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Environment/Energy · Liberty

Polite Discourse with Professional Climate Alarmist David Suzuki

Back in March, The Heartland Institute sent professional Canadian climate alarmist David Suzuki – formerly on the board of Canada’s notoriously left-wing David Suzuki Foundation – a copy of Rael Isaac’s excellent book, Roosters of the Apocalypse. Today, while rummaging through my over-filled inbox, I saw an envelope from this “esteemed scientist” that arrived two weeks ago.  Even in the address he put down for Heartland’s world headquarters, Suzuki exposed his childish contempt for those who disagree with his faith-based climate views.

  Then there is the note Suzuki wrote on our cover letter for the book.

In case you couldn’t make that out, let me type it for you:

I am a scientist and I take great umbrage at being sent such a load of crap from a bullshit shill organization for the oil industry. You are the most anti-science group I can imagine.

David Suzuki.

Quite an imagination, considering. But Suzuki left off the Xs and Os. I’m crushed. At least I set him back $3.70 Canadian.

I guess David  didn’t get the memo that we should tone down the rhetoric and try to get along. Of course he’s wrong about us, but defaming people who disagree is the only trick aging alarmists like him have left.

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— Jim Lakely

Jim is the the director of communications at The Heartland Institute. Prior to joining Heartland, he was an ink-stained newspaperman for 16 years with many stops in "old media." Jim covered Congress and The White House during the George W. Bush administration for The Washington Times, and worked as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist for newspapers in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and California. He has appeared on the Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, and many local and national talk radio shows to talk politics and policy.

  • Sookooki

    Note: the address is for the “David Suzuki Foundation” This is interesting because he “officially” has no affiliation with the Foundation (although his wife is the Chair and Daughter the CEO) because it is a registered Charity and as such is prohibited from acting as a lobbyist. He is worried that he will need to pay taxes on donations (which he should – it is a lobby organization like the WWF) and is afraid of an audit by canada revenue.

  • harryhammer

    Are you accepting comments that disagree with your own faith-based climate views?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=661060224 Michael Petterson

    Seeing that David Suzuki lacks a degree in climate science and refuses to
    listen to people that have such a degree,or for that matter any view that points out the holes in “climate change” ior “globasl warming” theories, wouldn’t that make him
    “anti-science”? Furthermore the Suzuki Foundation,as has been said,did
    receive funding from “big Oil” so it’s OK for him to receive funding,but he apparently thinks that according to him,since we are funded by the same source,everything we do is
    irreverent,as he doesn’t like that we are demolishing his entire viewpoint from the ground up.

    • harryhammer

      Who’s the one not listening and since when does lacking a
      degree in climate science matter to you?

      Frank Sherwood Rolland passed away in March.

      Have you heard of him?

      He was a climate scientist.

      He won numerous awards for his work.

      One could easily argue that he saved the world once
      already.

      What drives you to throw his knowledge in the trash?

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=661060224 Michael Petterson

        And if Frank Sherwood Rolland had commented, I would have listened. However David Suzuki is not Frank Sherwood Roland. A key point is actually listening to other views. Calling people”anti-science” is not listening,or helpful by any standard.