Dear Editor:
RE: Time to ‘wake up’? (June 22).
It is time to get educated about climate change.
The media has done us a huge disservice by tagging “…and climate change” to just about everything they report. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, “Canadians only have to look out the window to know we have to continue stepping up our fight against climate change.” Wow, how simple?
We are told that the wildfires are unprecedented by the media and the Liberals, but if you check with the Canadian National Fire Database (CNFDB) and the Canadian Wildfire Information System, you will find that it is not unprecedented at all.
Even Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner has gotten into the game. In an interview on Talk1010 where he said, “if we build on the Greenbelt, how do we expect to prevent extreme weather events.” Wow, that’s all it takes? Talk like this proves that the only place we should get our info is from scientists and not politicians.
Canada’s emissions represent a mere 1.6% of man’s CO2 emissions. We live in one of the largest, coldest countries in the world. Transportation and keeping ourselves warm is our crime according to those pushing the doomsday agenda like Ron Moore, saying that we must reduce our small amount of CO2 to give our kids a chance at a livable future.
Seriously, we are looking at a future which is not livable? Does anyone in their right mind believe that if Canada reduced it’s emissions from 1.6% to zero, it would have an effect on climate change and only then would Canada and the rest of the world be livable?
I choose to rely on science for the truth and not politicians who take advantage of people’s ignorance. The truth is out there but you will not get it from media sound bites and politicians with control agendas.
Peter Mandic,
Fergus