Tagging this one was a tough choice between “Quote of the Week” and “Climate Craziness of the Week”. Quote won.
September 27, 2010: Dr. David Suzuki, co-founder of the environmental activist group, The David Suzuki Foundation, is now touring Canada promoting his new book, “The Legacy – An elder’s Vision for our Sustainable Future”. The speech he gave this evening in Ottawa at the Dominion Chalmers Church was essentially a summary of the book, with much of the book’s text used verbatim in the presentation.
Get a load of what he says about humanity’s role in the forces of nature:
“We have become a force of nature … Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were accepted as “natural disasters or “acts of God.” But now, we have joined God, powerful enough to influence these events.”
If Mr. Suzuki thinks we’ve become a race of “God like beings”, able to influence hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions, next we’ll probably hear things like this:
Read the full story here at the ICSC
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Addendum – some points about things we can’t influence and/or have been disproven:
Tornados and global warming link – “just not there”
Increasing tornadoes or better information gathering?
Going Down: Death Rates Due to Extreme Weather Events
Global Warming = more hurricanes | Still not happening
Increased hurricanes to global warming link: blown away
Influence earthquakes? – no link needed, we can’t even predict them yet, much less influence them.
Influence volcanic explosions? – yeah right. Go argue with Mt. Saint Helens. Some people did, decided to stay, and paid with their lives.
Floods? – Think Corp of Engineers and dikes that failed during Katrina or any number of floods on the Mississippi river, such as in 1993
Forest Fires? – Yeah, we sure were able to control the one in Yellowstone in 1988, though I’ll admit it was worsened by poor management practices.
Drought ? – Australia’s “worst drought in 1000 years” now fixed by nature.
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This is pure unadulterated hubris.
I think there is some truth to this re the environment.
Something about a flea, floating on his back with an erection, shouting “raise the drawbridge!” comes to mind.
David Suzuki is the [snip] of environmentalists. He is worshipped in Canada by the brainwashed multitudes that soak up his mindless rants. Like most despots he doesn’t debate, he pronounces. And the national broadcaster fronts this charlatan as a leading “scientist” when in truth he gave up science in his early twenties for a career in the media.
“now, we have joined God, powerful enough to influence these events”.
An obsession with religious ideas is itself religious.
Until recently, I had never heard of him. Why does he call himself an elder? Which (first) nation is he a member of, if he can call himself an elder? What is his prominence in society? I had never even heard of his foundation before this.
Why does he think he is important?
If we could influence these things we would not be allowing them to cause billions of pounds worth of damage would we?
We have as much impact on hurricanes, volcanoes and earthquakes as a fly has on the velocity of a car when it hits the windscreen at 70 mph.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”
Anthony, I think you are misinterpreting Suzuki’s metaphor. He is not suggesting that any given person has risen to the level of a god. He is saying that our species (our collective 6 billion individuals) has become a dominant force on this planet. We have become a force of nature in a way that we never have been in the past.
REPLY: Oh I understood what he said, individually or collectively, we sure as heck can’t influence a volcano or earthquake one iota. Ditto for the others. Anytime nature throws us a curveball, we are pretty much flyspecks on an elephant’s butt in our ability to influence it. Our best flood control measures fail, our forest fire control measures fail. Links of “climate change” to hurricanes and tornado frequency has been disproven time and again. No, what he’s saying is pure hubris based on an incomplete and biased understanding of reality. – Anthony
The David Suzuki Foundation… talk about a disaster!
David Suzuki – yet another evil Canadian, along with Mo who-hides-inChina Strong.
Get a load of what he says about humanity’s role in the forces of nature:
“We have become a force of nature … Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were accepted as “natural disasters or “acts of God.” But now, we have joined God, powerful enough to influence these events.”
If Mr. Suzuki thinks we’ve become a race of “God like beings”, able to influence hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions,
Well to be fair, we can influence many of these events.
We can create drought by cutting down forests.
We can create forest fires with a box of matches.
We can create floods by damming rivers. We can create *minor* earthquakes doing the same thing.
We can take a small volcano erupting in a place far, far away of which we know little, and can pronounce even less, and by panicking like school girls around a spider, turn it into a disaster.
However equating kicking trigger points until they react, with joining God is stretching it too far. That’s like equating the first caveman to pick up a rock, with Death – the destroyer of worlds.
But now, we have joined God, powerful enough to influence these events.
Well, as an Anthrodeist, I can’t say it’s come a moment too soon!
rats & sinking ships!
29 Sept: Reuters: Al Gore-chaired fund sells Camco Intl 20 pct stake
A sustainable investment fund chaired by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore sold a roughly 20 percent share in carbon offset aggregator Camco International (CAMIN.L) this week, a regulatory filing showed.
