To second and amplify everything Justin has said: for seventeen years, there has been no global warming trend, despite an inexorable rise of man-generated CO2. This is a development that was not predicted by global warming scientists, whose mantra has been: man-generated greenhouse gases will cause the planet to warm. This seventeen year pause has seriously strained the credibility, to phrase it no less tactfully, of the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

It is, further, an absurd and highly irresponsible proposition to continue to formulate public policy (the closing down of certain electricity generating facilities; the taxpayer funding of wind and solar power; the mandate to purchase highly expensive energy just because it is renewable) on the basis of a now quite tenuous theory.

Further, even if the measly 6% of greenhouse gases generated by man is causing the globe to warm: 1.) it’s not at all clear that that would be a bad thing (mankind has generally done better in warmer rather than colder climate) and 2.) no one has identified a replacement energy source that is remotely as inexpensive and accessible as fossil fuels. The plan seems to be to impoverish everyone and stunt the economy by forcing us to switch to highly expensive and unreliable energy generating sources. This is not at all a desirable or responsible course of action.

On the related matter of events in the Antarctic, I fervently hope for everyone’s safe return, especially the crews of the various ships. At the same time, the spectacle for the last couple of weeks of a global warming expedition to the Antarctic getting frozen in place by pack ice (“what is this doing here??? I thought the polar caps were all but melted!!!”) has been nothing less than world class entertainment. The latest development is that icebreaker number four has now been called to the scene to break loose one (two?) of the rescue ships. Four, count ’em, four, icebreakers called in to deal with a global warming expedition and its aftermath. If this were a screenplay, no good Hollywood producer would touch it because it’s just too unbelievable. (“…FOUR icebreakers??? Please, leave my office now.”)

Monique Chartier

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