(Neo)Con Games Vs. Climate Change Reality
(Updated below) (Update II) (Update III) (Update IV)
Step One: commission a report based on fictitious, worst-case scenario assumptions which will give you exactly the (fallacious) conclusions you wanted.
Step Two: announce to the World these non-findings.
Step Three: follow these up with various underhanded measures to further undermine regulatory means to stem the tide of disaster as well as appropriate funding to completely and fully understand the problem.
Step Four: of course, ignore not only your own scientists but go as far as refusing to meet with them; in addition, endeavor to ignore as well the overwhelming world-wide, scientific consensus which has ascertained that the problem is real, now.
And voilà: Man-made Climate Change? Balderdash! Kyoto Protocol? Infamy!
Which in turn inspire neocons and right-wing christianists to renew with increased vigor their parochial, narrow-minded, utterly uninformed and deluded attacks on the reality of Climate Change (here is one tiny example among so many others), grasping at the words of every quack they can find.
Above all: ignore real, proven science (proven time and time again, that is) and, especially, do continue to pretend that all the true expert scientists have no idea what they are talking about.
Then rinse and repeat, the above constituting an excellent recipe for complete disaster.
Which goes to show that neocons are more alive than ever not just in the good old U.S.A., but in Canada - no less - with the (Prime Minister) Harpers and their (Environment Minister) Bairds, all staunch pals of Big Oil, Big Energy, and Big Corporation.
Can we have an election soon and boot those mendacious idiots out of our Government ... please?
Update: at least, Prime Minister Harper and Environment Minister Baird acknowledge that Climate Change is a reality. Talk about pandering to everyone on this subject while doing everything possible to do nothing about it. Another superb example of neocon duperie tactics at work, folks ...
Update II: Let's hope Canada does not have to go the way of Australia and her neocon-in-chief before doing something about Climate Change ...
Update III: Now, let us contrast neocon duperie and procrastination (as illustrated above) with yet another example of integrity, openness and honesty.
Update IV: Compare also the Harper government's games with the current Québec government' plan to meet Kyoto objectives by 2012 - Note to Greens: this plan may be not completely satisfactory, but it is a plan nonetheless trying to meet Kyoto objectives ... hence, my suggestion is for you folks to be pragmatic and apply pressure for it to be fulfilled as close as possible, instead of crying foul about it.
Step One: commission a report based on fictitious, worst-case scenario assumptions which will give you exactly the (fallacious) conclusions you wanted.
Step Two: announce to the World these non-findings.
Step Three: follow these up with various underhanded measures to further undermine regulatory means to stem the tide of disaster as well as appropriate funding to completely and fully understand the problem.
Step Four: of course, ignore not only your own scientists but go as far as refusing to meet with them; in addition, endeavor to ignore as well the overwhelming world-wide, scientific consensus which has ascertained that the problem is real, now.
And voilà: Man-made Climate Change? Balderdash! Kyoto Protocol? Infamy!
Which in turn inspire neocons and right-wing christianists to renew with increased vigor their parochial, narrow-minded, utterly uninformed and deluded attacks on the reality of Climate Change (here is one tiny example among so many others), grasping at the words of every quack they can find.
Above all: ignore real, proven science (proven time and time again, that is) and, especially, do continue to pretend that all the true expert scientists have no idea what they are talking about.
Then rinse and repeat, the above constituting an excellent recipe for complete disaster.
Which goes to show that neocons are more alive than ever not just in the good old U.S.A., but in Canada - no less - with the (Prime Minister) Harpers and their (Environment Minister) Bairds, all staunch pals of Big Oil, Big Energy, and Big Corporation.
Can we have an election soon and boot those mendacious idiots out of our Government ... please?
Update: at least, Prime Minister Harper and Environment Minister Baird acknowledge that Climate Change is a reality. Talk about pandering to everyone on this subject while doing everything possible to do nothing about it. Another superb example of neocon duperie tactics at work, folks ...
Update II: Let's hope Canada does not have to go the way of Australia and her neocon-in-chief before doing something about Climate Change ...
Update III: Now, let us contrast neocon duperie and procrastination (as illustrated above) with yet another example of integrity, openness and honesty.
Update IV: Compare also the Harper government's games with the current Québec government' plan to meet Kyoto objectives by 2012 - Note to Greens: this plan may be not completely satisfactory, but it is a plan nonetheless trying to meet Kyoto objectives ... hence, my suggestion is for you folks to be pragmatic and apply pressure for it to be fulfilled as close as possible, instead of crying foul about it.








































2 POVs/Comments:
I am trying to write a paper for school on the neo cons point of view toward global warming. Do you have any suggestions as to source material, i.e. DVDs, books, web pages? Could you e mail me some suggestions? Thank you!
My e mail address is patticrittenden@yahoo.com
Hi, "anonymous" -I suggest you start off with the links provided in my article Ten Years After: A Post-Mortem ( http://pov-mentarch1.blogspot.com/2007/06/ten-years-after-post-mortem.html ).
From there, use ressources from the Canadian Environment ministry and various Europeans ones - these should (and will) guide you to more "meatier" reference sources.
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