Eyes wide open after youths' global warming flick
Dr. David Pearson of Science North congratulated the students for their months-long endeavour.
“Congratulations, you did something,” he said. “Don’t be afraid, now that you’ve done what you’ve done, to tell people to do other things.”
And then he shared an astounding fact. Since your teacher was born about 30 years ago, he said, the average annual air temperature in Sudbury has gone up by one degree. To put that nugget into perspective, he said the temperature has only gone up by five degrees over the last 10,000 years. “One degree is not to be sneezed at,” he said. “It’s an indication of the rate of change of our planet. By 2050, winter will be 90 days shorter.”
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They did not enable the Reader Feedback section for that story. I guess they don't want people like me writing things like this:
What a terrible article. It presents only one side of the story with zero data checking. Each season is 91.25 days (365/4); therefore, Pearson is suggesting that we will not have a winter by 2050. That is as ridiculous as his cherry picking the 30 year time frame.
If Science North scientist Franco Mariotti is correct then why has the temperature failed to rise since 2002?
Come on people. Think! Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Its radiative forcing has been vastly overestimated as have the positive feedbacks; otherwise, it would have been warming these past several years. Spend the time fighing real pollution.
John M Reynolds
The article only mentioned one scientist that was interviewed for the movie. It says, "Science North scientist Franco Mariotti tells the students global warming is happening because of human activities." The Northern Life has another article that has a list of Franco's community involvements. It reads like he has been an activist since 1979. The other two experts mentioned in the 'Eyes wide open' column are not scientists.
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