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Global Warming Farce
by Glenn Woiceshyn
Dear Editor,
Re: "Global Warming and the Ostriches"--by Gordon McBean--Nov/4/97--The
Globe and Mail
Anyone who denies that "global warming" is a fact and a threat are branded
"ostriches" by Gordon McBean of Environment Canada. But the "facts"
he presents, and his admission that they really don't understand the climate, indicate
that environmentalists are "Chicken Littles" perpetrating another anti-capitalist,
sky-is-falling doomsday myth to scare people into a global eco-dictatorship of some
sort.
For example, among other things, he neglected to mention that the 0.3-0.6 degree
rise in temperature since 1860 mostly took place before 1940 -- before industrialization
and carbon dioxide output took off! Satellite data over the last 20 years of its
existence indicate no increase in temperature. As for their "computer models,"
which can be designed to predict anything, they fail to explain this data.
What environmentalists have been successful at is confusing the public by diverting
the debate towards quibbling over "scientific" claims, and away from a
deeper root of the problem. The whole debate is driven by political power-lust --
not rational discourse. And it will continue to be driven so as long as governments
have the power to violate our individual rights and force us to pay for their so-called
science.
Best Premises,
Glenn Woiceshyn
© 1997 Glenn Woiceshyn. All rights reserved.
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