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CHIMO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 09:20 PM
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Giving it back to Ban Ki-moon
His Eminence, Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, seems like a nice guy. This week, he was in Ottawa, and apparently chastised the Canadian government, more particularly Stephen Harper, for Canada's shameless failure to meet its carbon-reduction obligations under the Kyoto protocol.

Then again, this is what we expect Mr. Ban to do. He is, after all, the highest functionary of the world's most useless transnational organization, and sermonizing is mainly what its Secretary-General does. But I surely hope--within the bounds of diplomatic courtesy, of course-- that Mr. Harper paid no attention to him. Or rather, since an air of candour seems to have prevailed at their tete-a-tete, Mr. Harper, as it were, returned serve.

For example, did Mr. Harper press him on the matter of Climategate and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)? Did he call to the Secretary-General's attention the serial distortions, errors, non-peer-reviewed citations, the wholesale liftings from WWF and Greenpeace propaganda that made their way into the most recent IPCC report?

Little matters such as false claims on the melting of the Himalayan glaciers?

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=3030855

Someone else looking for a senate seat!
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willbee Donating Member (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 05:09 AM
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1. climategate
Perhaps you are the one who should have his serve returned and
pay some attention to the serial distortions, errors and
non-peer reveiwed citations of the Climate Change Deniers!
Just because a few scientists may have fudged some numbers
does not dispell the science, which is universally recognized
as valid!
Perhaps you should also look into the investigation of the
Climategate hoax, which as it turns out was set up by the oil
companies!
Just because you have some interest that keeps you from being
able to comprehend there are serious problems doesn't mean
they don't exist. 
And if you don't think glacial melt is serious, come on up to
Canada, I'll show you some serious decline that has gone on in
my lifetime.
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CHIMO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 09:15 AM
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2. Not
Sure who you are addressing?

I live in Canada.

The author of the piece lives in Canada. He is also pretty much a product of the CBC and still is receiving money from them.
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