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
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Suzuki WHO? onle left wing greenies know him we call them tomato heads red thought and thought
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=290513
Japanese-Canadian Dr. Suzuki didn’t literally mean to say prison. He meant to say they should be placed in internment camps until the war on carbon dioxide has ended.
My irony meter exploded just now.
Jenn..
Welcome to the real world.
Come and join us on this side of the argument – we have nothing to prove but the truth….
Michael Cejnar says:
November 25, 2010 at 6:32 pm
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:.
Search on, “Comments and Information on Climate Change by Bob Carter”.
It is an excellent book and easy to read, with many referees applauding the book.
There are a few principles that apply to anyone, anything, anytime and anywhere that can be of great value…
If you want what others have then you must do what they do. (You wanna be rich? then get smart with money! ever heard of dumb money? noooo, only smart money! Want to be an elite althete? I see they spend a lot of time down the gym, and fussing over their food, that’d be a start)
Repeating the same behaiviour and expecting a different outcome is nuts. (Sitting their, repeatedly, hitting the “enter” key wont make the error message go away)
Want to know what the future holds? Then look at history.
And the one that fits Suzuki?…
Don’t lsten to what people say. Watch what they do! Words don’t have consequences, actions do!
If I might take a minute to put in a word for Jenn. Those of you who deride her environmentalism have failed to ask one thing. “What environmental causes does she care about?” Being an environmentalist covers a wide range of subjects, including but not exclusively clean water, clean air, good land use practices, etc. So before you put her down for her environmentalism, at least take the time to learn what it is she cares about. It’s a part of integrity and courtesy. Thank you.
I grew up in Moncton and it is so good to see her returned to reality. It is also poetic that it happened in Moncton(Monckton) 🙂
We have a cake eater here in Fredericton that espouses the foolish drivel from Al Gore so I hope ever so much that he also is introduced to his eye opening moment soon too.
Ecology has been about nothing but economics since day one. Everyone who believes otherwise has been sold a bill of goods.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Pigs walking on their hind legs.
Hadn’t she realised that it’s all about the money? No book purchase, no interest. If we can stop the unending flow of money into CAGW proponents then they will lose interest in that too. It would be an interesting study if for, lets say 3 years, the only grants available were for research into the counter veiw. How many would find”new evidence” to support the natural cycle veiw.
I would like to make comments about this guy’s credentials, but reality is that he is a shill for a specific ecological-political movement. Witness his continued appearance on the CBC (that pick pocketing media conglomerate that denies access requests) and as the face for Ontario’s (lack of) plan for electricity (just use less, pay twice as much, and don’t whine about the rent seekers rushing in for the exorbitant rates offered for solar, wind, etc.). The only Green I have seen from this crowd is the green they can extract from the economy for their imposition of how we are to live. Now take your Soma
I have encountered this scientific charlatan many times in the last few decades. I once tried to inform him about energy matters that he clearly knew little about, and he told me that I would never be able to change his mind on anything once he had made it up. Some scientist! In his response, he sent me an autographed photo, which I immediately consigned to my round file, in disgust. He also speaks of being able to see the future with ‘absolute clarity’. This man is no scientist. He is, as the teacher said, a total hypocrite who tells others what to do, while he does little of it himself. He relies entirely upon ad hominem attacks – as I am doing now, but unlike him, with some evidence to back it up. Another member of his immediate family also phoned me at home many years ago to lambast me for an article I wrote on Hiroshima, Nagasaki. She knew nothing about it, but argued until I hung up. The last survivor who was in both bombings died earlier this year; an extremely old man. Hormesis anyone?
You’re reading the wrong books from the wrong authors.
You ought to read: The Truth by Terry Pratchett (It’s very fitting apparently and it’ll give you lots of laughs)
And please less idolizing for fan, especially all those #1 fans, is short for fanatics and pretty much nobody but the twisted cult leaders want them around for their own twisted pleasures.
Wayne Delbeke says:
November 25, 2010 at 8:22 pm
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.
both him and his cookie have made it onto BBC National Radio two evenings running.
