Vincent J. Curtis
13 Dec 24
RE: Feeling hopeless about the climate emergency? Op-ed by Tricia Clarson a “Climate Change Columnist” The Hamilton Spectator 13 Dec 24.
Tricia Clarkson has lost hope that rising CO2 emissions will ever be reduced in time to meet 2030 targets. Her groan was occasioned by the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, and “Sadly, Trump will be the only president in the world that has declared climate change a hoax.”
This may technically be true, as neither Presidents Xi of China nor Putin of Russia has said as much; nor has Prime Minister Modi of India, but those three countries collectively are responsible for over 50 percent of global CO2 emissions, and those leaders act like it’s a hoax. The United States is responsible for only 14 percent, and Canada only 1.5 percent.
Dr. John Clauser, 2022 Nobel Laurate in Physics, offers hope. He declared in his keynote address at the Quantum Korea 2023 Conference, “There is no climate crisis, and climate change does not cause extreme weather events.” Clauser has also said, after examining the climate models, that he was appalled at the poor quality of the science that went into them.
Clarkson sighs over nothing. Climate change
is a hoax; the 2030 targets are nonsense; and even if they aren’t there’s absolutely
nothing Canada and the United States can do about rising CO2 emissions.
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