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.
Except there’s no scientist predicting an ice free Canada year round. Only an Environment Minister can do such a thing.
Yet another despicable post and comments. “Predicts ice free Canada” -no she does not! Followed by post after post criticising her for her appearance. She seems like an intelligent human to me -not a Barbie bimbo–absolutely despicable.
Catherine McKenna holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics where she studied International Relations, and a law degree from McGill University. She also holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto.
After graduating from École élémentaire catholique Notre-Dame (her father insisted that all his children be bilingual despite not knowing any French himself)[3] and then Saint Mary Catholic Secondary School[4] in Hamilton, Ontario, McKenna attended the University of Toronto and studied French and International Relations. After graduating from the University of Toronto, she filmed a documentary in Asia, “Real Travels: 60 days in Indonesia.” McKenna then completed a master’s degree in International Relations at the London School of Economics and a law degree at McGill.[5]
Economics degree, Law degree, International Relations, bilingual. NO TRAINING IN CLIMATE OR THE ENVIRONMENT, typical politician.
“Economics degree, Law degree, International Relations, bilingual. NO TRAINING IN CLIMATE OR THE ENVIRONMENT, typical politician.”
Don Cherry did not attend university at all, he began playing hockey straight out of high school. And that’s the guy you choose to listen to over her.
I’ve known for decades that leftists are elitists, as Chris once again goes out of his way to demonstrate.
Typical politician. No scientific knowledge but somehow qualified to pass judgement on scientific issues and has the nerve to speak with authority. Does your dentist do your taxes?
Ghalfrunt
So, she has graduated from several university programs in several places: That background only authorizes her to write about and speak as a lawyer, specifically as a lawyer in international relations. Which actually only makes her a professional politician (er, liar) specifically with a background in professional lies about the economics and political positions between opposing and aligning professional liars (er, politicians) of other countries and other parties. What part of her background gives ANY ability or credentials to discuss thermodynamics, heat transfer, radiation, chemistry, physics, biology, or CO2 levels above the high school level, if even that?
More to the point, her background and training AS a lawyer in international relations means that any “morals” and “ethics” that might have survived her initial college indoctrination (er, classes) got flushed out BY the need for competent lying and distortion and negotiating and “winning” AS a lawyer and politician appointee specializing in international relations! I’d much rather have a single HONEST and ETHICAL high school chemistry or physics teacher in that position than a politically-trained lawyer in international relations!
You don’t understand, once you have been properly trained in left-wing philosophy, you are considered to be an expert on every subject under the sun.
Another troll who doesn’t know the difference between education and intelligence.
I have not been able to find evidence that McKenna actually said: “Predict Ice Free Canada”, either. This is what she said on her Twitter:
“But Don Cherry might want to think about all those kids who might not have outdoor rinks to play on some day.”
Not even close…..
“Climate cuckaloos” has a nice, alliterative ring to it. Cherry was trolling of course, and McKenna obligingly took the bait.
lol At least the Russians still know where to shove a Hockey Stick.
I expect this is all part of a Putin plot….
Repeal suffrage! That’s how to end this lunacy
I can not paste this here, it is an old car ad with a polar bear swimming in cool water.
Canada is changing in a dicatorial sh.t hole where freedom soon will be a thing of the past.
Prepare for the green police gestapo.
https://youtu.be/Yb6HFDVLTt0
What gender has climate ?
We know where they flee when oppressed. see comment with story link below
I had a hockey rink as a child in the early 1970s. Some years it was too cold to flood the ice. Other years the rink would melt in 3-4 days. In the late 1990s my children had a skating rink. Some years it was too cold to flood. Other years the rink would melt down to grass in 3-4 days.
Now I have a pond in front of my house. Some years the ice is frozen solid, other years its open water.
A warming trend of 0.1 degrees per decade would be completely lost in the seasonal swing of +/- 10 degrees over a period of a few days.
Yup, and given the fact that the temperature “data” are, scientifically speaking, sparse and inconsistently sited, UHI polluted, confirmation bias adjustment polluted, guessed/inferred/homogenized GARBAGE, the “trend” is TRULY meaningless.
No, the trend is not meaningless. 50 years of data disagrees with you. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/climate-change-threatens-outdoor-hockey-in-canada/article534565/
And of course, 100% of that 50 year trend is caused by CO2, in the entire world, nothing else has ever changed that might impact climate.
