Stormy forecast for May?
After months of smooth sailing,
Green boss hits rougher seas
~ Alan Findlay, Ottawa Sun, May 5, 2007
Stormy forecast for May?
After months of smooth sailing,
Green boss hits rougher seas
~ Alan Findlay, Ottawa Sun, May 5, 2007
The sky is falling!! The sky is falling!!
wow. what a grat piece.
thanks
Did Chicken Little legally migrate to Canada ??
Leftist voters are not stupid, it's just that they are more susceptible to the evil force of envy. Leftism is powered by envy, and leftists are quite smart in using government to lash out against those they envy.
If conservatives can come up with an effective antidote for envy, leftism will be cured as well. Unfortunately the problem has been studied for many thousands of years with little progress. The only effective antidote known, and enshrined in one of the 10 Commandments, is the simple advice to not do it. What can be done when our neighbors continually choose to ignore this profoundly wise advice?
It’s interesting that the “nanny state” was prophesied by de Tocqueville almost two hundred years ago when our republic was still in it’s infancy, and freedom and responsibility flourished. Here’s an excerpt from a previous posting.
“Hayek, like Tocqueville, saw that in modern bureaucratic societies threats to liberty often come disguised as humanitarian benefits. If old-fashioned despotism tyrannizes, democratic despotism infantilizes.
“It would,” Tocqueville writes, resemble paternal power if, like that, it had for its object to prepare men for manhood; but on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them fixed irrevocably in childhood; it likes citizens to enjoy themselves provided that they think only of enjoying themselves… . It willingly works for their happiness; but it wants to be the unique agent and sole arbiter of that; it provides for their security, foresees and secures their needs, facilitates their pleasures, conducts their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their estates, divides their inheritances; can it not take away from them entirely the trouble of thinking and the pain of living? … [This power] extends its arms over society as a whole; it covers its surface with a network of small, complicated, painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot clear a way to surpass the crowd; … it does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes, and finally reduces each nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd.”
Global Warming? Saving lives one degree at a time!
From the Glenn Beck Special of May 2, 2007 - Exposed: The Climate of Fear
The globe is getting warmer. In fact, it`s warmed .7 degrees Celsius over the last 10 years. It`s not up for debate, but there are questions as to why it`s happening, how could the traffic it may be. Who is right? Who`s wrong?
BJORN LOMBORG, AUTHOR, “THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST`S GUIDE”: With global warming you`re going to see more heat deaths, but what most people don`t tell us is we`re also going to see much less cold deaths.
And actually, many more people die from cold than from heat, so for England alone you mentioned the number 2,000 people. Actually that`s what we expect will die from more heat waves in 2080, but what we have to remember is that 20,000 fewer will die from cold each year in 2080.
Now I`m not sitting and saying we should go for global warming, but I`m saying we need to know both.
LOMBORG: Yes, and basically the point is again to say we have a tendency to bark up the wrong tree. We worry intensely about climate change, but the point is we can do very little good at very high cost.
Let`s focus on where we can actually do a lot of good. If we care about this planet, if we care about its environment, shouldn`t we do where we can do the most good first?
What these Nobel laureates basically told us if we spend our money on HIV/AIDS, we can do $40 word of good for every dollar. If we spend it on Kyoto, we can only do 30 cents. Let`s do the $40 first.
BECK: Give me — give me the top five quickly, and where does global warming fall in this list?
LOMBORG: Basically what they told us was it was HIV/AIDS, malnutrition, free trade, malaria and agricultural research. Those are things that we can do cheaply and do an immense amount of impact in this world right now and also for future generations.
Kyoto came down at the bottom. Not because climate change is not real, but simply because the way we tackled it through Kyoto is very expensive and a very poor way of helping the world.
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BTTT!
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