David Suzuki

via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Suzuki">wikipedia</a>:

"[...]His 1985 hit series, A Planet for the Taking, averaged more than 1.8 million viewers per episode and earned him a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Environment_Programme" title="United Nations Environment Programme">United Nations Environment Programme</a> Medal.

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In recent years, Suzuki has been a forceful spokesperson on global <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a>. In February 2008, he urged <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University">McGill University</a> students to speak out against politicians who fail to act on climate change, stating "What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Suzuki#cite_note-12">[12]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Suzuki#cite_note-13">[13]</a>

Suzuki is unequivocal that climate change is a very real and pressing problem and that an "overwhelming majority of scientists" now agree that human activity is responsible. The David Suzuki Foundation website has a clear statement of this:

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The debate is over about whether or not climate change is real. Irrefutable evidence from around the world - including extreme weather events, record temperatures, retreating glaciers, and rising sea levels - all point to the fact climate change is happening now and at rates much faster than previously thought.

The overwhelming majority of scientists who study climate change agree that human activity is responsible for changing the climate. The United Nations <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change" title="Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</a> (IPCC) is one of the largest bodies of international scientists ever assembled to study a scientific issue, involving more than 2,500 scientists from more than 130 countries. The IPCC has concluded that most of the warming observed during the past 50 years is attributable to human activities. Its findings have been publicly endorsed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="United States National Academy of Sciences" class="mw-redirect">National Academies of Science</a> of all <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G8" title="G8" class="mw-redirect">G8</a> nations, as well as those of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Suzuki#cite_note-Foundation-14">[14]</a>

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Suzuki says that despite this growing consensus, many in the public and the media seemed doubtful about the science for many years. The reason for the confusion about climate change, in Suzuki's view, was due to a well-organized campaign of disinformation about the science involved. "A very small number of critics" denies that climate change exists and that humans are the cause. These climate change “skeptics” or "deniers", Suzuki claims, tend not to be climate scientists and do not publish in peer-reviewed scientific journals but rather target the media, the general public, and policy makers. Their goal: "delaying action on climate change." According to Suzuki, the skeptics have received significant funding from coal and oil companies, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil">ExxonMobil</a>. They are linked to "industry-funded lobby groups", such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Council_on_the_Environment" title="Information Council on the Environment">Information Council on the Environment</a> (ICE),<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Suzuki#cite_note-15">[15]</a> whose aim is to "reposition global warming as theory (not fact)."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Suzuki#cite_note-Foundation-14">[14]</a>"

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