You Can't Have It Both Ways Greenies!

Do the greenies even understand what hypocrites they are, or are they just such followers that someone like Gore can blind them to real problems with real solutions?

Perfect case in point, the lawsuit against Syncrude because 1500 ducks died. Now I am really sorry that those ducks died the way they did because that made them inedible. What I fail to see is why one incident in 20 years makes this an international scandal.

Oil giant Syncrude failed to install noise making cannons near one of its toxic tailing ponds two years ago, leading to the death of more than 1,600 migratory birds, prosecutors told an Alberta court Monday.

The allegations came as prosecutors faced off against the oil company's lawyers over an April, 2008 incident which made headlines around the world and tarnished Alberta's most lucrative industry.

On Monday, lawyers alleged that Syncrude was the only oil company in northern Alberta that didn't have a warning system in place to scare birds away from dangerous tailing ponds.

"Other companies in the area had deployed their bird-deterrent devices," said Alberta Crown prosecutor Susan McRory. "Syncrude failed in its duty to protect the birds."

McRory is twisting the facts. I remember the blizzard that hit us unexpectedly....you would think our weather stations could have forewarned us about that storm, especially because they can supposedly predict what will happen 50 to a 100 years from now. So, in a one time incident, some ducks died. This is a HUGE deal to the eco-nuts.

But the Pembina Institute, an Alberta-based environmental group, said the facts of oilsands production simply don't back up the province's arguments.

The current tailings ponds for oilsands giants Syncrude, Suncor Energy and Albian Sands Energy Inc. cover 50 square kilometres, the group said.

The collective size of the ponds could quadruple, if all the projects proposed for the province go ahead, said Simon Dyer, Pembina's oilsands program director.

Dyer said an estimated 1.8 billion litres of tailings are produced every day in Alberta.

He called the incident with the ducks a "flashpoint," signalling the much larger problems unfolding in the oilsands.

"There are major problems with oilsands development on a whole host of fronts," he said.

"The oilsands are not a positive story when you delve into the data."

So, oilsands dead ducks, a HUGE environmental problem, and these "oil giants" need to pay. How about those wind turbines killing thousands of birds a year? Are the eco-nuts demanding lawsuits against those companies? Not so much.

Funny how the eco-industry can use consultants and spend huge amounts of money on the image of eco-industry, but when the oil industry does the same thing they are the bad guys.

Look at how the eco-nuts defend the fact that wind turbines are killing thousands of birds a year, every year. Not just a one shot deal like at Syncrude. These blades are slicing and dicing birds and bats daily, but that's okay because more birds are killed by cats and windows.

Human Causes of Bird Fatalities

Curry & Kerlinger has compiled the following information from environmental organizations and goverment agencies.

This list is meant to inform the public and to put wind turbine fatalities in perspecitve.
Glass Windows

Bird Deaths a year: 100 to 900+ million
Dr. Daniel Klem of Muhlenberg College has done studies over a period of 20 years, looking at bird collisions with windows. His conclusion: glass kills more birds than any other human related factor.
House Cats
Bird Deaths a year: 100 Million

The National Audubuon Society says 100 million birds a year fall prey to cats. Dr. Stan Temple of the University of Wisconsin estimates that in Wisconsin alone, about 7 million birds a year are killed by cats

So, 1500 ducks in one incident deserves a lawsuit, but because other things kill more birds, wind turbines are just fine and move along, nothing to see here.

The size of the annual body count — conservatively put at 4,700 birds — is unique to this sprawling, 50-square-mile site in the Diablo Mountains between San Francisco and the agricultural Central Valley because it spans an international migratory bird route regulated by the federal government. The low mountains are home to the world's highest density of nesting golden eagles.

Scientists don't know whether the kills reduce overall bird populations but worry that turbines, added to other factors, could tip a species into decline. "They didn't realize it at the time, but it was just a really bad place to build a wind farm," says Grainger Hunt, an ecologist with the Peregrine Fund who has studied eagles at Altamont.

Funny how all these green plans go so wrong. I think it's because you have university educated lefties with an agenda to save the world, kind of like the hippies of the 60's but more harmful. Biofuels take food out of peoples mouths, but they can justify that. Thousands of birds being killed by turbines, well, they aren't as bad as....blah, blah, blah. Eco-friendly good, heated homes for all, bad. Mercury filled light bulbs great idea, genetically altered seeds that would feed millions more people, bad. The list is endless.

I call them eco-nuts, but when you start reading what they say, they really are dangerous to our standard of living and life as we know it. Perfect case is DDT.

The greenies want it both ways, but it looks like people are wisely choosing not to listen to them anymore. Well except for those university students who think they know everything and the rest of us are just too stupid to understand the issues. Maybe if mommy and daddy cut off their funds they would sing a whole different tune.

Must Watch...Not Evil, Just Wrong!

Just watched it online and it is worth your time. There were over 9000 viewers online watching the premiere at only one site, so I am not sure how many viewers there were worldwide. It kept my interest the whole time and was not just an anti-global warming documentary. It presented the human side to what could happen. I don't think you can re-watch it at the site, I think they want you to buy the DVD. Makes sense, they are capitalists.

It reminded me of this ridiculous program:

Stronach and Mercer were at the conference to promote a "Spread the Net" program for purchasing and distributing bed nets in Africa to help protect children from mosquitoes.

"More African children under the age of five die from malaria than any other cause," she said.

Mosquitoes spread malaria, which kills 3,000 children in Africa every day.

The program, which aims to get individuals to buy 500,000 bed nets for distribution in Liberia and Rwanda, is the brainchild of Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, a famed economist and author of The End of Poverty.

