If you’re a Canadian, or American, you’ll kick yourself later if you miss out on the best expose yet done on the drive to politicize Global Warming. The Denial Machine reveals the ties between prominent climate scientists, and the so called Denial Machine that convinced millions of people that there was a questionable link between smoking and cancer. Whether (no pun intended) you’re a climate change denier, or a conservationist, you’ll want to see what CBC uncovered. Your tax dollars helped pay for this journalism, so the least you can do is make use of the information.
If you missed it on TV, you can watch the entire show on the Internet at the website link above.
- image courtesy Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The most frustrating part is at the end where the spin-doctor hired by the White House (Luntz), conceeds that he now feels climate change is too serious an issue to risk “spinning” so that business can pollute to the max, and waste energy and time. If the person most responsible for the theories that put climate change doubt into the minds of Americans and Canadians, has already had a change of opinion and accepted the facts on global warming, we need to tell other skeptics to get on board with plans to improve the quality of our air.
Examining the word “conservative” closely today, I realized that it means “to conserve”. Why is it then that Conservatives in Canada and Stateside, have such a reputation lately of being the most desperate consumers of energy, and seek only to conserve profits at any cost? Where’s the balance in that approach, and where’s the fairness to our economy and ecosystem? I don’t think Stephen Harper has shown that he’s a leader that is actually looking at making Canada greater both now and in 2050, for all Canadians.
The source of the skepticism about global warming is shown in The Denial Machine. I think people who continue to cast scorn upon people working to improve our air, need to realize why they are skeptical about the causes of global warming. They need to see that improving energy efficiency, and reducing pollution not only reduces drastic climate changes, but it saves Canada money, health suffering, and lost livelihoods and homes.
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libby | 20-Nov-06 at 6:44 pm | Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sU9K4mlKAk
Saskboy | 20-Nov-06 at 6:52 pm | Permalink
Libby, did you mean to put that video, it’s about Dion, not Climate Change as far as I have seen yet?
..OK they just got to Kyoto. If you’re saying you don’t like Kyoto (I’m guessing, but please speak up), then please propose something else that will reduce air pollutants?
Rosie | 20-Nov-06 at 8:01 pm | Permalink
Great post, I’ve often toyed with the double meaning of Conservative, but figured it would draw too much ire from the lurkers on my blog. The point you made is a good one though.
Saskboy | 20-Nov-06 at 9:20 pm | Permalink
Thanks Rosie. I thought that of part of the word today, and it just happened to fall into this post perfectly.
James (ReginaRadio) | 21-Nov-06 at 12:32 am | Permalink
Thanks for this post. I missed the show when it aired but have heard lots about it since. It was nice to be able to watch it online (although I had to try several computers to get the video to work properly.)
What would we do without the CBC? I was watching W5 the other day and it was tabloid journalism. They were chasing around the crooked contractor in Regina who was responsible for a house collapse.
Dave | 23-Nov-06 at 10:03 pm | Permalink
Although Climate Change is an issue we are facing, there is still no proof saying that there is a direct link between human emissions of CO2 and increasing temperatures. I felt that the story the Fifth Estate portrayed was completely one sided and was not showing responsible journalism.
I’m not saying that I dont believe that people are affecting the environment in a harmful manner, but I am frustrated with no way the media has been portraying climate change, and had been hoping to see a real debate on the show backed up by scientific facts on both sides.
Saskboy | 23-Nov-06 at 10:09 pm | Permalink
Dave, even IF there wasn’t a link between human related CO2 and increasing temperatures, the point of the report was that the governments who have accepted and sell that line, are using the same “spin ‘doctors’” and BS machine that big tobacco used to deny the link between cancer and cigarettes. The chief BS doctor himself admits that he doesn’t buy his own line of poop - if he ever did at all. The only reason there are people denying that pollution (of all sorts) is a problem, is because there’s an incorrect perception out there that energy efficiency costs jobs and money. It actually can create more jobs, or different ones at the very least, and it saves money because energy is money. So lost energy, is lost money.
zaphod2016 | 19-Dec-06 at 1:03 am | Permalink
Boy am I out of the loop- I just found this documentary tonight from digg.
Saskboy you are 100% right about the potential economic GAINS to be had in solving this issue. I believe that we are the verge of an “alternative energy” boom. I will wager that by the year 2025, solar, wind and hydrogen technologies will be employing (directly or inderectly) a good chunk of the America and Canadian workforce.
Even if the enviornmentalists are 100% wrong, and global warming is proven to be nothing but a hoax, I stand by my above wager. Importing energy has resulted in a disasterous foreign policy, and is hurting us economically, politically and morally.
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