Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Canadian Environment Minister Catherine McKenna has demanded climate skeptic Hockey commentator Don Cherry think about all the children who might one day not be able to play outdoors on the ice in Canada.
Don Cherry says “cuckaloos” believe in global warming
Don Cherry calls people who believe in global warming ‘cuckaloos’
Hailey Montgomery
Digital Reporter
Sunday, February 4, 2018, 6:16 PM – Known to many as the most outspoken man in sports, iconic Canadian commentator and television personality Don Cherry is once again facing criticism after offering input to a discussion well outside of the hockey world.
During his CBC Hockey Night in Canada segment Coach’s Corner on Saturday, a day after groundhog Wiarton Willie predicted six more weeks of winter, Cherry implied that Canada’s ongoing cold weather was contradictory to the concept of global warming.
“He predicts six more weeks of cold weather”, Cherry said, seated in front of a plush-toy likeness of Willie. “Now, I’d like to ask you with your left-wing pinko friends: What about the warming trend,” he asked co-host Ron MacLean.
When MacLean tried to change the subject, Cherry persisted.
“I’m just asking, the cuckaloos always say ‘the warming trend’; we’re freezing to death,” he said.
“We’re not totally cuckaloos if you look at some of the thing’s going on in our world,” MacLean replied.
The formed Boston Bruin’s coach has been known to be unapologetically opinionated on and off screen, making his two-cents known as to Toronto’s bike lanes, politics, European imports to the NHL, and weather or not female journalists may go inside NHL locker rooms to seek interviews.
Cherry has faced criticism on social media for his comments.
For hockey you can turn to Coach's Corner if you want, for climate change, Canadians turn to scientists.
But Don Cherry might want to think about all those kids who might not have outdoor rinks to play on some day. #CLIMATECHANGEISREAL https://t.co/ObVwwYLiAr
— Catherine McKenna (@cathmckenna) February 4, 2018
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If there is one country in the world which could potentially benefit from global warming, that country is Canada. Most of the population is jammed up against the “warm” southern edge of the country, leaving vast empty wildernesses to the north. A few degrees warming might make those vast empty regions more habitable.
As for Canadian Environment Minister Catherine McKenna’s suggestion that ice in Canada might someday be a thing of the past, I think I’ll go with Don Cherry’s position on that kind of prediction.
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Send her out to my house in her cityclothes at 28 C below. Go Don Cherry,,,
This is great news for every Canadian. Can it happen starting next winter.
Those “Ice Road Truckers” will need to start driving Hovercraft instead if they still want to make deliveries out at Tuk
Canadians should be rejoicing.
Imagine all the tundra and what was permafrost becoming farmable with this lovely warm spell.
All the huge Canadian north could become productive!
Imagine an immigrant rush to fill all that land.
All sorts of other advantages, why is everyone complaining?
Cheers
Roger
http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com
Roger,
My abiding thoughts in a nutshell.
Russia might also welcome all that lovely cropland.
“Imagine all the tundra and what was permafrost becoming farmable with this lovely warm spell.”
– according to Lysenko, it already is! Rejoice, Comrades ( – or else…)!!!
Dang, I missed this Article and having trapped on St Ignace, Canada’s largest Island in Lake Superior in the early 70’s where I observed layers of dust in the snow when shovelling snow on Lake Ice for beaver sets. I shared my aged observations on a Cbc Blog on Climate Change > Co2, wondering if this could be the cause of Pre-mature Thawing of the Greenland Ice Cap about 9 months ago. I was laughed off the Blog and told I should offer my faulty observations to NASA.
An Inuit came to my defence Posting a Link with Pictures of Soot and Particulate on Greenlands Ice Cap. Within the week Environment Minister McKenna changed the name of the Carbon Tax to a Pollution Tax. I Copy and Paste into Files, but 3 weeks later thought I would just Re-Google the issue. Five Pages later there was NoT OnE Article on “Black Carbon on the Greenland Ice Cap”.
