Howie Chong

Starting next week, over 20,000 people will be meeting in Copenhagen to discuss how the world should tackle climate change.

Officially called the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the two week-long meeting will (hopefully) culminate with a global road map on how humanity will tackle global warming.

Here are five reasons why you should follow the talks in Copenhagen.

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David Frum, formerly a key advisor to George W. Bush, writes in the National Post about the scandal plaguing climate scientists from the University of East Anglia, where emails obtained by outsiders seem to suggest that scientists fudged their climate numbers.

Frum’s point:  just because some scientists did bad does not make the entire science of climate change bogus.

He uses the example of James Watson and Francis Crick, who gained in enormous insight from the work of Rosalind Franklin in their discovery of the structure of DNA and subsequently denigrated her with a attitudes of misogyny and sexism.  Nobody would use Watson and Crick’s bad behaviour to discredit the structure of DNA.

Yet, here we are, our media using the behaviour of a small number of scientists to discredit the work on climate change done by thousands upon thousands of scientific minds.

See his article here.

Recent developments in the US and Canada give further indication that a continental-wide Cap-and-Trade system shall be in place across North America.

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Global Warming for Dummies

My good friends Elizabeth May and Zoe Caron have just published Global Warming for Dummies, an introductory book on climate change, its effects and what people/companies/governments can/are/should do about it.

For those who find that Al Gore’s 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth was a bit light on the details, this book provides you with more information on the science and policy of climate change and greenhouse gases.