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Environmentalism and Mysticism
Re: "Using One Mysticism to Undo Another Does Little" -- Grant T. Lafleche
-- May 25 -- The Calgary Herald.
Grant T. Lafleche, in his rebuttal (May 25) of my Op-ed on the Kyoto Protocol (May
3), falsely accused me of a falsehood. He writes: "Woiceshyn states that the
IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] reports 'explicitly claimed no discernible
man-made global warming.' Like his notion of state power, this is easily dismissed.
The IPCC report Climate Change: The Science of Climate Change, says that the 'majority
of these studies show that the observed changes in global-mean, annually-averaged
temperature over the last century is unlikely to be due entirely to natural fluctuations
of the climate system."
As I explained, IPCC officials altered the report after the climate scientists reviewed
it, without proper authority. According to the unaltered report (which the quote
by me referred to): "While some of the pattern-based studies discussed here
have claimed detection of a significant climate change, no study to date has positively
attributed all or part of that change to anthropogenic causes." This was deleted
by IPCC officials and replaced with the vague IPCC quote Lafleche cited above. The
fraud is documented in detail by climate scientist Dr. Fred Singer in the reference
I gave ( http://www.sepp.org/ ), which Lafleche obviously didn't consult. Like the
mystics qua subjectivists I discussed in my Op-ed, his feelings about global warming
apparently superseded the need to check my claim.
Lafleche arbitrarily asserted that the global warming alarmists are today's Galileos
defending objective truth against those in power. He didn't even attempt to counter
the scientific facts, quotations and references I gave which indicate that the alarmists'
claims are without scientific validity, and that the alarmists are behaving like
the power-lusting mystics who persecuted Galileo. (If there are any Galileos in this
saga they are those climate scientists who spoke out against the fraud. Some have
been subsequently denied government research funding and have been harassed by environmentalists
and politicians. See Dr. Singer's website for details.)
Lafleche dismissed my closing suggestion that the real agenda behind the Kyoto Protocol
and the environmental movement is the destruction of free enterprise in favour of
statism. But how does he explain decades of doomsday predictions (which have not
materialized and which scientists in the respective fields have thoroughly debunked)
-- all designed to undermine our individual rights, particularly property rights,
and to hand governments dictatorial control over the economy?
Lafleche's piece merely provided anecdotal evidence for my claim that the mysticism
of subjectivism is the methodology underlying environmentalism. For him to accuse
me of subjectivism smacks of the phenomenon known as psychological projection.
Sincerely,
Glenn Woiceshyn
© 1998 Glenn Woiceshyn.
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