Settle the science of climate change

A few isolated critics have raised difficulties. Some were cranks, and few had standing in the scientific community. Their objections were easily dismissed. But now, a group of respected academics has published a study challenging the majority view.

(You can read their report, Climate Change Reconsidered, at www.nipccreport.org.)

More than 9,000 scholars with doctorates in scientific disciplines have signed a petition of support.

The group disputes not only the theory of climate change, but many of the facts underlying it.
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Science is rarely settled or static. New information and theories emerge. The free contention of ideas brings progress.

As we embark on policy changes that affect nearly every aspect of our lives, it's important to recognize that the debate on climate change and its causes should continue.

Stelmach to mine oilsands lift from U. S. Nobel-prize winner

Chu said in a recent speech that the oilsands are a complicated issue, but Canada is "a close and trusted" neighbour and our oil "has all sorts of good things." He believes technology can solve the environmental problems with oilsands production.

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Why don't you ask climate change fans to explain all the natural disasters of the past in the context of CO2 emissions.

Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power

The main cause of global warming is rapidly increasing carbon dioxide emissions – primarily the result of burning fossil fuels – despite international agreements to reduce such emissions. The trouble is that despite being aware of the serious situation, very few decision-makers are ready to tackle the problem at its roots. Instead of reducing the extraction of fossil fuels and searching for other solutions, current carbon-trading policies, in practice, favour the further exploitation of these fuels. Furthermore, new tree plantations, which are claimed as a means of mitigating the consequences of increased carbon dioxide pollution, often drive people out of their traditional living grounds and destroy biological diversity.

This special report forms part of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation’s What Next project. It focuses on carbon trading and is intended to influence current climate politics. In the debate on the Kyoto Protocol few actors have expressed a critical view. It is high time, for the purposes of debate and policy-making, to put the spotlight on the core problem – fossil fuel extraction and consumption.