The Kyoto Protocol - another look at the Science
There is an excellent five-part video available at
Friends of Science
The entire video is 27 minutes long and was produced for Canadian television by the University of Calgary and Friends of Science.
There is a problem though -- as reported by
CanadaFreePress:
Kyoto Protocol--Propaganda or Censorship?
Last Thursday, I received a telephone call from Douglas Leahey, Ph.D., representing a group of Canadian scientists under the umbrella of "Friends of Science." It seems that they had been talking to Peter Worthington of the Toronto Sun, and he had mentioned to them that they should get in touch with me.
Dr. Leahey began by asking me how they could get a 27-minute documentary on television.
I have 15 years experience of fighting with federal and provincial slush funds for that very thing.
I asked some routine questions at first: Did they have a letter of licence? Had they rolled a camera before they got permission? Had they talked to the big broadcasters? Did they have a "pitch" and a budget?
Then I found out what their documentary was about. The story was incredible: it documented scientists--from Canada--speaking out against the $10-billion scam known as the Kyoto Protocol.
And a bit more from the CanadaFreePress article:
The numbers of scientists staggered me--17,100 basic and applied American scientists, two thirds with advanced degrees, are against the Kyoto Agreement. The Heidelberg Appeal--which states that there is no scientific evidence for man-made global warming, has been signed by over 4,000 scientists from around the world since the petition’s inception. I strongly questioned these high numbers, since I’ve had benefit of the Canadian government’s public relations machine on this issue. Dr. Leahey has since sent documentation to back his figures up.
All those scientists were in total agreement: the Kyoto Protocol was complete fiction.
The scientists are so committed to fighting the Kyoto Accord and its misrepresentation of the truth, that they produced a 27-minute documentary and paid for its production with their own money.
The research, the study, the organization, the production of a documentary — those efforts made up the easy part. The tough part was to get it in front of the Canadian people.
The big broadcasters had denied them "the switch" as we call it in the industry: the ability to put it on television for Canadians to see. "Not of broadcast quality," they sneered.
I met with four of the scientists. They showed me the piece. The information held in this 27-minutes should be required viewing for all Canadians. Yet here we have the national broadcasters saying "No"--refusing to broadcast scientific evidence of an important national issue.
Why?
The article then goes off to talk about the politics involved in filming something for broadcast in Canada (worth a post all on its own...)
Getting back to the Kyoto Protocol -- the key issue here is that certain nations (China and India) are exempt. China especially is producing mammoth amounts of pollution from their coal burning -- pollution which due to prevailing westerly winds in the northern hemisphere, is drifting over the Pacific Ocean and causing problems with the USA and Canadian air quality.
The Kyoto Protocol also totally ignores water vapor which is the worst offender when it comes to greenhouse gasses.
Finally, the current warming trend of the earth is not man-made, the earth has recently undergone warming and cooling trends roughly every 400 years. Look at the history books...
Hat tip to Charles at
LGF for the link to the CanadaFreePress article.
Posted by DaveH at May 9, 2005 11:05 AM