Regarding your editorial entitled “Obama and climate change,” thank you for a bit of sanity (OGJ, Dec. 8, 2008, p. 24)! I also believe that people should not be bullied out of questioning. Your phrase “joust between believers and infidels” says it all.
The Warmists really do speak as if they are medieval evangelical preachers and we have to have faith. Right. Here in England we’ve had freezing weather, the coldest winter in 30 years. Harbors in warm Cornwall have been icing over. There has been snow in Marseilles, bitterly cold weather in northern France, etc. Remember the ice storms last year in the US? The worst storms in living memory in China? I mention this to a friend who is a Believer. “Ah, yes”, he says. “It will get colder before it gets hotter.” Again, have faith.
As well, there is a real risk of power cuts starting in the UK in the next couple of years. Why? The European Union has decided that many of the older, polluting, coal-fired power stations have to be closed down, and the global warming crew (by the way, this is a huge industry in Europe) are bringing lawsuits to prevent replacements being built.
If you question the Warmist line, you are put down.
Julie Woods
London
