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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Some people are more maggoty than others.
Trees falling in lakes happens all over the world, surprisingly.
http://climatecrocks.com/2010/11/30/katey-walter-and-the-flaming-lakes/
Excerpt: Katey Walter is not a household name for most people, but among climate wonks, she’s a rockstar.
You may have seen her in Earth: A Biography, introducing Iain Stewart to the lakes of northern siberia – she has become a minor youtube star for a clutch of videos showing wide eyed students lighting methane explosions on the frozen lakes of Alaska.
I wonder how much a “rockstar” gets paid for lighting farts to impress kids?
David Suzuki,
I know you need to make a living in this world. But when you stoop into the abyss to scare children into giving you money, then you have gone over to a nihilist level of self-loathing. That is the absurdity of your hatred of mankind . . . you are man.
John
In my comment above I wrote
“Molecularly methane may be many times more potent than other gases, but its concentration in the atmosphere is a thousand times less than even CO2 …”
This error is based, in my mind, on the fact that CO2 is present in parts per million while CH4 is present on parts per billion. The actual ratio is closer to 200 to1. 392ppm for CO2 to !800+ ppb for CH4.
I apologize. My only excuse is that I’ve been exposed to too much climate science lately and the tendency for bad practice seems to be invidious.
Dave Wendt,
Your comment about no trees in permafrost is wrong. Haven’t you seen drunken forests?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_trees
I have family in Alaska and visited there many times. My brother runs a construction company.
For those who have put down Katey Walters and methane see:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/story/2011-11-30/warming-permafrost-climate-change-global-warming/51512986/1
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/
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That may be up for debate, though Erik the Red would tell you to quit worrying. but what is NOT up for debate is the MURDER of Friday Mukamperezida in Uganda. The removal of thousands of Africans from their land, all is so the likes of the World Bank, Lord Rothschild and Al Gore can make more money. CAGW is a hoax but Food Riots are not.
The People who continue to DEFEND these Robber Barons just makes me sick.
Using “Global Warming, ” the Robber Barons set up the bio-fuel fraud and the carbon sequestering tree farm scam. This let Goldman Sachs play the games with commodity trading that CAUSED the 2008 Food Riots while Monsanto, Cargill and ADM posted record earnings.
The Food Bubble: How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it http://harpers.org/archive/2010/07/0083022 or as pdf: http://frederickkaufman.typepad.com/files/the-food-bubble-pdf.pdf
And it gets nicely covered up as usual by the same crowd behind “Global Warming”
Food Riots Threaten Latin America on Surging Commodities in UN Assessment: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-16/latin-america-africa-most-at-risk-from-riots-as-food-prices-rise-un-says.html
More on Goldman Sachs and the bankers as the real culprits. (You can throw in the World Trade Organization, NAFTA and Bill Clinton too)
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main48.asp?filename=Ne290111Proscons.asp
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/16/the_food_bubble_how_wall_street
“We Made a Devil’s Bargain”: Fmr. President Clinton Apologizes for Trade Policies that Destroyed Haitian Rice Farming http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/1/clinton_rice
Let Them Eat GRASS http://truthfarmer.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/let-them-eat-grass/
Food riots in America? Yes. It can happen here. http://the-classic-liberal.com/food-riots-america/
US Food Riots Much Closer Than You Think http://www.rense.com/general78/riots.htm (Six years of research backs up the last two articles. BTW)
We can count on seeing more famines in the near future as the rich play their games with the world food supply all under the cover of “Bio-fuel” Carbon sequestering and the World Trade Organization Agreement on Agriculture. The only real result will be a movement of wealth from our wallets to theirs and the deaths of an increasing number of children from famine.
WORLD WIDE LAND GRAB:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/08/us-universities-africa-land-grab
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904563904576584673419328758.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26608
Investors make land bets as agriculture play: Agrifirma, a private investment company backed by financier Lord Rothschild, raised $159 million in 2008 to invest in 40,000 such hectares. [Brazil] http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/19278
More articles at http://farmlandgrab.org/
Another catastrophic deadline has passed unnoticed. Blah, blah, blah.
Political propaganda aimed at children. How nice..
