Here’s the popup message solicitation you get when you visit the website for the first time:
Climate change is melting the North Pole and it’s no longer safe for Santa and his Workshop. So our dear old friend is packing up the sleigh to find somewhere else to live.
You can help! Move your mouse over this website to find gifts you can buy Santa to help him set up a temporary Workshop and protect the North Pole for his return.
Of course, you’re savvy enough to know we won’t be sending actual gifts to Santa. You will receive a tax receipt for 100% of your purchase and proceeds will be used by the David Suzuki Foundation to support our critical work to protect nature and the environment from threats like climate change.
Buying these green gifts and personalized ecards on behalf of hard-to-buy-for friends or relatives on your holiday list is a great way to show you’re thinking of them — and the planet!
Sincere thanks,
The David Suzuki Foundation
This is nothing more than a thinly veiled revenue generator for the foundation.
No shame, no scruples, just send money. Is it any wonder informed people are doubting the climate change issue when presented with crap like this?
h/t to Mike Bromley in Canada who writes:
Canadian geneticist-turned-environmentalist David Suzuki targeted children in his latest outburst of emotionally-charged enviro-gab, this time scaring the fun out of Christmas by warning that Santa’s home was melting. In a post-black-Friday period of climate-ethical circus generation, this takes the cake. This is beyond reprehensible.
Here’s what the North Pole looks like today:
UPDATE: Here’s a clip from 1972 showing Suzuki comparing humans to maggots in his own words. Looks like that must have been his Che’ Guevara period. (h/t Daily Bayonet)
James Sexton and Neil Jones,
First you say that there is only 30 years of data and that isn’t enough.
Then you say that there has been no real melting in five years and that proves the melting is bunk.
If you look at that graph you will see a dark band. That is two standard deviations – a huge difference from the recent record.
Down below it shows how 2011 is tied with the record for greatest melt.
Like saying that the planet has been cooling recently when 9 of the last 10 years are among the hottest.
Do you know that facts are different from opinions?
My wife continues to donate money to the Suzuki foundation and the WWF. She is a climate skeptic and I advise her that there are a gazillion worthy non-profits out there who could make better use of her gifts, but she still does this. It causes me much bewilderment.
REPLY: Step up man, discuss with her and convince her to put an end to it. You have the means. – Anthony
Ah, the stresses that too many people put on this planet!!! Suzuki and his five kids never tire of discussing the topic.
At Climate Audit, check out McKitrick’s piece on Schneider where Suzuki’s name comes up:
“….I was responding to a claim David Suzuki had made on TVOntario a few nights earlier, saying that when he grew up in London Ontario, winter used to set in by the end of October, but now the snow didn’t come until much later; this being evidence of the fearful progress of global warming (or words to that effect). So I looked up the weather records for London from the 1940s to the present to check. Since the Canadian data on the GISS archive only went up to 1990, I also looked up the Erie PA record, which was the nearest US city (just across Lake Erie from London) with a long temperature record for October and November continuing up to the (then) present. The slight cooling trend in those records contradicted Suzuki’s claim..
Getting Warm says:
November 30, 2011 at 10:17 am
Are you denying that the Arctic is experiencing melting that normally happens on geological timescales in just a few decades?
Are you denying that the Arctic is is experiencing some of the most extreme warming, as predicted by IPCC?
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Dave Says: Are you denying this same melting (on geological timescales in a few decades) happened in 1880-1890, in 1930-1940. Because of our lack of good, reliable measuring sophistication and devices (back then) there is NOT one expert that can say if what is occurring now is more or less severe than the accounts we have of then? Have you read the maritime reports recorded in HMS ship captain letters from the 1880’s, they thought the NWEST passage was free in clear for years to come. Have you seen 1930’s surfaced submarines at the magnetic north pole, no ice in sight? Can’t repeat that now. What was the driver then? If I say the North Pole melted in 1600 something for a decade, can you refute that? You can’t make up science to prove your position the way you would like sir – the justification doesn’t exist.
” TheGoodLocust says: November 30, 2011 at 10:39 am
I guess this would be a good opportunity to tell kids that Santa doesn’t exist – and that adults lie to them all the time to get them to behave like they want. Seems like a life lesson. ”
You are evil incarnate in a very funny way! I like that in a person.
Getting Warm says: “Are you denying that the Arctic is is experiencing some of the most extreme warming, as predicted by IPCC?”
IPCC? LOL
Surely, you jest!
I would [self-snip] the bejesus out of him. Sicko.
