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outrageous

This is outrageous. To be that ignorant of science is truly abysmal. One of the goals of science education is scientific literacy. This man demonstrates none. Did he go to school?

North of Hope

Doesn't say much for the people who voted for him, does it?

Illahie - Go test Gravity

I'd suggest that Mr. Mayes, and Illahie for that matter go test out the "theory" of gravity by taking a leap off of something very tall.

Having grown up

in the Shuswap, I can tell you without a doubt, Colin Mayes doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ozone.

AGW co2 a hoax; carbon tax = world bankers' dictatatorship

the science is far from resolved. apparently solar cycles and geothermal activity (underseas volcanoes) are driving variations in climate, which are not catastrophic and presently the planet is cooling. so how come venus and mars also show signs of warming??

Not Sure About Warming

Everyone should be a skeptic, especially scientists and politicians. The science into the cause of changing climate still has a long way to go. They know by observation that the climate is changing but only have theories as to why. I would not want my elected representative to jump on any band wagon without considering the facts and the consequences, both intended and unintended.

Science should provide the recommendations but politicians have to make decisions.

Stephanie T

You can see by the above he has at least two votes.

Scientific Research

He doesn't realize that scientific research will not occur on its own. It needs financial support. That should come from the government, not from the business community that hopes to buy the scientists.
Their reports have to be evaluated and tested by unbiased scientists and reported upon again. Then they have to be reported by knowledgeable and unbiased reporters.

Ooops!

I'm wondering if Mr.Mayes can see "Russia" from his back yard!!
Canada now has it's own "Sarah Palin"!
Saturday Night Live will be very happy.

climate change dossier

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=newsHighlights&newsId=24

100 articles science based on issue of climate change from a sceptic's perspective

Climate Change Skeptics

Colin Mayes max von smartt and other skeptics should check this out: http://thetyee.ca/Books/2009/12/10/ClimateDeniers/index.html Mayes is definitely an embarrassment to all Canadians and particularly to his constituents who voted him in more than once. This is not the first time Mr. Mayes has demonstrated his incredible incapacity. Canadians can only hope his constituents wake up and send him into retirement the next time they have a chance.

Thumbs Down

Judging is over. The science is settled. Burn this politician at the stake!

I mean, Piltdown Man does exist. Weapons of Mass Destruction are still somewhere in Iraq and H1N1 is going to kill millions. The science is settled. Oh, by the way the earth is flat. Galileo should have been burned too.

How flat is the earth?

Science you say, and not political as I'm certain if governments continue to take their advance from big business the planet is in BIG trouble. And what has big business and government come up as the most effective way to help themselves to the environment is to get the poor to pay for it. Only problem with the discriminatory tax is energy = $ and the poor have none as big oil companies and food corporations take in excessive profits. Didn't Harper say a carbon tax would cause a recession all the while we where in a recession? Neither of these programs are anything close to looking at the real problem or the major polluters of those with a lifestyle that can not be altered by a few cents on the dollar. Its like a cap and trade only the trade off is people instead of small business but either way I do believe this group thinks they are very special indeed. Want to get serious about the environment go after money and lots of it, and then maybe a national energy credit where everything over and above gets treating like their was a energy ration or at least a penalty worth the price of destroying our precision environment on excessive lifestyles instead of going after the peasant who can barely afford the bus. Talk about classes and there distinctions well one thing is for certain this very special group has no class.

I have been to other parts

I have been to other parts of the world and have seen the "destrucion of mass pollution". We, in western Canada are frigging bloody lucky. If one has some spare time, and playing tourist in the Victoria area for a while, hippity-hop over to the Geo-science/hydro-science/ocean-science building at Pat Bay (near the Victoria Intn'l Airport) and learn something. Ya don't have to be a brain surgeon/rocket scientist to comprehend what they're telling ya. If you spend an afternoon there and walk away and still think that humans are not screwing up this planet, then yer a good candidate for the flat earth society. By the way, the people who take you through that tour, don't have an agenda; they're just telling you the facts.