Re Chris:
**No, the trend is not meaningless. 50 years of data disagrees with you. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/climate-change-threatens-outdoor-hockey-in-canada/article534565/**
Yes, it is meaningless. Even Mysak should know that cycles are longer than 50 years. The 1930’s and 1940’s were much warmer. All I have to do is ask my mother and she did not get paid. So, it is the same as the useless butterfly post above. Money wasted.
Well said! This is the strangest thing to me how daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, decadal temperature swings can be quite large (10° or 20°), how 1.2° is going to destroy everything.
“Now, I’d like to ask you with your left-wing pinko friends: What about the warming trend,” Just remember one of our hockey minds, extreme liberalism and right-wingness are equally dangerous. Climate change is a scientific and a practical problem.
Global warming is a science problem because no one can find t. That’s why the warmistas have to make stuff up.
No it is not a scientific problem. The moment it is applied it is an engineering one and should be subject to quality control and preferably external integrity checks if it really is life or death just as pacemaker design is where it is only a single life at stake.
Snow Cover in Canada ==> Yesterday:
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims/ims_v3/ims_gif/ARCHIVE/USA/2018/ims2018034_usa.gif
How is it that natural variation can undo 70 years of “warming” in just one year?
Nice map. Vancouver island completely snow covered. When was the last time that happened? The only bit of Canada not covered is a small sliver of Northern Nova Scotia (which is really strange, instrumentation error?)
Jeff ==> Hadn’t noticed that….I’ll check a couple of other Snow Cover sites and see if they have the same.
Why is it that all the true screwballs tend to end up in government?
Nobody wants them in any productive enterprise.
make work project for trudocchio to virtue signal to the UN. If we didn’t put these people in government, they would just end up teaching in the schools or universities. they wouldn’t survive in the private sector
I wouldn’t be too hard on Minister McKenna, whose full title is “Minister of Environment and Climate Change”. Like most profiteers of CAGW, her professional/political career depends on being a true believer, so facts to the contrary are simply not tolerated.
Well said.
Seems like the Minister stole a page from JFK Jr.’s book…you may recall years ago Jr. lamented the prospect of snowless winters around D.C. that would rob children of the joys of sledding. Shortly thereafter, Snomageddon descended upon the nation’s capital. Many opportunities have followed through the years for those kids. Open mouth, insert foot…
“But Don Cherry might want to think about all those kids who might not have outdoor rinks to play on some day. ”
Minnesota will be a sub-tropical paradise some day.
All the bears in the woods will have a jamboree someday.
My left great toe will fossilize into a solid gold nugget someday.
Prove me wrong.
My favorite quote from “The Simpsons”-
“You can make up statistics to prove anything, fourteen percent of people know that.”
Cherry got something right.
From Canada with love.
https://news.sky.com/story/week-long-winter-freeze-uk-braced-for-7c-11237352
They haven’t shut down the outdoor ice rink in St. Louis, MO yet due to climate change. Apparently she doesn’t skate or she’d know that the best conditions are sunny days somewhat above 0C on a refrigerated rink, right after they run the Zamboni.
We had around a foot of ice on our pond before the January thaw hit, but skating was horrible because the wind had caused the surface to be too rough. Fun to drive my old CJ-7 on, though.
The best solution is to skate at our community indoor ice rink. All summer too.
I like it. From now on I will refer to Canadian warmists as Cuckaloos.
I gather the warming trend somehow missed regina this year. with nuts at the helm god help the good ship canada
The good ship got iced in.
If that’s the case Liberals will have no problem spending millions to keep an ice rink on the Hill . My thermometer hit -28 last nite.
If our present ‘Climate Barbie’ Minister remains as is into the future and even if children won’t know what snow/ice is at least the they will no what an actual ‘snow flake’ looks like.
Of course that should be – ‘at least they will KNOW what an actual…………………’
I think after next election we’ll have a Liberal Free Canada.
Doubt it, the Conservatives agreed with the liberal party to sign the Paris Accord. We are finished. For the foreseeable future anyways. Adios canaduh
As much as I don’t really care for Don Cherry he is listened to by a lot of people in Canada. I hope he brings it up on a yearly basis as we sink into the cold over the next decade.
This is currently contributing to the move south for jobs and investment from Canada.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-oil-boom-attracting-canadian-180000724.html
What do you expect….
Most ‘normal’ people don’t become politicians
That is why we end up with brain washed agenda driven NUT JOB political animals calling the shots for the rest of us.
Where will all the Venezuelan exiles from PDVSA go with their oil field skills now that Canada no longer welcomes anyone in the oil field sector? I guess it will be welfare as stateless citizens since they can’t go back to the ultra lib police state of Venezuela with hyperinflation.