Tim Ball: A clear and present danger: Scientists with political motives

The ‘only tipping point’ Weaver needs to worry about is when the public discovers what is real in the climate change debate and how he, the IPCC and Al Gore, Nobel Prize winners all, have misstated the science. If there has been a government led “war on science and scientists”, it has been against those of us who want to take a rational approach to the climate science debate, listening to all reasonable viewpoints and censoring no one. While the federal Liberals rarely allowed a climate realist to testify before Commons Committee hearings on the subject, the Conservative government have gone even further and not once arranged that a scientist on the skeptic’s side of the debate testify. The real tragedy is that, while billions of taxpayer dollars have been squandered on the impossible goal of “stopping climate change”, targets for real pollution reduction are not being met.

With the election over, the Liberals in disarray having attracted the lowest percentage popular vote in their history and their ‘carbon tax’ roundly rejected by Canadians, it is time for the Conservatives to come clean on the climate file and say what is real and do what is honest: hold open, unbiased hearings on the rapidly changing science of climate change and let Canadians hear a range of expert opinion, not just those who agree with Andrew Weaver. Then, and only then, will it be appropriate to make national policy on this, the most complex field of science ever tackled.