The American Spectator

p> Sir: Your author William Yeatman argues against the measures proposed by Senator McCain and that functional moron Al Gore to prevent the coming catastrophic warming caused by human industrial activities. There is a petition on the subject (you can find it on the Internet under “Petition on Global Warming”) signed by some 22,000 scientists and professionals (me included) to the effect that human activities have no effect on the earth’s climate, whether warming or cooling. In the 1970’s we were warned of the coming catastrophic new ice age, by some of the same “scientists” who are now panicked about catastrophic warming. One could argue with the same certainty that a burp of a lonely wolf in Alaska will change the Florida climate from tropical to perpetual ice. Breathing oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide is the principle of life and we are grateful for it; the insects here on earth are also grateful - they produce much more carbon dioxide than all the humanity with all its industry will ever do. The heating influence (thermal absorptivity) of water vapor in the atmosphere is about 1000 times that of carbon dioxide — and where would we all be without water? br> — Marc Jeric , MS, PhD (Engineering, UCLA) /p>