An example of a minority gaining consensus status is when a handful of scientists who believe global warming is caused by humans (anthropogenic global warming), and that minority is given status by politicians and the majority of network media.

At the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change, 70 scientists made the argument that media and environmental groups are wrong in thinking that global warming is a crisis.

Dr. Richard Lindzen said global warming hysteria is more about political agenda and has nothing to do with science; he referred to his colleagues who subscribe to global warming alarmism because they either fear for their jobs or see it as a means to get funding for scientific projects. He said the “climate models” are being fed erroneous information to get results the alarmists want.

Scientist Thomas Gale Moore said, “If warming occurs, it is more likely to bring net benefits than losses to most of the world. Six thousand years ago mankind flourished on an earth that was four degrees (Fahrenheit) hotter than the 20th century.”

This recalls the scientist who said, “We must get rid of the Medieval Warm Period,” a period of human expansion when it was the warmest time in the 20th century. There was a time when grapes flourished in Newfoundland, and the tundra ended 100 miles north of where it ends today.

The UK’s channel 4, as well as the Danes, have debunked most of the arguments in Al Gore’s video, “The Inconvenient Truth.” Canadians say our sun has a larger impact on climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks combined, and they’re worried about global cooling!

I have a list of 31,000 American scientists who signed a petition urging our government to reject the Kyoto Agreement because the limits on greenhouse gasses would harm the environment as well as the health of mankind; that increases in atmospheric CO2 will benefit natural plant and animal environments.

Ragnar Liljequist

Hidden Cove Road