It’s been awhile since I posted this feature, Climategate got into the mix and there was so much going on I simply forgot to look for interesting quotes.
This week’s quote is prescient and entertaining at the same time. I predict it will be repeated on the blogosphere hundreds if not thousands of times.
Comment left on Lucia’s Blackboard by Kusigrosz:
“Climate doesn’t kill people. Weather kills people”.
Seen on Dr Clam’s accidental blog.
Shortened, it flows better:
“Climate doesn’t kill people. Weather does.”
We Are Change Boston Questions Al Gore Again
http://www.infowars.com/we-are-change-boston-questions-al-gore-again/
Doug S (21:51:02) :
“Check this out: Climate change kills butterflies.
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_14220798“
No, no, no!
Don’t these scientists know anything about our chaotic climate? It’s the butter flies causing the who cause the problem in the first place.
Environmental Activism 180 degrees.
“The 2nd Annual iGlobalForum Carbon Trading Summit took place last Wednesday, January 13th, sparking a large crowd of protestors and activists unhappy with the conclusion of the Copenhagen climate talks. Inside the Embassy Suites Hotel in New York City, market experts, lead executives, government officials, investment bankers, environmental specialists and policymakers met to discuss the future of the carbon market, while frustrated environmental activists rallied outside. No longer willing to leave important environmental issues in the hands of investment bankers and corporate executives, activists tore down the atrium curtain and interrupted the summit luncheon to make their voices heard. Their objective? To express their opposition to carbon trading. ”
Activists Protest Carbon Trading Summit
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?5021&src=QHA300
Reply: We have a tips page. ~ ctm
“NEW YORK–Some 100 people gathered outside the Embassy Suites in the heart of the financial district on January 13 to rally against the Second Annual Carbon Trading Summit, where the world’s most powerful institutions and industries discussed new opportunities at profit in the pollution market.”
The Earth is Not For Sale to Business
http://socialistworker.org/2010/01/19/earth-is-not-for-sale
I really think this needs to be a somewhat regular thread topic. A form of activism. Europe will eventually fall in line.
“The United Nations’ carbon credits to subsidize the production of agrofuels threaten biodiversity and forests, warns the Rainforest Rescue international campaign. These credits are facilitated through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a so-called “market mechanism” established as part of the Kyoto Protocol, which makes it possible for contaminating industries in Northern countries to “offset” their greenhouse gas emissions by financing projects in the Global South that supposedly sequester carbon.
“Most of the CDM carbon credits go toward polluting industries in the South, routinely at the expense of local communities, their rights, and their environment,” warns Rainforest Rescue, headquartered in Germany. “In future, more and more CDM carbon credits will go toward monoculture plantations in the South—now including soy, oil palms, and jatropha plantations for agrofuels.”
“Vast carbon dioxide emissions from coal power stations in Europe can now be officially ‘offset’ by companies paying for soy plantations in Brazil or palm oil plantations … which in turn will cause more deforestation and other ecosystem and thus, also, more climate change.”
The CDM Executive Committee’s decision to support this “carbon market” is owed in large part to a petition by the firm Agrenco Group. This company describes itself as an international firm that “specializes in supplying integrated solutions customized for clients and partners in the agribusiness sector … [serving] the full cycle from production to consumption for agricultural products, with financing for growers and consumers, origination, tracing, storage, logistics, port operations, charter freight, export, and distribution.””
Americas Program Biodiversity Report—December 2009
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6659
Reply: We have a tips page. ~ ctm
Tenuc (22:39:49) : It’s the butterflies who cause the problem in the first place.
Lorenz knew stuff, huh, Tenuc? (One of my children’s books used the theme… long time ago.)
You think this is a joke?
Let me see, Is this the Rothschild’s and Rockefeller’s holding a $13 trillion gun to our head?
“On the heels of international climate treaty talks in Copenhagen, the world’s largest investors issued a statement calling on the U.S. and other governments to move quickly to adopt strong national climate policies that will spur low-carbon investments to reduce emissions causing climate change.