[snip way off topic]
This could very well be a Freudian slip on David’s part (Santa make believe/CAGW make believe).
Anyway, some people say Santa spends the summer in Florida and he already accounts for ice melting and shifting. http://www.santaflorida.com/ask_santa.html#Q1
@ur momisugly Getting Warm says:
November 30, 2011 at 10:17 am
Even if everything you say is true. Even if said present giver is a real person. Even if a gift of $5 will make a real difference…
Do you honestly believe it is ok for this foundation to solicit money from children by playing to their fears?
No science answer required. No political answer required. No citations of “peer reviewed” papers. No Internet links.
Just your answer. Please.
What an asinine thing to do to kids..begin the indoctrination early
Now I will need to do damage control on my kids… good thing there is WUWT and the sea ice reference page.
It is more alarming to me that the CBC continues to promote David S as credible scientist.
Thanks to Anthony this extremely important news at this time of the year is cause for concern. And I’ve had more time to think this through – I was counting on Santa this year to bring me the goods – NOW I don’t even know where to write Santa! Help!
BTW, Anthony, Minister Peter Kent of Canada – stated a short while ago in Durban Canada will NOT pay one red cent of GUILT MONEY. Yee-Haw! God, I’m loving my conservative government here in Canada!
I’m not bothering to go to the website, so maybe it’s there, but I do note one word that’s completely missing in the screen cap and message text.
Christmas.
Getting Warm, you forgot to mention that those “natural bursts” of CO2 were magically able to change temperature before they happened.
Of course not, the geologic timescale shows it might even become ice free in maybe another few hundred years like is has been BEFORE. But I doubt it given that the last 4 years saw more ice at minimum than 2007 so I’ll wish on you the task of sticking around to confirm what happens.
Take another look at the chart.
What part of the following is it that you deny?
About The David Suzuki Foundation funding:
http://fairquestions.typepad.com/rethink_campaigns/david-suzuki-foundation-70-million.html
Paid by US interests to damage his own country’s industries…
About David Suzuki addressing students with taxpayer’s money from the National Film Board:
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/02/suzuki-franchise-expanding-at-taxpayers-expense
When you cannot convince parents, go behind their back and target their kids, unopposed…
Mr Suzuki is a deceiver of children and his pernicious fraudulent notions have caused a great deal of harm in the innocent minds he has misled. It has profited him greatly
I have a notion that justice might prevail and he will in time get the warming he seeks in that other place.
Ed, sorry about being off topic but felt it worth a shot…. In the meantime, Mr. Suzuki and his cohorts seem to be treading on mighty thin ice…..
Jail politicians who ignore climate science: Suzuki
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=290513
Day by day it becomes clearer who should be going where….and yes, hell indeed is a much warmer place.
Hopefully the Police will investigate, I am not sure of the legality of seeking out donations from minors.
Judging by the photo, I would be concerned for my child’s safety,
Is there a place you can report websites that appear suspicious enough that they might be run by pedophiles?
I have a theory that he’s still bitter (and rightfully so, many would contend) about being interned as a child along with his family for the crime of being of Japanese descent in World War II.
Perhaps this is how his revenge plays out. It’s as plausible a notion as any other, given that the guy’s being telling me the world’s going to hell for decades now.
Irrespective of that, pitching to little kids to get their parents to send cheques is televangelist-grade chicanery. Shame on you, Dr. Suzuki.
“Act now to help Santa!”
snif…Well, at least that explains the tragedy of why the adult children Suzuki hopes to get to respond with money haven’t been receiving their presents from “Santa” for quite some time now. Not even coal! No wonder Little Princess Getting Warm and her Tribe are so upset.
Curiousgeorge says:
November 30, 2011 at 10:41 am
Getting Warm says:
November 30, 2011 at 10:17 am
Are you denying that the Arctic is experiencing melting that normally happens on geological timescales in just a few decades?
Are you denying that the Arctic is is experiencing some of the most extreme warming, as predicted by IPCC?
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Nope. I just don’t give a rats ass.
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And, there is NOTHING that we could do about it !!!
What Neil was referring to (as if you didn’t know) was that we’ve only had accurate year-over-year observations since 1979.
As you, yourself, have pointed out Arctic sea ice coverage has existed on epochal time scales. To try to draw any conclusions from such a short period of observation would be premature.
I am glad you realize that the Arctic has been ice free before and entirely due to natural causes. It is also hopeful that you realize that the Earth itself is a massive source of CO2.
Too bad you haven’t picked up on the fact the rise in CO2 follows the rise in temperature, not the reverse.