My In-Box was also NoT receiving Cbc, National Observer, WUWT and the Tyee Newsfeeds for about 6 weeks. and alas when gardening in my driveway pots one day, a vehicle stopped across the street and a fella exited with an acrylic face shield carrying a strange device, It was a New $mart Meter, and I questioned him why they were changing it when it was relatively new, the beginning of Ontario’s Greed Energy Program. Surprise, my Newsfeeds appeared in my In-Box again.
Arctic Restoration — Go Beavers! | Watts Up With That?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/12/20/arctic-restoration-go-beavers/
Dec 20, 2017 – “As other species move north with climate change, are arctic beavers actually helping them adapt?” Goldfarb suggested moose might be one species to benefit. Beaver ponds could allow more willows, a favourite food of moose, to prosper in the harsh landscape and give them the ability to branch out into …
I Posted on Cbc Blogs that the Manitoba Cree would Burn Off Beaver Meadows when there was still snow along the Bush Line. They would then jab fresh cut 12” long Poplar Stems into the soil as they always Re-Root. If the Inuit want to accelerate New Feed Growth for the Beaver, this works very well. I have lots of young 12’, Poplar Saplings for the cause. My property was called Beaver Valley and I have about 100 acres of Black Poplar Clearcut that was over-mature and flopping over until a Pulp Mill decided they would Buy Bambagillia wood chips.
Since Deciduous Trees excel at Converting Co2 to Oxygen, this is a noteworthy project that could accelerate Carbon Capture. Go figure, “Down with the Carbon Tax, Leave it to Beaver”.
And Ontario’s Ministry of Mis-Managed Resources still allows Spraying of an Agent Orange type Herbicide Defoliant to Kill Deciduous Tree’s in their Mono-Cropped Softwood Forests for the Pulp & Paper, Sawmill Industry.
They call her climate Barbie. link
It is very disrespectful to call her Climate Barbie.
I think that’s the point. 🙂
You are right, she knows nothing about climate or the environment.
Tari,
Thanks. I’ll keep that in mind.
It was also very disrespectful to call Stalin a Butcher, but it was none the less appropriate.
And like Stalin, Ms McKenna wants to cut-off free speech and free thought for her Climate Cult belief.
And similarly, many countless millions of innocent people will freeze and die if her words are followed.
Indeed – disrespectful to Barbie.
Alas Teri, you might just owe Barbie an apology
I think Climate Bimbo might be a better description.
Disrespectful to bimbos.
She’s a lawyer, which probably explains everything. And she bristles publicly at being called Climate Barbie, which is all the more reason to call her that.
Climate barbie is one of the more nicer names you could call that stupid ****
Yes indeed: Barbies know more about climate.
Yeah, I agree, totally unfair on Barbie. 😉
In the US we fight back –
I would call her Trixie Twinkletooth because she is obviously only where she is ‘cos she is photogenic and blond in a cutesy, Narbie doll kinda way. Forecasting Cnada of all plces to be ice free is definitely cuckoo land stuff. Given Pretty Boy Trudeua is PM in Canada it is little wonder such an empty headed cutesy is a minister.
One thing about the whole Green Blob is that so many of the advocates and apparatchiks have made for media personas and presentation. They are actors first and foremost.
Yes, Barbie is an actual icon girls can look up to.
Facts are useful: McKenna attended the University of Toronto and studied French and International Relations. She then attended the London School of Economics where she studied International Relations, and a law degree from McGill University. She has no science training and probably no significant math training at all; which means all she is capable of doing is parroting someone else’s work and analysis.
… to Barbie
It is only insulting to Barbie! 🙂
Yes, CB should apologize to Barbie.
Tari Péter , It’s very disrespectful to call people climate-deniers, with the implication they are on the same mental level as a holocaust denier, but sensitive climate believers still do it.!!
BTW, what’s this respect thing you speak of, I’ve never seen it from true believers.
If she doesn’t like the moniker ‘Climate Barbie’, why does she work so hard to earn it?
And if the shoe fits…
It’s an apt name given that she’s one of our Prime Minister’s 50/50 male/female cabinet ministers diversity hires.
Do you mean she is half and half ?
Deplorable J
Ah! right. Appointed by gender rather than ability.
