In the Sep. 5 Gazette, Mr. Kevin Ma saw things a tad different at the climate conference. He may not have noticed that at least one-third of the people attending were industry types trying to sell the new government their company product. A solar panel exhibit outside the conference centre is just one example. A representative of the nuclear industry was another. How do I know? I was there myself.
And perhaps Mr. Ma did not read some of the suggestions and comments that were taped to the walls and billboards. Some had nothing to do with climate, at all. Extend LRT to St. Albert is hardly a climate issue. Or save the polar bears. Some comments on the wall went against the whole climate change hymn. As an example: When does climate not change? Or: What is the right temperature for the Earth? How do I know? Because those are the comments I wrote. I also talked to at least two panel members.
Without naming names, one was at a loss to explain the changes in climate of the Roman or Medieval Warm Periods. When I asked the same question of the other chap his reply was that he did not know anything about history. Well, excuse me, but how can you study climate and make meaningful inferences if you do not look to the last few thousand years? Did we, or did we not have an ice age 13,000 years ago? What changed the climate then?
An anonymous observation that: If an honest man is wrong, after demonstrating that he is wrong, he either stops being wrong, or he stops being honest.
Joe Prins, St. Albert
