David “fruit fly” Suzuki goes ballistic, and advocates retracting all rights from skeptics. I’m mentioned as some sort of baddie central, but at least I don’t dress up with Santa Claus to scare the kids and ask their parents to send me money. Where’s that DDT when you need it?
From the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-suzuki/climate-change-denial_b_1325198.html
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“This public responsibility is especially important in light of the stepped-up efforts to deny the reality of climate change, or the role humans play in it. Cases in point are illustrated by the “denialgate” scandal revealed by the release of Heartland Institute documents and the revelation that Ottawa’s Carleton University hired Tom Harris, a PR man for a number of “astroturf” groups with a mechanical engineering background, to teach a course on climate change.
“There are many credible sources of information, and they aren’t blog sites run by weathermen like Anthony Watts, or industry-funded fake science organizations. One place to start is at Skeptical Science. Click on the tab that says “Arguments” for scientific responses to all the main climate change denier talking points.
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Apparently, I’ve irritated the fruit fly. WUWT must be having an effect then. In truest fashion, he can’t be bothered to name the website much less link to it, but it is nice to see that I’m irritating him.
– Anthony
UPDATE: It seems all is not well in Fruit Fly land. His foundation website doesn’t even register on Alexa.com due to it having a traffic rank greater than 100K. Lower number is better:
And, “skeptical science” is down in the grass.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/davidsuzuki.org+wattsupwiththat.com+skepticalscience.com
Here’s Suzuki’s traffic ranks by country (lower is better, for example, Google is #1)
And here’s mine:
Must really bite when a web site run by some “evil denier TV weatherguy” kicks your butt in your own country. WUWT actually does more than twice as well in Canada as Suzuki.
Maybe I should send him some “denier swarms” to boost traffic.
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Anton says:
March 11, 2012 at 5:17 am
Thanks, Anton, I feel much better now … but I still don’t care about how your childhood was indelibly scarred by some random woman and her pets when you were four years old. You can get professional help for that, but it still doesn’t have anything to do with this thread.
Clearly, you want to go on and on about something that happened when you were four. And clearly, not one person here cares in the slightest. No one has jumped up to defend you calling some unknown family “monsters”.
Instead of people rushing to your support, you’ve been asked repeatedly to take it elsewhere and you have refused to do so.
You have the manners of one of the animals you profess to love … actually, that’s likely an insult to the animals. You have the manners of a spoiled four-year-old. What part of “nobody cares, everyone wants you to take your unpleasant four-year-old’s issues on some more appropriate thread” is escaping your notice?
w.
PS—A guy who publishes under a screen name is and will always be a random internet pop-up. Don’t like it? Post under your real name.
DirkH:
“Sticks and stones…” etc.
Richard
[SNIP: Anton, this conversation is over. Do not attempt to continue it. -REP]
Too bad they aren’t.
On the farm where I grew up, we didn’t eat ALL our pets; that damned brother dog was always given a free pass.
It seems that even the “fruit fly” science he once did was far, far, in the past. The instant his doctoral thesis was accepted, he hied his hiney to the world of entertainment and broadcasting, etc., never to be perched on a hard, hard lab stool again. So he became an ex-scientist as fast as he could manage.
A lot of squawking from a lot of scared people, none with any scientific credentials. Tell me: when an Oncologist tells you you have cancer, do you say “hey, I don’t feel sick and I can’t see any cancer so you must be lying to me”? Global warming is happening. You folks all getting together and reinforcing your own misconceptions doesn’t change that.
And your blog inserted that email address. I never noticed. Apologies.
REPLY: Actually, my blog did nothing of the sorts – it is a carryover from your browser and your use of forms. – Anthony
Wahtever, all I did was sign up via twitter and that address, that I have never typed in any form, was inserted. Again, no attempt to “disguise” myself 🙂
Grant Bowen (@bow_en_arrow):
At March 12, 2012 at 8:47 am you say;
“A lot of squawking from a lot of scared people, none with any scientific credentials”
I assume you are talking about the IPCC Reports. So, whilst your comment is generally true, it is a slight exaggeration because a few of (especially the more lowly) IPCC participants do have scientific qualifications although most of those qualifications are not pertinent to climatology.
It is good to see a new contributor make a valid point, but any point is spoiled by exaggeration (even of it is trivial as in your post I quote). So, I offer the friendly advice that you do not make similar exaggeration in future posts.
Richard