There is an unhealthy angst in the community, the country, the world, over this climate hysteria. At the bottom line is faith in the pronouncements from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. To declare that we have 11 years in which to turn the whole world around or face cataclysmic change, even our own extinction, is ludicrous. If that is so, it’s game over, as nobody can make the kind of changes they are demanding.
The happy fact is, there are large numbers of responsible scientists who are highly sceptical of IPCC conclusions, arrived at from flawed models. The sceptical scientists are outside the alleged 95% consensus who we are told are in agreement with the IPCC position.
The current alarmist dogma has all the appearances of a new religion in which people believe certain scenarios despite facts. Consequently we find unscrupulous climate activists filling the hearts of children with fear, using puppets like Greta Thunberg to create a doomsday cult in our youth, and pushing governments towards utterly unworkable policies.
I would urge people to start reading widely on this issue and discover that we are not in grave danger, and that we should be filling our children’s hearts with hope, not fear.
Peter Noakes, Charlottetown
