Censoring Debate On Global Warming: A serious and growing problem
By S Fred Singer
Message to Canadian media, distributed by Josh Proll, Executive Director, The Friends of Science www.friendsofscience.org

Real science is based on the precept that constructive, intelligent debate is not only welcome but essential to progress. However, as you can see from the Daily Telegraph article at <http://www.sepp.org/NewSEPP/Censorship.htm>, censorship is now rampant by important science journals and governmental organizations, such as the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Climate-change science is in danger of losing its status as real science. Instead, it is increasingly used as a convenient tool by governments and special-interest groups, more interested in pushing their political agenda than in promoting policies that protect the environment.

A prime example of this growing trend is previous Prime Minister Jean Chretien's single-handed ratification of Kyoto and Canada's subsequent climate-change policies. Perhaps not surprisingly, Mr. Chretien entirely ignored our open letter (signed by Canadian and US climate scientists) urging his government to convene unbiased science hearings on Kyoto before ratification [You can see our letter at http://www.envirotruth.org/openletter.cfm].

The situation is no better with current Prime Minister Paul Martin -- as he continues to ignore even his own country's leading experts in the field. The following open letter to Mr. Martin - http://www.sepp.org/NewSEPP/LttrtoPaulMartin.html - was also ignored. Apparently, Environment Canada has no qualms about developing climate change policy contrary to the opinions of leading international non-governmental climate scientists.

Thousands of scientists from many countries now fully understand that Kyoto and other efforts to control human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are ineffective and entirely unfounded scientifically. Even if you ignore the enormous cost of Kyoto (estimated recently by Prof. George Taylor of Oregon State University (see http://www.sitewave.net/news/s49p628.htm) at one trillion US dollars a year for full implementation in OECD countries), climate science research is rapidly moving AWAY from the hypothesis that the human release of greenhouse gases, specifically CO2, is in any way significantly contributing to global climate change. The 23 minute video on-line at http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?ide=3 explains this well, and I encourage you to take the time to view this presentation in which eight leading climate experts - six from Canada, one from the US (not myself), and one from New Zealand - dispel many of the more serious Kyoto science myths.

Sincerely,

S. Fred Singer, Ph.D.