. . . Unless we give ourselves over unquestioningly to the bloated bureaucracy of the environmentalists, which will lead us to the Promised Land of Kyoto; flowing with the milk and honey of granola-grindin’ Gaia-goodness.

So speaketh the High Priests of The Environment and all their apostles; with one voice, for apostasy against Kyotology will not be tolerated. And don’t fool yourselves, this shit really has become one hell of a lot like some loopy cult. As Pale, over at IAM(also)CANADIAN, put it a few days ago [links added]:

The Church of Kyotology reminds me of Scientology (without the cool alien thing!)

Kyotology attacks free speech. Any questioning of the god Kyoto results in cries of “Global Warming” denier!

Kyotology says that public statements against Kyotology such as writing anti-Kyotology letters to the papers and in blogs is a “Suppressive Act” – a high crime, according to “Introduction to Kyotology Ethics.”

In accordance with this policy (and others like it), Kyotology has tried to silence all criticism.

Kyotology betrays the trust of well-intentioned people by falsely claiming to have a scientifically-proven technology to save the world.

Couldn’t have said it better myself (which, of course, is why I plagiarized Pale). The maniacal, rabid reaction of the enviro-Left to anyone that doesn’t unquestioningly bow down before whatever the latest prophecy of doom happens to be is downright alarming. You don’t even need to outright argue with them to get yourself branded a heretic, either. Just asking for clarification or, Goddess forbid, proof 😯 of their wild claims is enough to earn you the kind of contempt usually reserved for twitchy loners parked near playgrounds with cars full of candy.

Before we go any further, let’s get a few things straight, shall we? I like the outdoors, Bambi’s mom is pretty damned tasty (especially as sausages) and when I go fishing, I have this funny habit of wanting to actually eat what I pull out of the water. Hell, I even used to work for Greenpeace, for cryin’ out loud.  So yes, I do give a shit about the environment, just not for the same reasons as the Cultists of Kyoto. So, you ask; if I’m such an environmentally-friendly guy, why do I have a problem with Kyoto?

Actually, I don’t have a problem with Kyoto, I have a lot of problems with Kyoto. AND with the whole “global warming” thing in general. Going into each and every damned one of them here and now would make for one hell of a bulky posting — and likely give me carpal tunnel syndrome in the process — so what I’m going to do, just for a start, is to list a few of the things about “global warming” that get on my nerves. I’ll get into each one in more detail in later rants but for now, here are the the beefs that just pop off the top of my head:

1. They’re bullshitting me.
   “Global warming,” as in the human-cause-only scenario that’s being shrieked about so much now, is only a theory and is NOT scientifically proven as a fact like we keep being told.
2. Ad Hominem cuts no ice with me.
   And that’s the method of choice for the EnviroNazis that come up against anyone that questions them. As Orwell once said: “Some things are true even if The Daily Telegraph says they are true.”
3. Environmental science has been hijacked by political agendas.
   This has been happening since the fall of the Soviet Union left an assortment of Marxists and other miscellaneous malcontents adrift in the sea of their failed ideas, looking for someplace to put in to port.
4. Their story keeps changing.
   Their mid-range prediction for temperature rise in the next 100 years has dropped by more than a third and they chopped the mean sea-level rise prediction by more than 50% — just since the last IPCC report in 2001. I have yet to find any number that isn’t constantly getting fudged. Who’s running these figures? The guys at Enron??
5. I’ve heard all this before.
   All the same different dire predictions, the same rhetoric against critics, all of it. Just with a different boogeyman. None of the predictions came true.
6. They are fanatics.
   As Churchill once observed, “a fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” And, like true fanatics, they adamantly refuse to listen to any explanation not approved for their consumption by the high priests of their “movement,” no matter how sound the reasoning may be.
7. They misrepresent themselves.
   They claim a “consensus” amongst experts even when those same experts — like Dr. Christopher Landsea, a leading expert in the field of hurricanes and tropical storms, who resigned as an author of the IPCC 2007 report because the IPCC was “motivated by pre-conceived agendas” and was “scientifically unsound” — have no such unanimity whatsoever.
8. Even if they DID have it, consensus does NOT equal truth.
   Once upon a time, consensus was that the earth was flat, the sun revolved around the earth and Milli Vanilli were singers. And we know how those turned out.
9. They attempt to silence those who disagree with them.
   This, more than anything else, is a sure indication that there’s something rotten in Denmark. You don’t need to read Nineteen Eighty Four to know that anybody that wants their side to be the only one heard has only their interests in mind. Truth is a funny thing; it doesn’t need to be the only voice heard in order for it to survive. It does just fine without any suppression of dissent being needed.

