Dear Editor: It would be plumb dumb to assume that our MP, Mr. Kennedy Stewart and letter writer, Mr. Victor Finberg, are working together in unison. Yet, Mr. Stewart's latest brochure to householders and Mr. Finberg's letters have too much in common to rule it out entirely. Both deal with climate change in about the same manner. Mr. Finberg's suggestion (Global warming not a hoax, Letter to the editor, Burnaby NOW, July 19) was quite revealing, because he had previously presented himself to be a "student of science." As it turned out, he referred your readers to a lecture by Sir John Ralston Saul, straight global warming propaganda. All the lectures on the sidebars were a number of years old, with one of them predicting results to be achieved in Copenhagen. In retrospect, the prediction did not even come close to agreed upon results. The link also provides an opportunity to follow a few bloggers who duke it out in usual blogger fashion.
Not exactly sources of impeccable scientific reputation.
Any reader should have been tipped off in the first paragraph of one of Mr. Finberg's letters, though. He tells us that our offspring will inherit a "poisoned Earth". Even uneducated people know by now that CO2 is not a poison gas on this planet but a basic building block without which none of our life could exist.
All so-called global warming deniers, whose work I have read, agree that the climate changes. This includes Thomas Harris. He and others do not accept, however, that Mother Nature pays attention to people selling one another carbon credits. Wishing to make a difference, our first action must, therefore, be to discover what it is that triggers change. Science is based on facts. All IPCC data shows that their computer modules, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Finberg and Kyoto had it wrong. Mr. Stewart still laments that the Harper government has decided to ditch Kyoto. He never explained how Kyoto could have ever accomplished anything without the participation of the U.S.A., Russia, China, Brazil, India and all those others.
Most global-warming/climate-change concerns of Mr. Finberg were actually addressed on Oct. 9, 2007 already, when a British court ruled that 90 per cent of Al Gore's statements in An Inconvenient Truth were political, not scientific.
Dr. Grigori Khaskin (Chemistry), Simon Fraser University
