Allow me to play the devil's advocate re climate change, formerly known as global warming and now, perhaps, climate weirding. Climate change as commonly understood is the behaviour of weather over 30 years.
So let's check the last 30 or more years.
Polar bears are doing better than ever. The doom and gloom folk use computer programs (models) to project that they would have been decimated by now. That clearly has not happened. So it is not about polar bears because these bears have not cooperated by dying like northern flies. But clearly, global warming/ climate change IS about the future. Because if it is not ... we do not have a problem nor worries. ( Great !)
If Alberta is seeing warmer winters and summers, who in his right mind would complain? I think it is Great! Rain instead of snow? Bring it on!
Longer growing seasons? Great!
"Researches have known since 1938 the world is warming due to fossil fuel use." Except of course during the seventies when some of these same scientists were pontificating about a coming ice age. How many people remember that? Obviously not scientist Katherine Hayhoe, (Gazette, March 6: Climate change: "Not just about polar bears") who was born in the seventies.
There is an occasional hurricane in Texas? Who knew?
The most interesting statement in the whole article goes as follows: "post-ice-age warming (which topped out about 8,000 years ago)." Then logically, it is colder now! The Minoan warm period, Roman and Medieval warm period were about as warm as today. That is what climate change is all about: looking at history of past climatic changes.
Using a computer program to calculate the chaotic climate system in the future is the ultimate foolish exercise. Changing your light bulbs is not going to make any difference. Spending untold millions on a theory while millions heat their meagre dinner over animal dung today is, in my humble opinion, a crime against humanity.
P.S: I too was at the climate conference.
Joe Prins, St. Albert