That’s very disrespectful to Barbie.
So your saying that women should just go home and play with their Cindy dolls.
https://www.channel4.com/news/by/cathy-newman/blogs/barbies-longawaited
You really need to see her in action to believe it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4OWs3kvtyc
He should have ended that first interview with, “Thank you, Climate Barbie”.
That’s why Solomon was fired… He was in her face journalism and they did not like that…
McKenna’s husband of East Timor fame, Scott Gilmore defended the collaborationist past of the grand father of her colleague Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs… calling it “a smear job”.
Here http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/russias-coming-attack-on-canada/
The whole story was perfectly put in context by the late Robert Parry at Consortium News:
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/03/09/another-russia-fake-news-red-herring/
This power couple is executing an agenda on behalf of powerful deep green state actors.
Solomon was fired from CBC – not CTV – for something entirely different (using his journalism contacts to benefit an artist friend with customers, if I recall).
How very genderist. These days you must follow the last line of gender neutral insults.
She/he/it is a climate Ken/Barbie/Spot — lean, up-to-date and totally superficial.
Chatty Cathy may be just as appropriate.
I’m pretty non-PC – I can think of a LOT of gender-specific insults. This woman is why they have them.
Mike Mann makes a horrible looking relic of Ken though.
I feel kind of old and lost.
When others were wanting a “Tickle Me Elmo” figure for Christmas,
I was always hoping for a “Tickle Me Barbie”.
Mattel never released one.
Well…, I’m sure you could find that sort of thing – just not at Toys R Us.
The Griff was strong with this one !!!
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eZwV9AmzyY&w=640&h=360%5D
Youtube censors are hard work!
And she was hired by Prime Minister Sockboy Zoolander…and Americans think their politicians are weird…
IMHO, I appears as though Canadians need to improve their concepts of attractiveness or at least what passes as acceptable. This woman is neither attractive nor cute. Barbie is cringing at the comparison.
If what they wanted was to highlight her vacuous knowledge they could have chosen a blind bumbler , such as Tom Fool. The sexism bent only allows her to deflect the rebuke with false umbrage.
Almost all the spokespersons for climate and headers of protests are other than scientists. There are more social psychologists, sociologists, gee-oh-gollyists, Hollywood actors, polies, …we even have philosophers reckoning sceptics be interned in prison camps without a trial (didn’t we have a spate of that in the 20th Century?). Cuck-a-loos sound like nice cute folks – but watch out they bite. The thing that binds them all together is allegiance to “Progressive Tоталэтаяуаиз” Maybe the other famous Barbie was intended – Klaus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie
You need no special qualifications to be a politician, no training,no formal education, just bla bla bla and your in.
What a mess. Your income tax at work.
People with special qualification are even more dangerous- Margaret Thatcher had a chemistry degree so politician choose her to say whether global warming exists so we have this mess. Formal education is overrated- plenty of semi-formal education is far better.
Started global warming stories to get the public to choose nuclear energy over coal to break the powerful coal mining unions.
different motive and she would be horrified at the outcome.
different motive and she would be horrified at the outcome.
Margaret Thatcher was(eventually) horrified at the outcome. She said so in her memoirs.
Margaret Thatcher was also a barrister (Lincoln’s Inn, 1954). She repudiated IPCC in later life (‘Statecraft’, 2003). The miners’ strike (1984-5) was before she started to back AGW (1988). The miners had defeated Heath and Thatcher was a lot tougher. Thatcher Derangement Syndrome was a foretaste of Trump Derangement Syndrome and the source of many similar myths. Labour closed more pits of course!
She changed her mind too late. She had already pushed the story into international politics. The damage was done, and she did it.
Ok let me rephrase.
A truck driver, a carpenter, a electrician , they need more qualifications. To work.
Those politicians who have had a job doing actual work making things or services are far better than those who have done a degree (usually politics) worked for a political party and been plonked into a constituency to follow the party line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfao1s3Tiek
The truth is heard at 1.40
James Bull
Let’s see … which is more important, increasing crop yields or ice skating? Oh yeah, it’s Canada so it’s a tough call.
https://www.dtnpf.com/mydtn-public-core-portlet/servlet/GetStoredImage?symbolicName=originalX21578YsiteXDTNYcatalogXcatalog&category=CMS
Juniors won world gold today …. good game with Sweden. Put Climate Barbie on ice. Love it.
