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Anonymous Pharos-Tribune Tue Nov 10, 2009, 08:24 AM EST

Global warming a liberal hoax

After reading managing editor Kelly Hawes’ article (Pharos-Tribune, Oct. 25), I feel I have to respond. I realize that I am just one of the 57 percent of Republicans (questionable poll) who see no evidence of global warming.

Sorry, I forgot that global warming has been changed to climate change by liberals like Al Gore, who realize that the earth has been cooling for the last 11 years and global warming is a misnomer. Climate change fits nicely with their typical liberal spin.

Mr. Hawes mentioned 18 scientific organizations reaffirming the consensus behind the climate change theory. (Check www.aaas.org.) What consensus? At the Feb. 25, 2008, U.S. Senate committee on Environment and Public Works hearing, Dr. William Happer, a Princeton professor and former director of energy research, noted that 650 prominent international scientists challenged the recent U.N. panel finding of CO2-driven global warming.

Dr. Happer says that CO2 is a beneficial compound essential to life on Earth. He also states that because our current level of CO2 is 380 ppm compared to the 1,000 ppm CO2 levels throughout our planet’s history, we are in a CO2 famine.

Another fact on the consensus of scientists backing climate change that Mr. Hawes did not mention is that more than 31,000 scientists, including some 9,000 holding PhDs have signed a petition urging our government not to sign the Kyoto agreement because it would hurt the health and welfare of mankind. There is also a recent ad by the Cato Institute signed by 100 scientists challenging our president’s “facts on Global Warming.”

The “distorting climate science” industry is invested in the CO2 hoax for the money and control. By this year’s end, we taxpayers will have subsidized the American Global Warming Industry to the tune of over $78 billion (The Science & Public Policy Institute). Also according to SPPI, “$30 billion has been spent on Global Warming Science, and no one can point to a single piece of empirical evidence that man-made carbon dioxide has a significant effect on the global climate.”

The comment that “perhaps the scientists need a better press agent” is thought-provoking. Al Gore and his environmental hoaxers have the vast majority of media and the education establishment in their back pockets. I hope that reason overcomes this global warming hoax and the cap and trade (tax) bill is defeated.

Vic Heater

Winamac

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