This ad has been running on some WUWT stories, urging people to save the EPA from the “deniers” that are apparently “running the conversation”. Heh.
When you see the ad, clicking on it allows you to use a form to send a message, along with adding your own. I found it humorous for this line behind the ad:
For too long, big power companies have been able to dump unlimited amounts of industrial carbon pollution into our air.
That could just as easily say:
For too long, [humans and animals] have been able to[breathe] unlimited amounts of [natural] carbon [dioxide] into our air.
You can add your own message too via the League of Conservation Voters website, should you wish.
But, be careful of the fine print:
By taking this action, you are affirming your membership in LCV and will receive regular LCV communications and are entitled to vote for a member of LCV’s Board of Directors. To protect online privacy, we have implemented the following policy.
Heh – three guesses as to what I see as the Google ad at the bottom of the article…
On David Suzuki’s site this is my (slight) modification of the existing letter. Too… much… fun…!
Subject: Canadians want real information about environmental issues not special interest propaganda
Dear Senator Eaton, Members of the Senate, and Members of Parliament,
As a Canadian who cares deeply about the future of our country, I am extremely encouraged by the recent attempts of some senators to investigate advocacy groups operating under the cover of protectors of the environment.
Some senators have correctly labelled those who raise concerns about environmental issues as “anti-Canadian” and have questioned the integrity of supposedly legitimate Canadian organizations like the David Suzuki Foundation.
I am proud to support an investigation into the funding of Canada’s environmental organizations, which have a long history of claiming they are protecting biodiversity but instead are promoting public misunderstanding of environmental issues, and providing propaganda unsupported by actual science. They purport to help Canada steward the natural environment on which we all depend for our health and future prosperity by advocating policies that will directly and negatively impact our future prosperity and quality of life.
The Senate is supposed to be a house of sober second thought. In that light it is interesting to see the reaction of such biased, special interest groups as the Suzuki Foundation that feel that they are exempt from scrutiny or over site, who think the only course that will further debate about matters of vital national importance is to agree with everything they say, asking no questions at all.
Like many Canadians, I believe that characterizing funding in excess of three hundred million dollars as an “issue of relatively small amounts of international funding …[as] a distraction and effort to silence and discredit(!?) Canadian organizations that are looking out for the interests of Canada and Canadians(!!??)” speaks volumes about the delusional state, the sheer hubris of these advocacy groups in general and David Suzuki’s foundation in particular.
A democracy functions best when all points of view are considered rationally and carefully, and when our leaders, both elected and appointed, examine the facts before speaking. Especially when those facts don’t all issue from the mouths of well funded green organizations that seem more focused on dismantling our economic machinery under the guise of largely imagined man-made environmental issues.
As a Canadian who looks to the House of Commons and the Senate for leadership, I applaud you for the business of thoughtful debate rather than succumbing to the nonsense that your questions “stifle the voices of millions of Canadians with whom you may not agree”.
Sincerely,
Ian MacMillan
Yes and if you read the Asian Times you get adds for…
the CIA and NSA!!
I think our overlords do have a sense of humor afterall…
Anyone else get a junk phone call from these folks? I got one early this afternoon (1 PM PDST 23 March) in Reno area
You might want to get someone to proofread that for you before you make a fool of yourself.
Oops. Too late.
On Thursday a different judge also ruled against the EPA. This was a surface coal mining matter.
Folks the EPA is a hazzard. It is slowly but clearly being rejected in courts.
” The Appalachian coal industry scored a major victory Thursday when a federal district court judge ruled the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been overstepping its authority by subjecting mountaintop-removal mining operations to more stringent permit reviews.”
http://www.wvmetronews.com/index.cfm?func=displayfullstory&storyid=48346&type=
Lifetime tenure for all EPA employees so that they never need feel that fear for their own comfort might influence their mission to save the world from Americanism.
I realise I’m late to the post – but the whole ‘by signing you are eligble to vote’ seems foolish, I mean if all of wuwt were to sign, send a message counter etc, then we’d all could vote for someone – everyone to be like Mr. Watts to be the board of directors of LCV… That would be… fun.