CBC is in Denial

The CBC is an integral part of the denial machine

Anyone with even a rudimentary level of critical thinking skills who saw The Fifth Estate's program "The Denial Machine" would be able to see clearly where the bulk of the denial is coming from. Unfortunately, everyone at the Communist Broadcasting Corporation clearly lacks those skills.

If you didn't see it, you did yourself a favour. The thesis of the show was to pretend that there is no debate or question amongst "the scientific community" as to whether global warming is a real and major phenomenon. It tried to paint any opposition to the conclusions of globals castatrophe as the paid servants of "big oil."

Consider the following ironies:

1) There is legitimate scientific opposition to the prevailing doomsday predictions of the global warming crowd, yet the CBC denies its existance.

2) It claims any opposition that exists is just a paid shill for "Big Oil", yet refuses to examine the science on either side of the debate.

3) Climate science is a very young discipline. It relies heavily on computer models of very complex systems that have no track record of accuracy. In order to be able to make these computer models, scientists have had to make assumptions. Do any state their assumptions up front and what the implications of those asssumptions are? Have they released their source code for peer review?

4) There is a lot of competition for government research money. Consider that these doomsday scenarios come from those who stand to gain government funding only if there is a catastrophe ahead that their chosen field of study will help understand. Whould you spend billions on climate study if your scientists told you that that the climate was going to stay the same for the next few thousand years?

5) Consider the accuracy of current climate models. Is it reasonable to believe that these models can accurately predict the climate a hundred years from now? Can they accurately predict if its going to rain next Tuesday?


I would suggest that there is considerable basic scientific work still to be done before we move back into caves.

For further details: Terrence Corcoran further eviscerates the CBC's propaganda in this morning's National Post.

Be Sure To Comply....

For those of you unfamiliar with the Federal Register, its where the US Government publishes changes or clarifications to US law. The Canadian counterpart is the Canada Gazette.

This morning's version of the Federal Register contained the following notice:


[Federal Register: October 24, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 205)]
[Notices]
[Page 62344]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr24oc06-103]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice 5586]
Bureau of Political Military Affairs; Arms Export Control Act;
Determinations
Pursuant to section 654(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
as amended, notice is hereby given that:
(1) On August 18, 2006, the President made a determination pursuant
to section 36 of the Arms Export Control Act, as amended; and
(2) The President has concluded that publication of such
determination would be harmful to the national security of the United
States.
Michael W. Coulter,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of State.
[FR Doc. E6-17796 Filed 10-23-06; 8:45 am]


In summary:

We've made a legal determination.
We aren't going to tell you about it.
Failure to comply with it will get you in serious trouble!

Ever wonder why governments sometimes are accused of being less than forthcoming?

The Green Party

There is an excellent essay over at www.conservativejoe.com regarding the Green Party and the implications of their agenda. Its welll worth a read. http://www.conservativejoe.com/chosen/green.php