Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Mar. 24th 2011
Earth Hour approaches, but before token greens can sit around a candle for their annual darkathon, they must endure the trial of the snark. This week David Suzuki is a depressed hippie, Google chooses sides and hippie food is bad for penguins.
Part One: Hippie of the Week
David Suzuki sat for an interview with rabble.ca and the lifelong hippie who calls himself an elder is unhappy that we focus on the economy instead of the ecology. A selection of quotes:
- “…global economics is actually speeding up the destruction”
- “we revel in the economic antics of Bill Gates and these people and I think we’ve really lost our way in our obsessing with the economy”
- “The problem we face is not only that the corporate agenda has become the government agenda, but that the economic system, which we exist within, is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.”
- “…economists actually think that, even though we actually live within a finite biosphere, the economy can grow forever. It can’t.”
Atlas giggled
He blames skeptics, business, government and everyone else for environmentalism’s failures, but acknowledges he’s wasted his life:
You’re asking someone who’s been, I think, a total failure. I’ve done the best I could, but I don’t see much traction.
Why yes, I would like some fries with my schadenfreude.
If Dave really wants to know why so few people wish to follow his model of economic destruction, he should look to his own hubris. When he called for jail time for skeptical politicians a large portion of Canada and the world stopped listening to the suddenly embarrassing old hippie.
Part Two: Warmists & Scaremongers
Al Gore applauded Sen. Markey for using humor to hit back at skeptics. The joke?
“…I’m worried that Republicans will overturn the law of gravity, sending us floating about the room.”
Al needs to get out more or read the Round-Up – his idea of funny, isn’t.
Earth Hour (this Saturday, 26th) used to be a global event that attracted the big guns to promote it and much of the world would sit in the dark for an hour and forget about the planet for the next 364 days and 23 hours. If ever you needed evidence of the movements shrinking influence, I give you, err, Verne Troyer:
Earth Hour - digging deep
Oh, and the WWF says Earth Hour has nothing to do with saving energy. Wait, what?
British journo Bryan Appleyard wonders why hippies haven’t claimed natural disasters in Russia and Pakistan as evidence to make the case for global warming. No, really.
American Thinker wonders why the only building lighting up the NY skyline at night belongs to the global organization that insists we use less energy? Hmmm