One of the most-read newspapers in Canada has finally admitted what we’ve been saying for months and months here at NoApologies. The “science” on global warming is not exactly “settled”. The Vancouver Province printed an editorial yesterday that’s just too good not to reproduce. In full. Partly, we admit, in the spirit of “we told you so.”
“We hate to rain on the parade of the true believers in global warming,” the editorial began. “So we will leave that up to Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut. Chapman, a geophysicist now living in San Francisco, says in The Australian it is time to prepare ourselves for the possibility of global cooling and another little ice age. Chapman says the Earth’s average temperature has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade — and that all four tracking agencies report it ‘cooled by about 0.7C in 2007.’ That, he says, is the ‘fastest temperature change in the instrumental record.’
“His article was immediately denounced by green groups. And Chapman himself acknowledges it would be wrong to draw conclusions about climactic trends from events in a single year. But what he says about the recent lack of sunspot activity should give us all pause for thought.”
The editorial concludes, though, with the words “It is clear the debate about global warming is far from over — and we must all keep an open mind about it.”
The editorial appeared the same day that a late spring snow storm closed part of the TransCanada Highway east of Winnipeg for more than 24 hours. The road was closed from Falcon Lake, Manitoba all the way to Thunder Bay as a snow storm hammered the area, bringing poor visibility, treacherous driving conditions, and close to a foot of snow.
Public date: April 28th, 2008
