From the Canadian Newspaper:
An inconvenient letter to the editor, from a “green librarian” no less. h/t to Kate at SDA.
David Suzuki disappointing
To The Editor:
On Saturday, Nov. 20 I went to see David Suzuki speak in Moncton at the Green Home Builder’s Show. I was hoping to ask him during the question period that normally follows these types of talks for advice on how to help me promote environmentalism to my group of largely apathetic students at Hampton High School, where I am the librarian.
Unfortunately, there was no question period. Directly following Dr. Suzuki’s speech, where he emphatically urged the audience to form strong interpersonal connections with their neighbours, family and local ecology, there was a book signing. I waited until the line was gone before I approached. I did not purchase any books, since I either have them at home, or have read them through our public library service. There was only one other man at the table, talking about a Prius, and he stopped and said he should go since I was waiting. Dr. Suzuki said it was alright since there was “no one there.”
I assumed since he was 75, perhaps his eyesight was poor and he did not see me. When the man left, I approached Dr. Suzuki.
He looked up and said, “book?” I said I didn’t have one but I wanted to ask him a question. He said, “I don’t have time for that,” and waved me away like a king dismissing a commoner.
There was absolutely no one else around the table except the security guards.
Then he shouted out, “Books! Books!” and continued waving me out of the way. There was no sign indicating no questions were allowed.
Only minutes before he had been espousing the value of slowing down and making time for each other and he didn’t even have the decency to say, “I’m sorry, I’m tired . . . or I’m not allowed to answer questions . . .”
Instead here I was, an educator and great promoter of his books, looking for help with the generation he claimed was most important, but because I was not spending money (other than the $45 I spent to hear him lecture), I was waved off.
I used to be proud to call Dr. Suzuki one of my heroes, and now I can see that he is a hypocrite.
I am in no way turned off the environmental causes I have always believed in, simply disappointed to have to tell my students, once again, that celebrity and integrity seem to be mutually exclusive.
Jenn Carson,
Hampton
If only there was a video of this to see what really happened. Next time: tape it.
BTW, in the title: Susuki. Is that a typo, or a joke I’m not getting?
I’m only a Brit but WTF is “David Suzuki”? The only “Suzuski” I’ve heard of is an Asian motor car manufacturer!
Aren’t I the lucky one!
I’m sure others can suggest more.
I would add Australian Ian Plimer’s “Heaven and Earth”.
Pat the Librarian
I have studied and recomend our own Prof Bob Carter’s “Climate the counter concensus”. It is a good read and one of the few works that offers alternative actions.
I believe Prof Carter is working on making his books easily available to teachers.
His website:.
Now if she would only look to see that her so called “green” religion is just a sham.
This is not unusual at all – Dr. Suzuki is well know for what he is.
http://fairquestions.typepad.com/fishfarmfuss/2010/06/meeting-david-suzuki.html
Vivian has been investigating how American Corporate Wealth funds have funded eco-activists.
http://fairquestions.typepad.com/fishfarmfuss/
http://fairquestions.typepad.com/rethink_campaigns/36-organizations-paid-by-tides-excerpts-of-usa-tax-returns.html
Archonix says:
November 25, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Good choice, I was trying to think of the title.
DaveE.
pat says:
November 25, 2010 at 4:56 pm
ironically, i was logging on to ask Anthony and others on WUWT if they could please list their top five essential CAGW sceptic books, as my library in australia is willing to order them in to counteract their shelves of tired old alarmist literature.
any assistance would be much appreciated. thanx in advance.
I would like to suggest “Scared to Death” (2009) and “The Real Global Warming Disaster” (2010) by Christopher Booker.
Cheers!
(Insert anti-Suzuki rant here)
pat
I’d suggest that The Hockey Stick Illusion is essential – not to diminish any others.
Suzuki and Gore aren’t very clever at all.
Like ex-smokers often being the most-strident anti-smoking activists, the ex-warmers will contribute significantly to the undoing of the CAGW scam promoters.
It only takes the followers of the religion to stop being entranced and to begin thinking for themselves.
Gerald Machnee says:
November 25, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Maybe he was eating a cookie and could not respond.
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Lol! Nice one.
David Jones says:
November 25, 2010 at 6:13 pm
I’m only a Brit but WTF is “David Suzuki”? The only “Suzuski” I’ve heard of is an Asian motor car manufacturer!
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David Suzuki is kind of like Canada’s answer to Ralph Nader, only he’s an environmentalist. His qualifications are in genetics, but he’s strayed far away from his scientific origins, and has become Canada’s primary green spokesperson and supposed environmental activist.
