I watched the Munk debate tonight. The deniers, spouted statistics from Al Gore and declared the discussion over, of course the deniers were May and Monbiot. May was funny, she totally wigged out, seriously she lost her cool, and showed a real dislike of Bjorn Lomborg. It might have been because he wiped the floor with her sad, outdated, and now we know corrupted statistics and fear mongering.
Why did May stay standing the whole time? It was very distracting. My female view? Her dress was too tight and she couldn't get her butt up onto the chair. Go to the site and watch for yourself.
Bjorn was great! He got the M&M's off course and talking about poverty. The debate question was, "be it resolved that climate change is mankind's "defining" crisis", it appeared to me that even the M&M's didn't agree with that statement. Lord Lawson was a very stabilizing influence. Monbiot relied on emotions. The M&M's started the night at 61%, the results are not in yet, but if they lose even one point, they lost the debate.
There is a poll out (results not up yet on Harris/Decima) about what we think of this issue.
The poll asked Canadians if they agreed or disagreed with a resolution to be debated Tuesday during the fourth Munk Debate in Toronto, that: “Climate change is mankind’s defining crisis, and demands a commensurate response.”
Nearly two thirds of Canadians agreed while 31% disagreed. A tiny fraction had no opinion.
“I think it shows the extent to which not just the environment, but the actual issue of climate change, has ascended up the public agenda to point where it is reminiscent of those other big causes that have shaped a lot of Canadian history,” said Rudyard Griffiths, co-organizer of the Munk Debates.
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The poll suggests nearly two thirds of people think humans will be able to adapt to climate change. Half of those surveyed also agreed the money Canada spends on climate change would be better spent on health care and national debt.
So, 50% of people want the money spent on health care and debt instead? Just proves that we will agree that climate change is an issue, but when it comes right down to it, we don't want to spend any "REAL" money on it. I told you the other day that I had answered a Harris poll about climate change this might have been it, except this poll was supposedly done online, not over the phone, and it was done from Nov 12 to 15th, way earlier than last week. Wonder if they were re-polling using the same questions to see if the leaked emails had changed anything.
Yesterday I pointed you to this website, with an article by Monbiot, defaming our oilsands, which he has never seen in person. He wrote this from Toronto!!! HA. He might as well have saved his carbon footprint and stayed in the UK. Does he have the guts to come here and view the seeping oilsands that in their natural state are an environmental disaster, polluting our rivers and allowing nothing to grow. It is a dead land, even the wildlife avoids the area, unless.....
For a blast from the past, read an old blog of mine that is still very relevant today. Pay very close attention to the pictures, and read the surprise ending.
