This is rather unique, and it shows the conviction that some individuals have. I’ve often thought that a full page ad in the NYT might get some action, but I really think volume is the answer now on an individual scale, just like Gore’s “we” campaign. I’m sure that thousands of letters to the editors are being launched right about now from folks who think a lot like Mr. Bell. Climategate and Copenhagen have stirred up a hornet’s nest.
Unfortunately, ads don’t become web searchable, so we have this image and the PDF below.
An email sent to me reads:
Bill Bell has been trying for weeks to get the [Calgary] Herald to sell him a full page for an “Advertisement-Opinion” on Climate Change science and Copenhagen. (This mostly happened before the Hadley disclosure). The Herald must have gone through a number of intestinal upheavals, involving editors, ad people, lawyers and the publisher and it seems that – rather then be accused of suppressing information – they have finally consented. I think it puts a new face on the Herald also.
A brave man, Mr. Bell.
Here is the PDF Bill Bell’s advertisment
david waugh (10:23:00) :
I’m a sceptic & I too call BS on the £5000 car tax!
That would mean that many cars are sold at a loss!
It is however possible that he meant an average £5000 but much better if he’d said a %.
DaveE.
Well done Bell. He could have put it on WUWT and got more readers though. I bet Anthony’s rates are better.
@David waugh
Stephen Hawking hired a Private Nurse
http://nationaldeathservice.blogspot.com/2009/12/250-die-of-starvation-in-hospital.html
“A STAGGERING 250 people are dying of starvation a year in British hospitals – a national disgrace that costs the taxpayer a whopping £7 BILLION.”
@Jeff Id (16:35:54) :
It’s one of my gripes that some if not most of the skeptic websites have google ads rotating header that is always cluttered with WWF ads.
Recently the excellent blog Climate Skeptic put up an ad for a video he had produced that was picked up and put in rotation at Lubos Motl’s website.
That was a first for me, seeing an anti-AGW ad at an anti-AGW website.
Hopefully it will be the first of many. How much do Google ads cost, more then a NYT’s ad, or less?
Toto (09:30:28) :
Forget newspaper ads. Who reads stuff like that? Viral videos, that’s where it’s at.
Hide the Decline doesn’t say as much but it is the thin edge of the wedge. A full page of newspaper text is the blunt end of the wedge
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You miss the point Toto……
What this does, is FORCE the newspaper to print the Ad…. So you target the most AGW activist newspapers and force them to have to run your Ad….. It’s like rubbing their nose’s in it….. Very satisfying:-)
The ad is good and well placed. Well done.
I too, disagree with Toto who said, “Forget newspaper ads. Who reads stuff like that?”
Who reads stuff like that is about one quarter of a million (or more) Calgarians. Calgary is city of one million and the financial center of Western Canada and center of the oil and gas industry … along with Edmonton. Alberta’s tar sand are being unfairly attacked right now and a lot of people here are seeking information.
A lot of people will have seen that ad that otherwise would not have seen anything at WUWT and other similar blogs and who have only been fed the skewed standard MSM liberal line.
Well done Mr. Bell.
I am only too happy to have this corrupt organisation put some money into Anthony’s pocket. I click them every so often to ensure that it happens.
“The goal of the perpetrators is a transfer of wealth with the apparent forfeiture of power to a proposed environmental world government formed by the United Nations.”
Y’all are proud of this? That’s what you call bad publicity. It’s not even a coherent sentence.
In other news, Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.
Jeff Id (16:35:54) :
> Well done Bell. He could have put it on WUWT and got more readers though. I bet Anthony’s rates are better.
Yeah, but perhaps he doesn’t want to preach to the choir. The people who most need to read it don’t hang out here.
As much as I appreciate the sentiment, I sincerely wish Mr. Bell had run his text past a few other people first. Unfortunately, the first few paragraphs will turn too many off of the important messages farther along.
On the other hand, it was in a very visible portion of a paper that I no longer even look at, due to its continual slide to the left. I gave up on the Calgary Herald after weeks of constant bombardment pushing the AGW line a few years back. Some of the columnists should just give up on Calgary and move to San Francisco.
This is rather unique…
Sorry guys, but as a pedant, I couldn’t let this one pass.
Being unique is rather like being a virgin – you either are or you aren’t. There can be no degrees of virginity or unique-ness (ugh!!).
Skeptic though I am, is Mr Bell sure that “tax on a new car in England is already over £5000”? Does he mean VAT @ur momisugly 15% (soon to return to 17.5%) on a new car, list price £38333, is already £5000 in England?
I live in England and although I do miss the odd policy nonsense I think I would have heard of this.
Bell is a long time leader in the field of Petroleum Geology. He has served in management and as a Director for numerous oil and gas companies in both the public and private sectors. Currently, he is President of Bellport Resources Ltd, Bellport Oil and Gas Inc and Portobello Investments Ltd…. not the same guy by any chance?
