This is good. H/T Klien Verzet
Category Archives: Crypto Environmentalism
Christopher Monckton on Michael Coren
There is information here about Al Gore and David Suzuki everyone really needs to know. For example, Gore will not appear on TV unless his three hundred thousand dollar fee is met, that all questions are scripted in advance, and no questions are asked that he cannot answer. That is just a sample. Watch it.
Very big thank you to KitmanTV, Perhaps the greatest repository of anti jihad and rational video materials on the internet.
Go Green: belief in man-made climate change nets religion status
Bored with your current religion? Switch it up and Go Green.
From The Telegraph U.K.
Climate change belief given same legal status as religion
An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs.
By Stephen Adams and Louise Gray
Published: 3:11PM GMT 03 Nov 2009
Tim Nicholson: Mr Nicholson, 42, from Oxford, told a previous hearing that his views were so strong that he refused to travel by air and had renovated his house to be environmentally-friendly. Photo: PA
In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that “a belief in man-made climate change … is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations”.
The ruling could open the door for employees to sue their companies for failing to account for their green lifestyles, such as providing recycling facilities or offering low-carbon travel.
The decision regards Tim Nicholson, former head of sustainability at property firm Grainger plc, who claims he was made redundant in July 2008 due to his “philosophical belief about climate change and the environment”.
In March, employment judge David Heath gave Mr Nicholson permission to take the firm to tribunal over his treatment.
But Grainger challenged the ruling on the grounds that green views were political and based on science, as opposed to religious or philosophical in nature.
John Bowers QC, representing Grainger, had argued that adherence to climate change theory was “a scientific view rather than a philosophical one”, because “philosophy deals with matters that are not capable of scientific proof.”
That argument has now been dismissed by Mr Justice Burton, who last year ruled that the environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore was political and partisan.
The decision allows the tribunal to go ahead, but more importantly sets a precedent for how environmental beliefs are regarded in English law.
Mr Nicholson, 42, from Oxford, told a previous hearing that his views were so strong that he refused to travel by air and had renovated his house to be environmentally-friendly.
But his beliefs led to frequent clashes with Grainger’s other managers, while he said that Rupert Dickinson, the firm’s chief executive, treated his concerns with “contempt”.
Once Mr Dickinson flew a member of staff to Ireland to deliver his Blackberry mobile phone after leaving it in London, Mr Nicholson claimed.
Mr Nicholson hailed the Employment Appeals Tribunal ruling as “a victory for common sense” but stressed climate change was “not a new religion”.
He said: “I believe man-made climate change is the most important issue of our time and nothing should stand in the way of diverting this catastrophe.
“This philosophical belief that is based on scientific evidence has now been given the same protection in law as faith-based religious belief.
“Belief in man-made climate change is not a new religion, it is a philosophical belief that reflects my moral and ethical values and is underlined by the overwhelming scientific evidence.”
His lawyer Shah Qureshi, head of employment law at Bindmans LLP, argued that if the ruling had gone against them, “the end result would be that the more evidence there is to support your views, the less likely it would be for you to enjoy protection against discrimination”.
Grainger now plans to contest Mr Nicholson’s claim of unfair dismissal at tribunal.
Dave Butler, its corporate affairs director, said: “This decision merely confirms that views on the importance of environmental protection are capable of amounting to a philosophical belief.
“We are looking forward to addressing the issues at tribunal level and demonstrating that there was no causal link between Mr Nicholson’s beliefs and his redundancy.”
The grounds for Mr Nicholson’s case stem from changes to employment law made by Baroness Scotland, the Attorney General, in the Employment Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations 2003.
The regulations effectively broaden the protection to cover not just religious beliefs or those “similar” to religious beliefs, but philosophical beliefs as well.
Enviro nutbars claim Rover and Mr. Kitty bad for planet
From The Telegraph U.K.
Pet dogs as bad for planet as driving 4x4s, book claims
Owners should consider doing without, downsizing or even eating their pets to help save the planet, according to a new book.
By Paul Stokes
Published: 7:35PM BST 23 Oct 2009
Bo Obama Photo: REUTERS
It claims that the carbon footprint left by domesticated animals is out of proportion to the size of their paws.A medium-sized dog has the same impact as a Toyota Land Cruiser driven 6,000 miles a year, while a cat is equivalent to a Volkswagen Golf.
But rabbits and chickens are eco-friendly because they provide meat for their owners while a canary or a goldfish has little effect on the environment.
At the same time a pair of hamsters do the same damage as running a plasma television, suggests the book Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living.
New Zealand-based authors Robert and Brenda Vale base their findings on the amount of land needed to grow food for pets ranging from budgerigars to cats and dogs.
