Q and A Checklist : The Alarmist Claims of Eco-Extremist David Suzuki

Posted: September 23, 2013 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Alarmism, Alarmism Debunked, Climatism, David Suzuki, Eco-activist, Eco-Activists, Environmentalists, Fact Check, Green Agenda, Sustainability, Warmism | Tags: ABC, Alarmism, climate, climate changes, David Suzuki, Eco-Alarmist, Eco-Extremist, Environmentalist, Q and A, Tony Jones, Warmism | 2 Comments

“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…
climate change provides the greatest opportunity to
bring about justice and equality in the world.”
– Christine Stewart,
former Canadian Minister of the Environment

“The only way to get our society to truly change is to
frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.”
– emeritus professor Daniel Botkin

“If we don’t overthrow capitalism, we don’t have a chance of
saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have
an ecologically sound society under socialism.
I don’t think it is possible under capitalism” 
– Judi Bari,
principal organiser of Earth First

“Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty,
reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.”
– Professor Maurice King

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Tonight the ABC hands over the “Q&A” stage to eco-extremist David Suzuki. Canadian environmentalist born 75 years ago with a deep sense of misanthropy who once compared human’s to “maggots” …

Will Q&A’s host Tony Jones or any member of the audience bother to correct Suzuki’s deeply alarmist rhetoric, correct the record or update his ideologically bent facts? Or does being a warming alarmist give you a licence to mislead?

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Here are some of Suzuki’s epically alarmist and dangerously misleading claims:

Suzuki Claim: PINE BEETLE CHAOS

In British Columbia, where I live, a warming climate has allowed insects the size of grains of rice to destroy $65 billion worth of pine trees in just a bit over a decade. For millennia the mountain pine beetle, a native of Canada, has been kept in check by our winter temperatures which reach minus 35 degrees for several days.

via Roger Franklin Quadrant Online: Geez, Dave, you’re a bugger for cherry-picking! You want us to publish the claim that climate change is killing lodgepole pines, but you’ve admitted elsewhere that poor forestry practices, monocultures and the suppression of fire, not just warmer weather, created an overabundance of the older trees those beetles love to eat, hence the population explosion. You can’t just leave out inconvenient facts, otherwise our readers would be misled.

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Pine Beetle issues before human “maggots” had a chance to harm ‘Gaia’:

In 1924 low CO² Pine Beetles Destroyed 1.5 Billion Feet Of Timber In Oregon And California

http://trove.nla.gov.au

THE GIANT KILLER.

AMERICAN PINE BEETLE.      

Science and brawn are to-day work-ing together in systematic haste in the heart of the yellow-pine forests ofSouthern Oregon and Northern California to save ten billion feet of merchantable timber from the relentless ravages of the Western pine beetle,writes the New York “Outlook.” During the last ten years this tiny beetle  (Dendroctonus brevicomis) has destroyed a total of 1,500,000,000 feet of  timber in unquestionably the finest stand of yellow pine on the Pacific coast of the United States.

See also:

• 1976 Global Cooling Wrecked The Ski Industry And Caused A Massive Pine Beetle Outbreak | Real Science
• 1976 : Environmentalists Understood That Pine Beetles And Fire Serve A Purpose | Real Science
• 1950 Shock News : Pine Beetle Infestation Of “Alarming Proportions” | Real Science

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Suzuki Claim: MELTING POLAR ICE-CAP HYSTERIA

Arctic Sea Ice:

September 2013: “Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year”

Global cooling: Arctic ice caps grows by 60% against global warming predictions | Mail Online 7 Sep, 2013

Antarctica:

via Real Science

The Last And Ugliest Part Of The Scam

Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. summarises:

The graph above provides an update to data on the remarkable ongoing US “intense hurricane drought.” When the Atlantic hurricane season starts next June 1, it will have been 2,777 days since the last time an intense (that is a Category 3, 4 or 5) hurricane made landfall along the US coast (Wilma in 2005). Such a prolonged period without an intense hurricane landfall has not been observed since 1900. 

Roger Pielke Jr, December 10, 2012:

…After adjusting for patterns of development, over the long term there is no climate change signal … of increasing damage from extreme events either globally or in particular regions.

Via Real Science

Obama : Lowest Hurricane Frequency Of Any President

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Suzuki Claim: TROPICAL STORM SANDY HYSTERIA

Hurricane Sandy was downgraded to a tropical storm when it made landfall. The resulting 3 meter storm surge, corresponded with a full moon, causing a King tide which led to extensive flooding of lower Manhattan.