These drowning polar bear, CO2 monster, last year’s Santa’s home is melting production, the desolate and doomed oragutang topping himself of the cliff edge. Al Gore giving children nightmares. All of these make my blood boil.
And don’t get me started on the Climate Cops thing where they (the energy company) encourages kids to rat on their parents. How very nice.
And who funds all of this? I know that ‘Act on CO2’ (funded by the UK taxpayer to the tune of £6m) produced the CO2 monster, drowning puppy adverts aired during prime time viewing to brainwash and indoctrinate families in the most cynical and manipulative way possible, i.e. through their children.and/or concerns for their children.
As for Mr Suzuki, he obviously lives in a world far away. Far away in a world we mere ordinary people can only dream about and could not really understand anyway. He is so clever, you see. I could tell that straight away, when he started on about the nth order maggot theory.
With alll the maggots he talked about he really described himself, and his own sick, disgusting and perverted world view.
@ur momisugly gettingwarm:
Are you new at this job? You said:
“Which makes the fact that Santa’s home melting a very unique event.”.
Well, what do you mean by “very unique”? Either it’s unique or it isn’t.
Geez. Tell your boss we want better trolls. At least some of our other trolls have learned pretty quickly on the job to at least become aquainted with facts. And at least some of them seem reasonably intelligent. – at least they can string a proper sentence together.
You need to shape up if you’re gonna keep gettin that pay check boy.
Santa Claus lives at Korva Tunturi in northern Finland, Not at the north pole. No problem either way.
“Bouyancy”. Objects in water displace their weight. In school, the concept might be taught like this: The king orders a gold crown made, and needs to know if he has been cheated. Archimedes takes the crown, but is stumped how to figure out whether or not it is oslid gold – so he goes home to take a bath and think. When he gets in the tub, the water sloshes out. He shouts Eureka! and runs through town naked. He puts the crown in a tub of water and measures the weight of the water that spills out, and compares that to the weight that the crown should be in gold. He discovers that the crown is not pure gold, but has been mixed with another metal, and reports this to the king.
Because if this principle, arctic ice melt cannot raise the sea level, anymore than an unattended cup of soda with ice in it will get any higher as the ice melts. Arctic ice is already displacing its weight in the water. Glacier melt from land can raise sea level, or Antarctic ice since Antarctica has land underneath it. Antarctica, however, is growing – not shrinking.
As for sea level rise itself – the sea has been rising constantly for thousands of years, this is not a new thing. Even the IPCC concluded ““No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected.” And, even if the recent milimeter jump is more than a decadal trend or a finetuning of measurement – that doesn’t broadcast catastrophy for the planet or anything out of the ordinary.
Suzuki gets creamed again by investigative journalist!!!
http://fairquestions.typepad.com/rethink_campaigns/2011/12/bad-science-in-david-suzuki-campaign.html
Getting Warm says:
December 1, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Dave Wendt,
Your comment about no trees in permafrost is wrong. Haven’t you seen drunken forests?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_trees
I have family in Alaska and visited there many times. My brother runs a construction company.
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Getting Warm ; thanks for the wiki link to drunken trees, one problem though, 1875 is a bit early in the current MMGW period for permafrost melt. also as stated in the link it would take several years of above freezing temperatures to produce the thermokarst, so we can call the date of the below mentioned trees original tilt 1870.
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“Osterkamp says trees sometimes recover from leaning in a drunken forest by growing back toward the sky. He and his colleagues recently found a spruce tree with a curved, bow-like trunk. By the unique pattern of the tree rings, they determined the tree began its fight to right itself after a thermokarst developed 120 years ago.” ( #13 in the notes…article written in 1995 with no mention of the discovery date of the tree ) further, if the tree was successful in righting it self,as stated, the ground must have returned to a state of permanent permafrost.
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so….what caused the melt ?
and my brother in law helped build the Al-Can pipeline but has no opinion on the matter….
I bet he’d like to take some of this back. LOL
This had me rolling on the floor:
“What you receive
“You won’t actually receive a North Pole Snow Globe, or any of the other items on this page. You are purchasing what people call a “symbolic gift” as a means of donating money to support the work of David Suzuki Foundation.