I could go on and on about this guy. I see red, whenever his name pops up. He did a ‘Nature’ type program on rising sea levels on CBC (Canadian Broadcarping Castration) some years ago. I was mightily amused to find that every last second of his program was shot in the areas of the mediterranean that illustrated his fatuous belief by land subsidence. Again, some scientist!
TomRude, you are certainly entitled to your opinion. Dr. Ball has stood against an absolute (snip)-storm for better than thirty years. That takes some cobbles. He is eminently qualified in the courage department as well as the climate department. You may want to add that to your calculations. Trying to figure out which camp you are in.
The complaint about Suzuki’s behavior is not impressive. That could have been due to many reasons. The disturbing thing is how he is combining his science and ideological extremism into a political force that is undermining Canadian civil life.
That is much more in line with his calls for criminalization of political disagreement with is climate extremism.
…”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…”
I believe that he did answer the question. Even if it wasn’t asked.
David Suzuki has a regular newspaper column in the Georgia Straight. If you go through some of the back issues you can find all kinds of his opinions and commentaries. The Georgia Straight is Vancouver’s lefty enterainment newspaper.
Here’s a link to the latest article;
David Suzuki: Senate’s “kill bill” move a blow to Canadians and democracy
http://www.straight.com/article-360397/vancouver/david-suzuki-senates-kill-bill-move-blow-canadians-and-democracy
Over time, I posted a number of tidbits about David Suzuki in my web pages about the Suzuki-fired hype and hysteria about global warming.
It is too bad that Jenn Carson had to make her distasteful experience with David Suzuki, but that she did so is nothing out of the ordinary. Consider this:
Liar, liar, pants on fire
Suzuki walks out of AM640 after global warming debate
AM640 Toronto Radio
Feb, 15 2007 – 3:20 PM
[Caution: The web pages at the two links shown in the following quote are a bit slow to load, as they are now only accessible in the Internet Archives.]
TORONTO – Turns out noted environmental activist Dr David Suzuki isn’t as mild mannered as you may have thought. He stormed out of our studios this morning after a debate with host John Oakley over the merits of the Kyoto Accord. Suzuki says whether the Harper government agrees or not, Canada is already on board with the plan. Oakley says he welcomes all voices in the debate. Suzuki countered by asking if he’d welcome a creationist to chat about evolution. (Full Article)
In that interview Suzuki claimed that global warming “nay-sayers” are “shilling” for “the fossil-fuel industry”, and that his foundation is funded by private individuals. The truth is quite different.
Suzuki also claimed in that interview that 2,500 scientists signed the IPCC “report”. However, the “report” was actually signed by only 51 individuals (not all of them scientists). Moreover, the “report” referred to by Suzuki is a summary of the IPCC report. The IPCC report that it summarizes has not yet been published and is scheduled for publication in July of this year. Is that perhaps to provide enough time to make its conclusions fit the IPCC “summary” – a political statement – that has been in the news for the last little while? (Check: Global warming charlatan)
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Quoted from Global Warming Explained
Suzuki finds celebrities useful; with the exception of Paris Hilton. But he seems to find Brad Pitt and his wife useful.
TonyB,
In fact that is why I respect McIntyre’s high road.
Cam-S Suzuki complains that the senate killed democracy… when unelected Suzuki and Jaccard lobbied the BC government to adopt the carbon tax, when Hoggan is stirring BC Hydro’s global warming campaign, I guess democracy is alive…
David Ball your tone is truly disagreeable.
Suzuki is the Canadian pioneer of profiteering from faux environmental catastrophes. The only title which completely encompasses him is Snake Oil Salesman.
ATTN: Jenn
Forget books. Young students don’t read them anymore. Have them check out Alan Cheetam’s “Global Warming” at:
http://www.appinsys.com/globalwarming/
This is by far the most comprehensive website that I have examined so far and is “the one stop shop that has it all.” There are links to just about everything you would want to know about global warming and climate change.
Wikipedia has a telling point on Suzuki — if true (and I have no reason to believe otherwise).
David Suzuki
It’s always struck me as an interesting contrast that David T. Suzuki, who has an ego the size of British Columbia, has the same last name and initials as D. T. Suzuki, the Zen writer who promotes an ego-free life.