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)
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I could always send Suzuki a wad of counterfit bills and hope he gets arrested when attempting depositing them. If asked where he got them and he says to keep Santa from drowning at the North Pole, they might also commit him to a psychiatric ward for good.
Now, where’s my printing press?
(Purveyors of fiction really shouldn’t rely on other symbols of fiction as most people will see the obvious similarities.)
If one looks at the AMSU-A temperatures for channel 6, that is atmospheric temperatures at 25,000 feet, one will notice that 2011 has so far been overall one of the coldest years since records have been kept starting in 2002. 2008 looks like it was probably the coldest of them all. Now, please, explain to me where all that heat on the surface is coming from if it is supposed to be coming from atmospheric heating re-radiating heat to the surface.
I am going to keep hammering that point because that is absolutely the central point in AGW. Without atmospheric heating you can absolutely not have AGW and we apparently have no atmospheric heating so we apparently have no AGW. This one point completely invalidates AGW as the source of warming all by itself without the need for any additional “fudge”. I realize this might be quite “vexing” to climate “scientists” and I don’t mean to besmirch WUWT by saying so here, but in a nutshell, it is as simple as that.
Please explain where this heat comes from. It is NOT coming from a heated up atmosphere.
As for the whole aerosol hypothesis, we would need data on atmospheric clarity. Anyone know a place where that sort of data is available and updated in near real time (say daily or weekly or even monthly)? And you have to sort out impacts caused by human produced sulfates from those by other causes (volcanic activity, increased thin clouds, etc.). That should give them a few research grants right there.
But in the meantime, they can’t go around claiming one of the hottest years of all time while at the same time we have one of the coolest atmospheres of all time and claim it is from AGW. That simply does not work.
You can not increase surface temperatures without increasing surface radiation. That is simply physics and there is nothing that can be done about it. That increased surface radiation, if the impact of CO2 is what they say it is, must cause a warming of the atmosphere as the radiation warms CO2 molecules. Some of that radiation is re-radiated downward and is reflected in increased ground temperatures. We see no increase in atmospheric temperature and so no increase in radiation back to the ground. If there is no increase in re-radiated longwave IR, then what is the source of the heating? My guess …. two things. 1: an aggregation of local microclimate changes, 2. the adjustments applied to the raw data, 3. we are a little closer to hell then we were several years ago.
Suzuki should not even be allowed to live in this Country let alone be allowed to continue his hateful Green Agenda aimed at everyone, specailly the kids. He was “created” by our funded CBC which should also be abolished for being a tool of the Scum who are promoting these Green LIES! Maybe Maurice Strong over in China should open a a centre for retired LIZARDS like this guy!
David Suzuki is a glorified fruit fly observer……..nothing more!!!
Canadians here might consider firing off a complaint to the Advertizing Standards Council.
http://www.adstandards.com/en/
Since David Suzicki is fighting to raise money for the relocation of the ever magical Santa Claus, can I recommend the Land of Misfit Climate Models? There seems to be a of of room there for everyone. Even if there wasn’t, they could just fudge the numbers to make up some more room….
Also, who are the two elves in the background holding the toolbox? Anyone particular? Does someone here have good photoshopping skills that could come up with a retort to this scene, with all of the known AGW statements proven to be false, Al Gore’s Polar Bear on the ice, the Hurricane clouds in the wrong direction for An Inconvenient truth, etc, etc…. The elves could be Michael Mann, et.al.
Crosspatch, great post. Keep us on our toes at the end there! LOL!!
Reminds me of the joke that there are 3 types of people in the world; those that are good at math and those that aren’t.
Getting Warm, please explain the attached photo
Skate (SSN-578), at the North Pole, 1962.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0858411.jpg
Further to Getting Warm
I have just stumbled across this which is germane to your “arguments” http://www.c3headlines.com/2011/11/new-eu-research-confirms-roman-warming-period-in-arctic-regions-warmer-than-modern.htm
Not only introverted but truly absorbed in their daily work of actually doing science. Those not so interested in doing actual science find themselves looking for other things to do. It’s certainly true of Suzuki whose other thing is running his mouth but I suspect also true for some of those who actually desire being administrators of scientific groups and find that the politics of running such organizations is more appealing to them than performing within the science field that the organization represents.
