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Re: Bill Vaughan's July 10 letter, "Fooled by environmentalists":
Vaughan quoted unnamed environmentalists: "When the polar ice cap melts, all coastal cities would be under water." Unlikely.
Real environmentalists know that melting sea ice will not change sea level. Melting of the ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica will raise sea levels. Also, increasing ocean temperature will directly increase sea levels, due to the greater volume of the warmer water.
— Bill Kleinhans,
Thousand Oaks
Knowing science helps
Re: your July 10 letters, Bill Vaughan's "Fooled by environmentalists," and Mark Ortega's "Global warming' defined":
These letters show how easy it is for the right wing to fool people. They are easy to fool because they are ignorant of science.
Ice floating on water displaces the exact same amount of water as it will equal when it melts. Since the North Pole is all water and ice, when it melts, it does not raise the level of the ocean. If people understood science, they would know scientists are talking about the South Pole and Greenland's glaciers.
Those glaciers are on land, and if they melted completely, they would raise ocean levels dramatically. The ice at the South Pole averages more than one mile in depth and contains about 70 percent of all the fresh water in the world.
— Alex Magdaleno,
Camarillo
How to help Earth
Re: Jeffrey Lyon's July 13 commentary, "19-year-old writes in defense of Earth":
Lyon has it right. The first step in solving global warming is to start accepting we have a problem and start doing something about it. Many prefer to turn away, denying the complexity of the problem and assuming that someone else will take care of it.
The last few months, I have been learning about global warming's many dimensions and find it depressing to learn of the damage our planet has experienced. But, as with Lyon, my response has moved from one of depression to a commitment to get involved.
I attended a recent conference at the Government Center titled, "Our Health in the Balance." Several individuals from county health and pollution control agencies made presentations. They all addressed these three questions: How is global warming affecting our health? What is being done by your agency? What can we do now to make a difference?
I found the presentations very informative and they led me to have hope that we do have an opportunity to make a difference by our choices and those of enterprising individuals and companies already gearing up for action.
Publications that have been very helpful are available by contacting Barbara Page, Ventura County Air Pollution Control District, editor, Clear Air Today, 645-1400, or by e-mail, info@vcapcd.org. Ask for a copy of Clean Air Today. You can also get a copy of "Pocket Guide to the Global Climate Crisis" from Ventura County Public Health at www.vchca.org/ph/Global_Warming.htm.
I hope this information will be helpful not only to Lyon, but anyone wanting to find ways to get involved in helping to solve the problem of global warming.
— Joyce Carlson,
Santa Paula
Posted by mikesmason on July 16, 2008 at 1:24 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I notice the sky is falling alarmist have all on queue, lock step together switched from the term "climate change" to “global warming” Is there an official day that switch in terminology is mandated ? June 21st maybe.
Posted by laura_54321 on July 16, 2008 at 7:12 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Mikemason:
The term "climate change" was actually popularized by the Bush administration, who sought to downplay the use of the term "global warming".
We haven't changed our jargon.
Posted by mikesmason on July 16, 2008 at 10:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)
jw100 who is the ignorant one? For decades "experts" have been saying alternately the earth is going to freeze, the earth is going to overheat. There has always been malleable people that drink the Kool-Aid and start in on the sky is falling mantra. It is one thing to fall for some lottery scam, but is truly amazing that one could become such a zealot for a massive scam which the evidence is squarely to the contrary. Look out your window, the oceans are not rising, it is still cold in the winter, hot in the summer, flowers grow in the spring just like clockwork. The farmers almanac still is a reliable tool. You might find it is a beautiful world out there, just go enjoy it.
Posted by mikesmason on July 16, 2008 at 2:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)
JW1000 How about the founder of the weather channel for starters.
Many can be found here:
Posted by nelsonknows on July 16, 2008 at 10:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Again, leftists with Computers don't bother checking facts, the term "Climate Change" was coined and used exclusively by Columbia Professor Wallace Broecker as was the term "Global Warming". Dr. Broecker has called for the U.S. to build twenty million "58 foot tall, giant tree-like structures to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere at a cost of about $600,000,000,000.
JW, either you are lying or grossly misinformed to make such a ridiculous claim. Among climatologists, meteorologists, environmental engineers and atmospheric scientists, both those claiming they have proof to EITHER side of the argument is about 6% with about 88% saying there is not enough data and evidence to determine either way.
Posted by nelsonknows on July 16, 2008 at 10:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)
veritas, please don't lower yourself to condemn leftists like JW for what time he posts, that's stooping to leftist tactics and you are above that. Hit them with FACT, it sticks in their throats like a sideways football, besides, I'd be willing to BET that JW couldn't explain the respiration cycle of a plant and that's 5th grade earth Science.
Posted by nelsonknows on July 16, 2008 at 10:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)
jw1000, have you ever heard of Reid Bryson or Bennett Mayberry? Why is it when people like Bryson or Mayberry, who are at the top of their fields of Climatology and Environmental Engineering, debunk Global Warming, fruit bats try to kill them?
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