To the editor:
Re: “Letter: Olson backward on science cartoon,” Jan. 17.
Thank you Geoff Olson for your two recent political cartoons January 8th and 15th! Both were right on the money. While Mr. Hoye takes a different view of your cartoons, it would appear that he has been spending too much time reading nonsensical, non-peer-reviewed denier postings on the Internet.
Mr. Hoye might be interested to know that from Nov 2012 to Dec 2013, of the 2,258 peer-reviewed climate articles by 9,136 authors, only one author rejected man-made global warming. He might also like to know that his fellow professional climate change-denying friends, who spread the same nonsense, get their funding from a network of secret funds like the Donor Trust — funds that can usually be traced back to Big Oil.
Mr. Hoye seems to be OK with the Conservatives wasting $40 million of his tax dollars to promote the tar sands with half-truths and distortions.
Yet he is not OK with the fact that scientists who are working hard to protect people’s health are also receiving his tax dollars. It would seem that he supports Harper’s muzzling of scientists, cutting their funding, closing their world class lab and destroying their world class science library.
So, Geoff Olson, please keep the political cartoons coming. The Harper government must be continually exposed for their ongoing destruction of our country.
Bob Loveless,
Vancouver
