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.
David writes this at the very end of his disjointed babble:
“The misrepresentation of Nordhaus’s research is typical of the Orwellian doublespeak deniers employ, but scientists and researchers are calling them on it.
Armed with credible information, we can challenge those who misrepresent science, and spread confusion. If nothing else, we’ll be able to breathe easier!”
Really YOU a guy who NEVER debate anyone and post obvious name calling,smearing attacks on those who holds a different view of the science.That you have been doing this for many years speaks for itself.You are a pathetic creep for doing this.
Let’s face it David you have NOTHING credible to work with.Just your usual misleading propaganda is all you sell these days.
There has been a credible reply to Nordhaus’s incredibly bad article already that YOU somehow forgot to mention:
It is funny too because Anthony Watts (Who is on the “other side” and a “denier” too) allowed a guest post who posted the New York Times Nordhaus article with an excerpt and provided a link to rest of it.Thus allowing the AGW believing side’s commentary widespread exposure on a prominent skeptic blog.
Then Guest David Middleton who is a Geoscientist made a fairly comprehensive reply to the main points made by Dr. Nordhaus and Economic Professor.
How come YOU David never do that? Are so afraid that reading “the other side’s” commentary will make your followers fall away from you?
Does this mean that deep within yourself you KNOW that your side of the debate is so weak in their convictions that you feel the need to make all kinds of personal attacks and smears and avoid debates.While avoiding a serious debate on the contents of skeptical writings?
Face it David you are being exposed over and over as a hater of science.A hater of rational debate and a coward to go face to face with those who do not share your convictions on the AGW CONJECTURE.
Suzuki truly has become a pathetic little man.. poor guy, I sort of pity him… but not much.
Harold Ambler ,
The link to your site didn’t work .
Suzuki makes his purely political point of view clear:
Ah, David Suzuki, the “majority consensus” argument is purely political and completely anti-scientific method. The reason people disagree David Suzuki is that we don’t see the causation of CO2 driving Temperature in the Real Actual Atmosphere that you claim is a “slow moving catastrophe”.
While passion is common in politics it’s not so useful in advocating science as it gets in the way of those pesky things called the scientific method and it’s absolute requirement for cold hard unemotional facts that can be independently verified or refuted.
Sparks:
If those are the reasons you visit this site then I suggest your time would be better spent in asking your Mummy to teach you how to behave like a grown-up. I feel sure she would help you with this and you will get great benefit from it by the time you reach your mid-teens.
Richard
Seems David Suzuki is taking his cues from Australian Ray Finkelstein these days.
“…Mr. Ray Finkelstein QC, a left-wing former Federal Court Judge with no media experience, at the request of the Gillard Government, issued a 400 page report which calls for a Big Brother Super-Regulator to ‘regulate’ political speech and – among other things – impose new laws with the power to stop climate change realists from speaking up…..”
http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/2012/03/censorship-comes-to-australia/
I am not happy that we are seeing censorship rearing its ugly head in Canada, Australia and the USA. See: SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act)
Disturbing! I just looked up the definition of fascist and that describes David Suzuki. The global warming liars are desperate now!
I wonder if David Suzuki exhibits the symptoms?
This is based on published research:
Study: climate alarmists represent 30% of OCD psychiatric patients
http://motls.blogspot.com/2012/03/study-climate-alarmists-represent-30-of.html
I personally have seen signs of it in some of the AGW believers in various forums I visit as part of my effort to expose their mistaken beliefs.
The only person Orwellian is Suzuki himself.
He also needs to learn the difference between doublespeak and a straw man argument.
“Deny Deniers their Right to Deny”
Hey Suzuki, you could probably reuse some of the Japanese internment camps in Kaslo B.C. that were used during the second world war, at least that would confine the deniers to one place.
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/canadianhistory/camps/graphics/japannot.gif
suzuki is just a parasite. the end.
Sparks says:
March 9, 2012 at 2:43 pm
Typical of someone calling others that themselves can’t demonstrate any truth.
Anthony says:
Actually he’s a fruit cake, possibly covered by flies, but a fruit cake all the same.
