a bunch of socialist thinkers, like Suzuki and company, calling anyone that dare dissagree with them liars, deniers, shills, etc. It only fuels my suspicions.

You were brainwashed by capitalist pigs, if it wasn't for socialism you and I would be working in a coal mine in the dark and eating raw potatoes and rats.You mistakingly believe that capitalists and management are responsible for all the good things in your life.Anyone that disagrees with what Suzuki is doing and saying is a gutless coward and should have his lungs pulled out of his nose with a sharp stick.You yak and yak about global socialism like it was a bad thing, it isn't, if the world were left to illinformed windbags like you we'ed all be dead in a month.:wave:

 

[Cobalt_Kid]

I wouldn't dissagree with you on that for a million bucks(sorry I had to say that), but from where I sit, Kyoto has all the ear marks of a socialist global welfare scheme. If it truly were, "just about the environment", there would be no exemptions, there would be no credit selling/trading. It would be all about clean up or else. So when I see a bunch of socialist thinkers, like Suzuki and company, calling anyone that dare dissagree with them liars, deniers, shills, etc. It only fuels my suspicions.

IMO we're all in a bus about to drive over a cliff. I don't care if we turn off onto the road to Kyoto or Timbucto, whatever works to change our path to disaster is ok with me. If there's some goofballs on the bus cheering for the plunge over the cliff, I say throw them off the bus.

This isn't about economics anymore, it's about survival.

 

[Walter]

This isn't about economics anymore, it's about survival.

The sky is falling. I'll have to get some razor blades.

 

[razorgrade]

Suzuki is a passionate idealist and this is something I admire him for.

In an ideal world, technology would help us. But at the same time it is not helping for us to bring our kids up sending SMS and playing Playstation, ignoring the problems of the world while our planet boils.

The majority of countries use technology not for our economy, but for one thing - war. More should be spent on environmental initiatives and space exploration in the interests of a sustainable future.

All you gw skeptics can argue until you are green in the face, but there is no denying the messes that industry and war have left on our planet from the oil spills in Alaska to Chernobyl to the dissapearing Amazon, burning of the Iraqi oil fields, heavy metal in our oceans, Asbestos, the hole in the ozone layer - the list goes on. We are constantly cleaning up after ourselves.

 

[Cobalt_Kid]

The sky is falling. I'll have to get some razor blades.

The sky isn't falling, we're going through an unprecedented period of global climate change. Sticking your head in the sand because it's too scary to deal with is pointless.

 

[I think not]

David Suzuki's reputation among his peers, and internationally, has not suffered. This is a man held in high esteem in the manner of Carl Sagan. The guy has about fifteen honorary doctorates from universities outside of Canada.

Come on #juan, I know we disagree on a great many things, but an "honorary" degree means NOTHING! Are you suggesting Suzuki has a PhD in 15 different fields?

BTW, I thought Suzuki was a geneticist, when did he obtain his environmental expertise?

 

[Cobalt_Kid]

Come on #juan, I know we disagree on a great many things, but an "honorary" degree means NOTHING! Are you suggesting Suzuki has a PhD in 15 different fields?

BTW, I thought Suzuki was a geneticist, when did he obtain his environmental expertise?

He was a geneticist at UBC in the 1960s and 70s. Since then he's been more involved in media and education on all aspects of science.

 

[I think not]

He was a geneticist at UBC in the 1960s and 70s. Since then he's been more involved in media and education on all aspects of science.

And his credentials regarding the environment are? I'm not being sarcastic, I would really like to know.

 

[Cobalt_Kid]

And his credentials regarding the environment are? I'm not being sarcastic, I would really like to know.

He did some of the ground breaking work in genetics and has been involved in monitoring environmental changes worldwide for over 30 years. If anyone out there has a good overall grasp of the changes that have been occuring it's David Suzuki.

 

[#juan]

Come on #juan, I know we disagree on a great many things, but an "honorary" degree means NOTHING! Are you suggesting Suzuki has a PhD in 15 different fields?

BTW, I thought Suzuki was a geneticist, when did he obtain his environmental expertise?

Don't cherry pick ITN. If you scroll back about six posts or so, you will find what I said about honorary degrees. The David Suzuki Foundation has world class climatologists and other scientists who make that organization an authority on climate change, and global warming.

 

[L Gilbert]

Anyway, farbeit for me to call Suzuki a liar, but I do know for a fact that he makes some pretty wild predictions. Back when the population of the planet was something like 5 billion or 5.5 billion, Suzuki was fearmongering about overpopulating the planet. I think he predicted it was sposed to double by 2013. Now it's predicted that actually the population won't even hit 10 billion by 2050.

