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Letter: ‘Climate change’ is a hoax

By Tom Nelson, Vancouver
Published: August 12, 2018, 6:00am

You call me a climate change denier. I say you’re a man-made global warming alarmist. You abducted the neutral phrase “climate change” to encompass your political hoax of man-made global warming. You politicized the neutral phrase because the general population wasn’t buying the hoax. They’re smart enough to see through the hoax.

Show me the evidence that connects man’s influence to climate change. You have theories, graphs, charts but no direct connection of man’s activities to warming of our planet. Your studies have been paid for by our taxpayer dollars, doled out to scientists willing to come up with theories supporting the agenda of environmental extremists and their governmental allies.

I believe that man can and does impact our planet with our activities. But to think that we can control climate change is to ignore all other influences on the climate. Volcanoes, the earth’s orbit, solar flares, the temperature of the oceans and the fluid dynamics of the oceans and atmosphere are just some of the factors of the complex climate change equation. And it is arrogant of mankind to think that we can affect climate change.

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