The New York Hurricane of 1821 hit at low tide with impacts far more extensive:

Via Real Science

1821 New York Hurricane Hit At Low Tide

8/26/11

Hurricane Flashback: The Great New York Storm of 1821

September 3 marks the 190th anniversary of the Hurricane of 1821, which saw flooding and destruction in the growing metropolis. In less than an hour a thirteen-foot storm surge deluged the city, swallowing everything below Canal Street. The Battery was particularly devastated, docks were destroyed, and ships were swept onto streets. Further uptown, a bridge that connected Harlem to Ward’s Island was washed away and somewhere in Chinatown, the East River likely met the Hudson. “New Yorkers were lucky,” writes Bruce Parker in The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters. “The hurricane hit at low tide.“

Hurricane Flashback: The Great New York Storm of 1821 — Daily Intelligencer

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Suzuki Claim: AUSTRALIAN CYCLONE FREQUENCY & SEVERITY INCREASING

PEER-REVIEW STUDY ScienceDirect.com – Reconstructing tropical cyclone frequency using hydrogen isotope ratios of sedimentary n-alkanes in northern Queensland, Australia

Findings:

“This suggests that on average tropical cyclone frequency did not change during the past 200 years.”

BOM Tropical Cyclone trends are down with less frequency and severity:

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The United States has had the fewest tornadoes on record – less than half of normal:

Storm Prediction Center WCM Page

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Suzuki Claim: GREAT BARRIER REEF HYSTERIA

The major problems facing the Great Barrier Reef are to do with real pollution and physical factors; fertilisers and chemical pollution, damage from cyclone Yasi, development of coal terminals and from the crown of thorns starfish. Conditions far removed from perceived damage caused by increased Carbon Dioxide concentrations.

Great Barrier Reef report card shows World Heritage site’s health has dropped to ‘poor’ | The Courier-Mail

via Herald Sun:

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority:

CORAL reefs can cope with natural disturbances like floods and cyclones …

And what exactly is damaging the reef? Brian Handwerk in National Geographic, June 8:

TERRY Hughes, who heads the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies headquartered at James Cook University … (said) … “Coastal reefs have been obliterated by run-off of sediment, dredging, and pollution.”

See also : Claim: Ocean Acidification Is Climate Change’s ‘Equally Evil Twin’ | CACA

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Suzuki Claim: AUSTRALIA & GLOBAL TEMPERATURE HYSTERIA

For Australia see: Australia’s record hottest 12 month period? Junk science say the Satellites | CACA

GLOBAL TEMPERATURE HAS NOT RISEN IN OVER 15 YEARS:

Satellite temperature records on six different data sets show that there has been no atmospheric global warming since 1998 or any statistically-significant warming for between 18 and 23 years. A distinct lack of any warming evident, despite a dramatic rise in industrial greenhouse gas emissions over the same period:

WoodForTrees.org 

Peer-Reviewed studies that confirm a lack of any global warming since 1998:

• Reconciling anthropogenic climate change with observed temperature 1998–2008
• Retrospective prediction of the global warming slowdown in the past decade
• Overestimated global warming over the past 20 years – Nature Climate Change 28/8/2013
• Recent global-warming hiatus tied to equatorial Pacific surface cooling – Nature Journal 28/8/2013
• Warmist scientists talk about no Global Warming

Suzuki and ‘Expert Scientists’ newest claim to account for the atmosphere not warming:

“The Oceans Ate The Global Warming”

With no rise in atmospheric temps over the past 15-17 years, the latest bluff in climate alarmism is that the ‘missing heat’ is hiding at the bottom of the oceans. However since 2003, 3000+ ARGO satellite buoys which descend to depths of 2,000 metres, continually recording ocean temperatures, have not detected a rise in ocean temps either.

Kevin Trenberth theorises that missing heat takes a dive into deep oceans. “The oceans can at times soak up a lot of heat. Some goes into the deep oceans where it can stay for centuries [and where lamentably, there are no reliable temperature measurements].  But heat absorbed closer to the surface can easily flow back into the air.” Yet sea surface temperatures and the upper heat content didn’t increase over the last decade by enough to account for the “missing heat” that those greenhouse gas emissions should have trapped in the Earth’s climate system but couldn’t be found. (via Forbes)

via Herald Sun:

Here’s a demonstration of how desperate warmists are to believe their theory, even when they can’t find the evidence for it:

According to the new IPCC report, temperatures rose by about 0.15C a decade for the latter half of the last century.  Since 1998, however, that rise has been reduced to only 0.05C. 