They say an average Collie eats 164kg of meat and 95kg of cereals a year, giving it a high impact on the planet.
But a pair of rabbits can produce 36 young annually, which would provide 72kg of meat and help decrease the owner’s carbon footprint.
Mr Vale, an architect who specialises in sustainable living, said: “There are no recipes in the book. We’re not actually saying it is time to eat the dog.
“We’re just saying that we need to think about and know the (ecological) impact of some of the things we do and that we take for granted.”
He explained that sustainability issues require us to make choices which are “as difficult as eating your dog”.
Mr Vale added: “Once you see where cats and dogs fit in your overall balance of things, you might decide to have the cat but not also to have the two cars and the three bathrooms and be a meat-eater yourself.”
Got kids? Watch this. You may want to know what they have to read.
Scientists take 180 degree turn on ‘global warming’. No one bothers to report it.
From the Calgary Herald –
Imagine if Pope Benedict gave a speech saying the Catholic Church has had it wrong all these centuries; there is no reason priests shouldn’t marry. That might generate the odd headline, no?
Or if Don Cherry claimed suddenly to like European hockey players who wear visors and float around the ice, never bodychecking opponents.
Or Jack Layton insisted that unions are ruining the economy by distorting wages and protecting unproductive workers.
Or Stephen Harper began arguing that it makes good economic sense for Ottawa to own a car company. (Oh, wait, that one happened.) But at least, the Tories-buy-GM aberration made all the papers and newscasts.
When a leading proponent for one point of view suddenly starts batting for the other side, it’s usually newsworthy.
So why was a speech last week by Prof. Mojib Latif of Germany’s Leibniz Institute not given more prominence?
Latif is one of the leading climate modellers in the world. He is the recipient of several international climate-study prizes and a lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has contributed significantly to the IPCC’s last two five-year reports that have stated unequivocally that man-made greenhouse emissions are causing the planet to warm dangerously.
Yet last week in Geneva, at the UN’s World Climate Conference–an annual gathering of the so-called “scientific consensus” on man-made climate change –Latif conceded the Earth has not warmed for nearly a decade and that we are likely entering “one or even two decades during which temperatures cool.” Continue Reading →
Women’s group stands up to PETA, Fights for women’s rights.
Thanks for sending me this Peter V, Much appreciated. I prefer free range women myself. I hope this group prevails.
Advocacy Group Decries PETA’s Inhumane Treatment Of Women
PJTV history of political correctness. This is truly excellent.
Please take the twelve minutes to watch this superb analysis of modern American leftism and it’s genesis. At the end of this short clip, they suggest going to youtube and searching for a documentary which is broken into three parts on the history of political correctness as a deliberate strategy for undermining western civilization. I took the liberty of finding them and adding them here so no need to search. Please enjoy and send the link far and wide. I believe this needs to be commonly known.
Also, please consider joining and supporting PJTV
Eeyore
Greenpeace busted!
Hey its OK to lie so long as you get the result you want right? Greenpeace. The religion for people who abandon religion. H/T Tundra Tabloids
The Czech Republic’s Vaclav Klaus speaks out on global warming.
Initially VTB had intended to write about global warming as one of it’s main themes. I have not posted much for some time now on it, as frankly, well anyone who still actually believes in it is probably not worth the effort. Unlike religion, science is about actual data and reasoning and it should not require the same amount of effort to dispel myths, nor indeed, should there even be myths in science. granted, irrational leftism of which global warming is a part, has actually has done more damage, cruelty and killing in the 20th century than has all the religions combined by a long shot including nazism etc. (whether or not you see Nazism as religion is irrlevent in this case)
I have put tons of great data and evidence discrediting the whole idea of man caused cimate change here on vlad including the entire movie, The Great Global Warming Swindle, and many more lectures by actual climate scientsts as opposed to UN bureaucrats and people who own carbon trading companies.
However some people, such as Mr. Plimber from Australia and Vaclav Klaus are so good at pointing out the true agenda of climate hysterics that it is worth the effort to repost.
Eeyore. h/t fred
Doomed Planet Quandrant.org
“Today’s debate about global warming is essentially a debate about freedom. The environmentalists would like to mastermind each and every possible (and impossible) aspect of our lives.”
