The 2013 IPCC report on climate change and global warming reluctantly confirmed that as of 1998 global warming had ceased and the planet's mean surface temperature has been in a slow but steady decline.
Environmental organizations as well as other UN-sponsored organizations such as WMO should be ecstatic over this undisputable, observable, measurable decline, but they are not. In truth the environmental rhetoric around human activity causing global warming has increased expedientially since this acknowledgment.
This increase in rhetoric signifies that this is not longer about global warming, emissions or the environment. It is now about those with a vested interest in keeping the fabrication of human activity affecting the world in a negative manner.
Environmental organizations, nations as well as UN-sponsored climate groups who used their credibility as currency to enhance their position that the cause of all climate and atmospheric disturbances are the result of human activity are now being proven wrong.
This decline in credibility began at the Copenhagen Climate Conference when it was shown that the IPCC, through manipulation of facts and figures, created data which they could not prove in any way shape or form, that man's use of fossil fuel, human activity, was responsible for global warming.
Every climate conference that has occurred since the 2009 Copenhagen conference has ended in disaster for the IPCC as nation after nation abandons them and scientists distance themselves to preserve some credibility.
At the Warsaw Climate Change Conference, November 2013, Japan opted out of the Kyoto Accord, citing various reasons, but I suspect the revelation of a cooling planet played a significant part in their decision. With Japan opting out it is conceivable that the EU will soon serve notice to the IPCC as their credibility continues to fail.
We have had to endure the protests and antics of environmentalists in opposition to the proposed Gateway Pipeline. I too had my concerns at first. I no longer have any issues or concerns with the pipeline. My concern now lies with the extremists and fanatics within the environmental movement itself. Those who would do damage to these pipelines whether they be they oil or gas while justifying their actions as environmental, save the planet, the same fervor and justifications used in the attempts to damage the natural gas lines in the Dawson Creek area.
The loss of credibility combined with the self-righteous belief that as environmentalists they can operate with complete impunity with no repercussions is what scares me.
Larry Barnes
Prince George
