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06/22/07

Friday global warming skepticism

For some light Friday reading, I offer you these two articles from Canada's Financial Post.

The articles posit that due to natural cycles in solar activity we are closer to a dangerous global cooling than a dangerous warming.

Note that the second article contains a list of links to a series in a related newspaper: "The Deniers: The National Post's series on scientists who buck the conventional wisdom on climate science." For anyone who really wants to hear the side of the debate that you don't get in most US media, the articles are well worth reading.

Forget warming - beware the new ice age
Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post, June 15, 2007
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=bdc24964-7f82-4f7a-863c-f0ff43010278&k=5606

Read the sunspots
R. Timothy Patterson, Financial Post, June 20, 2007
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=597d0677-2a05-47b4-b34f-b84068db11f4&k=29751

1 comment

# Tom Harris

on 06/24/07 at 00:49

Thanks very much for posting a link to our Science Advisory Committee member Professor Patterson's article. I have followed his research for years, having visited his lab and even done some coring with him. I can assure you it is first class research that turned me from a Kyoto supporter into someone who now believes we should continue to work on controlling pollution better (CO2 is not pollution of course) and conserve energy but the idea that we can have a significant effect on global climate by fiddling with our CO2 emissions seems very far fetched indeed.

I invite you to hear more from the scientists we work with at the Natural Resources Stewardship Project by visiting www.nrsp.com, especially the news page.

Sincerely,

Tom Harris, B. Eng., M. Eng. (thermofluids)
Executive Director
Natural Resources Stewardship Project
P.O. Box 23013
Ottawa, Ontario K2A 4E2
Canada

Web: www.nrsp.com

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