For the past six weeks, our letters section has featured a steady stream of opinions on the subject of climate change. Like the weather itself, there was something predictable and monotonous about it from the beginning.
It began with an advocacy letter promoting the climate march in Vancouver leading up to the big Paris conference. Inevitably, a critic wrote in calling for an open mind on the topic. Then the advocate letters poured in to discredit the critic, followed by another critic saying the science isn’t settled, followed by more advocates flaying the “Doubting Thomases” and “deniers” who just won’t go away. With each wave, it seems, the arguments become more entrenched and pedantic, on both sides.
One of the more disturbing aspects of this little back and forth has been the call from the advocates of the UN climate change agenda for this paper to not print letters from “deniers.” We can think of no other recent issue where there has been such a persistent call to silence opposing viewpoints.
This appears to be a common characteristic of those advocating for the UN agenda. When Philippe Verdier, the top TV weatherman in France, published a book before the Paris conference questioning the “hype” over manmade climate change, he was suspended and then fired from his public broadcasting job. There’s no room for dissent from this globalist enterprise that mixes scientific research, economics and geopolitics in a complex stew and yet is often blindly defended as straight science.
For those who want to delve more into the science, there will be opportunities. Prof. Jim Pawley, a Sechelt resident who lectured on global warming as a biophysicist at the University of Madison-Wisconsin, will speak at a public forum in the Chatelech Secondary theatre on Jan. 12 from 10 a.m. to noon. A Q&A and discussion will follow his presentation. One of Pawley’s letters appears in this edition and, unsurprisingly, he cautions this newspaper about running letters containing “outdated and misleading talking points of the denier industry.”
Not to worry, professor. Due to huge popular demand, our letters section will be climate change free for the next little while. For now, we’ve heard it all before, and so have our readers. Enough, frankly, is enough.
