Friday Funny – David Suzuki goes postal

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Note: the address is for the “David Suzuki Foundation” This is interesting because he “officially” has no affiliation with the Foundation (although his wife is the Chair and Daughter the CEO) because it is a registered Charity and as such is prohibited from acting as a lobbyist. He is worried that he will need to pay taxes on donations (which he should – it is a lobby organization like the WWF) and is afraid of an audit by canada revenue.

“I am a scientist and I take great umbrage at being sent such a load of crap from a bullshit shill organization for the oil industry. You are the most anti-science group I can imagine.
David Suzuki.”
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Mr Suzuki is an idiot and obviously does not know how the world economy, climate and politics really works. Try educating yourself, Mr Suzuki, before making such stubid comments in the future. For example, the AGW scam was promoted and subsequent European Emissions Trading Scheme set up by the marketers and PR advisers at BP in an attempt to get ahead of the “green” lobby and make themselves look good. Read all about it in “Spills and Spin” by Tom Bergin.

Because his handwriting isn’t very clear I think you didn’t quite get the transcription right:
“I am a socialist” not [scientist]
And “skill organization” not [shill]
🙂

This is an example of Suzuki’s competence in science (chemistry, physics and climate). The 2 paragraphs below are a column he wrote for the Vancouver Sun.
“It has been known since the last century that carbon-bearing compounds are transparent to sunlight but opaque to infra-red. In other words, sunlight passes through carbon-containing air whereas infra-red heat rays tend to be reflected by the carbon.
We are familiar with this effect in a car that has sat in the sun. The interior becomes hot because the carbon in the glass keeps the heat in.”
Suzuki made these 5 elemental scientific errors, in two short paragraphs.
1. Carbon in glass? Maybe in the front windshield, sandwiched between 2 sheets of glass. As glass is mostly opaque to infrared (IR), its moot.
2. Carbon compounds may or may not trap heat. Polyethylene, for example, is transparent to IR.
3. Heat in the car is from modifying convection, not radiation. Decreased convection = increased radiation. Polyethylene vs glass in greenhouses shows no difference in heat retention, in spite of the different IR properties of the two barriers. The heat retention is from preventing convection.
4. Glass is mostly opaque to IR, not the supposed carbon in it. Suzuki assumes it’s not opaque, by needing the “carbon” in it to stop IR.
5. Suzuki says carbon bearing compounds REFLECT IR. Some carbons compounds allow IR through. The ones that don’t, ABSORB IR photons, then re-emit photons. They don’t reflect.

Kaku was impeached when he became a media clown (that’s not the term I actually use, but you can’t print it here.) Every scientist and physician who appears regularly on TV should have their credentials stripped. You cannot be an entertainer/expert-so-I-can-get-my-face-on-TV and still be a scientist. They are mutually exclusive (for Suzuki, Kako and other scientists, that means these two things cannot exist in the same person). You shred your credibility and ethics as a scientist when you become an entertainer. Then you’re just another lying face on the big flat screen.

Suzuki meets Heartland. Wolf, meet shark.