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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Note to the moderator. I see many post in this subject that are simply what you usually called ”personal attack” , i call them ”personal insults” – still none of them have been moderated (removed) as you are so quick when someone is using the same words against people like Monckton or D’Aleo and al.
I think reality speaks for itself – evidence of climate change is all around us. Very few scientists, if any, would refute the idea that carbon emissions building up in the atmosphere causes climate change. It’s up there with the law of gravity. If climate change, with all of it’s disastrous consequences, isn’t God-like, then what is?
David Suzuki was in Australia recently and was interviewed by phone for an hour by Kim Hill who is one of the top interviewers of New Zealand.
You can listen to the interview here:
http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20101030-1105-David_Suzuki_a_sustainable_future-048.mp3
Suzuki was confused and under the impression that he was talking to an Australian audience. Kim Hill politely put him right and asked intelligent questions.
At the end of the interview Suzuki said “This has been an unbelievably negative interview, I have to say. You challenged everything that I said.”
I dispute that the interview was in any way negative. Has he never been interviewed properly before? Kim Hill as always had done her homework, and didn’t ridicule anything that he said, even though much of what he said was ridiculous.