A Poole’s Progress

Vincent J. Curtis

22 June 23

RE: Who will save us from ourselves?  Op-ed by Wayne Poole.  The Hamilton Spectator 22 June 23.

Wayne Poole has gone from authoritatively crying “wolf!” to complaining that not enough people are listening to cries of “wolf!” anymore. Maybe it’s because they’re exhausted by all the failed cries of wolf in the past, and are suspicious of the central planning implicit in buying the climate change scam.

In 1988, the UN declared that unless the world had stopped using fossil fuels by the year 2000, then humanity was doomed.  And we didn’t have time to discuss it.  They’ve since moved the date to 2050 for “NetZero.”

We’ve had endless forecasts of the Arctic Ocean going ice-free by now, and it’s as ice-covered as usual.  We’re heard endless forecasts of sea-level rise, and of lower Manhattan being drowned, and Pacific island nations being submerged; those haven’t happened either.  Every unusual weather event is attributed to “climate change” notwithstanding doing so is to employ the logical fallacy of affirming the consequent, and that “climate change” is non-falsifiable, non-specific, unscientific and was invented because the globe simply stopped warming in 1998.

Hectoring Canadians about their bad behavior goes nowhere because by now people realize that, contributing only 1.6 percent of global CO2 emissions, even if you accept the theory, Canada isn’t part of the problem and therefore can’t be part of the solution.  Especially, when China, India, and Russia, which together contribute 50 percent, don’t care, and don’t believe you.

Canadians ought to reject all the plans for destroying our economy, er, attempting to ward off by their own heroic efforts the disaster of climate change.

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