“You will receive a lovely ecard describing your gift, which we hope you will share with a loved one this holiday season.
“You may get that warm, tingly feeling that comes with knowing you helped keep Canada cold by supporting vital work to turn back climate change. We certainly hope so.
“It’s only through the generous support of people like you that we are able to work with government, business and individuals to conserve our environment through science-based education, outreach and policy work.”
In other words, you send him your money and all you get in return is some stupid ecard.
Can you spell, “S-C-A-M?!!”
Cheers
I have a solution for this dilemma. Santa should relocate to the South Pole which holds 90% of the worlds ice and 70% of the earths fresh water.
From Ezra Levant’s blog: “From The Byline, Dec. 1, 2011: Santa vs. Suzuki, who will come out on top? Brian Lilley talks to me, or is it Hanukkah Harry, or is that Santa Claus?”
http://ezralevant.com/2011/12/from-the-byline-dec-1.html
Never mind, Santa can stay at the north pole. At the rate the pole is moving he can set up shop in Moscow in a few years.
Why can’t people who care have a little bit of fun?…Propaganda and public relations is a right wing weapon…lets get serious people- who really has the money here?….perhaps the corporate ruling Rockefeller family sponsored Cancer Society could be a target for making Cancer into an incurable disease- but the David Suzuki foundation? Lets get real people.. we all know when something smells bad and I am sorry but this campaign is as cute as pie…not to mention the TRUTH.
And if someone erases this comment then you should be ashamed of yourself!
All the nov 30th comments are BS- obviously posted by the same biased author of this horrible website. David Suzuki deserves our utmost respect. This website is the
Propganda- a true parasite!
m.webber,
It is you who are the parasite on the internet’s Best Science site. Suzuki is a despicable charlatan who collects money from clueless fools. Out of all the reprehensible vermin in on the climate alarmist scam, Suzuki ranks right at the top. The fact that you’re being his water boy displays your lack of intelligence and critical thinking. Your baseless comment is pure projection. Run along now back to tamino or whatever censoring blog you came from. This site is for thinking adults. You don’t qualify.
“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 …”
So David Suzuki has now finally become so desperate he needs to milk his foundation’s money from children while propagandizing the non-existent catastrophic anthropogenic global warming for the children’s sweet holiday dreams.
David Suzuki, I pity your sorry soul, for in the end, the humans you saw all being maggots, they were merely you and your own ilk in the mirror. It happens to mankind-damning souls.
“Doctor” Suzuki has five children of his own and multiple luxurious residences in one of Vancouver’s old-money districts, Australia, an island on the BC coast, and Toronto. Being a propagandist for at least two iterations of Green faddism has been a highly successful enterprise for him. He is the perfect poster boy for any leftist loon who wants their preconceived biases confirmed by – golly! – a real, true-life expert!
Except of course that Suzuki is an expert in nothing except making fearmongering documentaries for taxpayer-funded state media.
timg56 says:
November 30, 2011 at 12:55 pm
I have to say this one sounds like it belongs in the “Mountains out of Molehills” category.
The problem is that David Suzuki is presented on American TV as a revered scientist. My kids are grown now, and my son checks the facts while my daughter trusts authorities. (She keeps me busy!) I try to keep my grandson aware of the facts when something on TV or in a movie regurgitates psycho-environmentalist doctrine–but he’s only 4, and I’m getting on in years. How long can I protect him, to ensure his education is science-based?
Every Disney or ABC Family (same company) movie sticks in some warmist [self-snip], usually to no dramatic effect–it’s just in the rules. It’s really frustrating, even if the rest of the movie is tolerable. I’m glad my grandson hasn’t been exposed to this Suzuki nonsense site, because we’re still letting him enjoy the pleasurable fantasy of Santa Claus! But he knows for a fact that the North Pole is covered by floating ice and that the South Pole is on an ice-clad continent. He knows that penguins are SH birds, and that they are not appropriate in North Pole depictions.
In the US, freedom of speech is an absolute right guaranteed in our Constitution, but we still may not yell FIRE! where there is none. When will a court step up to apply the same standard to warmist alarms, which are patently harmful to our whole society? Or, in fact, to electoral campaign ads?