Hi

The propaganda campaign by climate doomsayers continues unabated in spite of the fact that global warming stopped more than 17 years ago. In fact, we are now experiencing a naturally-occurring cooling cycle.

During the past year, David Suzuki’s columns have been appearing in our local newspaper at least once per month together with a similar number of articles/letters by other victims of the global-warming/climate-change hoax. Only a few articles were written by climate realists.

Suzuki’s August rant prompted me to reply as follows.

Best regards,

Thorpe

Trail Times  Tuesday, August 12, 2014

CLIMATE DOOMSAYERS ARE GETTING DESPERATE

Contrary to the claim made by David Suzuki (Trail Times, 8 August 2014 – Copied below), it is the climate doomsayers that are getting desperate, primarily because nature refuses to co-operate with their catastrophic, CO₂-induced, global-warming narrative. Suzuki’s nonsensical diatribe is obviously inconsistent with the scientific method. So is his endorsement of the BBC policy to suppress scientific debate.

It appears that David Suzuki is still living in the mythical, computer world of discredited climate models. Consequently, he continues to deny reality and demonize carbon dioxide (“CO₂”).

While appearing on a recent Australian Broadcasting Company’s TV program, Suzuki  learned, apparently for the first time, that global warming stopped more than 17 years ago. Astonishingly, Suzuki freely admitted that he was completely unfamiliar with the 4 agencies responsible for collecting and publishing the world’s temperature data used by the UN.

The chief scientist of one of these agencies (Professor Phil Jones of the UK’s CRU) testified in 2010 before a Parliamentary Select Committee that global warming had stopped in 1995. His testimony related to the 2009 Climategate scandal.

Unfortunately, the CO₂ content of our atmosphere has been seriously depleted by natural processes to such an extent that we can never hope to restore the highly-desirable levels of CO₂ found in ancient atmospheres. The dinosaurs enjoyed an atmosphere containing 5 times the current CO₂ level. Our reserves of oil and gas would have to be 30 times larger to even double the CO₂ content of our CO₂-impoverished atmosphere.

It seems that David Suzuki should be reminded of a fundamental biological fact; that is, CO₂ is essential to sustain plant and animal life on this planet. Regretfully, CO₂ does not give us the means to control our ever-changing climate. With 4 major climate cycles, the planet’s climate has been changing since the beginning of its existence.

Global cooling has always been, and will continue to be, the greatest climate threat to civilizations. We must learn to adapt or perish.

Thorpe Watson, PhD

Warfield

David Suzuki: Climate change deniers are getting desperate

by David Suzuki on Aug 5, 2014 at 2:47 pm

http://www.straight.com/news/700351/david-suzuki-climate-change-deniers-are-getting-desperate

This same article was published in the Trail Times on August 8, 2014.