Retired engineer disputes global warming threat

telegraphjournal.com - Retired engineer disputes global warming threat

SAINT JOHN - Global warming skeptic and retired chemical engineer Ian McQueen has spent the past 20 months trying to examine the veracity of the threat of global warming.

After sifting through reports for hours each day, he attempted to change the public's minds in a lecture at the Saint John Free Public Library Wednesday night.

"Carbon dioxide is not the bogeyman - there are other causes that are much more likely to be causing climate change, to the extent that it has changed," McQueen told a small audience.

McQueen was invited to speak by the Canadian Nuclear Society after letters and opinion pieces featuring his "moderately controversial opinions" ran in the Telegraph-Journal, society representative Mark McIntyre said.

"It's a challenge to everyone, to go home, do some fact-checking, and weigh both (former U.S. vice-president Al) Gore and Mr. McQueen's opinions," he said.