Another tactic of the left is to pick out someone who isn’t “supposed” to hold the position they hold, say an academic who questions AGW or a person of an ethnic group who holds a position that ethnic group isn’t “supposed” to hold, and then absolutely decimate them in public through the most vile possible insults. The idea here isn’t so much attacking that person, but to send a message to others like them that they better hold their tongue or they will be subjected to the same “treatment” or that they will also be those same names that the person under attack was called. It is a way to shut others up by making an example out of someone.
The key is very simple: don’t shut up. Stand up to their intimidation. The more that they do it, the less impact it has. Pretty soon people tire of hearing it and they have to go to greater and greater extreme in order to maintain their shock value and at some point they cross the line into becoming a caricature. At that point they have so completely beclowned themselves through their desperate rants that nobody pays them any attention.
I think someone on one of the blogs put it best: “The AGW hypothesis works best in a data-free environment”.
David Suzuki is worried. Tides Canada is worried. There are calls to review their charity status in Canada. Tides is involved in politics through astroturfed sites such as OpenMedia or LeadNow that are openly campaigning against Canada’s government. LeadNow is actively involved in a call campaign to Election Canada on behalf of opposition parties. Tides yesterday received the implicit support of Globemedia owned by the very green Thomson Reuters International whose trustee Sir Cripsin Tickell is well known as an UK alarmist. The Globe & Mail has federated the opposition to the Oil Sands pipelines, its editorial board has qualified as “noise” investigative journalism that revealed the US funding of Tides Canada and is now offering a national media platform to Tides justifications…
In clear, green internationalists are exerting pressure on the Canadian government. However, since investigative work has blown the cover of the Canadian groups, the debate is radicalizing along usual political lines, for all to see: they are exposed for what they are.
Real information on the Suzuki Foundation funding:
http://fairquestions.typepad.com/rethink_campaigns/david-suzuki-foundation-70-million.html
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/search/all/charity-or-lobby-group/1439306081001
Real investigative work on Tides Canada:
http://fairquestions.typepad.com/rethink_campaigns/2012/03/far-less-transparency.html
Thanks for finally giving me a reason to visit the Huffpo. I had no idea that Traci Lords was blogging there. I can’t imagine she’s too happy about being associated in any way with the likes of Suzuki.
With all respect to WUWT I’d like to say that you are not more right because you have higher Alexa ranking. It’s as good argument as that the “other side” has greater deal of “consensus”.
From the right, comments about funding of the David Suzuki Foundation.
“Executive Director of the Institute for Canadian Values, Joseph C. Ben-Ami, citing this statement in his article “Global warming charlatan” notes that the foundation’s 2005-2006 annual report lists 52 corporations, including Bell Canada, Toyota, IBM, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Scotia Capital, Warner Bros., Canon (company) and the Bank of Montreal, amongst its 40,000 donors. Other corporate donors include EnCana Corporation, a world leader in Natural gas production and Oil sands development, and ATCO Gas, Alberta’s principle distributor of natural gas, and OPG which is one of the largest suppliers of electricity in the world operating 5 fossil fuel-burning generation plants and 3 nuclear plants.”
http://green.wikia.com/wiki/David_Suzuki_Foundation
From the left, comments about daring to raise questions.
“I want to talk to you!” a red-faced and agitated David Suzuki said, finger pointing at my chest.
“You have no right to demonize me!” he yelled, causing people around us to back away.
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2009/06/09/DavidSuzuki/
“One place to start is at Skeptical Science.”
Uh, yeah. Been there, fled that.
Why the nickname “Fruit Fly?” Oh, searching for |”fruit fly” suzuki| yields lots of answers.
http://www.everything-canadian.com/david-suzuki-we-are-all-fruit-flies.html says “We Are All Fruit Flies” Pass the bananas, please.
Some people really worship this guy, but everything I’ve ever seen from him has been laughable. Coupled with being extremely self righteous and self important, i just can’t stand it.
Groucho: “Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like watermelon.” JPB: Suzuki flies lice. (Parse it.)
Suzuki has been living off of his rediculous genetics doctorate for decades. Funny how he pretends a PhD in genetics makes him an expert on global warming. This is not the first time this ass clown has tried to silence debate. He is a dangerously stupid man and an embarassment to the scientific community and Canada.
Is there a disease I could blame for always spelling ‘ridiculous’ that way?
“…and the guys that become tenth level maggots are really big wheels!”
Dave offered this long before he was a big wheel…
Or disease for that matter?