The BIG story of the day is actually 'Climategate!'—But who in Canada has the nerve to run with it? Where are the Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein caliber reporters of the Nixon years? The much sought after 'deep background' information most reporters could only dream of getting is sitting on a silver platter, but who among them will dare pick it up? Is it all the Copenhagen hype that makes this business much too risky?

The hacked emails just last month of the University of East Anglia are being downplayed by some as merely a smear campaign to sabotage the Copenhagen global summit. After all, what other reason could anyone have for suggesting that a 'leading authority on global climate analysis' manipulated information about the earth's temperatures?

Well, let's see… Allow me to offer you one very credible reason.

In September, of this year, Professor Mojib Latif, one of the leading climate modelers in the world, and a previous supporter of the theory that man-made greenhouse emissions are causing the planet to warm dangerously, revealed in Geneva that the Earth has not warmed for nearly a decade now, and that we are likely entering "one or even two decades during which temperatures cool." Latif is the recipient of several international climate-study prizes and a lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Really, how much evidence does the media, or our government, need? In addition to this, in the CHP Canada news release last Friday we reported that: "…almost 31,500 scientists (9,029 of them PhDs, and many climate scientists,) have signed a document asserting that the IPCC's agenda would in fact "harm the environment."

Canadians do want to be among world leaders and we certainly could be if our government would get behind cleaning up real pollution: air, water and soil pollution and the thousands of untested chemicals being released into the environment every year. But sadly, we are not; instead the Copenhagen photo-op with other world leaders is the main attraction for our Prime Minister.

The money spent on these very expensive world excursions and failed Kyoto-type hype should be going towards Canadian research and development. This would translate into jobs, technology, and a cleaner environment for all of us, and our grandchildren, to enjoy. It would make Canadian cities places world leaders would want to visit and would put us in a position to better assist underdeveloped nations.