If global warming is a threat to Canada’s winter sports, then I was thinking we should be able to see it already in the Winter Olympics medal tables. The logic goes like this: with global warming, the natural advantages of the cold countries would be eroded, and the hot countries would be proportionately less affected and therefore do better. Let’s have a look at hot-country Australia’s medal tally: 1994-1, 1998-1, 2002-2, 2006-2, 2010-3, 2014-3. Wow – up 2 medals per Olympiad, in just 5 Olympiads. There can surely be only one possible cause of such dramatic statistics – global warming. By contrast, over the same period, cold-country Canada’s medal tally would surely have gone down – let’s have a look: 1994-13, 1998-15, 2002-17, 2006-24, 2010-26, 2014-25. Yup, I was right. Canada’s medal tally has taken a massive hit. (NB. For this, you have to read Canada’s stats the climate-science way: ignore all the increasing figures and concentrate on the 2014 collapse, which was clearly caused by the 2016 El Nino).
Wow Mike Jonas! You’ve revealed a potential to squeeze climate clowns between a rock and a hard place – global warming can increase diversity at the winter games!
(Brian Gumbel was unavailable for comment.)
In the grip of frigid winter weather, these fools are trying to assert that Canada’s children ‘will not know what ice looks like’!
Their stupidity is more dangerous than severe frostbite.
But she was politician enough to not say that happens. She weaseled ‘might’ in there, so she’s got a get-out-of-jail card.
If we vote her again, Toronto could be inundated by 20 million climate refugees. Act now to stop harmful climate policies!
In the last week in the Calgary area we had 3 dead in car crashes due to snow, plus “hundreds of collisions” in just the last 2 days. Winter is a dangerous time in Canada. Sure I love to ski, but would prefer warm snow/ice free winters.
http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/police-close-portion-of-deerfoot-trail-after-multiple-crashes/wcm/f6c2f899-ab71-4ab4-9228-59209f8b2836
“Catherine McKenna
@cathmckenna
For hockey you can turn to Coach’s Corner if you want, for climate change, Canadians turn to scientists.”
Like David Susuki?
Suzuki CBC shill.
Suzuki the entomologist, who knows less about atmospheric physics than the average liberal arts major.
Suzuki’s was originally a geneticist, famed for his work on fruit flies. Back then it was not a crowded field.
My son was reading me a list of the “10 greatest Canadians”. Suzuki was in 2nd place ahead of Frederick Banting and Alexander Graham Bell. WTF!
PS, just now I was trying to find the list he had read me. I found a list that has Don Cherry at #7.
Turn to scientistsf? I agree. I turn to Richard Lindzen, among the first to be invited to participate in the IPCC process, an author in 2 of these and a lead author of the Physical Climate Processes and Feedbacks,” Chapter 7 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Third Assessment Report on climate change.
The man is beyond qualified, certainly well beyond Dave Suzuki who you quote, Catherine. Not that she would understand much of that as a social change lawyer. Unfortunately, my country is guided by her boss an equally unqualified dunce.
Writing letters and sending information to these ‘leaders’ is a complete waste of time. It is impossible to get through to them. This is a very dangerous situation. Politicians at all levels are being handled by non elected operatives and lobbyists, using tactics that need to be exposed. We need help and we need it now.
Yes, if Canadians could make their climate warmer, they would.
“…they would.” No. I think you meant to say “…they should.” The fact is central, eastern, and BC Canadians have drank the cool-aid, and would willingly enter another ice age to “save the world” from climate change.
Even if there was a return to a Quaternary glacial epoch and there was a mile of ice over Ottawa, the Global Warmistas would still be worrying about a loss of snow and people dying of the heat.
Canada ice free? HAHAHAHA, past several weeks of -35C at night, -25C to -30C daytime. Only 6 more weeks of winter? I WISH, usually have snow on the ground here mid October to mid May. JT and the Liberals have no clue, on pretty much everything.
