NOW magazine
July 3, 2008
May Warming warning
NOW magazine, May 15-21
How on earth anti-nuke pioneers Energy Probe became global warming deniers is beyond us. Yes, EP executive director Lawrence Solomon‘s The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, And Fraud is the hottest-selling "environmental" book in Canada and the U.S. Blaming the Third World for the planet’s eco problems, as Solomon does here, may make us energy hogs in the West feel better. But we’re the ones in real denial.
Just wait for the next smog day for that to become crystal-clear.
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Letter in response, July 3-10
Warning warming deniers
Your criticism of Lawrence Solomon’s The Deniers speaks well of the global warming hysteria (NOW, May 15-21).
If you’d bypassed your delicious dismay surrounding the provocative book title, you would have seen that it speaks more to scientific integrity than it does to taking sides in this complicated debate.
You could have made public one of the great suggestions: cutting subsidies for the energy industry and road users as a way of reducing negative environmental impacts (yes, directed at us energy hogs in the North).
We cannot rely solely on popular opinion and what the media presents as settled issues.
Alison Doyle
Toronto
Energy Probe 