Magic Statistics

A lot of folks have placed a lot of faith in the Kyoto Protocol, despite the blindingly obvious fact that it’s a total failure.  Since it was signed in 1997, greenhouse gas emissions have continued to increase virtually unabated.  Here’s the situation between 1997 and 2004:

Emissions worldwide increased 18.0%.
Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1%.
Emissions from non-signers increased 10.0%.
Emissions from the U.S. increased 6.6%.

The US, despite refusing to sign, has outperformed Kyoto signatories.  Go figure.

Says Professor Emeritus Phillip Stott,

Here we have, yet again, unequivocal evidence that ‘global warming’ is the ultimate faith without works.

Now the pope is taking on the false prophets of climate change.

Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology.

The leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics suggested that fears over man-made emissions melting the ice caps and causing a wave of unprecedented disasters were nothing more than scare-mongering.

The German-born Pontiff said that while some concerns may be valid it was vital that the international community based its policies on science rather than the dogma of the environmentalist movement.

Public policy should be based on science instead of dogma?  Hold on a minute: That’s pretty radical.

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Islamic “family values” come to Canada.

A Canadian Muslim man and his 26-year-old son have been arrested following the death of his 16-year-old daughter.  The man attacked her in the family’s Mississauga home because she refused to wear the hijab (head scarf).  He has been charged with murder, the son with obstructing police.

Police were called to a home in Mississauga early Monday morning by a man who told 911 operators that he had killed his daughter.

They found Aqsa Parvez lying motionless on the floor of her bedroom, to all appearances dead, but paramedics found a faint pulse and rushed her to hospital. The teenager succumbed to her injuries several hours later, police said Tuesday.

Const. J.P. Valade would not give any details about the teenager's killing, but police sources said she was strangled.

Friends of the girl said she had left the family home, where her brothers also lived with their families, about a week before the attack because of arguments with her father and brothers over her refusal to wear traditional Muslim garb, including the hijab.

Aqsa’s friends at Applewood Heights Secondary School said that, for the past year, she had lived in fear of her father and his threats.

The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN) issued a denunciation of the attack that pointedly ignores salient circumstances.

The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN), the Islamic Social Services Association (ISSA) and the Islamic Society of Toronto today urged "zero tolerance" for violence against women and domestic abuse. The Muslim groups are calling on Canadians of all faiths to address the realities of domestic violence.

CAIR-CAN and ISSA are also asking for the strongest possible prosecution in the strangulation death of 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez, a Mississauga teen allegedly attacked by her father.

"There should be zero tolerance for violence of any kind against women or girls," said ISSA President Shahina Siddiqui. "The strangulation death of Ms. Parvez was the result of domestic violence, a problem that cuts across Canadian society and is blind to color or creed."

"Muslims and Canadians of all faiths need to reflect on the realities of domestic abuse and take concrete steps to eliminate violence against women," said CAIR-CAN representative Selma Djukic.

Do tell.  So, what exactly does CAIR-CAN plan to do to encourage Muslim men not to attack women?

I hope that police and reporters will investigate what the man and his son were taught by their imam at whatever mosque they attend.  Were they encouraged to believe that such cold-blooded barbarity is acceptable in Canada?

h/t for CAIR-CAN: Kathy Shaidle

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The National Post editorial board has just announced the winner of the "Canada—in six words or less" contest.  Readers were asked to vote for Canada's new motto from among ten finalists.

The new unofficial Canadian motto is "Canada - a home for the world," sent in by Deborah Torenvliet of Ottawa. With a 39.8% share of the total online votes, the highly earnest entry took the title (plus Tim Hortons and Petro-Canada gift cards) hands down. Second place and a Chapters/Indigo gift card goes to "Endless possibilities squandered in political correctness," by Gary Valcour from Oshawa, Ont.

In addition to the other finalists, a long list of other "notable entries" appears at The Post's Full Comment blog today.  There must be close to a hundred of 'em.  Just over half way down appears a token entry from Canada's northern territories.

"We'll tolerate anything, except intolerance." Scott Gilbreath, Whitehorse, Yukon.

For the record, I submitted two other entries.

Canada: The UnAmerica

Canada: Land of the grilled cheese sandwich

I had one other that I didn't bother submitting.

Oh, Cana-Duh!

That last one is not original.  I saw it plastered on a telephone pole on University Way, Seattle, Washington, many years ago.  The motto appeared on a poster advertising a performance by a punk rock band (whose name escapes me).