Reading your editorial in the Gazette, Wednesday Nov. 25, I nodded and agreed. Finally someone is getting it. Until I read to your last paragraph. Science is never settled. There is always room to dispute science. That is what science is all about. Test and retest the assumptions on which a theory is based.
For those interested in the actual science and an explanation of the underlying beliefs of the current hysteria, let’s try this: Please give an explanation for the Minoan Warm period, the Roman Warm Period, the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. In particular, what triggered the start of these epochs as well as the terminations? These eras lasted hundreds of years, somewhat unlike the 30 years from 1970 to 1999. Even NOAA agrees there has not been any appreciable global warming for the last 17 years.
In other words, are “we” trying to solve a non-existing problem? And how are we doing that? Through solar and windmills? Today, Nov. 26, while writing this, the sun is shining nicely but there is no wind. Of course, the sun does not shine too bright at night but what are we to do if there is no wind? The U.K. Daily Mail of today has an interesting article (#2362762) that explains what the British government is doing. Thousands of diesel generators are being prepared all over Britain to generate power when the wind does not blow. At a cost of at least $1.5- billion Canadian. And the power they generate will be at least 12 time more expensive to their residents then even the inflated costs of windmills. Is Alberta going to have the same “standby” power source when the wind does not blow and the coal-fired generators are offline? What an utter and complete idiocy.
Joe Prins, St. Albert
