Although a CBC article claims Alberta’s cold snap is due to global warming, environment specialists say those allegations are false..“The term ‘climate change’ is now automatically assumed to mean a change in climate caused by humans — this is not the case,” Michelle Stirling of Friends of Science Calgary (FOSC) told the Western Standard..FOSC is a group comprised of retired and semi-retired earth and atmospheric scientists who have been engaged in climate science literature review since 2002..“The core group has a cumulative body of some 300 years of training and field experience,” explains the FOSC website..Stirling outlined the scientific identification of climate change is defined by changes in the state of a climate that persists for extended periods, typically decades or longer..“The article is terribly misleading on many counts,” said Stirling after reviewing CBC‘s article..“If these events and cold snaps were truly climate change — human-caused or naturally caused, or a combination of both — this would have been the case for decades or longer..“We do not see any such trends in the data. Extreme weather is not caused by carbon dioxide or human industrial activity.”.Dr. Madhav Khandekar examines extreme weather events of the past and called them an “integral part of the weather system” in a Friends of Science video..“In the erratic weather of the Little Ice Age, thousands of people were burned at the stake as witches for the crime of weather cooking with the help of Satan,” said Stirling..“This is similar to today’s mass psychosis on climate change.”.Stirling said Calgarians are used to climate patterns not related to global warming as El Ninos and Chinook winds are common in the area..“Canadian journos have done a self-serving survey wherein they have decided to report all climate matters as a crisis, even though they failed to even do basic due diligence to see if there is such a thing,” said Stirling..Ewa Sudyk is a reporter with the Western Standard. esudyk@westernstandardonline.com
