The global warming myth

The rush is on to join the bandwagon to fight "global warming" as promoted by the big three TV networks and many newspapers.

Seventeen-thousand scientists disagree and are being ignored. Four men in the Wall Street Journal issued a challenge to debate "global warming" to Al Gore. Of course, he did not respond.

How many times will the American people allow the media and liberals to misrepresent the facts? Worldwide temperature has not varied more than one degree since records have been kept.

The Dec. 14 Bristol Herald Courier article, "Scientists – 2007 among the warmest on record," urges the herd to rush to judgment. They use so-called long-period averages to prove unprovable theories and expect us to gulp it down. One hurricane can cause more pollution than all the cars in the United States in a year.

Time magazine had a big article and it was on their front page a few years ago, warning of the coming ice age. Funny, we haven’t heard a lot about that lately.

NBC, a few weeks ago, had a special concerning the value to the environment accomplished by the replacing of street lights, etc., in Ann Arbor, Mich. They neglected to mention that their parent company, GE, manufactures similar lighting. They did own up to it in the next edition of their program, after alert viewers called them to task.

One analyst predicts that a single large manufacturer could make up to $50 billion from combating "global warming."

Meanwhile, important issues remain neglected by Congress: world terrorism, illegal immigration, unprotected borders and ports, out-of-control taxes, abortion, the federal debt, health care, saving social Security and Medicare, energy independence, decline in education, etc.

John McCain recently said we need solutions to energy independence. Strange, he and his cohorts haven’t accomplished that in 27 years in power.

Richard Bailey
Bristol, Va.