Mr. Speaker, it is very interesting that the member quoted Frederick Seitz.
I am going to refer to the book entitled “The Heat is On”. The quote is from an article in the Wall Street Journal . Frederick Selz is a director of the Marshall institute. He castigated another scientist, Santer, for allegedly excising references to scientific uncertainty. He wrote: “I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer review process than the events which led to this IPCC report”, which is the quote the hon. member cited.
Several months later Seitz conceded the reports of his own Marshall institute which consistently denied that any threat to the global climate were not based on science but merely “represent opinion”. So much for Selz. It was purely an opinion. He admits himself that it did not represent scientific fact.
If the hon. member would care to read “The Heat is On”, all the references are there to the Marshall institute, to Selz, to Bolin, to the IPCC, to Michaels, Balling, Idso, Frederick Singer and Dr. Lindzen, who are all paid consultants of the trillion dollar oil and gas lobby, who would want us to believe that the world is not changing.
They would want us to believe, as tobacco scientists used to that tobacco does not cause cancer. They would want us to believe that the fish are not disappearing off the shores of Newfoundland. They would want us to wait until the world is a desert, until the seas have risen and the islands have gone. Then the Reform Party could do something but it will not be here any more, thank goodness.