The bed nets cost $10 each.

Malaria is epidemic in Rwanda, Sachs told the conference, with "children dying in huge numbers because of the lack of something as simple as a long-lasting insecticide-treated bed net."

No mention of DDT, it costs pennies and because of one silly little eco-nuts book, with no scientific verification, was banned world wide. Millions of African children have died because of people like Al Gore and Belinda, not evil, just wrong. They are wrong again, but seeing as how Al Gore's bank account is increasing just like the hockey stick he used in his Hollywood movie, I don't see him stopping his gravy train. He gets between $250,000 and $300,000 every time he speaks and he does not allow media or questions. Typical lefty, grab the money with lies and no debate.

Could it be about profits???

For decades, BASF has been committed to the fight against malaria and other tropical diseases. The company's latest contribution is Interceptor®, a mosquito net coated with the insecticide Fendona®. The net remains effective against mosquitoes for several years.

Funny DDT is harmless and has been around for years, but "new" solutions need to be found? Hummm. Like banning freon in fridges and now banning regular light bulbs to replace them with ones filled with mercury. Not evil, just looking for profits.

This hysteria about banning, a particular ambition of lefties, reminded me of this oldie but goody:



The most depressing part of the whole documentary was the little kids, talking about drowning after watching the Gore movie. Someone, like their teachers, should tell them it's fiction not fact. I challenged my sons teachers when my sons came home and told me they had watched the Gore movie in class. I demanded they should also show "The Great Global Warming Swindle, or stop showing Gore's movie. They had no clue that any other side of the issue existed. Nice teaching of our kids.

I don't think these people are evil, but their agenda is for sure. It hurts the poorest in our world, and with the Copenhagen Agenda, it seems they have assured the third world countries that they will get money, lots and lots of money, but no real help in development. Not evil, just socialist.

Global Warming, Or Not!

Way back in the day, acid rain was eating up the ozone layer at astonishing rates. The people were panicked, and the sun was about to fry us.

FREON EASY

By Amy Silverman
Published on May 04, 1995
Scott Bundgaard used to believe that chlorofluorocarbons--most commonly known by the trade name Freon--were depleting the Earth's ozone layer and increasing dangerous ultraviolet radiation. He'd nag his sister for using aerosol hair spray.

Then he was elected to the legislature, where he and his colleagues on the House Environment Committee considered a measure that called for Arizona to ignore federal law and an international treaty and allow the manufacture of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) after January 1, 1996, when an international ban goes into effect.

Freon advocates offered both pragmatic and ideological justifications for the law. The ban would force Arizonans to pay for new air conditioning and refrigeration equipment, or swelter without it, they claimed. And, perhaps more important, the legislation offered yet another great way for Arizona to tell the feds--and, for that matter, the world--to buzz off.

Then, there was the small matter of science.
The House Environment Committee was told that the scientific theory behind the hole in the ozone is a hoax, manufactured by NASA scientists who want money to conduct research. The ozone crisis was also being advanced by big companies that stand to make billions by selling replacements for the banned CFCs, the committee was told.

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In a story he wrote for the Washington Post in 1993, veteran science writer Boyce Rensberger observed that while ozone depletion from CFCs is real, the final link has yet to be demonstrated. Ozone-hole theorists criticized the piece, which perturbed Rensberger. "My story said that the threat of ozone depletion has been exaggerated, not that it wasn't happening," he says. "That the health hazards and the environmental hazards have increased ultraviolet radiation have not been demonstrated yet--that remains true."

Not that there haven't been attempts to codify the link.
In his 1992 book, Earth in the Balance, now-Vice President Al Gore says higher UV-B radiation resulting from ozone depletion has blinded rabbits, salmon and sheep. This was never proved scientifically.

Funny way back in 1995, Al Gore was spouting nonsense, he still thinks DDT is dangerous because some idiot wrote a book about birds eggs softening, and this one book led to the death of millions of people to malaria. This says it all about the environmental movement:

And last year, there was debate over a decline in the world's frog population, possibly because of ozone depletion. It was later revealed the scientist conducting the study knew nothing about the ozone layer, but leapt to conclusions in trying to link ozone levels, radiation and bad frog eggs. The frogs suffered from a fungus, which was at least partially responsible for the high death rate.

It's a long article, going back in time, but read it, the eco-nuts are using the exact same arguments now, as they did 13 years ago.

So, how is the ozone hole doing?

US government scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say this year's ozone hole reached its maximum level on September 12, extending to 10.5m sq miles and four miles deep. That is bigger than 2007 but smaller than 2006, when the hole covered over 11.4m sq miles.

Scientists blamed colder-than-average temperatures in the stratosphere for the ozone hole's unusually large size this year. "Weather is the most important factor in the fluctuation of the size of the ozone hole from year to year," said Bryan Johnson, a scientist at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, which monitors ozone, ozone-depleting chemicals, and greenhouse gases around the globe. "How cold the stratosphere is and what the winds do determine how powerfully the chemicals can perform their dirty work."

Yikes they blamed COLDER than average temperatures....hold it, what happened to global warming???

Just watched Hannity on Fox, and he interviewed the producers of a new film called "Not Evil, Just Wrong", here is a promo of the film:



Bet it doesn't get the same attention that Outrageous Lies...oops, Inconvenient Truth got by the media.

Global warming, send it to Edmonton, we would love to warm up 2 degrees to -30! Lizzie May, I am ashamed that you think you are a Canadian, go back to the US, better yet, try going to Siberia and explaining global warming to them! You are giving real females a bad name!