Canadian editorial criticizes climate "hysterics."

In a signed editorial for Canada's Daily Observer (3/20), columnist Lorrie Goldstein wrote that "[g]lobal warming is the gift that keeps on giving to climate hysterics." Goldstein adds that supporters of global warming "will never be called to account for their simple-minded campaign to demonize fossil fuels" because "everyone alive today will be dead long before we know how much of the scientific 'consensus' on global warming is correct." She pointed out that "[t]here are huge unknowns, competing theories and debates within the scientific community about what will happen, where, when and how severe." Global "climate is always changing and was changing long before we arrived," she wrote.

Goldstein agrees with U.S. Foreign Service officers Teresa Chin Jones and David T. Jones, who wrote a 2007 article titled The Zen of Global Warming. She concluded that they argued "for a pragmatic approach -- energy conservation and industrial innovation to develop alternative energy sources, based on the precautionary principle that, regardless of global warming theory, we know the Earth's population is increasing and that non-renewable energy sources" are exactly "that -- non-renewable."