Not a bad list for stuff just off the top of my head. Keep an eye open for the next few days or so while I address each one separately.

And to think that I had made up my mind to steer clear of this particular turd typhoon. Not because I don’t have any opinion, mind you (anyone that’s ever spent any time on this site can easily tell you that I have an opinion on damned near everything), but rather because it just seemed — and still seems to me — to be so God damned overdone.

Everyone and their dog seems to be blathering one thing or another about the environment, global warming, Kyoto, etc, ad nauseum. One bozo even named his dog “Kyoto.” 🙄

So, after getting today what I reckon to be literally my one hundredth email asking just what the hell I think about all this mess, I’m going to start shooting my mouth off about it. But not today. This is the last day of my vacation and I’m damned well going to enjoy it.

So there.

Rest assured that I’ll be ranting away about it tomorrow. In the meantime, to give you some idea as to just how much this hysteria has consumed our collective braintime, check out what is being said across the MSM and in some blogs on the subject today. Bear in mind as well, that this is just one day’s worth of articles; and just the ones that I stumbled across without even looking. Talk about obsessive…

Licia Corbella, Calgary Sun
Whistleblowers get kiss-off

It’s too bad the world’s media doesn’t hold the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to the same standards that it holds large corporations.

When Enron cooked the books, there were — rightly — no end of indignant columns and talk shows condemning these high-paid fraudsters who massaged the numbers to fit their agenda and bolster their bank accounts.

The whistleblower who tried to get Enron to change its evil ways — Sherron Watkins — was named, along with two other whistleblowing women — TIME magazine’s Persons of the Year for 2002.

But when it comes to scientists who whistleblow about IPCC reports cooked by politicians to fit their politicized agendas, those whistleblowers are either ignored or dismissed as “skeptics” or quacks and are libelled as haters of this planet and nature, even though most of them have dedicated their lives to studying nature and protecting it.

TrustOnlyMulder, Officially Screwed
Suzuki Math Indicates 4 x 0.4 = 2 : No Wonder EnviroNazis Are Wrong

Today’s Ottawa Sun has a Q and A session with David Suzuki about his carbon spewing bus tour across Canada and this is one of the questions.

Q: What role should Canada play on the international scene?

A: Canada produces 2% of C02 emissions, but represents just 0.4% of the world’s population.

So we produce four times more pollution per capita than the global average, and because of that, we have an obligation.

My 10 year old does better math, Mr. Suzuki.

Lorrie Goldstein, TO Sun
Greens aren’t always good

Global warming and the Kyoto accord are the crack cocaine of trendy causes for opportunistic politicians and chic environmentalists.

Since fighting man-made global warming involves “saving the planet,” or so they tell us, it is the King Kong of all environmental crusades.

Of course, the fact we have been warned in the past by this crowd that life as we know it was about to end over everything from “the population bomb” to “global cooling,” and that we survived, is now ignored.

Sandy, Crux of the Matter
This Kyoto Type Hysteria Has Happened Before …

There have been a number of excellent posts today about the Kyoto hysteria and likening it to a new religion. Visit Officially Screwed, Damnation and Joanne’s Journey. In Joanne’s case, her discussion of the hysteria surrounding DDT made me think about how easily people can be swayed from one point of view to another, even when it’s not in their best interests.

Peter Worthington, TO Sun
Global warming is a theory, not scientific fact

Last week — the day the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its gloom and doom report on greenhouse gases — Larry King Live had a bunch of experts hashing over what it all means.

Of six panelists, the one who made the most sense (I’m tempted to say made the only sense) was Richard Lindzen, a professor of “atmospsheric science” at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Joel Johannsen, PTBC
Globally warmed-over liberal-left political and media rhetoric is making me sick

I’d rather hear more about Anna Nichole Smith and see more of those butt-ugly photos of those hideously ugly breastmorphatons than listen to one more thing about the ridiculous Kyoto Accord or the less ridiculous but still utterly ridiculous nonetheless “man-made global warming” freak-out scare-a-thon currently being presented by liberals and their media and (political) “scientists” like the great zoologist The Prophet Suzuki.

