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Comment on: Letters: Global warming is happening, it is time for us to change
I am writing in response to the letter written by DR Richard Barns in the 12th November Edition of the NCE. To say that those who don’t agree with his notion that global warming is manmade, have their heads in the sand and in pretence, is both highly insulting and derisory. Of course he is welcome to express his views but the fact he has based them on scientific data he chooses to select does not mean that there is another equally sound scientific opinion that offers a different view on the causes of global warming. I have watched with interest the many letters that the NCE have chosen to publish over the last few years and note that the camp in which the NCE editorial team lies is fairly obvious. I doubt therefore that this letter gets published! Many Fellows and Members that I have spoken have tried to get letters published offering very different views to Richard Barns without success, an example of what I suspect is another case of the silent majority not being heard. All I ask is that we, as professional Engineers, should shy away from becoming entangled in politically motivated arguments and focus on our quest for knowledge, understanding properly sought scientific data and seek to use all analysis techniques available globally in order to understand more fully the reasons why we are experiencing climate change, instead of being directed into accepting the views of particular politically driven panel of Scientists who apparently have all the acceptable answers to Governments and Green activists, ignoring the research of other equally competent scientists with no political interference, who hold other views. The jury is still out on this very important issue and all I ask for is a truly balanced non emotive debate embracing both sides of the argument allowing society to judge for themselves whether Man or nature is the cause of this current bout of global warming. Surely we, as Engineers, need to enter into this interrogation, as Belamy. Nigel Lawson and others have tried to do, so that our expertise can be funneled in the right direction and not be aligned later with a critism of misusing our mission of using nature to the benefit of mankind. To arrogantly state that deniers are in pretence is both totally unacceptable and bigoted. Nigel JB Nixon BSc CEng FICE PE