To everyone who is a member of a scientific group – be careful who you vote for. Those who most desire to represent you may in fact share the least in common with your level of scientific expertise; they may really be frustrated politicians at heart not scientists.
It’s almost as though you should elect the person who is LEAST interested in leading a science or other such technical group, the one who claims he/she is not interested, hates speaking before large groups, doesn’t have enough time for it, etc. In a perfect world…
“Getting Warm” David, is that you?
I forget, does Santa live a the geographic north pole (rotational axis) or the magnetic north pole?
Is the rotational axis on land or water?
The magnetic pole moves, so if Santa lives at the magnetic pole, he already has ample capability to move his entire operation every few years, so melting ice wouldn’t be much of an issue for him.
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Dear Fans of getting warm,
Thank you for the army of straw men that you have thrown at me.
You forgot one of my favorite — Why do they call Greenland green!
Arctic melting only speeds up warming and methane release.
Greenland (which I believe to by the true home of Santa) is melting at an accelerating rate.
There are 31 references for this at the bottom of this page —
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_ice_sheet
Stay dry.Recent conservative estimates are that Greenland melt will cause a half a meter rise by the end of the century.
Darn keyboard gremlins. should be wouldn’t in the above post.
[Moderator’s note: Fixed. But a pause for re-reading and reflection before clicking on oist would be helpful. -REP]
Sometime about 20 years ago David Suzuki went into one of his tirades on CBC that went on and on about the fact that schools were teaching young children to type so that when the grew up they would find it easier to use a computer. “WHAT STUPIDITY .. blah blah blah… BY THE TIME THOSE KIDS GROW UP THEY WON’T BE USING QWERTY KEYBOARD YOU STUPID FOOLS …blah blah blah. “THEY WILL BE USING VOICE RECOGNITION blah blah blah.
Well David??? You were wrong.
Then, a couple of years ago, he went on another tirade on CBC when asked about the possibility that the sun may affect climate. “WHAT ARE TALKING ABOUT? THE SUN YOU SAY.” …blah blah blah. HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND? PEOPLE THAT SAY THOSE THING SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY blah blah blah…
David is a bitter old man whose is a disgrace to Canadians. IMHO.
The north pole. It’s all downhill from there, ….. 8^)
Good grief….
Is their anyone that doesn’t have their hand out……
….to save the world of course
I demur. This art work is sheer brilliance. So is a lot of the product design and contrivance. A greater masterstroke than the “Pillars of Climate” installation. Who says artists have lost all sense of irony? Very subversive, love it!
Getting Warm:
how is a photo of the N Pole ice free in 1962 a straw man argument ?
we have a popular myth that glorifies an omniscient distributor of causeless wealth with which parents indoctrinate their children to prepare them to accept equally absurd notions later in life…
we have a popular parasite who solicits donations for his work soliciting donations who has appealed to the myth in a logically absurd way
my schadenfreude meter goes over-range. santa is the liberal jesus. he gets credit for what everyone else paid for. nasa charts his course for the public weather stations every year.
lesson 1: teach your children that mysticism and altruism are virtues; reap the logical outcome.
Does Santa really live at the North Pole? Northern hemisphere Reindeer bucks don’t have any horns at Christmas time, so presumably Santa really lives on South Georgia which is the only place in the World where reindeer do have horns at Christmas.
everyone above a young age knows there is no Santa so who cares about where the non-existent Santa doesn’t live?
[Moderator’s note: Fixed. But a pause for re-reading and reflection before clicking on oist would be helpful. -REP]
You are correct. I thank you for the repair to my post as well. Slip o’ the digit can change the meaning of a post dramatically.
[REPLY: and very diplomatic of you to not note that “oist” is not something available to click on. I was wondering if anyone would notice. Humor is a dying genre. -REP]
Well that image isn’t realistic — no land snow. Here’s a better view:
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims/ims_gif/DATA/cursnow_asiaeurope.gif
You all have got this very wrong.
Santa has never lived in the North Pole. And Santa is a fairly bad nick name for Father Christmas. The real Father Christmas has always lived and still lives in the mountains of Korvatunturi, Finland. Do not believe the Swedes either, their funny man is not the real Father Christmas.
Suzuki? Hell no. I ride 2011 Ducati Diavel motorcycle. I hope Father Christmas will bring me a tool set for my bike workshop. I have been a good boy. Honest.