A climate-denying lie in the making
This is the original of the letter I wrote to Business Day today.
Sir
Robert Gentle, that busy little cog in the Climate Change Denial machinery, has repeated a downright lie, fabricated within the last months (Beware global cooling, Letters, November 9). He has resorted to quote-mining a talk by Prof Mojib Latif, warning of the very distortions Gentle is now peddling.
In his talk in September 2009, Prof Latif warns that natural variations in the long term warming might be misinterpreted by the media out of ignorance – or malice. What Latif actually said was: “..we all believe this long-term warming trend is anthropogenic in nature, is man made. … [I]t may well happen that you enter a decade, or maybe even two, when the temperature cools, relative to the present”. He then goes on to warn about this natural variation being misinterpreted by the climate-change sceptics. To emphasise his position he says, “I am definitely not one of the sceptics. And if my name was not Mojib Latif, my name would be Global Warming”.
No sooner were his words cold than one Lorne Gunter, a US columnist, did exactly that and completely misrepresented Latif’s message, saying that instead of global warming Latif was predicting global cooling. Within minutes this was picked up by Fox News and the lie was spread to the rest of the climate-deniers including, it would seem, Robert Gentle. The interesting thing is that the creation of this lie is well documented by environmentalist, Peter Sinclair. Have a look at his short video Birth of a Climate Crock (Google it). It lays bare the dishonesty of the climate deniers.
Sinclair has this to say: “It is a truism of human nature that honesty, integrity and openness are seen by evil and greedy men as weakness, something to be exploited and used. The only remedy is to keep shining the light and keep telling the truth.”
Here is the video:
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