23 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: Survey Says!”

  1. When it does not even rate as an issue, no matter who they ask, we may begin to recover. But, they will have the next moral panic ready to go, and all the same suckers, will be suckered again.

    DDT, ice age, warming, GMO, drunk driving, peak oil, no safe level of radiation, big gulps, high fat, low carb, low fat, high carb, billionaires, homeless, … no end to the list of tools they have already pulled out, and will work again on the same mindless masses.

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  2. The number #1 issue for all Marxists globally,,,,,Most others are pandering for votes, or dedicated Crooks….
    The children’s issues like plastic straws get the super low IQ folks….

    If you are not a Marxist, you generally want a warmer climate….. a 2 degree variance in temperature is the difference felt @ your feet VS. your Knees…Didley squat

  3. Someone please get the news to Tom Steyer who is carpetbombing my local TV with advertisements promising … “People over Profits”. Of course … after … Tommy bankrolled $Billions in … profits.

    1. Kenji.

      I see Tom lies just a bit on how he got so rich.
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      Billionaire presidential candidate Tom Steyer boasted that he divested from fossil fuels during his time as a hedge fund manager when faced with questions during Tuesday’s debate on his environmental record.

      But earlier reporting found that Steyer’s investments would fund coal mining and other fossil fuel ventures even after he decided to divest.

      Steyer has repeatedly pegged himself as “the climate candidate,” but moderator Brianne Pfannenstiel asked him about his past investments in carbon-producing energy.

      “You made your $1.6 billion in part by investing in coal, oil and gas, so are you the right messenger on this topic?” she asked.

  4. Objectively, this means that 2020 is the year St. Greta the Tit-less will be forgotten to all but the most devout members of Gang Green.

  5. Hey Kevin. You forgot second hand smoke. That insidious substance is so deadly that, where I live, smoking and vaping is banned in outdoor parks.

    1. I remember long ago, when the Center for Disease Control first declared second hand smoke to be a carcinogen.
      I studied all the relevant data. Of all the studies concerning the subject, the CDC rejected half of them for various reasons. Curiously enough, all of them found no correlation between exposure to second hand smoke, such as living in the same house as a smoker, and lung cancer. So, after culling out the undesirable results, the rest of the studies barely gave a positive correlation. And it is upon such flimsy “science” that they declared second hand smoke a carcinogen.

  6. Man. That list is total BS. Most of those are things Congress shouldn’t be trying to do, and most of the rest are things they’ve actively made worse.

    For example.
    “Reducing health care costs.” — Easy. Get the government to stop meddling and costs will go down.
    “Improving the education system.” — Every time the government intervenes, quality drops. STAHP!
    “Taking steps to make the Social Security system financially sound.” — Where’s the option for phasing out Social Security?
    “Taking steps to make Medicare financially sound.”
    “Dealing with the problems of poor and needy people.” — There is no way in hell Congress should be responsible for this.
    “Improving the job situation” — Same as above.
    “Reducing crime.” — Up to local authorities, not Congress. What are they going to do, pass legislation to make it illegal to be a criminal?
    “Dealing with drug addiction.” — Who thinks Congress should be focusing on this? Who thinks Congress is actually capable of doing this!?
    “Addressing race relations in this country.” — *weary sigh*

    And, of course,
    “Dealing with global climate change.” — I don’t think there’s a need for me to preach to the choir on this one.

    1. When I was still working, the deduction for Social Security, inclusive of company matching, was about double what I put into 401K, also inclusive of company matching. What was worse, the Social Security deduction was post income tax, while the 401K deduction was pre income tax.
      My income from Social Security now is a little less than 60% of my disbursement from 401K, and most of it is still subject to income tax, again. And it only lasts as long as I live. Whereas my 401K investment keeps at least level, and perhaps grows a little, despite the disbursement and management deduction. After I die, my wife and children will still have the investment.
      The 401K is manifestly money that I decided to invest, it is my money, to do with as I wish. What is worst is that the Social Security Administration and Medicare act as though the money I get from them were charity, just like food stamps. That is utter nonsense.
      As to what the federal government should do, for most things that work better at the local level, like education, crime, addiction, and homeless. The more the federal government tries to interfere, the worse it gets. One obvious problem is the more layers of bureaucracy the money goes through, the less money there is at the other end. For other things such as jobs, as Trump has proven, the Federal government does not provide most jobs (and the less Federal jobs the better), but what it can do is to provide an environment healthy for industrial investment and job creation. That means usually as little government interference as possible. I believe that is what the Preamble of the Constitution meant by provide for the general welfare, not what that word has come to mean.
      Of course, there are things the Federal government should do, like provide for the common defense. That is inclusive of defending our borders. I believe on the whole it is better to have an interstate highway system. But not much else.
      And global climate change, we all know, is the biggest scam foisted on the people in history.

  7. This is another surprise to me considering the large percentage of people who require someone to tell them what their opinion is.

  8. These polls are taken in thenUSA.

    A Canadian one would be very interesting.
    I suspect global warming would rank much higher.

  9. Global trade and strengthening the nation’s economy go hand in hand.
    (See Donald Trump)
    So….
    Yeah, dead effing last.

  10. The problem is that they have sucked too many world leaders with the promise that they will make millions with the result that everyday people are suffering with higher taxes and charges in the name of global warming and the leaders are laughing. If you suggest that we can just vote them out just ask anyone from western Canada how easy that was.

