James Cameron gassing up for change | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun

Ours “will be a dying world if we don’t make some fundamental changes about how we view ourselves and how we view wealth,” he said this year. “We’re going to have to live with less.”

The man is an artist, so he is entitled to use sophisticated techniques like irony and metaphor. So when he says “we” should live with less, he means “you” should. Cameron’s press tour to promote Avatar took him to 107 cities. Perhaps he’ll “live with less” for Avatar II, by flying to just 100 cities.

You know, set an example for the little people.

Oh, don’t make that face. What, aren’t you more grateful for his advice? Who are you to judge that a tycoon living in an 8,000-square-foot house, with an adjacent 6,000-square-foot house for staff, can’t also be an expert on modest living?
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So once Stelmach is done answering Cameron’s questions, perhaps the premier might ask a few of his own. I’d start with an easy one: If Cameron swears off oilsand oil because it doesn’t meet his ethical standards, where does he buy his jet fuel from? What ethical standards meet the Cameron morality test? Terrorist Saudi Arabia? Nuke-building Iran? Toxic Nigeria?

Or is that one of the things he didn’t want the media to ask about at his cancelled debate?

Arctic Melting Both “Faster” And “Slower” Than “Expected” | Real Science

What happened was that some “scientists” chose to cherry pick a few warm years in (2003-2007) as a basis to rush to press claims of Armageddon.

People who picture themselves to be scientists should probably stick to science, and quit thinking of themselves as gods responsible for saving the planet. That is not a very realistic point of view and does not lead to good research or public policy.

Van Jones slams Koch Industries’ role in Prop 23 « Climate Progress

I don’t think you want the Tea Party running your community, running your family, running your government.

Flashback: Van Jones: Avowed Communist

He was a self-proclaimed COMMUNIST, ANARCHIST, and BLACK NATIONALIST while he was a law student at Yale Law School. Speaking about his time in jail (he was arrested at a protest), Jones said "I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary."

In the late 1990s, Van Jones was involved in Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a multi-racial activist collective with Marxist influences.