”The heat is still coming in, but it appears to have gone into the deep ocean and, frustratingly, we do not have the instruments to measure there,” said Professor Ted Shepherd of Reading University. “Global warming has certainly not gone away.”

Wow. How convenient. The heat is hiding where the warmists can’t find it!

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Enjoy tonights ‘Alarming’ edition of Q and A, and if it all gets a bit too much, keep in mind:

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” – Richard P. Feynman

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UPDATE – Post “QandA”

via Herald Sun

Suzuki revealed as complete know-nothing by very first question on Q&A

Andrew Bolt Blog 23.9.13

Oh. My. God.

David Suzuki on the very first question is revealed as a complete know-nothing. His questioner tells him that the main climate data sets show no real warming for some 15 years.

Suzuki asks for the references, which he should have known if he knew anything of the science.

His questioner then lists them: UAH, RSS, HadCrut and GISS – four of the most basic measurement systems of global temperature.

Suzuki asks what they are.

Anyone interested in global warming should know right there that Suzuki has absolutely no understanding of what he is talking about.

In my opinion he is a phoney.

Here, for Suzuki’s information, is the GISS measurement:

Keep Reading »

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UPDATE

via Herald Sun

David Suzuki proves he’s pig ignorant about global warming

Andrew Bolt Blog 24.9.13

The very first question put to David Suzuki on Q&A last night revealed this warming alarmist’s complete ignorance of the most basic facts of global warming.

Fancy Suzuki not even knowing what the world’s main temperature data sets say about global temperatures. Fancy him not even knowing what those data sets are, even when he is given their names.

The only rational response to Suzuki’s astonishing admission of utter ignorance would have been to say to him: “Sir, you are a phony and imposter. Get off the stage and don’t waste our time for a second longer.”

Read the exchange for yourself:

BILL KOUTALIANOS: Oh, hi. Since 1998 global temperatures have been relatively flat, yet many man-made global warming advocates refuse to acknowledge this simple fact. Has man-made global warming become a new religion in itself?

Keep Reading »

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UPDATE

via JoanneNova.com.au

Watch Suzuki flunk elementary climate science on ABC’s “QandA” here

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Related Articles:

• Suzuki: Money Doesn’t Matter, Here’s My $30K Invoice « NoFrakkingConsensus
• David Suzuki, Dirty Old Man « NoFrakkingConsensus
• A Turning Point for the IPCC…and Humanity? « Roy Spencer, PhD
• IPCC models getting mushy | Financial Post – Ross McKitrick
• ABC gives pulpit to Suzuki as warming church burns | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
• SUZUKI ON Q&A – The ABC hands over its studios to another green extremist
• Would it be legal to toss David Suzuki into jail just for ignoring a few inconvenient facts?
• MUST READ: Quadrant Online – False notes and the Suzuki Method
• Sun News : Suzuki slams Canada’s immigration policy
• Sun News : Saint Suzuki’s scandal – YouTube

Climatism Links:

• NATURE STUDY Confirms Global Warming Stopped 15 Years Ago | CACA
• Scientists talking about no warming
• Peer into the Heart of the IPCC, Find Greenpeace | CACA
• UN-Settled Science
• 44th Pacific “Sinking Islands” Extortion Forum | CACA
• 97% of climate models say that 97% of climate scientists are wrong | CACA
• Bureaucratic Dioxide
• A cooling consensus
• Modelling Climate Alarmism
• GLOBAL WARMING THEORY – Circular reasoning at its best
• Obamaclimate and Europe’s Green Energy Basket-Case | CACA
• One Of The More Illuminating Articles You May Ever Read On Global Warming | CACA
• SHOCKING NEWS! Arctic Summers Ice-Free in a Few Days! | CACA

Australia Climate Related:

• Claim: Humans behind record Australian heat, research shows | CACA
• Australia’s Climate Comm: Propaganda Unit Blinded By Ideology | CACA
• Claim: Ocean Acidification Is Climate Change’s ‘Equally Evil Twin’ | CACA
• Australia’s record hottest 12 month period? Junk science say the Satellites | CACA

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