This past Monday, April 22 was Earth Day and I was amused to read that celebrations of this event in Vancouver were cancelled due to lack of interest.
With the welcomed arrival of the warmer days of spring, I acknowledged the occasion by raising a pint of my favourite ale while enjoying the sunshine on the backyard deck, in recognition that all the dire doomsday scenarios and predictions from the climate change cultists for the last 49 years since the inaugural Earth Day in 1970, have proven to be pseudo-scientific kookery.
News flash! Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant and has jack to do with our earth’s cyclical climate systems. The carbon tax regime is a fraud. The most compelling scientific research and evidence reveal that climate is a galactic issue with the sun’s fluctuating sunspot and solar flare intensity being important determining phenomena.
Human creativity in advancing technologies and infrastructure can most definitely mitigate the devastating and catastrophic events caused by floods, droughts and wildfires.
There is a profound lack of political will and vision to address the water management infrastructure that is necessary not for just our own country but for the entire North American continent.
Brian Gray
Penticton