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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Kevin C:
Some Canadians are sane. Have you forgotten that in a recent poll David Suzuki was voted the most trusted Canadian? In an environmental history course I teach, I beg students who chose to write essays about Suzuki to find critical sources – all I get are hagiographies. Canadians may not be milquetoasts, but so many happily accept what the current authorities tell them to believe.
Dave the eco-crusader is a graffic example of how Canada wastes a billion a year funding CBC.We actually pay that ….. with tax dollars for the rubbish he spews.The CBC types are not my Canada and I live for the day they all have to get a real job.
As a canadian I say 2 things
1: stop funding the CBC with my taxes.
2: I lost respect for David Suzuki a long time ago. I think it was when he took his clothes off for some attention that I first began wondering as to his sanity.
Suzuki is the guy who told us in August 2009 that the sockeye salmon fishery was finished, due to the effects to AGW on ocean and river temperatures — and this August a record 30 million fish are in the Fraser River — nice to see a real scientist in action.
As a Canadian, I am embarrassed that David Suzuki is my fellow citizen. He is an arrogant, hypocritical windbag.
I think Suzuki has been watching too many repeats of star ‘trek TNG’!
I feel sorry for David Suzuki. Several decades ago I actually liked him and he is actually a likable guy. He used to produce some very non-controversial science programs that I thought were quite engaging. I remember one he did about normal skin flora that was spot on. He did another about human culture that I found quite interesting. He is of Japanese extraction and he explained that you could drop him in the middle of Tokyo and without saying a word the natives would “know” he wasn’t truly “Japanese”. I could appreciate this immediately. Although I am of tall, blond haired, blue eyed “northern European” extraction with a classic Dutch last name, if I were dropped in the middle of Amsterdam without saying a word the locals would instinctively make me for an American. He was on to something.
Then he got weirded out with AGW and he hasn’t been the same. So long to science. He’s little more than a freakin’ activist and now all but gone from American TV. It’s really too bad because I always thought he was a great communicator.
On the same theme…I read the Canadian and UK (and Australian) press nearly every day. My good cousins bitch and complain about their own dipsticks – David Suzuki, Phil Jones, etc. My brethren need to remember that the USA is the repository of such AGW luminaries as Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt, James Hansen, Ben Santer, Tom Karl, Joe Romm, etc. We can match you goofball for goofball and still come up in the black.
Robert of Ottawa says:
September 29, 2010 at 4:17 pm
For those unfamiliar with the Great Suzuki, he is the Fruit-fly Guy. He studied fruit-flies as an academic, now he has become one.
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Actually, it’s worse than you thought … according his own 1972 “argument”, by now the Greenest Guru of them all may well be a “10th level maggott”:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsLOcZQheoE&fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0]
“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.”
Wow, this man is delusional. Homo Sapiens is just another animal in the biosphere and our impact on the planet is minimal. I would suggest he takes a sabbatical to study the life and work of termites. This would make him reconsider his egotistical belief in the ‘godliness’ of mankind and our place in the biosphere.
DR. Fruitfly now,
“Global economic growth is ‘suicidal'”
http://www.climatechangecorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=5240
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“David Suzuki has called for political leaders to be thrown in jail for ignoring the science behind climate change.
At a Montreal conference last Thursday, the prominent scientist, broadcaster and Order of Canada recipient exhorted a packed house of 600 to hold politicians legally accountable for what he called an intergenerational crime. Though a spokesman said yesterday the call for imprisonment was not meant to be taken literally, Dr. Suzuki reportedly made similar remarks in an address at the University of Toronto last month.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=290513
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“Climate issue is the same as slavery”
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/17/suzuki-s-latest-nutbar-statement.aspx
First video- of rants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJCkU_d7_Ps&p=20A7FEB33B7CA8CD&playnext=1&index=10
And here are Copenhagen Marchers the rant is about (eye opening to say the least)
Second video-(if you have the stomach)
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Dr. DS from the 70’s,
David Suzuki wanted to jail oil company executives back in the 70’s for…….. AGC ice age!!!
He said the samething as now but for the MAN MADE ICE AGE!!!!
Sorry, having trouble finding the link to the speech he made back in the 70’s to ubc saying the same thing then as now, but about the new Ice Age. Soon as I find the link I’ll post it, my old link has gone dead.
If anyone else knows the link I’m talking about please post it.
