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Interesting cartoon, but shouldn’t the central critter (the Dolphin) be a Shark or Crocodile – neither creature being one to be trusted? That would be more in keeping with what is actually happening, although on reflection a Chameleon changing its colour from Green at its head to Red at its tail with the UN symbol in the background would seem to be far more appropriate.
I like Christopher Moncktons description of the Greenie people as Traffic Lights… call themselves green since they are too yellow to call themselves red!
Very good cartoon. Given that so many Greens are vegetarian and a number are into wacky weed, however, I prefer the garden metaphor, the Melon Greens — green on the outside and red (or at least deep pink) on the inside.
What has happened to the Greens lately, by the way? Hear very little of them. Could be the folk-dancing season.
“We’ve finally had our battle, and it was not to his advantage
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 16th December 2009
So at last we’ve had our fight, and Ian Plimer has cause to regret his challenge to me. Back in July, Plimer, who is an Australian professor of geology and a climate change denier championed by the rightwing media all over the world, challenged me to a debate in London, to be hosted by the Spectator magazine. I agreed, as long as he met a simple condition: to answer a list of questions about the claims in his book. Plimer eventually accepted this condition. My questions were straightforward: I asked him only to explain or reference the claims he made(1). Any reputable scientist would have answered them without hesitation.
But Plimer used a series of excuses and evasions to put me off(2). Eventually I gave him a deadline. Four days before it expired, the Spectator cancelled the debate, and gave Plimer a platform to himself. It was a shocking episode, which suggested to me that neither Plimer nor the Spectator wanted to face the facts(3,4). ” http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/12/17/showdown-with-plimer/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
Seems to me Monbiot and Co are irrelevant now – mere voices in the wilderness. Common sense has prevailed over noise.
Never was there a better example of the saying: a week is a long time in politics.
Monbiot is a lunatic. Canada ,a great Western nation ,is sitting on the solution to the West’s dependence on Arab and south American oil and the so called environmental movement can only scream …….dirty dirty dirty.Talking of Greens ,around the last general election M Turei was asked by a local rag in Dunedin about prospects for the Great South Basin she basically said “leave it there”. I reckon a vote for the Greens is tantamount to treason.http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/nov/30/canada-tar-sands-copenhagen-climate-deal
Does this carton imply that anti environmentalists are blue underneath? Can we infer that John Key , Gerry Brownlie etc are only paying lip service to any concerns about climate change?
December 19th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
I see a disappointed Gordon Brown now plans to go it alone to try and cobble together an international global warming treaty himself.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8421945.stm
In spite of the huge socioeconomic mess he has made in the UK, he is so committed to the AGW scheme you have to wonder why.
Remember he was nominated as an MP by powerful union leader Jack Jones, who was recently revealed as a long time paid USSR spy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225637/How-Kremlin-hijacked-Labour-Diary-Kremlin-insider-reveals-hold-Soviets-Labour-politicians.html
Looks to me like he may well be the biggest watermelon of them all – with motivations we can only guess at.
December 19th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
That cartoon was so original and illuminating i could puke.
December 19th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Interesting cartoon, but shouldn’t the central critter (the Dolphin) be a Shark or Crocodile – neither creature being one to be trusted? That would be more in keeping with what is actually happening, although on reflection a Chameleon changing its colour from Green at its head to Red at its tail with the UN symbol in the background would seem to be far more appropriate.
World manipulation anyone?
December 19th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
I like Christopher Moncktons description of the Greenie people as Traffic Lights… call themselves green since they are too yellow to call themselves red!
December 19th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
That dolphin looks like it’s gone off. Waiter, bring me a fresh one.
December 19th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Very good cartoon. Given that so many Greens are vegetarian and a number are into wacky weed, however, I prefer the garden metaphor, the Melon Greens — green on the outside and red (or at least deep pink) on the inside.
What has happened to the Greens lately, by the way? Hear very little of them. Could be the folk-dancing season.
December 19th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
“you can’t pin them down”:
“We’ve finally had our battle, and it was not to his advantage
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 16th December 2009
So at last we’ve had our fight, and Ian Plimer has cause to regret his challenge to me. Back in July, Plimer, who is an Australian professor of geology and a climate change denier championed by the rightwing media all over the world, challenged me to a debate in London, to be hosted by the Spectator magazine. I agreed, as long as he met a simple condition: to answer a list of questions about the claims in his book. Plimer eventually accepted this condition. My questions were straightforward: I asked him only to explain or reference the claims he made(1). Any reputable scientist would have answered them without hesitation.
But Plimer used a series of excuses and evasions to put me off(2). Eventually I gave him a deadline. Four days before it expired, the Spectator cancelled the debate, and gave Plimer a platform to himself. It was a shocking episode, which suggested to me that neither Plimer nor the Spectator wanted to face the facts(3,4). ”
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/12/17/showdown-with-plimer/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
December 19th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Seems to me Monbiot and Co are irrelevant now – mere voices in the wilderness. Common sense has prevailed over noise.
Never was there a better example of the saying: a week is a long time in politics.
December 19th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Who’s this “Blunt” I keep seeing pop up on Kiwiblog with embarrassingly amateur, cringeworthy, unoriginal cartoons?
December 19th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Monbiot is a lunatic. Canada ,a great Western nation ,is sitting on the solution to the West’s dependence on Arab and south American oil and the so called environmental movement can only scream …….dirty dirty dirty.Talking of Greens ,around the last general election M Turei was asked by a local rag in Dunedin about prospects for the Great South Basin she basically said “leave it there”. I reckon a vote for the Greens is tantamount to treason.http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/nov/30/canada-tar-sands-copenhagen-climate-deal
December 19th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Government borrowing is inter generational theft.
Global warming is our God-given right.
Drill baby drill!
December 20th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Does this carton imply that anti environmentalists are blue underneath? Can we infer that John Key , Gerry Brownlie etc are only paying lip service to any concerns about climate change?
December 20th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Revising my post above:
Government borrowing is inter generational theft
Global warming is inter generational genocide
Drown baby drown!
And buy beachside property NOW!
It will never be more expensive