Oh this was just the first 100ppm. The next 100 ppm will rise temps 1.5..4.5 degrees with Arctic amplification, so you could end up in -28C by 2070, if the IPCC is right. Ice melts at -20C if we ask the alarmists on how the Antarctic is melting. So there is a risk kids need to learn to swim.
If it was a global cooling scare she’d be afraid children will not know how to swim.
We might be able to drive over lake Ice from Thunder Bay on the north shore of Lake Superior to Chicago at the bottom of Lake Michigan again his winter, like in 2014-15.Ref;
Historical Ice Animation: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research …
https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/ice/historicalAnim/
NOAA GLERL’s ice cover dataset extends from 1973 to present, serving the Great Lakes community in research, application, and management. Large interannual and decadal variability are observed, as well as a downward trend. The map shows the extent of the maximum ice cover on the Great Lakes for each year. Data is …
And you know that when you can drive over the frozen Great Lakes from Thunder Bay on the north shore of Lake Superior to Chicago at the bottom of Lake Michigan, it must be “THE HOTTEST YEAR EVAH!”:
https://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/nasa–201determines4-warmest-year-in-modern-record
Funny how the NHL is thriving in Tampa. Perhaps she doesn’t realize what innovation and adaptation can really do. Go Bolts!
Canadian snowbirds wintering in Tampa area supporting hockey while they get away from the cold, snow and ice?
No. The Tampa Bay Lightning have built a very strong local fan base. It started with us former northerners who love hockey and after 25 years now seeps into every part of the city. Having one Stanley Cup in hand and with a very strong possibility of another very soon doesn’t hurt, plus the Bolts are currently the top team in the NHL with many young stars. But the main reason is the fantastic job the owner and management have done with marketing and community outreach. Last weekend the NHL All Star game was held in Tampa and showed the entire hockey world this is now a true hockey city.
Tom is right. The Canadian snowbirds wintering in Tampa hava a hard time getting tickets to the “Sold Out” Lightning games. Local support is as good as it gets. The Tampa Bay Lightning have been named the No. 1 professional sports franchise by ESPN.
“…for climate change, Canadians turn to scientists.” Unless those scientists say that man has very little to do with climate change. Then they are censured and lose their funding.
Hydro-Quebec / International
Electricity Exchanges with Ontario
Hydro-Quebec electricity interconnection with Ontario could increase exports to New York and the U.S.. Midwest.
What is this all about?
http://www.hydroquebec.com/international/en/exports/markets/ontario.html
“…for climate change, Canadians turn to scientists.”
“Now repeat after me… Baaaa!”
Clearly, the Canadian minister is Cherry-picking.
Oh dear… 🙂
Tari…Is your post Satire?…If not…
Climate Climate Barbie Barbie.
If It is…Good Stuff…
David David Viner Viner Children Children No No Snow Snow.
Insanity at it’s best.
From here in the antipodes, I can’t help but think that dear besotted, Cathie should maybe invite Fidel’s love child into her barbie world for a short trip on her sleigh, or perhaps Snowmobile, down to Minnesota, in the land of the midnight Trump….
Arrh… God help the beautiful country of Canada!
XXXX !
If the canadian children want to see snow they can always visit the sahara or Morroco
With the current speed of greenhouse effect, global warming cooling will change Kenya to Greenland before 2100 🙂 No seriously I should not be this snarky. Snow in Sahara is weather, as you know, as snow in Canada is also weather. Floods, droughts, hurricanes, storms, warm spells, glacier melt and advancing glaciers are climate.
Nonsense, because snow in the Sahara occurs in recent years much more often than in previous decades. However, snow falls there only in locations over 1000 meters. The same can be seen in the temperatures at the German stations on the mountains. Feldberg, Brocken, Fichtelberg, Großer Arber and Zugspitze have reported declining temperatures for years, while the temperature level on the ground is still rising slightly. I think the latter is urbanization effects, whereas the stations that are decoupled from the ground show the true temperature development. According to the theory, the temperature development would have to be quite the same. Incidentally, that’s one of the reasons why I’ve become skeptical of AGW.