More drivel from I was a kid at the same time,
On April 28, 1975, Newsweek wrote an article stating:
http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf
“Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve.”
Dr. Mcfly is his own worst enemy, give him enough airtime and carbon credits and he’ll hang himself with his own ridicules words. The guy is a fruitflynutbar Argumentum ad populum climatebagger and the high priest of doomsday human pop. Control and manmade climate disruption( and now AED…… Anthropogenic Earthquake Disruption?! LMFAO!! BWAAHAAHAHAHA!!!). Cold or hot, ozone or less ozone, drought or flood, logging, MSM/TV …. Canadians listen to his meme and are disciples of his one way or another. He’s from around here, taking down about him is like talking down to a Christians about Jesus, the faithful do not want to hear or believe anything you might say.
Years AND years of BS(bad science) told a lot of us to just ignore anything he says(even his boring broken record AGW/DOOMSDAY laden Nature of things show) here in Canada, he jumped the science shark years ago and anyone using him as a expert is questionable, to be ignored.
Funny, he once was in an internment camp at war time for his race and now openly advocates putting non-believers in internment camps for imprisonment and retraining. Maybe in cali, I like the warmth! 🙂
Hmmm..tell me, what is worse Dr. D(oom)S?
Fear mongering as a career path?
He’s made a nice living from it; better than I’ve done in engineering. When will they start teaching “How to Profit From Environmental FUD” down at the local community college? Pre-req course: “Cynicism and Amorality 101.”
He does build a good motorcycle though (sarc).
Civilization in the form of clean water, heat in the winter, stable food supply, medicine have all contributed to the longevity of people like Suzuki and Lovelock and the nauseating Paul Ehrlich –
– all for them to spit upon it as disagreeable to their tastes; Dave Suzuki never had to suffer much in his life, but people certainly have had to suffer plenty of Dave Suzuki.
Anybody who pays the least attention to anything these people have to say needs their head examined
A number of years ago (more than 10, but less than 15), I was a participant in a “focus group” sponsored by the David Suzuki Foundation. The apparant purpose of this focus group was to determine what would be the next most marketable topic. I was told that there were a number of these focus groups being held across Canada.
This is my first clue that David Suzuki is more interested in making money than truly helping humanity.
So we have a “West Coaster” in the name of David Suzuki contrasted by an “East Coaster” in the name of Steve McIntyre. It reminds me of a joke I once heard: Years ago North America was tipped downwards to the West; all the smart people hung on!
Robert of Ottawa says: “…We can create forest fires with a box of matches….”
Let’s see you stop one with a box of matches.
I have Suzuki’s extensive hyperbole to thank for realizing that the Warming Scare was just a theory with little evidence. I’m waiting for a mud-raking documentary highlighting his bogus claims to appear. Given Suzuki’s popularity up here in Canada, it could pull in some good ratings (provided there is no Hockey game on.)
I don’t object to the claim that mankind has some power to produce or defend against disaster. However, I don’t think this is something special about our species.
Animals can cause disasters. For example, consider birds spreading a pandemic.
Animals can defend against disasters too. For example, escaping fires by running or flying away from them.
Come to think of it, just about every species defends against disasters by the mere act of reproduction and propagation, since most disasters are not global.
I’m beginning to get the picture. We started messing around with internal combustion engines, and, lo and behold – Krakatoa blew up. Seems about right to me, but I do have this small problem with correlation and cause.
Mr Suzuki has fallen for the utmost temptation , everything is relative except man , who is able to control his own and the destiny of others , stronger than the forces of nature ! How long ? He can be gone the next minute ! Does he show respect to his parents , does he show humbleness , does he show gratitude ? Who on earth choose him to be his hero ?
Bow before Suzuki Poobah!!
As most WUWT readers already know, David Suzuki is not the only voice at CBC on climate change. Rex Murphy definitely has an “alternate” view.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/03/you-wouldnt-accept-that-at-a-grade-9-science-fair-cbc-finds-a-moment-of-clarity/
Have always wondered how they might interact at staff meeting.
someone might want to comment on this
articleshithttp://www.vancouversun.com/technology/science/Arctic+melt+threatens+iconic+narwhal+scientists+warn/3500275/story.html
“If you want a definition of sustainability, it is this: rolling back the advances of civilization by force.” – Jeffrey A. Tucker
A tip for Dr. Fruitfly. Pride comes before a fall and a haughty spirit before disaster.