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Global warming critics find themselves under attack

Re: “Tropical storms offer glimpse of our evolving environment,” Gwynne Dyer, Opinion, May 22.
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Re: “Tropical storms offer glimpse of our evolving environment,” Gwynne Dyer, Opinion, May 22.

Gwynne Dyer seems to think if you are not loudly communicating the perils of global warming, you are just not with it. It is Mr. Dyer who is not with it.

Climate change is a hoax. Extreme weather is a misnomer, as every farmer knows.

This hoax was started when the Obama White House and leading Democratic congressmen successfully silenced the scientific community, and turned this whole issue into a vast political game.

Canada’s carbon tax is part of the same political game.

Of course, most of the metropolitan media followed the politicians, because that is where the action is. Unfortunately, much of the general public believed these politicians, because they were leaders and they ought to know.

Some of the general public were not so gullible.

A few years ago, an article in the National Post explained how the scientific community was silenced.

Roger Pielke Jr., a scientist at the University of Colorado in Boulder, did world-leading research on climate change and extreme weather.

He found convincing evidence that climate change was not leading to higher rates of weather-related damages and deaths worldwide, once you correct for increased population and wealth development in the path of storms.

He also helped convene academic panels to survey evidence and communicate near-unanimous scientific consensus on the topic to policy makers.

For his efforts, he was subjected to a vicious, well-funded smear campaign backed by, among others, the Obama White House and leading Democratic congressmen, culminating in his decision to quit the field.

Jim Swan, Red Deer