Dear Editor:
Mr. Finberg may as well fall off his chair again. I agree with his statement that Al Gore is not a scientist! (Global warming no joke, Burnaby NOW, Jan. 13). As a matter of fact, as I have mentioned repeatedly in submissions to the Burnaby NOW, a British court ruled on Oct. 2, '07, that Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth is nine parts political propaganda and one part science. Virtually every assertion that Gore makes in the movie has been strongly contradicted by sound science. (Not my words. The court's.) To make his fraudulent views available to billions of people may, eventually, be recognized for what it is: the greatest con job ever. That's why Mr. Finberg has no business to compare Newton's law to the junk science of Al Gore. (Let's remember: non-scientist Gore himself stated "the science is settled.") Mr. Finberg follows the doctrine of a certain J. Goebbels who said: "If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth."
For this reason I feel sorry for the readers who try to gather information about the subject by relying on the Burnaby NOW and letters written by people such as Mr. Finberg. Of course there is climate change. There always has been. However, all relevant scientists agree that not enough is known to summarize the workings of it. How can you fix something of which you do not know the cause? (Kyoto's answer was to take money from poor people in rich countries and ship it off to rich people in poor countries. . Would it address the environment? Not much.)
Mr. Finberg must have hoped no one would bother to look up Joe Romm's website. But I did.
In one debate Joe's opponent, Marc Morano, wipes the floor with his utterings and exposes him for what he is: a paid spokesperson (at any cost) for Barak Obama.
Another scientist, Bob Carter, states the obvious: computer-generated scare mongering will never survive the truth presented by real science, or words to that effect.
He then produces a number of torpedoes, five as a matter of fact, with which he explodes and sinks the good ship "Global Warming."
I am sure Mr. Finberg did not want anyone to see that when he asked us to look up Joe Romm!
E. W. Bopp, you had it right. Victor Finberg's fear mongering is not just misguided but, unfortunately, also dangerous in ways which do not even look connected to the unsuspecting.
Here is a hint. Ask him where on his fantasy island will he get his fuel?
Don't accept gibberish about something to be invented in the future.
Don't accept windmills and solar panels. They can replace hydro-generated electricity at triple the cost, that's all.
Right now, and for the next 50 years, he needs oil!
Where will he get it? And then, why not from Alberta? Why not from a Canadian source?
Ziggy Eckhardt, Burnaby
