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Monbiot’s confusion
BUT HE FLEW TO TORONTO?!!: If you want a great and good laugh, we recommend reading the “editorial” written by Mr. George Monbiot in The Guardian decrying Canada’s Tar Sands and their effect upon the environment. You can find it on Google rather readily. Mr. Monbiot is an activist global warming true believer and author, who must be feeling some sort of anguish these days now that we know that much of the data that he and the global warmers have been relying upon has been hacked, chopped, twisted and modified to fit their thesis, but that is another story for another day.
What we found fascinating by Mr. Monbiot’s most recent editorial is that he found it necessary to “fly to Toronto” to find out about the supposed devastating effect of the Tar Sands upon the environment. Telling the world that he broke his “self-imposed ban on flying,” Mr. Monbiot flew from London to Toronto to find out for himself what is going on. The problem is, if we can be allowed to speak in the vernacular: There ain’t no tar sands in Toronto, Mr. Monbiot! Last we heard, they’re all out West somewhere… someplace called Alberta, and some in Saskatchewan… places your wine & cheese eating, Birkenstock and dirndledress wearing, poetry reading and oh-so-politically correct friends have likely never been… nor would ever go to! Sorry, Mr. Monbiot, but you’ve got another plane trip, and a helicopter ride, and a jeep drive ahead of you if you want to see the Tar Sands. Better get a move on, my friend. ‘tis a long, long way from Toronto.
- Dennis Gartman/ The Gartman Letter 12/ 02 / 09
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ISSUES.... 12/02/09
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