Tom Broadbeck, Winterpeg Sun
Give global warming skeptics their say

Last week’s news coverage on the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was some of the worst journalism I’ve seen in a long time.

It was due largely to a disease that inflicts journalists from time to time — an illness known as pack journalism.

ALW, Wudrick Blog
Legislating The Impossible

Chris Edey exposes the fraud of Pablo Rodriguez’s Kyoto bill.

The bottom line is that C-288 is a political stunt, nothing more. Even if the government were to immediately collapse over it next week, and the Liberals were to win a huge majority in the subsequent election, the 2012 targets will still not be met. The Sierra Club knows this. The David Suzuki Foundation knows this. The Liberals know it. The Dippers know it. Yet everyone continue to peddle the fantasy anyway.

Like I said, this is just what I managed to stumble over today; without even trying!  What the hell is it with this monomaniacal fixation?  You’d damned near think that there suddenly were no other issues in the whole wide world.

More tomorrow…

That’s it. Sorry about that; did you think I was going somewhere with that? Going to make a good joke, maybe? Well, I could have but some jokes just make themselves.

It’s been said that, in politics, when they start ignoring you, that’s when you know that you’re really screwed. And that’s exactly what happened to Ontario UberGrit Dalton McWimpy when he plopped his flip-floppin’, wafflin’, rioter-appeasin’ arse at a Timmy’s at the corner of Huron & Adelaide in London yesterday. There he was, and nobody gave a crap:

McGuinty catches few eyes in busy local Tim Hortons

Fri, February 9, 2007
By SUN MEDIA

People always have time for Tim Hortons, but apparently not for their premier.

That was a good thing yesterday for Dalton McGuinty, who found himself sitting through a casual interview at a busy Tim’s outlet in London, seemingly unrecognized by customers seated or lined up for the morning coffee rush.

“It’s like he wasn’t even here,” one man, who had spotted Ontario’s top politician, said after the premier left.

A coffee clutch of three older men at the table near McGuinty quickly picked out who he was but politely held back, smiling and saying little.

McGuinty spent nearly an hour at the Tim’s at Huron and Adelaide streets, during which time not one customer walked over to ogle or chat up the Ontario Liberal leader.

“Was that McGuinty?” one man said, as he jumped into his pickup with his coffee. “What was he doing here?”

Told McGuinty was making the rounds in an election year, and will be chasing votes like his, the man paused, suddenly frowning: “I think I’ll have to do some research into that.”

That’s it. That’s the whole damn article. You know people are getting bored as hell with you when you can’t even fill up a quarter of a page…

Okay, I know I’m supposed to be on vacation right now (that’s why I’ve been so quiet lately) but as I was flipping through the Freeps online today, I found myself saying, “what the hell is this?”

There’s an old gag in the media industry — older than even Ted Byfield, if you can believe that — which says that some headlines just write themselves and… well, apparently this one did, because I can’t see anyone without a severely sadistic sense of grammar doing it:

Spring budget forecast to spark election call forecast after spring budget

Huh? 😕

So… what? We’re forecasting forecasts now? I gotta say it, kiddies: things are getting hilariously buggered if we’re actually at the point where the MSM prognosticators are gawking into their crystal balls and seeing nothing but… well, their crystal balls seeing something else seeing something else seeing something else…

Gimme a friggin’ break…

PS-
Not-so-hot off the presses of the fart-in-a-windstorm department: Garth’s a Grit.

Who gives a rat’s ass?

I love a good cartoon. Especially when it makes this much sense… 😆

Kudos to cartoonist Chuck Asay at the Colorado Springs Gazette (click the image to enlarge).

Sometimes you find things in the darnedest places. Anybody with eyes and ears is aware of the numerous culture clashes that have been biting at our collective backsides across the country — and most others in the free Western world — for years now. From veils on drivers licenses to kirpans in schools to friggin’ Sharia law in Ontario, the traditions and values that form the foundations of our very way of life are being slowly, relentlessly chipped away at, one by one. I’ve known for decades (and flung it from my piehole at just about every opportunity) that it’s only a matter of time before Western societies start to say, “NO MORE. We gave you an inch, you took a mile. Now you will either live by the rules we set or live someplace else. You have no say in this and neither does anyone else. We tried that and it failed; now we do it the hard way.”

