Editor:
I am responding to the letter, Carbon fee and dividend offers a global warming solution by Keith McNeill.
Mr. McNeill’s solution to global warming would carry a lot more weight if there actually was global warming. There has been no appreciable change in global temperature for the last 18-plus years.
Even the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been forced to change the label to Climate Change, since none of their models predicted the 18-year pause in temperature change.
The solar cycle is mostly responsible for climate change, yet, it is not factored into any of the IPCC analyses. Is that because you can’t get money from the sun?
The IPCC has stated the reason for all this climate hysteria is to redistribute wealth from developed nations to the developing world.
Global warming/climate change is a scam.
Unfortunately, governments in the developed world have fallen for the con and it’s high time they got off that fraudulent bandwagon.
Since some judge in the U.S. allowed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to label carbon dioxide (CO2) a pollutant, billions of dollars have been wasted to “reduce carbon footprints.”
School districts, municipalities, and hospitals have had to devote some of their scarce resources to “become carbon neutral.”
This is insanity. And you and I, the hapless taxpayers, are footing the bill.
CO2 levels have been rising — with nary a change in global temperature.
The science is not rock solid. You don’t hear opposing voices because they are being silenced.
Science shows CO2 levels follow temperature rise, not the other way around.
CO2 is essential to plant growth. It is a complete system — we exhale carbon dioxide, the plants absorb it and give us oxygen in return.
Reduce drastically the CO2 levels and you affect crop yield.
It’s that simple.
Al Gore, the major player in this scam, stated that, by 2014, all Antarctic and Arctic ice would have vanished.
The fact is that ice in both polar regions has vastly increased. So much for settled science.
So, we reduce carbon dioxide levels, essential to plant growth, we spend trillions of dollars fighting a made-up threat, we reduce our standard of living, for what?
Mr. McNeill would implement a system of carbon tax and dividend that would essentially return to the people the tax money extorted from them.
I say we forget such a scheme in favour of keeping our money in the first place.
Gilles Mailhiot
Williams Lake