Glow Ball Warming

When it comes to the issue of Global Warming it all depends on who's Crystal Ball is better and forecasting the future of our planet. On the one hand we have the Federal Government and the rather underwhelming Rona Ambrose. On the other the Scientific community. Trouble is, both parties argue over the fundamental issues of proof and whether Global Warming is happening at all.

As pointed out in a recent broadcast by the fifth estate on CBC See: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/denialmachine/index.html
the American and Canadian governments are playing a PR game now offering up their own brand of experts to either re-enforce the notion that out climate is changing or denying the exaggeration. When it comes to this kind of infighting you better do your own research, simply because it's going to get worse before it gets better in the battle for truth.

I side with scientists who are not affiliated with any government, corporation or private research group. Academics, we used to call them; interested only in getting to the root causes of environmental degradation and coming up with some startling facts. What I like best about their research, such as the stuff you can get by the experts at www.realclimate.org, are peer reviewed. That is, reviewed by scientists in the field, without a political bias, it is hoped.

But if a government abuses its science by hiring a PR firm to contradict the proven science out there, then we run into some serious difficulty as citizens. First, our money is being spent to put a negative spin on a problem that affects all of us. Second, our government fails to represent us and slowly favours the few usually in the guise of the highest corporate contributors.

So who's crystal ball will tell us the truth? The one with the fewest spin-doctors.

That's just my opinion. I could be wrong.