Margaret Wente [columnist in the Globe and Mail for you non-globe and mailers]: You officially ruined my Sunday morning with this piece, arguing that climate change science in uncertain and encouraging 'the environmental movement' to "grow up." Furthermore, she is arguing that we must shift our focus to rescuing the tigers, lions and tunas instead of wasting our energy on climate change. Way to not see the forest for the trees. 


Luckyily, her post has attracted a good 513 frustrated responses on the globe and mail website. I hope she reads them. The one below by Alan Burke caught my attention in particular, I hope all who reads her column reads this as well. In reality [educated] climate change sceptics are few and far between, by giving them equal access to the media, the case is presented as one of 5050, with serious consequences for the legitimacy of a very legitimate problem. 


"Ms. Wente has once again written on the topic of climate change. And once again, she has implied that the science is deeply flawed and that the problem is not as serious as environmentalists would have us believe. Fine. Ms. Wente is entitled to her opinions as a columnist. However, as a matter of journalistic integrity Ms. Wente and the editors of the Globe and Mail should note somewhere in the article that she is a board member of the Energy Probe Research Foundation whose division, Energy Probe, is Canada’s most vociferous climate change denial organization. By belonging to its board, Ms. Wente obviously is part of the Foundation’s climate change denial advocacy. Fine again. But Globe and Mail readers should be told where Ms. Wente is coming from rather than being allowed to think she is an impartial journalist and columnist."

She has a deep conflict of interest on this topic and is not credible on the issue, failing abyssmally to substantiate her rant. She offers no evidence to support her view because there is none. She is one of the delivery girls for the "Merchants of Doubt".