Private-sector investors will likely be responsible for financing more than 85 percent of the global transition to a low-carbon economy.
Saying ‘we cannot wait for a global treaty,’ U.S., European and Australian investor groups representing US$13 trillion in assets called on U.S. Congress and other global decision-makers ‘to take rapid action’ on carbon emission limits, energy efficiency, renewable energy, financing mechanisms and other policies that will accelerate clean energy investment and job creation.”
Investors Representing $13 Trillion Call for Climate Action Now
http://www.benzinga.com/daily-blog-watch/90732/investors-representing-13-trillion-call-for-climate-action-now
Reply: We have a tips page. ~ ctm
Death toll among UK pensioners (during the first week in January) was over 11,000. I like the bluntness of the original version.
The quote looks like an adaptation of ‘earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings kill people’. See Haiti…
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
“Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?”
Climate doesn’t kill people, weather kills people.
“Is that a Climate Widget in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?”
Tenuc (22:39:49) :
Heh. Nicely put. 🙂
Sorry about that Charles,
Thanks for publishing.
“Climate doesn’t kill people. Weather kills people”.
But scientifically illiterate, pompous and self righteous politicians who eagerly suck up the latest eco-fascist myth and dive into ludicrous and impractical “solutions” kill more people than the weather.
I recommend an investment in guillotines. (Or Halifax Gibbets, if you prefer.) We’re gonna need lots of ’em soon!
“That’s one small error from a Mann, one giant error for mankind…”
George S. (20:20:19) :
People don’t change climate. Nature does.
Some people do attempt to change climate science. /Nature/ gives them a hand…
In a sense people don’t get killed by natural disasters. They get killed by poverty. Haiti is a tragic illustration of this.
One of the tragedies of the man-made climate change delusion is that governments around the world will squander trillions of dollars trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. It will divert huge resources from the real problem that faces the world today: poverty.
Chris
AlanG (23:34:43) : “The quote looks like an adaptation of ‘earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings kill people’.”
That is really a silly quote: Never heard of Tsunamis?
“Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.”
-Albert Einstein
@chris Wright
“..One of the tragedies of the man-made climate change delusion is that governments around the world will squander trillions of dollars trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist… ”
I’m not so sure.
Trillions of dollars are certainly getting spent, and the stated aim of spending will not be achieved. That much is certain. But I’m too old a cynic to think that the money will be ‘squandered’. That implies that the money will be spent ‘mistakenly’.
In fact, I think the money will be spend in a clever and quite intentional way. It will go to bolster the earnings of those who are in the Global Warming scam. There will be no ‘squandering’ about it, just misdirection and acquisition of funds by pretence – what you or I might term fraud…
nanny_govt_sucks (20:42:29) :
Friends don’t let friends drive the climate.
Nice! I have to go with this quote, quality. We can start SPANCD from that: “Sane People Against Nagging Climate Drivers”.
David Alan Evans (20:15:06) :
“Anyone got central heating that doesn’t rely on electricity?”
Was your question rhetorical? If not, then treble the insulation in your house, light it with candles and burn wood in Buckley Rumfords. Save the heat.
http://www.rumford.com/
A small generator, batteries, an inverter and LED lighting. Boat technology, if you must have electricity.
http://www.proboat-digital.com/proboat/20080405/#pg76
Proper science applied with common sense.
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to Criticism.
Weather doesn’t necessarily kill. The only tornado that I have experienced was when I was in a large sailboat. We lived but a nearby boat it killed everyone. Their boat couldn’t handle it.
Adaptation is the key. We don’t read of deaths in the sahara that the eco terrorists/warm mongers will kill in Wisconsin.
Tsunami doesn’t kill people that are at a higher level of living. If you live near the ocean, you are now aware of your choice and risk.
http://cjunk.blogspot.com/2010/01/missing-temperature-data-canada.html
Haitian earthquake, min 50, 000 dead and rising.
Global Warming deaths = 0.
I’m not sure weather it does or not.