Scientists send a letter to Harper...

60 prominent canadian scientists have sent a letter to prime minister Harper asking him to back down with the Kyoto protocol. The letter was published not surprisingly in the National Post and at the same time as Harper started making cuts with the liberal's program to comply to Kyoto. There has been an increase recently with political personalities and even scientists expressing doubts about global warming. The increased global temperature in the upper strata of the atmosphere and accumulated latent heat in the ocean is supported by a mountain of evidence, and so it is suprising to me that there is so much skepticism even with scientists about global warming ... It seems that people are still working on proving the hypothesis that human-produced greenhouse gases are the cause, or that stoping further increase of those gases will stop or revese this warming trend. But not believing in a warming seems like an extreme position. The earth has always had temperature fluctuations. The last mini ice-age was only 1000 years ago. So are they suggesting that now the temperature does not change anymore, even in the face of all the evidence to the contrary? I have also seen some scientist talking about being alienated because they did not believe and were publicly against global warming. I think one must be careful not to hear only a few dissenting voices over the buzz of the thousands that agree. I personally doubt that there is a conspiracy depriving researchers of grants for research disproving global warming. Or that these researchers are muzzled. Sometimes paranoia is a reflection of big egos, and self victimization. If this is confusing to scientist imagine to the public, who are more prone to taking the opinion of a few people rather then critically assess the available data. It reminds me of the letter by scientist that did not believe in evolution, even scientists make mistakes, we're human... Perhaps it is time that the thousands of other climate scientists send a letter to Harper. Do we need to scrutinize the latest data or the people that signed this letter?