CBC is in Denial

The CBC is an integral part of the denial machine

Anyone with even a rudimentary level of critical thinking skills who saw The Fifth Estate's program "The Denial Machine" would be able to see clearly where the bulk of the denial is coming from. Unfortunately, everyone at the Communist Broadcasting Corporation clearly lacks those skills.

If you didn't see it, you did yourself a favour. The thesis of the show was to pretend that there is no debate or question amongst "the scientific community" as to whether global warming is a real and major phenomenon. It tried to paint any opposition to the conclusions of globals castatrophe as the paid servants of "big oil."

Consider the following ironies:

1) There is legitimate scientific opposition to the prevailing doomsday predictions of the global warming crowd, yet the CBC denies its existance.

2) It claims any opposition that exists is just a paid shill for "Big Oil", yet refuses to examine the science on either side of the debate.

3) Climate science is a very young discipline. It relies heavily on computer models of very complex systems that have no track record of accuracy. In order to be able to make these computer models, scientists have had to make assumptions. Do any state their assumptions up front and what the implications of those asssumptions are? Have they released their source code for peer review?

4) There is a lot of competition for government research money. Consider that these doomsday scenarios come from those who stand to gain government funding only if there is a catastrophe ahead that their chosen field of study will help understand. Whould you spend billions on climate study if your scientists told you that that the climate was going to stay the same for the next few thousand years?

5) Consider the accuracy of current climate models. Is it reasonable to believe that these models can accurately predict the climate a hundred years from now? Can they accurately predict if its going to rain next Tuesday?


I would suggest that there is considerable basic scientific work still to be done before we move back into caves.

For further details: Terrence Corcoran further eviscerates the CBC's propaganda in this morning's National Post.