Elizabeth  May is against abortion. She personally has made statements to the effect that she does not believe women should have the right to choose abortion (and therefore have control over their own reproduction). Frankly, I find this attitude disgusting and unethical.

Elizabeth May over-exaggerates global warming issues and the human role in them. In one interview I watched her spout the discredited belief that global warming causes more hurricanes.While I believe we may play a part, it is not the part suggested by the IPCC and our effect is not nearly as significant as the extremists in the environmental movement would have us believe.

Elizabeth May is a politician. Some time ago, when she became leader of the Green Party of Canada, I wondered how long it would take for her to start skewing views to suit the party agenda instead of simply stating facts. It really didn’t take very long…

Elizabeth May has quashed the right to free speech among members of the Green caucus.She forced out party candidate Kevin Potvin because of his article “A Revolting Confession“… claiming that it did not follow the non-violent views of the Green Party. But really, what it was about was media contextomy and her fear that the deliberate distortion of the point of the article by the press would result in bad publicity for the Greens. If, in fact holding a personal view that did not agree with the entire platform of the Green Party were grounds for being removed from the party, the first person on the list to leave should be Elizabeth May if only for her personal beliefs about abortion.

All this makes it sound like I am against the Green Party. Maybe I am one of those Conservative whack-jobs trying to make it sound like Elizabeth May thinks all Canadians are stupid by creative video editing. Maybe it sounds like I am one of those old-school Liberals who still believes that they were not only chosen by the majority of Canadians from 1993-2006 (they weren’t – they NEVER received more than 41.24%(1993) of the popular vote) to rule for 13 years and therefore the Liberals are ENTITLED to be in charge because, after all, they are the only ones with EXPERIENCE in the last 15 years… Or maybe – just maybe – you think I am one of those drones who follows Jack Layton who believes the state can provide lifetime, high-paying middle-class union manufacturing jobs for everyone who wants want by simply taxing all those evil companies out of existence. None of these scenarios is even close to the truth.

What I believe in is this:

1. Ecological Wisdom: Acknowledge that human beings are part of the natural world and respect the specific values of all forms of life, including non-human species.
2. Social Justice: Assert that the key to social justice is the equitable distribution of resources to ensure that all have full opportunities for personal and social development.
3. Participatory Democracy: Strive for a democracy in which all citizens have the right to express their views, and are able to directly participate in decisions which affect their lives.
4. Non-Violence: Declare a commitment to non-violence and strive for a culture of peace and cooperation between states.
5. Sustainability: Recognize the scope for the material expansion of society within the biosphere, and the need to maintain biodiversity through use of renewable resources.
6. Respect for Diversity: Honour and value equally the Earth’s biological and ecological diversity together with the cultural, linguistic, ethnic, sexual, religious and spiritual diversity.

What I believe in is matched by the values of the Green Party. That means that it doesn’t matter what Elizabeth May may believe in personally, or that she is American-born. It matters what the party is about, and nothing else. I don’t have to agree with Elizabeth May, and she doesn’t have to agree with me. We just need to see Canada the same way – fair and open to all.

What needs to happen is that people who may believe in different things but share a common vision for how Canada should be run (and can respect that everyone is different) need to break with those old partisan party politics and labels, and work together to change our country for the better.

That’s why I already voted Green at an advance poll. It is also why I will vote for what I believe in again, and keep on doing it, in future elections – regardless of the name on the party or the ruler at the helm.

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The film “An Incovenient Truth” (sic) would make a great presentation if it would tell you the truth about global warming , it’s quick flashing scenes and ill begotten music gave me a sense of forbodding and doesn’t not help to convey a sense of workable energy alternatives, this film made me feel helpless and depressed. Much of the film is with Al Gore without anyone really backing up his views , it is like a big ego trip.My conclusion is if you want a pure disaster horror film then this is the one for you, but if you want a unbiased view of global temperature change then look to the bbc horizion documentary about global climate change. the nobel prize has lost all of its meaning and prestige since Al Gore got his. If anyone believes that humans causes global warming is either ignorant or having an agenda. Al Gore does have an agenda, look at his new company which buys and sells carbon credits, instant money for nothing.The “Greener” religion just doesn’t standup to Scientific facts. Al Gore would sell his mother for a little feel good publicity. Alfred Nobel is probably rolling in his grave over what the Nobel prize become. The Nobel Peace Prize had lost it prestige long ago when it was given to Arafat, the father of modern terrorism.