Last winter he and his organization tried to bamboozle Canadians and visitors into believing that the warm weather that marred the winter Olympics was due to global warming, whereas all denizens of WUWT know it was a strong El Nino. He has absolutely no integrity, but is lionized by an uncritical Canadian public.
David Suzuki is a waste of time.
I wonder if he was talking about the ‘snow’ today in Vancouver and blaming it on weather and last February, prouding trumpting global warming for the warm temperatures there….BC, please keep him there, Alberta is doing fine without him….with our ‘dirty oil’…bet ya he had the heat cranked up in his mansion….
Jenn will soon learn that there are plenty more where Sosuki came from.
Pat: I’d suggest just one more book: Michael Crichton’s State of Fear.
OT: That bit on Steve McIntyre in Tim Ball’s latest Free Press is a tad over the top… not his finest in my opinion.
“Steve McIntyre provided valuable evidence of the corruption in climate science when he identified the misuse of data and statistics in the graph dubbed “the hockey stick.” He refuses to say the errors and actions taken by Michael Mann and his associates were deliberate despite overwhelming evidence. He distances himself from those more forceful in identifying their actions as deliberate.
He claims, “CA (Climate Audit) readers know that I express myself carefully and try to make my opinions as narrow and precise as possible.”
The problem is when he had opportunities to speak out, even in a narrow way he failed. At the hearing chaired by Congressman Joe Barton of Texas, he was upstaged by Mann. It’s reasonable to consider errors genuine or a result of ignorance. However, the consideration must include all the factors involved. How many errors are necessary before a pattern emerges? If the person was unaware of the error, it means they are incompetent anyway? Fortunately, in reporting to Barton’s Committee the Wegman Committee showed more gumption. They identified the scientific errors and the social dynamics of the small group who controlled publications and the peer review process of climate science. Now Wegman is under attack accused of plagiarism in the ongoing effort to personally discredit anyone who identifies the criminality of Mann’s actions and those who were associated with him. Climategate exists because of the corruption.”
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/30372
“I am in no way turned off the environmental causes I have always believed in, simply disappointed to have to tell my students, once again, that celebrity and integrity seem to be mutually exclusive.”
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….. Well damn well Question those environmental causes then Ms Carson….. Because the integrity that you now have experienced as lacking….. may have also exaggerated or lied about the environmental causes that have drawn your concern.
It’s scary that so many useful idiots are attracted to becoming “educators”….. It shows that our “education” is not about educating, but rather propagandizing.
What, a true believer meets our CBC funded eco crusader and finds a greedy old man?
Dr. Timothy Ball: Climate deception is a crime against humanity
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/30372
Just about a year ago David Suzuki ranted epic, in the linked videos, after Copenhagen fell apart due to Climategate. It’s an amazing rant full of presuppositions that really shows how committed greens disconnected from the facts think they are thinking. What is really amazing is that Suzuki is a biologist so he should know better that plants will soak up the essential plant nutrient CO2 to grow faster and bigger as they do in commercial greenhouses.
http://pathstoknowledge.net/2009/12/17/david-suzuki-rants-epic-on-global-warming-and-copenhagen
Contrast David Suzuki’s ranting emotional performance with the knife slices of poetic critical reasoning that comes from the mind of Rex Murphy as he analyzes the the fiasco revealed by Climategate.
http://pathstoknowledge.net/2009/12/04/climate-science-needs-a-reset-button
What a refreshing difference. It’s amazing that the CBC has both of these guys on the air. Rex Murphy gives us a glimmer of hope that objective journalism isn’t dead.
After reading this and hearing other things about this man, I went straight to my bookcase, picked out the two books I bought 30 years ago on genetics as authored by him , then proceeded to throw them straight into the (non-recycling) bin! (I had been meaning to do this for the last thirty years but this post was the trigger).
David Suzuki has brought awarness on enviromental issues but has always carried a hypocritical chip on his shoulder. Here is an interesting site http://nofrakkingconsensus.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/david-suzukis-five-kids/
Pat
Doesn’t the library in your area have “Heaven and Earth” by Ian Plimer? My library does.
You shouldn’t have heroes after childhood.
Gerald Machnee says:
November 25, 2010 at 5:40 pm
“Maybe he was eating a cookie and could not respond.”
Only those of us in frozen Alberta will understand the “cookie” reference but we are sending him back to Australia where he belongs.
ref: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20101124/alberta-health-board-101124/