Hugs, Hans-Georg has a valid point, It is well known that Urbanization, paved parking lots and heated furnace emissions create a Heat Dome. Forgotten effect of Atmospheric Rivers like the 1861 California Flood, [Houston 2017] I witnessed this phenomenon in 2004 on the north shore of Lake Superior from the Camp 81 Forestry Road on the Trans Canada Highway east to Gravel River. The only way I could describe it was that every Rain Cloud from around the Globe must have gathered and dumped over that 20-mile wide area. Every culvert and Bridge approach was washed out with the Canadian Pacific Trans-Continental Railway Line left with rail and ties hanging in the air. There were trees hanging in Telegraph Wires.
The volume of rain was startling not knowing that the phenomenon had a name and History. Locally gardeners were unhappy with the cool summer of 2017. We did well with 22 Large Garden Pots on the asphalt driveway generating extra heat produced better than the garden beds. Go figure.
Not gonna even dent that Cherry. What the heck is a “Wiarton Willie “?
Get antibiotics for goodness sake!
Don’t mess with Hockey People folks…. you will lose
Climate Barbie lectures us Canadians to ride bicycles while she goes out any buys two Porsche, Lexus, a Tesla, etc. A popular photo of Barbie on a bike seems very suspicious with her in high heels.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9a8_uguM9VA
Do the bicycles come with fats to spread the load?
Usually the fats are seated and the flats take the hit.
Nothing yells fake louder than wearing high heels on a bicycle!
Isn’t that footwear against OSHA regs?
She’ll have to coast everywhere she goes.
C’mon now. What’s $340,000 among friends? If toy Barbie can ride around in glam vehicles, why shouldn’t Climate Barbie?
Hysteria;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria
See, cold makes you very stupid. She is exhibit A Anyway, didn’t we already see this moving with kids won’t know what snow is?
ShrNfr
Is Dr David Viner her …Snow Daddy? Or should that be…No Snow Daddy.
What’s she going to do?–ship all of Canada’s ice to the USA?
We’ll use it, of course, as long as they pay for it.
(And wait until Canadians find out their “climate scientists” have been just as dishonest about their craft as the DOJ and FBI have been in the US! Oh, the humanity!)
I’m a Barbie Girl
In an Ice Free World
I can Ban All Plastic
I am SJW Fantastic.
C’mon Blondie Barbie let’s Go Arctic
C’mon Cathy Let’s Go Rogue Antarctic…
Oh Oh Oh!
So clever. I suspect Weinstein would love it too.
xD
Maybe climate scientists should get involved in the sport. Then , as well as telling don that historic games took place at lower temperatures than were recorded at the time, they could also adjust the historic scores down to produce an accelerating match score trend.
Ice hockey is a thing of the past (from 2012):
https://www.yahoo.com/news/warming-threatens-ice-hockey-canada-study-130252882.html
Given Climate Barbie’s apparently unlimited government funding she should sponsor a PSA (like the Iron Eyes Cody “Keep America Beautiful” ad) with Wayne Gretzky crying in front of pond with horrified teenagers in the background, skates in hand, anxiously watching from shore as their make shift hockey goal slowly sinks through thin ice.
Tagline – “Keep Canada Cold!”
I discovered Don Cherry’s restaurant one day while out on a bike ride:
http://www.news1130.com/2011/08/30/don-cherry-bar-in-maple-ridge-engulfed-in-flames/
This kind of comments will only stop coming after world has tasted green utopia for a good 25+ years, after which it will be realized it was a targeted and calculated lie, no different than communism, disguised as good intentions to save the planet – and children – from bad men.
Barbies ego needs this enlightened warrior image on the surface, but deep down she knows she is only after the power of control.
Why has this discredited movement not gone the way of so many others by the natural order of attrition after 30 years despite lack of evidence? Because it is the essential cornerstone of the NWO [and far bigger than just Canada.] Consequently the propped-up funding will be bottomless and ongoing, so don’t expect it to go away anytime soon without an equal and opposite reaction.