Joe Prins (Gazette, Your Views, Aug. 15) has great respect for science and won’t believe in the phenomenon of global warming and its impacts – floods, droughts, heat waves, forest fires, extreme weather events, North and South polar ice melts and sea-level rise – until a double-blind experiment is performed: you get two Earths and subject one to unlimited deforestation, carbon fuel emissions, unlimited cattle breeding and then compare outcomes.
When Prins sees yellow skies and chokes on smoke particulates, he sees only nature, and when he hears that average temperature rise and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is highest in three million years, he gives it all a horse laugh: Ha! were we here three million years ago?
Perhaps sarcasm and levity is inappropriate under the circumstances, but there are times words fail and humour becomes a safety valve.
Doris Wrench Eisler, St. Albert
