tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post6136148852299800679..comments2024-03-25T05:30:23.847+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: "Freedom Water" plus: Anthony Watts at WUWT promotes a whole mob of conspiracy nuttersSouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-21345616686241575302015-03-21T01:12:25.939+11:002015-03-21T01:12:25.939+11:00I watched the Tim Ball vs Elizabeth May video. It ...I watched the Tim Ball vs Elizabeth May video. It wasn't too bad Elizabeth May slam dunks him at the end.<br /><br />Tim Ball makes a fool of himself by referring to Piers Corbyn as some sort of authority on the effects of the earth's magnetic field on climate change (I kid you not).<br /><br />The viewer questions were terrible, they usually are.<br /><br />The video appeared to be edited at one point, towards the end of the show they both referred to something that I didn't hear earlier - something about the ClimateGate emails. I notice the youtube channel you linked to was biased against Elizabeth May, refer to the channel's comments at the top.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11552461190113661645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-47003244581949540432015-03-18T14:02:14.225+11:002015-03-18T14:02:14.225+11:00Pretty funny comment from BCBill. Has that comment...Pretty funny comment from BCBill. Has that commenter paused to consider what would happen in politics if politicians only made decisions about things that they had technical expertise in? What an idiot.Captain Flashheartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-3344816191986718052015-03-18T12:46:11.430+11:002015-03-18T12:46:11.430+11:00TIL: Tim Ball is a Canadian nutter. We seem to ha...TIL: Tim Ball is a Canadian nutter. We seem to have an awful lot given our not particularly huge population to draw from.numerobisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-1248507314043200462015-03-18T12:44:07.182+11:002015-03-18T12:44:07.182+11:00One nit: Layton died after the election. He was o...One nit: Layton died after the election. He was opposition leader for a while, though he didn't live long enough to sit in parliament as such. The media did not lionize him for being dead; it lionized him in the last week or so of the election for managing to surge in the polls.numerobisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-12985623657164077422015-03-18T12:21:32.059+11:002015-03-18T12:21:32.059+11:00Quite appropriate to have a debate between politic...Quite appropriate to have a debate between politicians and political activists.Victor Venemahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02842816166712285801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-79123858933811508292015-03-18T06:58:14.158+11:002015-03-18T06:58:14.158+11:00BCBill said, "Quite fascinating to see how so...BCBill said, "Quite fascinating to see how somebody (Elizabeth May) without any technical expertise on the subject has the unmitigated gall to parrot the party line in opposition to sincere discussion. It is a scary peak into one kind of political mind."<br /><br />And not a trace of irony to be found, as most of WUWT posts (and nearly all the comments) are from people without any technical expertise on the subject.<br /><br />Also have to wonder what Paul thinks Ball's "minor defect" is--inflated resume, out-and-out falsehoods, paranoid conspiracy theorist?<br /><br />MP May, incidentally, is quite science-based. She's not an expert, but she listens to the experts and brings their voices forward. She's been vocal about the muzzling of scientists, the dismantling of research units and firing of whole departments of scientists, and the government's war on any science that may inconvenience them (including Stats Canada--they're been slashed and muzzled too, probably because they keep producing numbers about jobs, families, wages, economy that contradict the government's versions).<br /><br />I wish more politicians were like her. Another good one is Dr. Kennedy Stewart in BC and the NDP critic for Science and Technology. He speaks out quite a bit on science-based issues, and confronts the government on their science policies (or lack thereof), introduces bills in favour of science-based initiatives (like obtaining and using the best evidence available for policies); and is working to restore the position of Parliamentary Science Officer.Dan Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12732509347477810998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-7558858426302845512015-03-18T02:02:37.544+11:002015-03-18T02:02:37.544+11:00Poor lickle JPeden was getting ahead of himself. ...Poor lickle JPeden was getting ahead of himself. 2014 won't be 'the warmist year evah' for very long. But 'retraction' won't be the why.Millicentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-60754697484177345612015-03-18T01:34:41.837+11:002015-03-18T01:34:41.837+11:00I am surprised she agreed to this. I get her newsl...I am surprised she agreed to this. I get her newsletter, and much of the time she's very sensible (I receive newsletters from all the parties). When our government rammed through their first omnibus bill, she actually read the whole thing herself, and then challenged all the Conservative MPs to take a test on it. That was because she said none of them knew what was in this huge "job" bill (large portions of it removed environmental protections for 90+% waterbodies so pipelines could be built with fewer assessments), but they were all going to vote for it regardless. <br /><br />May and other opposition MPs submitted well over 700 amendments to the bill, and every single one of those amendments were voted against, one by one, by every single Conservative MP. And again, none of them had a clue what was in the bill they voted for--the PM told them to vote for it and like little puppets they all lined up and voted for it. Guess it makes your job a lot easier when you don't have to think, but it also means we don't have any representation in Parliament. <br /><br />Our local MP is an opportunistic Conservative (won by 18 votes because the NDP came on strong that year--the leader, Jack Layton, had died and was lionized in the media, which siphoned votes from the Liberals). I wish more people had turned out for the town hall debate because they would have seen him "warn" (i.e. threaten) us if we voted Liberal and PM Harper (Conservative) had a majority. More than a few heads turned as people wondered, "Did we just hear that right?".<br /><br />But he won, and now the PM's hand is so far up our MPs backside that the PM gets a manicure every time our MP brushes his teeth.Dan Andrewsnoreply@blogger.com