The statement, filed late on Tuesday, said Generation Investment Management LLP offloaded all of its 34.5 million shares, representing 19.6 percent of the firm, as of Monday’s market close.
Officials at Generation IM could not be immediately reached for comment.
Camco develops clean energy projects in developing countries under the Kyoto Protocol’s carbon finance schemes.
The shares were probably sold to Khazanah Nasional, a Malaysian government investment arm that has formed a joint venture with Camco to develop projects in Southeast Asia. [ID:nLDE68Q0CD]…..
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE68S0Q220100929
Kneel before Zod. Action figures sold separately.
I suppose we would be mighty indeed, if we could shove the continents back together to reform Pangea and get rid of those pesky Ice Ages.
General Zod says it best at the end of this clip.
<blockquote cite="Rob Honeycutt says:
September 29, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Anthony, I think you are misinterpreting Suzuki’s metaphor. He is not suggesting that any given person has risen to the level of a god. He is saying that our species (our collective 6 billion individuals) has become a dominant force on this planet. We have become a force of nature in a way that we never have been in the past.
REPLY: Oh I understood what he said, individually or collectively, we sure as heck can’t influence a volcano or earthquake one iota. Ditto for the others. Anytime nature throws us a curveball, we are pretty much flyspecks on an elephant’s butt in our ability to influence it. Our best flood control measures fail, our forest fire control measures fail. Links of “climate change” to hurricanes and tornado frequency has been disproven time and again. No, what he’s saying is pure hubris based on an incomplete and biased understanding of reality. – Anthony"I wanted to say the same thing, but I ran out of those 50 cent words, after 10 cents.Would it be possible to get a preview function? Bad spellars want to now.
So surely some one just needs to ask him to go down to the beach & stop the tide ?
At least when Canute did it he was showing his sycophantic followers that they were idiots
Seriously just challenge him to stop an earthquake ( or even better PREDICT one).
He is a scientist ? He’s made a claim – unless he is a charlatan then he can demonstrate his claim.
Surely some one can get the media’s attention long enough ?
But then warmists never ever seem to be able to prove their predictions do they …
David Suzuki learned a long time ago how to profit from the fear of eco catastrophe a long time ago and has been practicing it ever since.
The phrase “May the force be with you” was a statement of goodwill etc among the Jedi – but now it seems the Dark Side has hijacked it.
What a .
David Suzuki is a legend in his own mind who thinks politicians that disagree with him should be jailed. He has been on the CBC forever being payed by extorted tax dollars to tell us how bad we are. He does the same things Gore does by telling us we need to cut back but at last count he has 5 homes and 5 kids. Go figure. He has a genetics degree but hasn’t written a paper in decades and claims to be our Canadian climate profit, ooops sorry, prophet. He made a series of commercials showing him breaking into houses and caulking windows and convincing beer bellied morons to get rid of their old fridges so they could afford more beer. Google him and you will find lots of information. Also you can check out http://dailybayonet.com/ for lots on Suzuki and lots of climate madness snark. (i am not connected with this site but it is great for a laugh as it pokes fun at Gore, Suzuki, etal).
“We have become a force of nature”
So, we are an agent of the natural world.
“But now, we have joined God”
I thought we where an agent of nature?
Ok, let us call nature and God the same thing; for the purpose of your diatribe (I suspect that they might be different).
“powerful enough to influence these events”
Sort of like angels then, we are the muscle (Walls of Jericho), the hit men (Sodom & Gomorra); that implement the boss’s (God or nature) orders.
So we are angels in the service of nature; that we are one with nature and that we are doing the bidding of God.
Wow, it is better than we thought.
A while back I was watching the CBC and saw this interview which fortunately I recorded for posterity and your consideration.
Would the Real David Suzuki start ranting please:
http://pathstoknowledge.net/2009/12/17/david-suzuki-rants-epic-on-global-warming-and-copenhagen
We’re gods eh? Nature is a harsh mistress. No we’re not gods. Far from it.
http://pathstoknowledge.net/2009/02/24/ever-wanted-an-extra-limb-to-do-more
Never before has man had such an influence!
http://www.physorg.com/news193847219.html
“This is arguably the first detectable influence of humans on the environment going back 13,400 years to when humans first got to the continent,” said Smith. “I think that it’s intriguing because there are a lot of ramifications. Potentially, if the decrease in methane, which is synchronous with this ice spell, was actually the cause, then humans contributed to the Younger Dryas cold episode.”
And never before before has man had such an influence, I mean! Or something like that. But yeah, we are GODS! Now, can someone part the Red Sea for me?