Paging Dr. Suzuki!
Al Gore, Barack Obama, Stephen Harper, Jim Prentice, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Gilles Duceppe, Elizabeth May, Dalton McGuinty, Jean Charest, Gordon Campell, Greenpeace, the editorial boards of the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and everyone at the CBC, except Rex Murphy, please call your offices!
Warning ... warning — the debate over global warming isn’t over and a scientific consensus has not been achieved!
Emergency ... emergency — it is no longer possible to smear anyone who questions the politically correct orthodoxy on anthropogenic climate change as a lackey of Big Oil!
From Wednesday’s Times in the U.K.:
Headline: “Science chief John Beddington calls for honesty on climate change”
“The impact of global warming has been exaggerated by some scientists and there is an urgent need for more honest disclosure about the uncertainty of predictions and about the rate of climate change, according to the government’s chief scientific adviser.
“John Beddington was speaking to The Times in the wake of an admission by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that it grossly overstated the rate at which Himalayan glaciers were receding.
“Prof. Beddington said that climate scientists should be less hostile to skeptics who questioned man-made global warming. He condemned scientists who refused to publish the data underpinning their reports.
“He said that public confidence in climate science would be improved if there were more openness about its uncertainties, even if that meant admitting the skeptics had been right on some hotly disputed issues.
“He said: ‘I don’t think it’s healthy to dismiss proper scepticism. Science grows and improves in the light of criticism. There is a fundamental uncertainty about climate change prediction that can’t be changed ...
“‘When you get into large-scale climate modelling there are quite substantial uncertainties. On the rate of change and the local effects, there are uncertainties both in terms of empirical evidence and the climate models themselves.’”
From Monday’s Telegraph in the U.K:
Headline: “China has ‘open mind’ about cause of climate change”:
“China’s most senior climate change official surprised a summit in India when he questioned whether global warming is caused by carbon gas emissions and said Beijing is keeping an ‘open mind.’
“Xie Zhenhua was speaking at a summit between the developing world’s most powerful countries, India, Brazil, South Africa and China, which is now the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, the gas believed to be responsible for climate change ...”
“‘There are disputes in the scientific community. We have to have an open attitude to the scientific research. There’s an alternative view that climate change is caused by cyclical trends in nature itself. We have to keep an open attitude,’ he said.”
From Tuesday’s National Post:
Headline: “Overhaul UN climate panel, scientist urges”:
“A senior Canadian climate scientist says the United Nations’ panel on global warming has become tainted by political advocacy, that its chairman should resign, and that its approach to science should be overhauled.
“Andrew Weaver, a climatologist at the University of Victoria, says the leadership of the IPCC has allowed it to advocate for action on global warming, rather than serve simply as a neutral science advisory body.
“‘There’s been some dangerous crossing of that line,’ said Weaver ... echoing the published sentiments of other top climate scientists in the U.S. and Europe this week.”
Oops.
Toronto Sun
Just thought I would throw this out there for debate.
Al Gore, Barack Obama, Stephen Harper, Jim Prentice, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Gilles Duceppe, Elizabeth May, Dalton McGuinty, Jean Charest, Gordon Campell, Greenpeace, the editorial boards of the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and everyone at the CBC, except Rex Murphy, please call your offices!
Warning ... warning — the debate over global warming isn’t over and a scientific consensus has not been achieved!
Emergency ... emergency — it is no longer possible to smear anyone who questions the politically correct orthodoxy on anthropogenic climate change as a lackey of Big Oil!
From Wednesday’s Times in the U.K.:
Headline: “Science chief John Beddington calls for honesty on climate change”
“The impact of global warming has been exaggerated by some scientists and there is an urgent need for more honest disclosure about the uncertainty of predictions and about the rate of climate change, according to the government’s chief scientific adviser.
“John Beddington was speaking to The Times in the wake of an admission by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that it grossly overstated the rate at which Himalayan glaciers were receding.
“Prof. Beddington said that climate scientists should be less hostile to skeptics who questioned man-made global warming. He condemned scientists who refused to publish the data underpinning their reports.
“He said that public confidence in climate science would be improved if there were more openness about its uncertainties, even if that meant admitting the skeptics had been right on some hotly disputed issues.
“He said: ‘I don’t think it’s healthy to dismiss proper scepticism. Science grows and improves in the light of criticism. There is a fundamental uncertainty about climate change prediction that can’t be changed ...
“‘When you get into large-scale climate modelling there are quite substantial uncertainties. On the rate of change and the local effects, there are uncertainties both in terms of empirical evidence and the climate models themselves.’”
From Monday’s Telegraph in the U.K:
Headline: “China has ‘open mind’ about cause of climate change”:
“China’s most senior climate change official surprised a summit in India when he questioned whether global warming is caused by carbon gas emissions and said Beijing is keeping an ‘open mind.’
“Xie Zhenhua was speaking at a summit between the developing world’s most powerful countries, India, Brazil, South Africa and China, which is now the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, the gas believed to be responsible for climate change ...”
“‘There are disputes in the scientific community. We have to have an open attitude to the scientific research. There’s an alternative view that climate change is caused by cyclical trends in nature itself. We have to keep an open attitude,’ he said.”
From Tuesday’s National Post:
Headline: “Overhaul UN climate panel, scientist urges”:
“A senior Canadian climate scientist says the United Nations’ panel on global warming has become tainted by political advocacy, that its chairman should resign, and that its approach to science should be overhauled.
“Andrew Weaver, a climatologist at the University of Victoria, says the leadership of the IPCC has allowed it to advocate for action on global warming, rather than serve simply as a neutral science advisory body.
“‘There’s been some dangerous crossing of that line,’ said Weaver ... echoing the published sentiments of other top climate scientists in the U.S. and Europe this week.”
Oops.
Toronto Sun
Just thought I would throw this out there for debate.
