Many people who should know better often say “I know there’s global warming because the arctic ice and glaciers are melting” Apart from the fact that this may have been true up to 10 years ago but not now, there is also the major problem that few are arguing that point. The issue is “is it man-made?” And that has not been proved. Another similar issue is “Is it caused by the increase in CO2 ?” Neither of these have been proved despite the fact that many have said that it’s settled. The science has not been settled.
Maxime Bernier
Canada has been going along with the apparent world consensus, but now one Canadian politician has come out and been the first Canadian to declare that the “Emperor has no clothes”! Conservative MP Maxime Bernier from Quebec says the issue has been taken over by alarmism – and he applauds the Harper government for taking a go-slow approach.
“The debate over climate change, stifled for years by political correctness, has finally broken out in the media,” Bernier wrote in a letter published in Montreal’s La Presse today. “The numerous recent revelations on errors by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have supplemented the alternative theories put forward for many years.
“We can now see that it’s possible to be a ’skeptic,’ or in any case to keep an open mind, on just about all the main aspects of warming theory.”
“It would certainly be irresponsible to spend billions of dollars and impose exaggeratedly severe regulations to solve a problem whose gravity we’re still far from discerning,” Bernier wrote.
“The alarmism that has often characterized this issue is no longer valid. Canada is right to be prudent.”
He wrote that the planet obviously experienced warming over the last hundred years, but has stopped warming over the last decade even as carbon emissions skyrocketed. He said other factors, like the sun, could be responsible for changes in temperature, and he noted that at least one German researcher – Mojib Latif – even predicts the world could get cooler before it experiences a warming phase. Bernier says that if climate scientists can’t even agree on what will happen over the next decade, how could anyone trust their predictions about what will happen a century from now.
Rene Laprise, director of the Universite du Quebec a Montreal’s centre for climate studies and simulation heaped scorn on Bernier accusing him of being not scientific. That’s exactly the attitude that got all the alarmists in trouble in the first place. When debating, one of the worst arguments to use is to quote authority without their actual reasoning or facts. And that’s what’s been done for the last 10 years or so. Sorry, it no longer works.
