From: Cumberland BC Cumberlander Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:43 AM
To: fdnokes@hotmail.com Subject: New Cumberland BC Cumberlander Article: How should the world respond to climate change?
Global ยท Climate Change section How should the world respond to climate change?
Dwayne Rourke
I wonder if any of you have had the experience of simply questioning people about their
assumption that global warming is human-caused, only to be immediately labeled as a "climate
change denier" and relegated to the same category as "holocaust deniers" and their
ilk. Yikes! Excuse me for living!
To the great disappointment of people I thought were more open minded, I have
questioned the authoritative pronouncements of people like Al Gore, the IPCC
and its many proponents locally , such as columnist Ray Grigg. Such
questioning has put me into entirely new relationship dynamics with these
people.
It seems to me that anyone who espouses to be an authority on climate change or any other matters, but who is unwilling to face up to scrutiny of their basic assumptions, deserves to be further challenged and challenged deeply. My concerns are amplified if these same people are alarmist in their presentation of what they deem to be the facts of the matter.
Al Gore is set to profit billions of dollars from the consequent alarm generated by his
"educational" endeavors. Challenges to his public pronouncements have revealed a number
of glaring untruths, not the least of which is his dramatic use of the infamous and now
completely discredited "hockey stick" graph regarding the relationship between CO2 and
global temperature rise.There are more untruths woven into Gore's presentations. An Al Gore
Google search will reveal them to you if you are interested.
If you have been dubbed a "climate change denier" whilst aspiring to
investigate all manner of information source in making up your own mind about how to
deal with climate change, you will be especially interested in the following CBC: IDEAS
audio interview (podcast link, below) with Larry Solomon, author of the book The
Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria,
Political Persecution, and Fraud.
>From the CBC website:
"The science is settled" is now the mantra of climate change activism. Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled. He talks with Ideas producer David Cayley.
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