Climate changes, Pm's change, attitudes don't

The UK Government’s chief scientist Professor Sir David King has been ever present on TV news this Easter saying that even by the most optimistic assessments carbon dioxide levels were set to rise to double what they were at the time of the industrial revolution - leading to a 3C rise in temperature resulting in all sorts of dire predictions being made and TV news going ape over library shots of flood, melting ice, snow, hurricanes …..

60 scientists attached their names to a letter to the Canadian prime Minister last week which was published in the National Post… read it, here are some brief extracts.

Dear Prime Minister,

As accredited experts in climate and related scientific disciplines, we write to propose that balanced, comprehensive public-consultations be held to examine the scientific foundation of the federal government's climate-change plans. This would be entirely consistent with your recent commitment to conduct a review of the Kyoto Protocol. Although many of us made the same suggestion to then-prime ministers Martin and Chretien, neither responded, and, to date, no formal, independent climate-science review has been conducted in Canada. Much of the billions of dollars earmarked for implementation of the protocol in Canada will be squandered without a proper assessment of recent developments in climate science.

Observational evidence does not support today's computer climate models, so there is little reason to trust model predictions of the future.

Yet this is precisely what the United Nations did in creating and promoting Kyoto ……

While the confident pronouncements of scientifically unqualified environmental groups may provide for sensational headlines, they are no basis for mature policy formulation.

The study of global climate change is, as you have said, an "emerging science," one that is perhaps the most complex ever tackled. …

"Climate change is real" is a meaningless phrase used repeatedly by activists to convince the public that a climate catastrophe is looming and humanity is the cause. Neither of these fears is justified. Global climate changes all the time due to natural causes and the human impact still remains impossible to distinguish from this natural "noise." …..

….the science continued to evolve, and still does, even though so many choose to ignore it when it does not fit with predetermined political agendas.

CC:The Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of the Environment, and the Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources

NEWS UPDATE

Here is an interesting rebuttal / comment from a leading Tree Physiologist