In Britain, a High Court judge declared that Mr Gore’s campaigning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, contained nine crucial scientific errors and was a “political film” rather than an impartial analysis of climate change, restricting its use in schools.

The nine alleged errors in the film:

# Mr Gore claims that a sea-level rise of up to 20 feet would be caused by melting of either West Antarctica or Greenland “in the near future”. The judge said: “This is distinctly alarmist and part of Mr Gore’s “wake-up call”. He agreed that if Greenland melted it would release this amount of water – “but only after, and over, millennia”.”The Armageddon scenario he predicts, insofar as it suggests that sea level rises of seven metres might occur in the immediate future, is not in line with the scientific consensus.”

# The film claims that low-lying inhabited Pacific atolls “are being inundated because of anthropogenic global warming” but the judge ruled there was no evidence of any evacuation having yet happened.

# The documentary speaks of global warming “shutting down the Ocean Conveyor” – the process by which the Gulf Stream is carried over the North Atlantic to western Europe. Citing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the judge said that it was “very unlikely” that the Ocean Conveyor, also known as the Meridional Overturning Circulation, would shut down in the future, though it might slow down.

# Mr Gore claims that two graphs, one plotting a rise in C02 and the other the rise in temperature over a period of 650,000 years, showed “an exact fit”. The judge said that, although there was general scientific agreement that there was a connection, “the two graphs do not establish what Mr Gore asserts”.

# Mr Gore says the disappearance of snow on Mt Kilimanjaro was directly attributable to global warming, but the judge ruled that it scientists have not established that the recession of snow on Mt Kilimanjaro is primarily attributable to human-induced climate change.

# The film contends that the drying up of Lake Chad is a prime example of a catastrophic result of global warming but the judge said there was insufficient evidence, and that “it is apparently considered to be far more likely to result from other factors, such as population increase and over-grazing, and regional climate variability.”

# Mr Gore blames Hurricane Katrina and the consequent devastation in New Orleans on global warming, but the judge ruled there was “insufficient evidence to show that”.

# Mr Gore cites a scientific study that shows, for the first time, that polar bears were being found after drowning from “swimming long distances – up to 60 miles – to find the ice” The judge said: “The only scientific study that either side before me can find is one which indicates that four polar bears have recently been found drowned because of a storm.”That was not to say there might not in future be drowning-related deaths of bears if the trend of regression of pack ice continued – “but it plainly does not support Mr Gore’s description”.

# Mr Gore said that coral reefs all over the world were being bleached because of global warming and other factors. Again citing the IPCC, the judge agreed that, if temperatures were to rise by 1-3 degrees centigrade, there would be increased coral bleaching and mortality, unless the coral could adapt. However, he ruled that separating the impacts of stresses due to climate change from other stresses, such as over-fishing, and pollution was difficult.

Damn its great to hear I’m not the only one who doesn’t believe this “Bullshit”.

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Is there “global warming” going on?

Yes. There is always Global Warming alternating with Global Cooling, Earth is never constant.

Are we causing it?

Highly unlikely. To believe we are is the ultimate in human arrogance.

What saddens me most is the number of mainstream environmental activists, who I once respected, who are now jumping on this bandwagon because it has finally reached the mainstream consciousness.

We should not have to have a doomsday scenario invoked to be motivated to “save our planet”. Sadly, before this “crisis” bullshit few people gave a second thought to their impact on the planet and were not even aware of how wasteful they were.

Now, people continue to be wasteful – They just have the options to pay an idiot tax in the form of purchasing “offsets” when they are wasteful.

Here’s a novel idea. How about you just USE FUCKING LESS, WASTE FUCKING LESS, and PAY ATTENTION?

Something I have been doing since I was about 8. For the record, that was in the mid-70s.