 

[Fingertrouble]

What oil & gas controlled media firm did this article come out of. It's like reading about how safe cigarettes are for you back in the 60s or 70s. All this "wonders of technology" and how it's all been beneficial. What a joke.

There are many industries in the world that need to change their ways and take action to reduce their effect on climate change. I myself am in the camp that believes that this is a natural occurence, but that we are contributing to it in a way that is worsening the situation, but to what extent I would say is very debateable and no on has real evidence on that.

I do have to wonder why it is always the Oil and gas industry that is targeted (and no I don't work in the industry!). We should be targeting ourselves, not the industries that are making money on services provided to us because of our living habits. If we were to use less fossil fuels ourselves or if we chose more enviornmentally sound choices in our own lives, these companies would switch their business too, as that would be were the money would be.

 

[L Gilbert]

It's simple. People find it easier to attach blame for things than to actually work at finding solutions for things.

 

[I think not]

Don't cherry pick ITN. If you scroll back about six posts or so, you will find what I said about honorary degrees. The David Suzuki Foundation has world class climatologists and other scientists who make that organization an authority on climate change, and global warming.

But you felt the necessity to bring up his honorary degrees nonetheless.

I'll ask again, what's Suzuki's credentials regarding the environment?

It's a simple question.

 

[Sparrow]

Talk about CO2 emissions, did anyone hear in the new that Italy's volcano is spewing and 2 new craters have formed! Talk about warming.

 

[#juan]

Dr.David Suzuki's education

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Dr. David Suzuki: Detailed CV



BIRTHDATE
March 24, 1936
BIRTHPLACE
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
CITIZENSHIP
Canadian

EDUCATION
Postdoctoral
Rocky Mountain Biological Lab - Crested Butte, Colorado USA


1961-1962 Research Associate, Biology Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

Graduate
1961 Ph.D. Zoology
University of Chicago - Chicago, Ill., USA

Undergraduate
1958 BA Honours in Biology
Amherst College - Amherst, Mass., USA


High School
1954 Graduate London Central Collegiate Institute
London, Ontario, Canada


ACADEMIC CAREER
2001-current
Professor Emeritus University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
1993-2001
Professor, Associate, Sustainable Research Development Institute University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
1969-1993
Professor, Department of Zoology
University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
1965-1969
Associate Professor, Department of Zoology
University of British Columbia - Vancouver, BC, Canada
1963-1965
Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology
University of British Columbia - Vancouver, BC, Canada
1962-1963
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
University of Alberta - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1978-Fall
Visiting Professor, Department of Zoology
University of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1977-Spring
Visiting Professor, Molecular Biology
University of California - Berkeley, California, USA
1976-Spring
Visiting Professor, Bacteriology & Immunology
University of California - Berkeley, California, USA
1972-Spring
Honorary Professor, Department of Biology
University of Utah -Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
1972-Winter
Visiting Professor, Department of Biology
University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
1971-Winter
Honorary Professor, Department of Biology
University of Utah - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
1969-Spring
Visiting Professor, Department of Genetics
University of California - Berkeley, California, USA
1966-Summer
Visiting Professor, Department of Zoology
University of California - Berkeley, California, USA
1959-1961
Teaching Assistant, Department of Zoology
University of Chicago - Chicago, Ill., USA
1958-1959
Research Assistant for Dr. W.K. Baker
University of Chicago - Chicago, Ill., USA
1957-1958
Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology
Amherst College - Amherst, Mass., USA
1958-Summer
Fish Biologist, Department of Lands & Forests
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

HONOURS AND ACADEMIC AWARDS


2000


Lifetime Achievement Award
University of British Columbia Alumni Association
1992
Commemorative Medal
125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation
1992
MacLachlan Great Canadian Medal
MacLachlan College & Preparatory School
1990
Wiegand Award for Canadian Excellence
University of Waterloo
1986
Gold Medal Award
Biological Council of Canada
1981
Honorary Fellow
Ryerson University
1981
BC Science and Engineering Gold Medal
Science Council of B.C., Natural Sciences Division
1979
Honorary Diploma
Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec
1979
Award of Distinction
Northwest Institute of Ethics and the Life Sciences
1978
Honorary Guild Shield
Conestoga College, Kitchener, Ontario
1974
Honorary Life Membership for Teaching Achievements
University of British Columbia Alumni Association

