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 Posted: 04/ 12/ 07 12:23 pm Post subject: Letter-to-editor writer thinks "carbon" is a plank |
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Some ignoramus wrote into the local paper (published yesterday), claiming that "carbon" (obviously he means CO2) is poisonous, and that it kills plankton when it goes into the ocean.
What a moron! Phytoplankton (those that photosynthesize) LOVE CO2! They need it to live!
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| Posted: 04/ 12/ 07 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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Can you post the letter  I'd love to read it.
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OfficialPro
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| Posted: 04/ 12/ 07 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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| styky wrote: | | Can you post the letter I'd love to read it. |
lemme dig it up, it was a long rambling thing critical of a local columnist.
Dear Editor:
I want to congratulate Patrick Hrushowy [a local conservative columnist who's been writing against anthropogenic global warming lately] on his excellent piece of political satire "Window Closing for world's green alliance." Though only a column's length, it rivals Johnathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal".
Like Swift, Hrushowy starts off dealing with a serious pressing problem. For swift it is public hunger and orphaned children, whereas for Mr. Hrushowy it's global warming. Where Swift's Modest Proposal is to feed the excess children to the hungry people so that the leaders of England don't have to deal with the problems they've made through their greed and avarice, Hrushowy contends his Green Alliance is terrified public interest in our world is going to wane, so the rich and powerful can keep convincing us to 'defecate in our homes' for their short-term profit.
Mr. Hrushowy continues with more outrageously satiric comments, such as claiming the debate about climate change is over: how wonderfully preposterous! I admit that CBC's Passionate Eye documentary "The Truth About Global Warming - Can We Save Planet Earth?" hadn't aired yet when this article was written. It was incredibly clever of him to guess that on March 28 someone might not have read the paper, listened to the radio, or watched any TV news, seeing the greatly increasing scientific fear about the pollution we are spewing in, on, and around our planet. Interestingly, Mr. Hrushowy didn't mention Rick Mercer's CBC One Tonne Challenge was one of the first things Stephen Harper's Reform, I mean Conservative, government cut out when it came to power. Neither did he point out all the Reform Party bigwigs are from and/or funded by oil-rich Calgary old boys. But, a satire can't have too much truth.
Again, like any skilled satirist, Mr. Hrushowy brings just enough truth into his story. It is true that humans are not the cause of all our global environmental problems; in fact we may not even be the cause of half of it, as the Earth goes through huge cyclical changes, and even one volcanic eruption can change surface temperatures for centuries. Using this red herring is clever because it may take the readers' minds off the bigger truth that no matter how little we are actually changing the climate, 60% of the poisonous carbon we pump into the atmosphere falls back into the ocean, killing plankton, which can and will destroy the food chain in the oceans.
Mr. Hrushowy's last paragraph is his masterstroke. It is true that there are signs you and I like to talk big about change, but are recitent to actually do anything about it. Maybe we don't think an individual can slow carbon output. Like any skilled satirist or politician, he plays on our fears, and hopes we don't think, because anyone can produce much less carbon; it's very easy: try many of the "one tonne less" tools on the internet, found at : ( http://www.pembina.org/corporate/olt-backgrounder.phpat ).
Mr. Hrushowy's comment about "curly bulbs" having plastic and mercury is sadly true: what a beautiful ruse! Even if we do think and research this, we find we're poisoning ourselves with our fluorescent carbon savior! There is nothing more convincing than when a satire includes such verifiable fact. And then Mr. Hrushowy follows his arguments with the coup de gras -- threats to our undeniable rights! Oh My Deity! What if I can't take hugely carbon polluting airline flights any time I want, or I get taxed for other carbon-producing activities? Obviously it's not my fault, and my killing the world for future generations cannot be helped! Mr. Hrushowy, hats-off to you for insulting your unsustainable-wealth blinkered, conservative friends by writing such an outrageous and clever article: touche!
-David Randall, Duncan
BTW Mr. Hrushowy's piece, which I do not have a copy available of, appeared in the Cowichan News Leader and was NOT a satire at all. And obviously Mr. Randall believes in curtailing freedoms in the name of "saving the planet"!
(which makes it all the more scary if saving the planet is merely a ruse for totalitarianism)
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Blue Canadian
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| Posted: 04/ 12/ 07 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | 60% of the poisonous carbon we pump into the atmosphere falls back into the ocean, killing plankton, which can and will destroy the food chain in the oceans.
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He's forgotten that 100% of the "poisonous CO2" has fallen back into his lungs and destroyed his brain cells.
Quick, someone forward his resume to the IPCC ... I see another "Global Warming (TM) climate expert" in the making ....
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OfficialPro
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| Posted: 04/ 12/ 07 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Blue Canadian wrote: | | Quote: | 60% of the poisonous carbon we pump into the atmosphere falls back into the ocean, killing plankton, which can and will destroy the food chain in the oceans.
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He's forgotten that 100% of the "poisonous CO2" has fallen back into his lungs and destroyed his brain cells.
