Larry Powell Powell is a veteran, award-winning journalist based in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada. He specialize in stories about agriculture and the environment. For decades, he worked for broadcast outlets in all four provinces in western Canada. This included a 5 years stint as Senior Editor for CBC Radio News in Saskatchewan. He is authorized to receive embargoed news releases on important, global stories, through the Science Media Centre of Canada, the Royal Society, Nature Research and the World Weather Attribution Network. He's a member of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists and a past member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, Powell joined an international team of writers providing articles for the Swiss-based online journal, Focusing on Wildlife - celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. In June, 2014, he was a panelist at a world conference in Winnipeg entitled Holding
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Dear Ms. Elliott
Derek Burneys argument that opposition to the tar sand pipeline is based on emotion, right on the money. There are so many emotional lunatice lefties out there whining and griping about the pipleine is makes me sick. They would rather we build bird killing, eye-sores called wind turbines instead. I want this pipeline project to proceed, I want the sniveling environ-mental left to sit down and shut up.
I want Mr. Burney to know that there are alot of people out there who support the project. Though it seems like it's only the greenies who are being heard.
Cheers
Klem
Roblin, Manitoba
You obviously do not believe tar sands are highly polluting and will make catastrophic climate change even worse, putting our own children at risk.
Therefore, you obviously know something I do not.
ON WHAT AUTHORITY DO YOU MAKE YOUR COMMENTS?
I'm a science writer and would be delighted to "break this story" that we are all wrong about the role of fossil fuels in the worst environmental crisis facing planet earth.
So, just get back to me, CITING THE AUTHORITIES YOU RELY ON for your conclusions.
If they are reliable and credible, I'D BE HAPPY TO WRITE A STORY ABOUT THEM AND POST IT HERE!
If I DO NOT hear back from you in a reasonable period of time, I am, sadly, going to have to dismiss your comments as coming from just another ignorant crank.
Larry
P.S. A first step might be to give me your real name and address. I do not believe your name is Klem or that you even live in Roblin. I put no stock in people without the courage to give their real names!
No, I beleive they are highly polluting.
"..will make catastrophic climate change even worse"
Since you are a science writer you obviously are intentionally confusing climate change (which happens naturally) with anthropomorphic climate change (claimed to be human caused) . I find when folks do this intentionally it speaks volumes about their sincerity and politics. And you are correct I do not believe the tar sands will make climate change worse.
"So, just get back to me, CITING THE AUTHORITIES YOU RELY ON for your conclusions. If they are reliable and credible, I'D BE HAPPY TO WRITE A STORY ABOUT THEM AND POST IT HERE!"
My authority is the UN IPCC, the author of the most wishy-washy climate 'science' report ever written. And I use the word science very loosely here, the AR4 report is the one which made me switch from and alarmist like yourself to a skeptic. The science which is acceptable to climatology is so full of politics and industry influence it does not qualify as science in my eyes, it is not reliable or credible, yet is the very science on which you base your personal faith and hope in future climate catastrophe.
Here's the link, http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports.shtml You can start writing anytime. Good luck Mr. Science writer.
"I put no stock in people without the courage to give their real names!"
I put no stock in those who do. Only an idiot would post their real name on the net.
Cheers
Klem
Are you aware that you are quoting the very authorities (IPCC) whose findings I support (i.e. that you and I are causing climate change by the greenhouse gases we produce through the burning of fossil fuels such as tar sands)? Are you confused? Did you accidentally give me the wrong link?
Climate change in the modern context MEANS human-caused. Get used to it.
And don't tell me I am insincere or dishonest in what I write or say!
You display your own lack of understanding like a flag when you say there is INDUSTRY INFLUENCE in the science! The exact opposite is true and you must know it!
BIG OIL AND GAS are spending millions sewing their devious, criminal seeds of doubt in climate science, SO THEY CAN SELL MORE PRODUCT! If you can't see this, HAVE I GOT AN ACRE OF SWAMPLAND FOR YOU - CHEAP!
Myself and others who support climate science get called "alarmists" quite a bit. All I can say is, better an alarmist than someone who sees their own children in harms way & does nothing to warn them!
So Klem, if that is your name, since you have failed to come up with ANY valid authority to back up your wrongheaded claims, as I requested, we are done.
Have a nice day!
Larry Powell
First of all, Klem, I had you all wrong. I first thought you were an ignorant yokel from the boonies. But I now believe you to be very informed in the great climate debate, indeed. That makes you cunning and deceiving. You obviously are aware of the skulduggery being committed by the likes of the "Cock Bras," yet you are actually their ally and accomplice.
I figure you are one of the following…
a) an agent-provocateur for Stephen Harper (i.e. you are on his payroll either as a staffer or a PR type who gets bundles of money from a government slush fund to try to frighten and demoralize the green movement,
b) you are an official of a large and wealthy oil company (perhaps tar-sands-related)
c) You are employed by a PR firm hired to destabilize & spread lies that there is still "doubt" about the science surrounding this issue.
(You wouldn't know anything about a hacking incident directed toward my blog a while back would you? One of my posts mysteriously disappeared!) hmmmm
The saddest part of the "cliimate-crank crowd" is their inability/refusal to be moved by the sheer weight of increasingly conclusive evidence. Your mission in life, Klem, seems to be, to knee-jerk reject the science as mere opinion, or a devious plot.
You also sadly confuse "might" with "right," somehow believing that Harper's electoral"win" somehow proves that human-caused climate change is not happening. Convenient logic, indeed, especially for those with a vested interested in the continuing ruination of our planet.
If you had lived in their times, Klem, I believe you would have been busy viciously attacking Galileo for proclaiming the earth actually revolves around the sun, or Aristotle for determining that the earth is not flat!
All your ranting does not conceal the fact that you still have not answered my requests to:
a) come up with authorities which support your own position and
b) screw up the courage to tell me who you really are.
As for your request to provide you with links to my writing - I say, blow it out your shorts! If you don't like it, start your own damn blog (using a fake name, of course).
What part of "we are done" don't you understand?
And, by the way, a word of advice.
You have anger issues. Get help!
Why is it that folks like Burney - and Pamela Wallin get airtime on CBC without being challenged about their obvious conflicts of interest? Wallin is one of the Cons Senators who spoke up loudest about killing Bill C311, the Climate Accountability Act, because it was a "nuisance" bill that would "kill Canada's economy", and it turns out she's a director in a tar sands company, Oil Sands Quest. Where is the MSM in this, holding these people's feet to the fire?
25 July, 2011 3:02 PM