Vaclav Klaus
Blue Planet in Green Shackles
Resisting climate hysteria
by Richard S. Lindzen
July 26, 2009
A Case Against Precipitous Climate Action
The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. The fact that the developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean temperature anomaly of a few tenths of a degree will astound future generations. Such hysteria simply represents the scientific illiteracy of much of the public, the susceptibility of the public to the substitution of repetition for truth, and the exploitation of these weaknesses by politicians, environmental promoters, and, after 20 years of media drum beating, many others as well. Climate is always changing. We have had ice ages and warmer periods when alligators were found in Spitzbergen. Ice ages have occurred in a hundred thousand year cycle for the last 700 thousand years, and there have been previous periods that appear to have been warmer than the present despite CO2 levels being lower than they are now. More recently, we have had the medieval warm period and the little ice age. During the latter, alpine glaciers advanced to the chagrin of overrun villages. Since the beginning of the 19th Century these glaciers have been retreating. Frankly, we don’t fully understand either the advance or the retreat. Continue Reading →
Congresswoman speaks out against cap and trade
This may appear outside the box for Vlad but I felt it qualified as both Irrational leftism and global warming. Thank god someone in the US has a clue.
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Michelle Bachmann is excellent in this video. H/T Jdamn
Gharqad tree and other delights from the garden of Mohamed
I was discussing the notion of Mohamed’s ‘tree of the Jews’ with my friend Jdamn and I had come to the conclusion that it was a fictitious tree as my feeble Internet searches came up with no actual earthly botany that matched this mythical tree that will not cry out to the Muslims on judgment day alerting them to an anorexic Jew behind them.
I say anorexic because its a mighty small tree and I know of no person that could successfully hide behind one in any meaningful way.
Jdamn, being somewhat better with Internet searches than I, managed to find this masterpiece. Please pay special attention to the near miraculous sophistry at the end. I quote for you:
“‘Ali Al-Faqir: Sir, it has been proven scientifically that the trees and the stones have languages of their own. But we don’t have the ability to invent the instruments that will convey the tree’s voice and the stone’s voice to us.”
One has to wonder how a thing was scientifically proven when the instruments for the tests do not yet exist. In any case, the sheer sophistry would be admirable if so many did not subscribe to it to the detriment of the world.
Muslims make the claim that Jews world wide are ferociously busy planting ‘Gharqad trees’ all over the place to try and be protected from the coming holocaust by Muslims to the Jewish people. Maybe the Muslims should take a lesson from their own fables. Try planting some things instead of sowing hatred and lies everywhere. Maybe you will learn to enjoy life and actually benefit the earth. For once.
This is a picture of the famous Gharqad tree (or Boxthorn tree in English) that will not speak out to the Muslim in the battles towards the end of time with the Jews.
In Sahih Muslim: Book 041, Number 6985:
Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.
I found an interesting transcription of a conversation about this hadith that I thought I would share with you:
Khaled Al-Qudha: The decisive battle between the Jews and us will take place on the Jordan River, Allah willing. This is inevitable. This is a hadith of the Prophet, who does not talk idly.
Host: Did the hadith relate to the battle’s outcome as well? Continue Reading →
Global Warming Activist Laurie David Fined for Wetlands Violations—Oh, Never Mind
From Big Hollywood:
by Pam Meister
News broke last week that Laurie David, former wife of Larry David (of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm fame), was fined for wetlands violations at her Martha’s Vineyard home – and it wasn’t the first time, either:
The property owned by Ms. David off North Road was the subject of a series of wetlands violations in 2005, when construction of a stone fire pit, barbecue grill area and wooden stage for a children’s theatre with seating was begun in a wetland without a permit.
Ms. David, as you may recall, produced the Goracle’s epic documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. She also wrote The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming for children (doing her part to convince one in three frightened children that the earth will implode before they grow up), and went on a much ballyhooed bus tour with fellow greenie Sheryl “One Sheet” Crow in order to help Save The Earth™ a couple of years back. How riding around the country in an exhaust-spewing bus and using up oodles of electricity for Sheryl’s musical stylings was supposed to “help” is beyond me. But wait, the bus was powered by vegetable oil instead of that dastardly fossil fuel, and pal Sheryl is committed to being green by driving a hybrid and using cold water to wash her clothes. Forgive my cynicism; I’m convinced.
Fortunately for Ms. David, her contractor was fully prepared to take the heat:
The new infractions occurred during the construction of a tennis court. Workers installed a makeshift road with boards and stones and drove heavy machinery across the resources area making a path to the tennis court site. Attempts to reach Ms. David were unsuccessful but Bart Thorpe, who said he is the contractor on the job, took full responsibility for the violations yesterday.
“She’s obviously a very busy person and she trusted the contractor, just like last time,” he said. “And I inadvertently made a mistake. It’s something she had no knowledge of and had nothing to do with, and it’s a minor thing.”
Perhaps, as “the boss,” the buck should stop with Ms. David. But it’s all in a day’s work for the “do as I say” celebrity set. David’s in good company with folks like Arianna Huffington for her penchant for flying on corporate jets while decrying the evils of SUVs and the like. Continue Reading →