Here’s the first line of a story on the new Crop poll taken in Quebec:

“A new poll paints devastating picture of a Liberal party completely reduced to a rump in Quebec if an election were held today.”

Reduced to a rump? In 2006 the Liberals got 21% of the vote and now they are at 20% support. Doing the actual seat projections shows that they stand to actually gain 5 seats compared to 2006 due to the erosion of support from the Bloq and the greater equity in support among all parties.

So, the lesson is that the opinions expressed in our national media are often nothing but ill-informed water cooler chatter. The full seat projections based on the Crop results would be as follows:

BQ = 36
CPC = 20
LIB = 18

I like to take note of good pieces attacking environmentalist orthodoxy, mostly because they are unorthodox. Any scientific theory whose advocates vilify their opponents just for opposing them deserves to be placed under the greatest scrutiny and not permitted the slightest benefit of the doubt. The hyperbole of today’s climate crusaders positively demands that someone cry out, “the Emperor’s  got no clothes.”

That’s what Lorrie Goldstein does in Cool the Climate Hysteria. Take care enviro-fascists. Beware Luddites. The pseudo-scientific trappings of your self-serving assertions are being stripped away.