Quick, someone forward his resume to the IPCC ... I see another "Global Warming (TM) climate expert" in the making ....
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I am inclined to think that it's 100% of the CO and CO2 from that reefer he's been puffing is most likely responsible for his deficiencies in critical thinking.
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carfix2000ca
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| Posted: 04/ 12/ 07 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Someone should write a letter about his letter using a couple of the posts above |
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styky
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| Posted: 04/ 12/ 07 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| OfficialPro wrote: | | styky wrote: | | Can you post the letter I'd love to read it. |
lemme dig it up, it was a long rambling thing critical of a local columnist.
Dear Editor:
I want to congratulate Patrick Hrushowy [a local conservative columnist who's been writing against anthropogenic global warming lately] on his excellent piece of political satire "Window Closing for world's green alliance." Though only a column's length, it rivals Johnathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal".
Like Swift, Hrushowy starts off dealing with a serious pressing problem. For swift it is public hunger and orphaned children, whereas for Mr. Hrushowy it's global warming. Where Swift's Modest Proposal is to feed the excess children to the hungry people so that the leaders of England don't have to deal with the problems they've made through their greed and avarice, Hrushowy contends his Green Alliance is terrified public interest in our world is going to wane, so the rich and powerful can keep convincing us to 'defecate in our homes' for their short-term profit.
Mr. Hrushowy continues with more outrageously satiric comments, such as claiming the debate about climate change is over: how wonderfully preposterous! I admit that CBC's Passionate Eye documentary "The Truth About Global Warming - Can We Save Planet Earth?" hadn't aired yet when this article was written. It was incredibly clever of him to guess that on March 28 someone might not have read the paper, listened to the radio, or watched any TV news, seeing the greatly increasing scientific fear about the pollution we are spewing in, on, and around our planet. Interestingly, Mr. Hrushowy didn't mention Rick Mercer's CBC One Tonne Challenge was one of the first things Stephen Harper's Reform, I mean Conservative, government cut out when it came to power. Neither did he point out all the Reform Party bigwigs are from and/or funded by oil-rich Calgary old boys. But, a satire can't have too much truth.
Again, like any skilled satirist, Mr. Hrushowy brings just enough truth into his story. It is true that humans are not the cause of all our global environmental problems; in fact we may not even be the cause of half of it, as the Earth goes through huge cyclical changes, and even one volcanic eruption can change surface temperatures for centuries. Using this red herring is clever because it may take the readers' minds off the bigger truth that no matter how little we are actually changing the climate, 60% of the poisonous carbon we pump into the atmosphere falls back into the ocean, killing plankton, which can and will destroy the food chain in the oceans.
Mr. Hrushowy's last paragraph is his masterstroke. It is true that there are signs you and I like to talk big about change, but are recitent to actually do anything about it. Maybe we don't think an individual can slow carbon output. Like any skilled satirist or politician, he plays on our fears, and hopes we don't think, because anyone can produce much less carbon; it's very easy: try many of the "one tonne less" tools on the internet, found at : ( http://www.pembina.org/corporate/olt-backgrounder.phpat ).
Mr. Hrushowy's comment about "curly bulbs" having plastic and mercury is sadly true: what a beautiful ruse! Even if we do think and research this, we find we're poisoning ourselves with our fluorescent carbon savior! There is nothing more convincing than when a satire includes such verifiable fact. And then Mr. Hrushowy follows his arguments with the coup de gras -- threats to our undeniable rights! Oh My Deity! What if I can't take hugely carbon polluting airline flights any time I want, or I get taxed for other carbon-producing activities? Obviously it's not my fault, and my killing the world for future generations cannot be helped! Mr. Hrushowy, hats-off to you for insulting your unsustainable-wealth blinkered, conservative friends by writing such an outrageous and clever article: touche!
-David Randall, Duncan
BTW Mr. Hrushowy's piece, which I do not have a copy available of, appeared in the Cowichan News Leader and was NOT a satire at all. And obviously Mr. Randall believes in curtailing freedoms in the name of "saving the planet"!
(which makes it all the more scary if saving the planet is merely a ruse for totalitarianism) |
Do they not teach basic science in school anymore???? It's obvious to me that if they do this author missed one too many classes.
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| Posted: 04/ 12/ 07 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| OfficialPro wrote: | | styky wrote: | | Can you post the letter I'd love to read it. |
lemme dig it up, it was a long rambling thing critical of a local columnist.
Dear Editor:
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And then Mr. Hrushowy follows his arguments with the coup de gras -- threats to our undeniable rights! Oh My Deity! ...
-David Randall, Duncan
BTW Mr. Hrushowy's piece, which I do not have a copy available of, appeared in the Cowichan News Leader and was NOT a satire at all. ... |
Is 'coup de gras' a reference to the other thread about the hate crime of bacon?
Hard to believe it's not a satire. Methinks perhaps somebody is pulling our leg. |
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