Climate Change - Time for a Fresh Start?

When it comes to climate change, one can identify four groups of people. Those who are genuinely concerned about the health of their planet based on the scientific evidence they have seen. Those who have jumped on the bandwagon of global warming to promote an ideology of wealth redistribution, without actually caring about the environment. Those who discard the whole idea of climate change on purely ideological grounds. And, finally, those who disagree with the theory of man-made global warming based on the scientific they have seen.

Which group is right? Which one gets it all wrong? No one can answer that, not with the evidence there is for and against climate change at this time. All anyone can say with certainty is that there is a change afoot, but what its causes are is far from “settled science”. For every scientist who says climate change is man-made, one can find at least one other reputable scientist to say the exact opposite. If “climate change denial” were a criminal offence, all those charged with such “crime” would have to be acquitted now in the wake of the Climategate e-mails, which, at the very least, constitute (more than) reasonable doubt.

The most recent fallout from Climategate concerns Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and purveyor of the theory that the Himalayan glaciers are melting. His claims have been refuted by the Indian government. As well, the Times of London has found that his claims were not based on science at all, but only speculation.

The truth, as always, is probably found somewhere in the middle of all those positions. But what the world needs is facts and proper inquiry, not a growing mountain of reasonable doubt. With most countries around the world now prepared to cause considerable damage to their national and global economies in what they have been led to believe is a fight for survival, it is absolutely crucial that all the facts be available and that they have been proved beyond any reasonable doubt whatsoever. Both the IPCC and the British university involved in the Climategate affair have done more than any “denier” ever could to discredit their own views. Therefore, the world deserves a fresh start, and this time world governments must take every conceivable precaution in selecting reliable and ethical scientists who can be relied on to conduct actual scientific research into climate change without any ideological baggage or bias.

Comments

[Jonathan Williams]

I would suggest Danielle Smith's comments on being a Climate Realist seems to be where the population will be moving as time goes along.

Either that or we will once again flutter to a new mountain of enviro desperation since this one failed unlike the Ozone battle and the recycling crisis and the mounds of other crisis that we have been accused of since the 1960s.