Climate change is not a threat

Your climate-savvy readers will be appalled by the article “‘We’re out’ of the Paris accord, Trump says.” It is based on false assumptions, most of which have been thoroughly debunked by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

There are enough legitimate criticisms of President Trump to make it unnecessary to invent fake ones.

It may sound virtuous to talk about the “effort to slow the tide of planetary warming,” but it is empty rhetoric because it isn’t happening: the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that the global temperature now is 0.3C lower than it was 19 years ago. “Global warming” cannot have caused any weather events during this period.

There may be some people who blame greenhouse gas emissions for global warming, but they do not include the IPCC. In its second Assessment Report it states, “No study to date has positively attributed all or part of the climate change observed to man-made causes.” Nothing since has changed this.

A lot of threats to the environment cry out for attention, but climate change, which has always been with us, isn’t one of them. In the next election, politicians should reflect there will be some voters who have never, in their entire lives, experienced global warming.

Geoff Galloway, Saskatoon