By Klaus Rohrich
Monday, February 5, 2007
Okay. I admit it. No, I proudly proclaim that I am a denier of the theory that the current change in the planet's climate is man-made. Rather than cower before the left-lib juggernaut that demand dumb, blind, obedient faith in the precepts set forth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), I prefer to join the ranks of the skeptics.
There are several reasons why I am a skeptic, not the least of which is the stated desire by those who would want the Kyoto Protocol to become the law of the planet. Their scheme, in my opinion, has less to do with saving the earth than it has to do with redistributing wealth. Just last week Achim Steiner, who heads up the UN's Environment Program (UNEP) issued a call to developed nations to "take the next big step" in combating climate change by imposing tough new regulations on their industries and exempting poorer nations from these standards, lest the resulting tensions might jeopardize the Kyoto protocol's survival. Christine Stewart, former environment minister in Canada's Liberal government put it more succinctly back in 1998, when she said that climate change provides the greatest chance to bring about social justice and equality in the world.
And while I think the conservation of non-renewable resources is a good idea for reasons other than saving the environment, I have a great deal of difficulty getting behind any scheme floated by the UN. These are the same people who brought you the genocide in Rwanda, the Iraq "Oil for Food" scandal, the genocide in the Balkans, the continuing genocide in Darfur and the rape scandal in the Republic of Congo, to name just a few. They are the ones who recently renamed the Human Rights Commission the Human Rights Council, although the name is the only thing about it that has changed. They are planning to renovate UN Headquarters at a cost of $1.5 billion, a job that Donald Trump offered to do for a mere $300 million. And we should trust these clowns on something so important that it would forever change the world's economy, and not for the better?
What was most interesting to me in the release of the IPCC's fourth report was the fact that the report was not accompanied by the findings of the 2,500 scientists who supposedly worked on the report. Those findings will not be released until May of this year, after the IPCC's political functionaries have an opportunity to rewrite the science to suit their conclusions. In the words of the Financial Post's Terence Corcoran, they are giving us the proof, but withholding the evidence. If you had a "smoking gun" that offered irrefutable proof of your contentions, wouldn't you want to make that evidence public as soon as possible? The fact that the IPCC is hanging on to the scientific research so that "changes... [can be] made after acceptance by the working group or the panel... to ensure consistency with the 'Summary for Policymakers' or the overview chapter is highly suspect as to the intentions of the IPCC.
Given the bleating emanating from Ottawa, it appears that the current government of Stephen Harper is hopping onto the man-made climate change bandwagon. While I surmise that in their hearts they do not really buy the claptrap the IPCC is attempting to float, their desire to win favor with ill-informed voters appears to outweigh their well-reasoned position on the Kyoto Protocol last year. But then, the whole man-made climate change debate is more about politics than it is about science.
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