I like those Windy Days

Rare as the climate on the coast permits becasue the winds take away the pollution that hangs over the city through most of the winter time. And if Oil companies made record profits and so did food industries what part of the equation doesn't fit into excessive energy = excessive profit$?

Talk about profits

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6847227/Questions-over-business-deals-of-UN-climate-change-guru-Dr-Rajendra-Pachauri.html

Climate Truth Commission

Its time for a climate truth commission. The UN is compromised it is both the keeper of the science (IPCC) and an advocate for so called climate action. I will burn in hell before the Mugabe's of the world see one penny. It appears this is all a plot to destroy western civilization.

Keeper of the science

"The UN is compromised it is both the keeper of the science (IPCC) and an advocate for so called climate action."

Where does this nonsense come from? The science is being done in every major nation and in every institute of higher learning in the world. The UN is not "the keeper of the science".

The talking points for the climate-change deniers are manufactured by lobbyists for carbon producing industries. They are pouring many millions of dollars into anti-environmental lobbying in Washington, and people have the audacity to complain when Al Gore invests in companies that produce green technology. It's a charade.

People who care about the environment should be putting their money where their mouth is and investing in green technology companies.

the solution

Green technologies are fine; but carbon taxes are a scam to enrich Wall Street and their London overlords. Let's have clean renewable energy, less consumption, greater energy efficiency, more equitable global development, and for God's sake fewer babies on this oversaturated planet.

CO2 is not a demon in and of itself; solar cycles and the planet's geothermal activity (underseas volcanoes etc.) deriving from it's molten superheated core are the driving forces of climatic variation, now in a cooling trend.

Repent ye blind believers in Gore and Suzuki!

Waving Not Drowning

How do these uneducated LOSERS get in again?! TREASON. GENOCIDE.

Cancer Commodities & Tax Shelters?! Who exactly does my body belong to again please?!

They have very obviously not been mutilated by 'just in case!' cancer commodities yet..

Even little girls from 1992 are more educated than these FIVE STAR LOSERS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZsDliXzyAY

Thank you Severn Suzuki; because YOU RISE girlfriend!

Convolute, Deflect, and Delay; or 'Just be cool' and 'Die Quickly'.. Sound familiar?! It is the mantra of the U.S. Bush Administration; just who's hiding in Alberta right now! HINT: A drunk who's been dumped by his wife a couple years ago, one George Bush; just the NeoCONS ultimate bailout?

So Jimmy Pattison earns 6.7 billion; how much did he pay in taxes? And in being that busy counting all those zeros again and again and again and again and again and again.. I can't help but wonder how he's factoring himself in that equation?

But don't think that China is turning a blind eye! They are also enacting, China Association for Promoting Democracy ~ for our now 'Fully Corrupt Canadian Leaders'..

So who loses? Of course, it's the remaining Canadians who can't afford to escape the madness, the Cancer, and the full-on fall out.

A Christmas to warm a coolers heart

Christmas came early this year for the climate deniers/coolers.

First came the release of the climategate documents.

Then the Copenhagen conference chilled, then froze in its tracks.

The release of some of the CRU data revealed that the Russian data had been cherry picked, and there is much more yet to come.

First the Pacific Ocean turned to cold mode, and now the Atlantic has turned cold as well.

The Antarctic ice is growing rapidly, and the Arctic ice is now back to the levels of the mid 1970's.

It is starting to look like our little planet may cool significantly over the next couple of decades. If so the memory of the 1990's will be there to warm our hearts.

A cooling planet will not be a lot of fun.

References

Pacific PDO Cold Mode

http://www.rightsidenews.com/20080517960/energy-and-environment/natural-ocean-cycles-not-man-responsible-for-temperature-and-ice-changes-part-1.html

Recent Arctic Ice Growth

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/10/15/arctic-sea-ice-now-287-higher-than-this-date-last-year-still-climbing/

1975 Arctic Ice minimum

http://iahs.info/redbooks/a126/iahs_126_0249.pdf