Great news! Weather forecasters can’t tell you what the weather will be like next week, but politicians can tell us what it will be like in five or ten years from now, and, of course, it will be awful unless the citizens turn in their guns, money and freedom to them. claysamerica.com
The guy who paid for this ad is either a moron or a greedy self-interested fool, or (most probably) both.
For the record the fact that one place or another was warm or cold this week/month/year is essentially irrelevant. Short term weather is essentially irrelevant to the question of climate change. Rather, it is long term global-scale trends that are the issue, and further not climate change does not imply all places will get warmer (although many places will). We have people who spend their lives attempting to figure this out, and they do so without much on a financial or self-interested agenda: the rational thing is to believe them and try the problem seriously.
Greg, the “rational” thing is to not believe charlatans.
“We” have people who spend their lives attempting to find ways to “prove” a hypothesis that has already been falsified, over and over and over. And yet, somehow, millions of people still believe it, and they keep getting funding.
Apparently you’ve missed the fact that “global-scale trends” are only the issue in the sense that we don’t know what the global-scale trends are, since the record has been polluted and altered. However, it’s looking more and more like the “global-scale trend” is either flat, or cooling.
Greg (09:54:01) said:
I have a bridge you might be interested in.
It IS the Scam of our Lifetime, one of the greatest in the whole history of mankind.
Just now I read on CA that Gerry North told the Washington post, (Dec. 1, 2009), that the NAS panel did exactly the same thing as Phil Jones’ trick, to solve Briffa’s problem (Hide the Decline). The “problem” arises because Briffa reconstruction goes down from 1940 to 1994, instead of up, as per the thermometer records.
The NAS panel showed the temperature records alongside Mann’s reconstruction, whereby any highschool student could see Mann’s “reconstruction” was inaccurate, where it could be accurately checked, and hence its claim to represent temperatures for the last 1,000 years doing away with the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age WAS WRONG!
Gerald North doesn’t even know and understand that!
Gerald North was chairman of the NAS committee which whitewashed, almost, (a few of the black bits showed through the white-wash), the inquiry into the Hockey stick graph and Wegman’s report!
If he doesn’t understand the simple “trick” that Jones did, what hope is there that he understood the hockey-stick inquiry or the Wegman report?
He also gave a separate report, further pooh-poohing the obvious manipulation of Mann and the MBH98/99 papers. His level of understanding is so appalling, he couldn’t possibly have written anything on his own, which leads me to suspect that Mann and his gang wrote it for him.
It is on the basis of this NAS report that the warmists claim “The NAS” reviewed Mann’s papers and found nothing wrong!
It was NOT “the NAS”. “The NAS” was actually its chair Gerald North, who doesn’t know the difference between a trick and a treat. He has revealed his appalling ignorance and illiteracy.
Greg (09:54:01) :
The guy who paid for this ad is either a moron or a greedy self-interested fool, or (most probably) both.
For the record…
Thank you for voicing your opinions. For the record my opinion of you is exactly the same.
Beedster
I replied about the UK car tax, thinking (wrongly) that we still had the old 10% car tax that was introduced years ago to cover the shortfall between the old ‘purchase tax’ and the then new VAT, which was about 10% less – i.e. the government invoked the old ratchet principle.
It turned out that this was borderline illegal, making the VAT a tax on a tax, and it was eventually abolished. We do, however, have a lot of other vehicle taxes, including some 75% on fuel and a sliding scale of ‘vehicle excise duty’ (a.k.a. road tax) according to your car’s CO2 output (guess how that works), so one could reasonably be said to pay a lot more than £5k to the Treasury over the life of the car. Not sure that’s what Bill Bell meant, though…
To Richard (10:38:56) : If the proxies for temperature disagree with the actual temperature measured by thermometers which would you believe? Sounds like those who believe the thermometers did the right thing.
Turboblocke (13:19:20) :
Thank you for voicing your opinions. For the record my opinion of you is exactly the same as Richards at (10:43:51) :
Turboblocke (13:19:20) :
“To Richard (10:38:56) : If the proxies for temperature disagree with the actual temperature measured by thermometers which would you believe? Sounds like those who believe the thermometers did the right thing.”
If the proxies disagree with the thermometers used in the blade, that invalidates the use of the proxies in the shaft.
Also, the fact that this splicing occurred wasn’t always pointed out in the literature, which is a no-no.
“Short term weather is essentially irrelevant to the question of climate change.”
You mean short term cooler weather is irrelevant; short term warming is proof positive we’re all going to die from global warming.
“We have people who spend their lives attempting to figure this out, and they do so without much on a financial or self-interested agenda: the rational thing is to believe them and try the problem seriously. ”
I know a used car salesman you need to meet. He’ll cut you the deal of the century. Promise.