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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Global Conspiracy
By Johnny Defiace - Altoona, PA
Aug 3, 2006

Dear Professor Slekar,

The only warming that is going on globally is the warm fuzzy feeling
inside that socialists get when they think that they're bettering
society by trying to make policy based upon theories on an unsettled
issue.

Politically, it is in the best interest of the socialists and their
party to create a great concern amongst the public. This means using
their natural extension of the media to create hype and disseminate
false information or half-truths. The New York Times and Washington Post
have been reputably known to mislead their stories and reporting to sway
public opinion to the left. What else would expect from them but nothing
but full support for the Global Warming theory.

But let us get past opinion and observations a little bit. Let us talk
about facts. We have a very limited amount of reliable data to go off
of. Even your beloved Washington Times admits that over the past
twenty-five years, the temperatures have shown no pattern of increase.
Satellite surface temperature readings have been the only reliable
source of detecting trends and the technology has not been around long
enough to properly determine trends. Even still, here is what is shown
thus far.

Source #1: <http://www.ncpa.org/~ncpa/ba/gif/ba230a.gif>

Does that look like an upward trend of temperatures? Is that what you're
basing your blind following of the Global Warming theory on? Or could it
be that your political views on socialism are greatly aligned with other
liberals in office (who see this as a political opportunity) and you
dare not challenge the thought and reason behind anyone of your own
party?

There are a slew of scientists who have spent quite a bit of time on
this theory (have we forgotten what theory means?) and have come to
several different conclusions. If I wanted to, I could go through and
find thousands of highly qualified scientists who have published
writings on the issue either way. Perhaps you should seek out the
factual information and think for yourself.

Secondly, I want to address the point about this "consensus" amongst
scientists, as if this is a settled issue, and some rogue conservative
scientists are being let loose to throw everyone off the proper path.
The article you mentioned, and the scientist who wrote it is entitled to
her opinion, but I've discovered research of my own. Her assessment of
this consensus is incorrect. A Gallup poll was conducted on the
scientist members of the Meteorlogical Society and the American
Geophysical Society (the very people who study this for a living). Only
17% believe that humans are to blame for this. How can it be a settled
issue when only 17% believe that humans to cause for it?

Source #2: <http://www.ncpa.org/~ncpa/ba/gif/ba230b.gif>

But where did your author get the source of this information? From the
IPCC. The IPCC stands for "Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change".
Governmental? As in, politicians who have personal gain to be made by
fudging scientific data have formed this panel? This is where your
beloved Naomi Oreskes gets her source of information from about this
"consensus" from all these scientists. This is where you get you got
your source for debate on this issue. Which source would you most likely
question first on the consensus of scientists about Global Warming? Mine
or yours?

Still don't believe me? Have you ever heard of "The Oregon Petition"?
This petition has over 19,000 signatures from scientists all over the
world, which claim that there is no evidence for any global warming
caused by man.

Source #3: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Petition>

Now, if the humans are to blame for this, then that means we are capable
of solving it, correct? Wrong again. Even if you could rely on
information as old as 150 years old, you'll find that the largest part
of our increase in CO2 levels in the atmosphere took place before 1940,
long before we started emitting it ourselves. Nevermind the fact that
water vapor is the #1 "green house gas". Not CO2. You and your cronnies
continually ignore this fact as well.

The point of all of this is that the issue is no where near dead, no
where near settled and despite the arrogance of our society, we are
still heavily uninformed and ignorant on what affects our climate has
and what our impact on it is. Never in the thousands of years of science
has any respectable policy ever been made on scientific information so
raw and volatile. It is arrogant of you and anyone else to
whole-heartedly believe that we are to blame for any warming trends, or
that we are even in a warming trend. Anyone who decides to attack this
politically and economically is doing so for their own gain and/or the
gain of who share similar political and economical views. For someone
who spent their entire life in education, you didn't seem to learn very
much, Professor Slekar.