Williams is professor emeritus at the department of animal and poultry sciences at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.
Every concerned citizen owes it to him or herself to read The Deniers by Lawrence Solomon.
Not that you have to agree with his contentions; but it is a convincing summary of the opinions of a group of reputable scientists who do not accept the doomsday scenario as presented by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and incidentally promoted by many non-scientists, including Al Gore.
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Even if The Deniers are only partly right and the IPCC is only partially wrong, the implications for governmental policies concerning climate change are astounding.
The possibility of an all too common human failing may be at work; namely that once a statement is made by an assumed authority and then widely accepted, there seems no way of stopping or even diverting the consequential actions based on the original assumption.
A recent case with which we are all too familiar was the official U.S. statement that weapons of mass destruction were in the hands of the Iraqis. The outcomes have become catastrophic.
A similar pattern can be observed in the actions of many of the leading animal rights activists. They make the unsupported assumption that all animals are not only sentient beings but that they also think and react like humans.
This anthropogenic position leads those followers who accept the original hypothesis to give unquestioning support and come to some most peculiar conclusions.
As an old war veteran who now recognizes why I so willingly marched off to war, I feel some responsibility to have the basic assumptions driving the climate change movement examined and debated.
It is a small request in the light of its importance.
