As I sit here, snowed in for the fourth time, I think, I couldn't help but ponder on the irony of the political cartoon in your last issue, the one with a polar bear and Stephen Harper in a melted Arctic Ocean.
Now, I realize those things are outsourced but reading your publication for the last number of years, including editorials, one can't help believe that you have drunk the Kool-Aid.
Maybe, in the interest of fair and unbiased coverage, you could publish a cartoon of the group of ìscientistsî trapped in the summer ice of Antarctica.
Climate change, funny they stopped calling it global warming, and whether it's man-caused are two separate issues and neither will be settled with a 20-year study. Fact is the Europeans had a well-developed society in Greenland, complete with churches and agriculture 1,500 years ago, which suddenly vanished as the ice advanced.
A true scientist has an open mind; too many of those claiming to be in the trade are merely dogmatists.
Usually, another study is needed.
Then there is the East Anglia scandal believers would like to gloss over.
Blatant falsification of data that does not support the ìtheory.î
Copenhagen was a dismal failure, because the politicians have come to realize a fraud is being perpetrated on them, but they have to pay lip service to the ignorance of the average voter.
For the future it's important to keep an open mind; in the meantime, I'll draw on my hoard of incandescent light bulbs.
Hans C. Ullmann
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