Dear Editor:
RE: “Time to act is now” and “Point of no return,” Sept. 5.
In their letters, Ron Moore and Liz Armstrong warn that there will be catastrophic climate conditions on Earth if drastic action isn’t taken within 11 or 12 years.
The head of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Petteri Taalas would disagree. The WMO and the United Nations Environment Program created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988.
Taalas told a Finnish magazine on Sept. 6 that he disagreed with those who are promoting end-of-the-world scenarios. He pointed out that climate extremists are selectively picking out facts from the IPCC reports to fit their narrative. He stated, “The IPCC reports have been read in a similar way to the Bible: you try to find certain pieces or sections from which you try to justify your extreme views. This resembles religious extremism.”
Computer models used by the IPCC are the sole source of predictions of dangerously rapid manmade warming. On average, for the last forty years, they simulate twice as much warming as actually observed! Over 95 percent predict more warming than observed!
If space allowed, I could also provide scientific data to refute scaremongering regarding supposedly ever-increasing occurrences of hurricanes, forest fires, droughts, floods, rising sea levels, etc.
Relax, people. Don’t believe everything the mainstream media tells you. There is no climate emergency.
Henry Brunsveld,
Puslinch