Climate Conspiracies

Go Gore!

So what? So we gave the scientists a little money, that doesn't mean we influenced their reports. Does it?

"After the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of the world's top climate scientists, released a report in February that warned the cause of global warming is "very likely" man-made, "the deniers offered a bounty of $10,000 for each article disputing the consensus that people could crank out and get published somewhere," Gore said...

Gore likened the campaign to that of the millions of dollars spent by U.S. tobacco companies years ago on creating the appearance of uncertainty and debate within the scientific community on the harmful effects of smoking cigarettes."

The so-called debate on global warming should have deflated by now. I think it will only deflate when a real democrat gets into the white house next year. Because then the corporations will stop getting everything they want. They shouldn't get anything from the government in my opinion, but who am I?

But really, a friend of mine who lives in the praries still is convinced of this same propaganda being spouted in the US, we are not immune here in Canada. There is no division among world researchers in various disciplines about global warming and climate change in general. We know we're doing it, they know we're doing it, and yet we still stand up and say NAH-AH! I WANNA PLAY IN THE OIL FIELD, SO THERE!

mother-fuckers ><

((Neil Note : Check out some of the letters or the European Commission...))

HPV Fears

Let me say this much about the HPV vaccine. It quite possibly the best thing to come out from medical science since the polio vaccine, do these people not understand exactly how important this is? Our rates have been declining since the 80's but any death is preventable, especially if detected at an early stage. European countries such as France and Finland have well established screenings. Of course, we have a PAP test, and I do think that pre/puberty aged girls should get pap tests for cancers and disease unrelated to STD's whether they have their cycles or not. It will in the very least teach them more about their bodies and how to take care of themselves. Vaccincation is a great idea, but we do need to keep in mind the truth about this particular immunization. It is not a 'cure-all', and most sensible people could understand the implications of that, but for those who can't think that fast it means that there are still strains of cervical cancer your daughter could be vulnerable to.

Now, people who have their heads buried in the sand seem to be getting uppity about the idea that their little girls may one day have sex. The fact that they are getting angry and all fired up about it in public says a lot about what kind of parents they are. If had a daughter, she'd be getting one right now. The issue is about protection, not authority. I'd have a mind to tell my child that she is free to make her own informed decisions, and know about the ways she can protect herself, and to spread this education to her friends. The issue for the vocal nutjobs is always going to end at religion, and the debate stops there...so then the real question should be what debate?

This cbc article summed it up nicely I think:



"I have to say that that is one of the silliest arguments I've ever heard, when it comes to the HPV vaccine," Kitchen said. "Abstinence-based programs do not work. In Texas … they have an abstinence-based program in all their schools and they also have the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the States."...



The vaccine, Gardasil, is proven to prevent 70 per cent of all cervical cancers. Newfoundland and Labrador follows other Atlantic provinces, as well as B.C. and Ontario, in planning to offer the vaccination to students."

Shift work

This article says what my dad, a coast guard communications shift worker for the past 25 years has been telling me all my life. He said to never do shift work if I can avoid it, and I have so far:

"Shift workers were also found to have greater hip-to-waist ratios, higher cholesterol and insulin levels, increased blood pressure and higher triglyceride levels. Low levels of serotonin are associated with conditions such as anger, depression and anxiety.Previous studies have found rotating and night shift work affect the cardiovascular and metabolic systems, suggesting that shift work may be directly responsible for increased body fat and higher blood pressure levels, said the authors of the Buenos Aires study...Shift workers in the study typically slept one to four hours less than average, and experienced a poor quality of sleep.
Lack of high-quality sleep can sabotage job performance, make people less alert and put them at risk of an injury on the job, researchers said."

Response :"Job boom hurting BC university enrollment"

Young people right now feel that because they come out of university with a Bachelor's and still end up working in a video store, that working right out of high school is their best bet to get ahead in today's capitalist society. Young people are no longer asked to think critically at their jobs, they are asked to be robots, fulfilling every whim of the corporation they slave for.
This opinion is growing and creeping into the younger adolescent generation as well, because they do not see the future my generation was told to look forward to. The 20-35's of this country are pissed. We now have to work in a world wrought with war and famine, meanwhile being told to dull our thoughts and 'just do as your told'. No self-respecting person can live like that, let alone work like that.
So we are damned if we do go to school; we get debt that would make george bush blush, we push ourselves to the point of burnout, and in the end we just get standarized testing same as high school, and can't even fulfill our goals when we look for a job in our field. We are damned if we don't go to school because then we just keep turning out dull mind after dull mind from our primary education system.
We are not exactly walking through metal detectors, nor are we producing children that can't count, but we are producing 18 year olds who can barely coherently read a paragraph from a driver's ed book. My 24 yr old friend has been going to driver's ed this week, and she was astounded at how the younger people in her class could barely read. Ask them about the latest fashion trends or music, and they would have an hour long conversation about the subject though.
So what exactly is the problem, and how do we go about solving it? I think that's a question for the opposition to tackle in Parliment myself. All I know is that my child will be homeschooled until the hegemonizing stops and we no longer electronically labodomize our younger generations with tv, videogames, advertising and pure entertainment.
We are so concerned about so-called 'teenagers' having sex, that we don't realize they can't fucking read! We have to stop being so concerned about petty things like fashion, celebrity lives, pop music, and ignoring real issues that effect the fabric of our society. That fabric is unravelling, and I think it's time for a new quilt.