An Open Letter to the Hon. James Prentice, Minister of the Environment

Dear Minister Prentice,

As a gainfully employed citizen, I don't have time to drop into your office (or that of my local MP) and occupy the premises to try and get my point across. That's why I have this blog. It is my hope that perhaps someone in your office may come across it and bring it to your attention.

In two weeks, the world will be meeting in Copenhagen, ostensibly to discuss 'climate change' although the prescriptions that will be brought forward have nothing to do with dealing with climate. These discussions are based on the various reports by the IPCC.

As you may be aware, the bases of of these reports are being called into question after the release of information which appeared to have been compiled for a UK Freedom of Information Act request to the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, by Canadian Steven McIntyre. His request was refused, but somehow, the information made its way into the public domain. This is something for which all citizens should be thankful, as the revelations presented a picture that should be raising concerns around the world.

The authenticity of these e-mails and documents has been confirmed by the CRU. This information package included both documentation and code used to generate the data and charts (like the Hockey Stick) used in the IPCC reports, as well as some very enlightening e-mails. If you want a summation of this material, you can look at it here. If your staff would like to research the e-mails, they have been complied in a searchable format here.

In these e-mails, a group of scientists central to the IPCC panel discussed such things as circumventing Access to Information requests, destroying data rather than releasing it, blackballing scientists and journals who presented contrarian views, and circumventing a non-biased peer-review process by recommending each other as reviewers of their papers. They also referenced coordination and collusion with certain friendly NGOs, journalists and bureacrats.

The actions of these individuals, should be cause for immediate investigation. The data needs to come out and be analyzed in an open, transparent and replicatable manner to remove any question of bias and duplicity. Then we might get a more honest picture of the real situation. Until this occurs, as a concerned citizen of Canada, I am asking the Government of Canada to decline signing on to anything coming out of COP15.

Destroying our economy based on false information would be a disservice to our citizens and our future.

Sylia Stingrey
Citizen