| Arrrrrgggghhh! |
[Jan. 19th, 2006|09:04 am] |
I ought to just stop reading anything the moment i see "opinion" in the editorial sectioning of online news.... MARK STEYN, an editor for the Jerusalem Post just cut/copied/pasted some lame-ass opinion piece on the cult of global warming. (sheeesh! you'd think that a country like israel, with all of its problems, and no oil would just mind their `own business, but obviously, it's a little more than "opinion" and for some reason Mr. Steyn's bosses decided that we need more obfuscation lies and slight-of-words printed in the diarreah of anti-greenhouse mental sludge sphere.... Not to mention that this lame-o didn't even do his own research! Anyone who has had to wade through the CO2-is-good-for-you tripe, will be familiar not only with the arguments he pastes, but even the actual wording and phrases.... Oh my god, will someone please duct tape this useless pontificator? Not only does he bring up Michael Chriton's anti environmentalist's book in the first line (a sure indication where the crap will roll-- not only does he think Chriton is a purveyor of sound policies, but he actually thinks it's a good read! So no accounting for taste, the guy still has his head up his butt)
And you may think i'm being a little harsh here, so let me just pluck some adjectives from this bile-spewer's litany for y'all: "Martin Sheenesque Hollywood eco-poseur," ..."eco-tists sounded more than a little squaresvill," ..."the short-term interests of the eco-establishment count for more than the long-term health and welfare of ordinary Australians," ...."laughably fraudulent (hear that Patrick Michaels?)," ...."Yet, such is the power of the eco-lobby that this fraud became the centerpiece of UN reports on global warming.," ...."the problem for the Kyoto cultists," ...."Kyotocrats will be citing lack of climate change as evidence of climate change. They are, literally, a church, and under the Holy Book of Kyoto their bishops demand that the great industrial nations of the world tithe their incomes to them," ...."unlike the Kyotophiles, their (the Beyond Kyoto crew)strategy isn't a form of cultural self-flagellation," ..."One day, the world will marvel at the environmental hysteria at our time, and the deeply damaging corruption of science in the cause of an alarmist cult.," I normally don't hold back, but I will with what i would tell this guy to do with his plagaristic "opinion"
Instead i will offer an antidote. This Mark Steyn guy, obviously genuflected, and open for rimming any American will (or what he thinks will appease America), might do better (and for anyone looking for an actual good opinion) try reading an article actually from within the United States. I don't think you can find a more car crazy place than Petaluma California (That's where the car's first owner was, a little old lady from Petaluma). And yet, The Petaluma Argus Courier has a great article by Bruce Hagen entitled "Our choice: petrolism or patriotism". Now, maybe I have a bias, but this guy hits all the notes, with a pro-activist stance and you can really understand what he's talking about. So there Mr. Jerusalem Post Disinformation Editor, try some reality.... |
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| Round Two: |
[Jan. 8th, 2006|08:29 pm] |
Theeeeeeyyyyyyre heeeeerrree!
ok, I mentioned this when it first came out, and I apologize, i handled it in a very cynical way--
But now they're back for more Beyond Kyoto! Everybody say Ho! ...and while Condi was going to go and attend the six-nation Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate next week, she canceled, and now Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky will be attending. And she must be pleased as punch. I know I know, she looks it, that's for sure!
The meeting will be the first for the partnership, which includes Australia, China, India, Japan and South Korea along with the United States and was set up under an agreement last July. ((Woah! Slow down there...)) and Undersecretary Dobriansky must be excited! And she certainly knows the party line, stating at least 4 times how this agreement (BTW "agreement on climate",not on climate change) will be going "beyond kyoto." Seriously, she said it in every possible combination ("we're bringing innovations to take us beyond kyoto"... "we come not with an effort to circumvent the Kyoto Protocol, but rather to complement it with action that goes beyond the treaty", blah blah blah...), and it leads me to ask just one thing: Why exactly, if they have no problem going beyond Kyoto, could they not sign Kyoto? Or maybe not actually sign it, maybe just stop trying to derail it at every chance they got? I mean if they come to praise Kyoto not bury it... OK well anyway, it's interesting to see what Greenpeace's take is on this: apparently there are no new innovations, except of course for the meme 'beyond kyoto.' Thanks heavens for PR flacks... |
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| ((apologies for the cynecism in this post..)) |
[Jul. 27th, 2005|08:20 pm] |
ok so now the poop is really flowing down the pipe …and its getting thicker by the second. Since last I posted (all but a few hours ago) there’s now 199 related articles about this USA/AUS climate dealio… some things I’ve noticed:
ok right off the bat—noticed that the name of this accord is “Beyond Kyoto” and the press guppies are gobbling it up! Hmmm….. sounds familiar doesn’t it? ( Read more... ) |
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| Well… I’ll keep my fingers crossed |
[Jul. 27th, 2005|03:51 pm] |
news just out from the beeb is that the USA and Australia are going to do their own thing regarding climate change, and its gonna be better than that silly Kyoto, they say. Ian Campbell, Australia’s Minister of Environment said: "We're going to have a 40% increase in emissions under the Kyoto Protocol, and the world needs a 50% reduction," he said. "We've got to find something that works better." I couldn’t agree more. Pardon my language, but fuck 1990 levels for GHg's.... we need 1790 levels if we want a stable climate regime... in fact, I think we need to invent some machine that takes-in air, traps the CO2, frees the O2 and then compressed the C (make stuff with it. like slinky carbon-thread clothes... or diamonds!), and Cambell almost seems to think like me,
almost...
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