Global Warming - hoax?

I am now seeing more and more people supporting the hoax theory.
The SPPI, for instance, appears to not be scientific ... may be a lobby group for fossil fuel energy producers.

Any scientific group with this in their mission stmt is very suspect:

Davis Suzuki succinctly articulated the current global warming on CBC radio this morning (11/25/09 - in an interview with Al Gore - pushing his new book). It is happening and Canada is an embarrassment for not getting on board and allowing oil sands development.

In my opinion, we need to be very careful how we proceed (and expect how our children proceed) when digesting (and regurgitating) related pieces of information.


I AM FULLY CONVINCED GLOBAL WARMING IS HAPPENING AND WE NEED TO TAKE STEPS, VERY QUICKLY, TO CURB THE GREENHOUSE GASES EMISSIONS (PARTICULARLY CO2). The Copenhagen summit must succeed!
ANY ATTEMPTS TO DISCREDIT THE GLOBAL WARMING DATA IS DETRIMENTAL TO OUR FUTURE AS A LIFE-SUSTAINING PLANET ... PERIOD.


There are a growing number of skeptics who say Al Gore is wrong and there is no cause for climate change concern .... the data was wrong!

Lord Monckton is the hot item right now and seems to have supporting information on why climate change is not happening and will not impact us. 
He does seem to use his popularity to speak out about the environmental left: 
 - DDT being the correct approach to malaria, 
 - controlling population by raising standard of living of the poor,
 - HIV infected should have been isolated early and permanently,
 - incorrect using one-third of USA farm land for bio-fuels instead of food, etc


 Having prefaced his speech on the above, he then gets right into the lies being told about climate change:
 - Al Gore's nine lies (and many more) in his film
 - by how much will the world warm by an increase in CO2
 - global warming is accelerating in last few years
 - hurricanes getting worse due to global warming
 - not advising the global cooling that has happened in the last years
 - must do something drastic about climate change
 - CO2 levels changed before temperature changes
 - sea ice diminishing due to global warming
 - the seas are warming


Did Al Gore do something wrong about alarming us about global warming?
Are we wise to ignore concerns about allowing CO2 levels to increase?  
Should we be concerned about Copenhagen in December?
Shouldn't we be concerned about the future ... taking action now to not negatively impact the future?


In the Toronto Star Wed Oct 28, John Broome spoke on the ethics (moral philosophy) of climate change at a UofT lecture series.
Is this something we should become interested in and encourage?






In my opinion, the more we are involved, the better the understanding and better the correct and timely action plans.