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4.12.06 @ 12:01AM

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SCIENCE SHOW TRIAL
Re: David Hogberg's Kyoto Kiddies:

Global warming alarmists are obviously Lenin-Stalin wannabes, but it's hard to believe they will ever get enough traction to do us harm. We Joe Six-Packs out here know that we might lose our jobs and/or have to park our pickups and SUVs, so we won't be signing up for Kyoto. The liberals of the Coasts may voluntarily crush and melt their Volvos, but if production of goods and services plummet (and even we aren't so stupid to be convinced it wouldn't), millions more in the Third World would starve than already are. Suppose the nose-wipe parties do take over all the governments of developed nations, and then try to force green house gas rules on us. We'd have their politicians crying "uncle" and "pour on the coal" in no time.
-- Ty Knoy
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Mr. Hogberg has got it exactly right. "Doing it for the children" is now the phrase of choice for the last resort of scoundrels. Global warming has not only been used by unscrupulous "scientists" to scare us into supplying them with more research money (and hence, pay raises, bigger research departments, promotions, and especially, more power and influence over others), the mainstream media has now swallowed the global warming bit, hook, line and sinker. The fear mongering of the Time magazine cover a few weeks ago shows that the media has already decided that the scientific debate is over. A few clarifications are in order:

* Scientific debate is never over. Good scientists always continue to question the mainstream "beliefs," trying to poke holes in every accepted theory. Scientists who say the debate is over have jumped the shark from the scientific method to dogma.

* Mathematical models, which have been used by scientists to "prove" that we are on a one way trip to hell on earth, are based on many assumptions, and as the professor in the Paper Chase said, when you assume, you make an "ass" out of "u" and "me." Make other assumptions, with equal probabilities of being correct, and your model can predict another ice age cometh.

* Mathematical models do not "prove" anything, until you can prove that all your assumptions are correct. Nobody is even close to doing this. World climate is too complex -- maybe in another hundred years, we might start to get a handle on this...

* In the hundreds of millions of years of the history of life on earth, there have been natural warming and cooling. Analysis of trapped air bubbles found in bubbles in amber that are many millions of years old show higher oxygen (50 percent higher) and carbon dioxide (1000% higher) levels than today -- and yet life flourished.

* Why must global warming (natural or man-made) be such a bad thing? More carbon dioxide and warmer temperatures means more biomass (plants and animals) and more habitable and agricultural land. Isn't this what environmentalists want? But instead, the media only focuses on the Chicken Little scientists who cry about rising ocean levels, increased malaria, etc. We have a name in the Midwest for people like this -- pessimists.
-- Mike Spencer
Midland, Michigan

GUEST DICTATOR PROGRAM
Re: Jay D. Homnick's Why Simper to Fidel?:

This article is something so refreshing and accurate; evidently, Mr. Homnick knows what he is writing about. Please, translate my opinion to the author.
-- Eduardo Aleman
Miami, Florida

I am very impressed both by the substance and the style, the wit and the truth of this article. I am bewildered at the "why" of it all...by what goony gestalt does not the majority party encourage resettlement in the U.S. of:

1) Voters who will enhance their majority.

2) Industrious hard working, mostly honest folks.

3) People from a land of some culture, marvelous music, a bit of important literature, baseball fans, I love Lucy, Xavier Cugat, Perez Prado and that El Duque baseball player -- and simultaneously favour the absorption of unskilled workers by the tens of millions -- for Wal-Mart? For GM? For a bunch of Texas cattle guys?
So where are the howls of outrage by the public??
-- Claudia Monteverdi
Patagonia, Argentina

At least Castro has a better record of keeping his economic refugees home. Maybe the CIA could arrange some kind of guest dictator program for Mexico.
-- unsigned

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