Don’t fool yourself, either; it will happen. Despite what those who would turn our civilization inside out say, there are too many of us who simply don’t have it in them to go quietly into the night. Horrors from the fields of Sharpsburg, to the meatgrinder that was the Somme, to the leveling of Dresden and Hiroshima bear witness to just what we’re capable of when some threat to our way of life awakens the dark things that slumber beneath our civilized veneer.

Fortunately, our inner demons are slow to rouse, and rarely fully awaken. But it really only was just a matter of time before heels began to dig in; even here in nice, tolerant Canada. The only question was, where? Ironically, the answer came from what some consider to be pretty much the un-ballsiest region of the country:

HEROUXVILLE, QUE. — A sign at the entrance of this rural Quebec town says: Herouxville welcomes you.

Unless, that is, you plan on stoning a woman to death, sending your kids to school with a kirpan or covering your face other than on Halloween.

The town council of Herouxville, a sleepy town dominated by a towering Roman Catholic church, has adopted a declaration of “norms” that it says would-be immigrants should be aware of before they settle in this town. Among them, it is forbidden to stone women or burn them with acid.

Children cannot carry weapons to school. That includes ceremonial religious daggers such as kirpans, even though the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Sikhs can carry kirpans in schools.

However, children can swim in a pool with other children — boys and girls alike — because they can’t be segregated.

And for the record, female police officers in Herouxville, 165 kilometres northwest of Montreal, can arrest male suspects. Also part of the declaration is that women can drive, dance and make decisions on their own.

You’d think that most of those things would go without saying, wouldn’t you? But many people would be surprised to learn just how many people come here from Outer Backwardsistan or wherever-the-hell and think that the only rules that matter are the ones that they bring with them (not to mention how far backwards some are willing to bend over to accommodate that mindset)…

Honour killings in Calgary:
What Mukesh and the Dulays didn’t know was Kulvinder’s brother Daljit, furious over the marriage that went against the family’s wishes, hired a private investigator to track down the couple so he could carry out a so-called honour killing.

Female cops in Montreal second-class:
The article, published in the October issue of the internal newsletter L’Heure Juste, is part of a series of features on different religions and cultures, and aims to assist officers who find themselves in potentially awkward situations, said a police spokeswoman.

“That’s the reality,” said Insp. Joanne Paquin. “If we don’t understand the differences of all those cultures, maybe we won’t respond the right way.”

But the Montreal Police Brotherhood insists the force has gone too far, accusing it of denigrating its female officers by suggesting they can’t do the job alone.

Husbands banned from prenatal classes:
Pendant plusieurs mois, le CLSC de Parc-Extension a refusé systématiquement que les hommes assistent à ses cours prénataux pour accommoder des femmes musulmanes, hindoues ou sikhs.

Si des femmes souhaitaient quand même suivre un cours prénatal avec leur conjoint, elles étaient obligées de se rendre au CLSC Côte-des-Neiges ou au CLSC Métro.

Gender-restricted times at public swimming pools, weapons in schools, blocking out gym windows if there’s women in them, a pic of a veil on your driver’s license (or passport, even), the list gets exhausting if you think about it too much. Each and every one another chip out of the foundation that props up all the freedoms that we have so cavalierly come to take for granted.

And — golly gumbucks, who’da thunk it? — the usual suspects over at the Ministry Of What You Should Think and all the others in the standard list of malcontents are, naturally, hollering their pointy little heads off with all the tired, old, predictable accusations…

But some Muslim leaders have called the code a thinly-veiled example of xenophobia.

“Racism is coming out of the woodwork now, and it’s not being obscure or subtle,” said Salaam Elmenyawi of the Muslim Council of Montreal.

Of course it is. 🙄 Anything that isn’t complete capitulation to somebody else’s way of life that they trundled over here from wherever must be racism.

Well, guess what, smartasses? That bullshit doesn’t seem to be packing as much of a punch as it used to. More and more people — whether they be in Canada, France, the Netherlands or elsewhere — are beginning to demand a real debate on the issue of what has come to be known as “reasonable accommodation” that doesn’t involve hysterics and accusations of bigotry. You’ll note that I said DEMAND, not ASK FOR.

And the more you look, the more you realize that the loopy Left and its cadre of multicultists just isn’t up to that task. After all, hysteria and slurs are all they have to work with…