HONORARY DEGREES
2005
Hon. Doctor of Science Universite Quebec a Montreal
2005
Hon. Doctor of Science York University, Canada
2001
Hon. Doctor of Laws Simon Fraser University Canada
2000
Hon. Doctor of Environmental Science Unity College, USA
1999
Hon. Doctor of Science Whitman College USA
1998
Hon. Doctor of Laws Open University Canada
1997
Hon. DSc Griffith University Australia
1988
Hon. DSc Amherst College USA
1987
Hon. DSc Carleton University Canada
1987
Hon. LLD Queen’s University Canada
1987
Hon. DSc McMaster University Canada
1986
Hon. DSc Lakehead University Canada
1986
Hon. Doctor of Humane Letters Governors State University USA
1986
Hon. LLD University of Calgary Canada
1981
Hon. LLD Trent University Canada
1979
Hon. DSc, Acadia University, Canada
1979
Hon. DSc, University of Windsor, Canada
1974
Hon. LLD, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada

ELECTRONIC MEDIA AWARDS
2006

Excellence in Health Reporting, Canadian Medical Association​

2005

Silent Forest first prize Earth Vision
International Environmental Film Festival Santa Cruz California​

2004

Gemini Award, Best Science, Technology, Nature, Environment,
Suzuki Speaks, Producers Tony Papa, Cathy Chilco, Avanti Pictures​

2004

Crystal Award of Excellence, Communicators Award, Bioneers, radio Restoring Life’s Fabric​

2003

Fast Forward Award for Outstanding Contribution to Educational Media in Canada, First recipient Langara College, Vancouver BC​

2002

John Drainie Award for excellence in Broadcast Journalism, Banff​

1997

Gemini Award, Best Host, The Nature of Things Food or Famine​

1996

Honouree, Global Dreams A tribute hosted by David Foster and Dan Aykroyd, House of Blues in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA.​

1995

Parents Choice Award, Audio Award Amazing Journey, Children Sing to the Beat of the Earth​

1994

San Francisco Exploratorium,
Public Understanding of Science Award​

1994

Gemini Award, Best Host, The Nature of Things, Trading Futures​

1992

Genesis Award for Outstanding Cable Documentary,​

The Nature of Things Animals in Research: Breaking the Habit​

1992

Gemini Award, Best Host, The Nature Connection, Tide Pools​

1990

Silver Medal, Council for Advancement of Education Best Audiovisual Package, UBC Perspectives​

1989

Humanitarian Award, Canadian Health Food Association​

1989

Bronze Medal, Council for the Advancement of Education Best Audiovisual Package, UBC Perspectives​

1989

Award of Excellence, Banff Television Festival​

1986

Grand Award (Silver Medal), Canadian Council for Advancement of Education,Best Audiovisual Package, UBC Perspectives​

1986

Gold Award, Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education Award, Best Audiovisual Package, UBC Perspectives​

1986

Award, Best Television Script, A Planet for the Taking, Episode 6, Improving on Nature​

1986

Member, Global 500 Roll of Honour,
UN Environment Programme​

1986

Genesis Award, Fund for Animals, Los Angeles,
Best Documentary​

1986

Gemini Award, Best Host of TV Series, The Nature of Things​

1986

Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education Award
Best Audiovisual Package, UBC Perspectives​

1985

World Environment Festival Award, CBC Science Unit,
A Planet for the Taking​

1985

Governor General’s Award for Conservation,
A Planet for the Taking​

1985

ACTRA Award, Best Host of TV Series, Futurescan​

1983

Japan Times Prize, The Nature of Things, Japan Shows​

1983

Japan Gold Prize, Best Foreign Film on Japan, The Nature of Things​

1983

Diploma of Honour, XXXVI Congress, Film Video Genetics, Paris, France The Nature Things, To be or not to be​

1983

Bell Northern Award for The Nature of Things, Japan Shows​

1983

Asahi Evening News Prize, The Nature of Things, Japan Shows​

1979

Prix Anik Award for Best Documentary Film, Tankerbomb, Host and Narrator​

1979
Bell-Northern Award for Science Communication in the electronic media
1977
Bell Northern Science Communication in the electronic media
1976
Bell Northern Award for Science Communication in the electronic media
1976
BC CTRA Award for radio host of Quirks and Quarks
1976

Award for the best documentary film The Hottest Show on Earth​

1976

Award as Broadcaster of the Year, Canadian Broadcasters​

 

[Avro]

It's simple. People find it easier to attach blame for things than to actually work at finding solutions for things.

Yeah, like saying the majority of scientists are actualy part of some international cabal to form a one world socialist goverment.

 

[Avro]

But you felt the necessity to bring up his honorary degrees nonetheless.

I'll ask again, what's Suzuki's credentials regarding the environment?

It's a simple question.

I'm sure David's credentials are better than the flat earthers you subscribe to.

I have yet to see one that isn't linked to big oil and has a list of scientific credentials the likes of Mr. Suzuki.