    Just heard on the news today that the weather network is warning Canadians not to expect an early end to winter and a warm spring. I guess that’s why its now called climate change and not global warming.

    1. “the weather network is warning Canadians not to expect an early end to winter and a warm spring”

      The geese that just flew over my house beg to differ.
      ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

      Late fall and the Indians on a rocky reservation in the foothills west of Calgary asked their new Chief if spring was coming soon and would it be cold or mild?

      Since he was a new Chief in a modern society, he hadn’t been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky, he couldn’t tell what the spring was going to be like. Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the spring was indeed going to be cold and distant requiring the members of the tribe to collect firewood and to be prepared. But, the Chief being a practical leader, had an enlightened idea the following week.
      Picking up his cell-phone, the Chief called the Weather Network and asked, “Is the coming spring going to be warm or cold?”
      “It looks spring will be late and quite cold,” the Weather Network associate informed him.
      So the Chief gathered his tribe and told them to collect even more firewood so that they would to be prepared.

      Another week later, the Chief called the Weather Network once again asking, “Does it still look like it is going to be a cold distant spring?”
      “Yes,” the associate at Weather Network associate reported again, “It’s going to be a cold long winter and distant spring.”
      So, the Chief assembled his tribe once again advising them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find.

      Two weeks later, the Chief called the Weather Network again. “Are you absolutely sure spring is going to be distant and cold?” he pled.
      “Absolutely,” the associate replied. “It’s looking more and more like it’s going to be one of the coldest springs we’ve ever seen.”
      “How can you be so sure?” the Chief inquired.
      The Weather Network associate confirmed, “The Indians are collecting a shitload of firewood.”

  11. The climate scare mongers lost me after the global deep freeze episode in the 70’s. The same guy decided to make the same gases create global warming when the freeze money ran out.
    I only care about it because of those who are deluded are trying to take my job away.
    BTW I am against polluting the environment, but only when it is a real problem.

    1. Back in the 70’s I worked in the Kanadjian north. Fort McMurray levels and north. Across Kanaduh. It was colder then than now. I know cold. Nights -50 to -60 depending where you were. Daytime highs -35 or so. Places like Saskatoon and even Calgary and Montreal endured periods of -30 F or so, almost non existent today. Haven’t seen those levels since the early 80’s. It has warmed but negligibly via humans except in the city – heat island effect. The oceans are the regulator of temp and air currents and distribute heat around the planet. Volcanic activity, sub sea is bigger than you think even in the Arctic regions – Plate Tectonics rules. Iceland is a visual representation of what goes on out of sight beneath the oceans. Geology rules, not Al Gore and his disciples.
      And it’s cyclical. Looong cycles. Just one or two major volcanic eruptions in any one year will throw a wrench into climate prognosticator’s plans, at least the ones we can see above ground. What one major eruption pukes out in gasses alone will put a dint in what climate folks think is an acceptable “plan” for CO2. Yeah, CO2 not CARBON. The carbon Cycle from grade 7. Go back and read it. When the Dinosaurs roamed for millions of years, ages to be exact “carbon” levels were 6000-7000 ppm. Nobody died. We’re 400 ppm today. Today’s plants optimum level is about 1100 ppm. Look it up. Screw with “carbon” below 250 ppm and see what happens to life as we know it. You’ll be mostly dead along with a bunch of other life forms.
      I was a Geologist for 30 plus years. What’s Al Gore’s claim to fame, Sock Buoy or Mr Butt’s, or any other Klimatte Klown’s claim to fame? More political science than science today.

      1. Oh, a bit of an oversight: The Sun ™ is the driver of all things warm and cold on this Planet. Anyone saying otherwise is a crank.

  12. A new hire at work asked my opinion of climate change. I pointed out the window at the Bow Building (almost 800 feet tall) and said “how high do you think the ice would have been at the heart of the last ice age, compared to that skyscraper.

    He said something along the lines of “was it deeper than that?”.

    I responded take that building. Stack 5 more Bow Buildings on top of that. Then put 5 Calgary towers on top of that. That’s how thick the ice was here. It all melted, naturally, starting around 20,000 years ago. Over about 800 years, sea level went up 100 metres, or over 300 feet, without a major extinction event.”

    Long pause. Then a very good discussion because he realized that a lot of what he had thought to be true could not be true, based on that one fact/event, and he wanted to learn more. Props, used effectively, can convey information much more clearly to most people.

  13. Yes, C Miner. All of Calgary and Airdrie where I live use to be part of one huge lake/fresh water sea just 5000 years ago.
    The eskers surrounding the perimeter of Nose Hill Park(one of the highest natural plateaus in Calgary), were deposited there by the glaciers as they moved and melted.

    1. Head down to the Cypress Hills. Stand on ground that is the highest point west of the Appalachia mountains, before the Rocky Mountains. Look down several hundred feet to where the bottom of the glaciers were. It’s flat on top of the hills. Glaciers flowed around or were stopped by the Hills. The stuff you stand on was deposited by rivers flowing NE from Montana, before the glaciers formed and stripped most of it away. You can float down the rivers on the south side of the Hills to the Gulf of Mexico. Waters in the Milk River flow south to the Gulf. Anything north flows east to Hudson’s Bay or north to the Arctic.

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