Columbia Basin adapts to ‘climate change’

“While world leaders are meeting in Copenhagen this week to discuss climate change, right here in the Columbia Basin, local governments, First Nations and communities are already taking action on climate change with support from Columbia Basin Trust”, says a news release from CBT.

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A recently-conducted survey concludes that 75% of communities in the Columbia Basin are already enthusiastically moving ahead with their own agendas toward reducing emissions by retrofitting heating and insulating systems and by various other creative initiatives.

Neil Muth, President and CEO of Columbia Basin Trust, says that, “Communities and local governments told us addressing climate change is a priority. It’s our role to help communities in the Columbia Basin achieve their goals and we are doing that by providing technical and financial resources across a range of climate change initiatives.”

CBT has already helped the City of Kimberley and the District of Elkford, and will be assisting 3 other communities with their endeavors. Rossland, Castlegar and Kaslo, along with the Regional District of Central Kootenay Area D are all benefiting from “the technical support, access to climate scientists and project management coordination as well as funding” that CBT is providing.

In collaboration with academics and climate change scientists, several reports and summaries have been outlined and CBT is basing their plans upon these reports, based upon this science. They have concluded that this area of British Columbia can expect warmer winters, drier summers, lower summer stream flows, loss of glaciers, rising snowlines and more extreme weather events. www.cbt.org/climatechange.

Climategate

All very well and good. However, on November 20th, 2009, an unknown hacker broke into the computer systems of the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Great Britain, and stole more than 1,000 emails and 3,000 documents, releasing them into the public domain. The information in these documents have opened up a veritable can of worms for the scientists who have been loudly proclaiming dire predictions of mass devastation due to global warming, caused, of course, by humanity.

What was revealed was the irrefutable fact that climate scientists have had an agenda and that they have lied and altered information to coincide with their agenda. They have deliberately deceived the world population into believing the spin they had put on qualified research,that humans are the cause of all the disasters to come in the near future.

Mainstream media, which have not, for many long years, told the whole truth about much of anything, have actually jumped on the bandwagon about Climategate, as the scandal has been dubbed. This has become the biggest scientific story of the decade.

Now, everything we thought we knew about ‘climate change’, ‘climate cooling’, ‘climate warming’ is up in the air. Every reasonable person everywhere is asking, “Who do we believe?” And the conclusion we must come to is that there needs to be a whole lot more research done before we can come to any real conclusions.

The Columbia Basin Trust is certainly no stranger to the climate-change debate, as it was formed to compensate communities for losses suffered by flooding the Columbia with the building of hydro-electric dams. When CBT was created the climate-change fad of the day was global cooling, not global warming. Like any other organization or individual, the CBT has learned what they believe today by trial and error. Many trials and some errors –- a few of them major. But today, the Trust is highly respected in the Columbia Basin area and sought after for their expertise in environmental matters.

We must hope that this organization will see the wisdom in taking a step backward to let the real science emerge before making irreversible alterations in our precious environment.