Dear Editor:
RE: “Hysteria on steroids”? (Aug. 11).
The editor of this paper has a habit of adding notes at the end of letters. This is his right, but he should confine his habit to a full editorial where he backs up his notes with facts. He added this statement to my letter last week: “Over 90% of climate scientists believe global temperatures have increased during the past century and that human activity is a significant contributing factor.”
In his editorial he would have to explain that “believe” as opposed to “know” is the correct word to use. The Earth’s climate and weather are so complicated no one can “know” for sure how significant human activity is to the climate. Without this qualifier his statement is implying that my letter is a crazy conspiracy theory.
The editor should “know” that science is not based on consensus but rather on fact.
We, however, just need to look at how our crisis climate change preachers behave to “know” it is unsettled. Canada’s most prominent preacher is Justin Trudeau. He is like a televangelist raising money for the poor but without shame keeps it all openly for himself. Last month he flew 25,000km in a CO2 spewing taxpayer-owned plane. If the sky is falling in, shouldn’t he be using Zoom and having a staycation, which would save us tax-payers a lot of money?
Allow letters to the editor to stand on their own merit for the readers to decide what they “believe”.
Jane Vandervliet,
Erin