Dear Editor, I read, with great interest, the article
”
Understanding Global Warming
”
in the Dispatch published April 21. The article was both factual
and fictional. The article was honest to say that global warming
cannot be stopped, but humanity can adjust to the coming changes
[adaptation].
Global Warming Article Hardly a Scientific Truth
Dear Editor,
I read, with great interest, the article “Understanding Global Warming” in the Dispatch published April 21. The article was both factual and fictional. The article was honest to say that global warming cannot be stopped, but humanity can adjust to the coming changes [adaptation].
But it follows the same scare tactics of its predecessors such as Maulthaus (1800), Paul Erlick (Stanford University, 1960), and Rachael Carson (Silent Spring, 1960) who forecast famine and starvation.
Today’s threat of “warming”, the article says, will bring famine, rising waters, desolation of great areas, hurricanes and earthquakes. As history has proved the predecessors warnings were false, so will history reject much of today’s global warming hubris.
What role carbon dioxide has in today’s climate changes is problematic?
In the last 8,000 years of climate change, including earth’s warming with glacial and ice-cap melt, there were no automobiles emitting exhaust gases.
Mankind adapted and adjusted to the climate changes over the years. It was a natural cyclic change due to many factors such as sun energy, atmosphere and movements of the earth since creation.
Why this current hysteria over global warming? A factor is federal grants to scientists for research into natural events. If you are a scientist given a grant to evaluate earth’s warming, you will slant your data to support the basis of your research; thereby assuring the renewal of your federal research grant next year.
Scientists are readily fallible. I was a geology major at the university. We were taught that petroleum was a fossil fuel, as was coal. Eons ago, warm waters, teeming with organic creatures (snails, slugs, crabs, etc.) somehow got buried under tons and tons of earth; layer and layer of sediments. The weight of the earth mass and the heat of the earth’s interior converted the organic mass to oil. The oil lay deep in the crust of the earth. One had only to drill into the pools to find the oil. Petroleum was a fossil fuel. Such was a fact, our professors (scientists) said it was so; so it must be the truth.
About 10 years ago, at a meeting of petroleum geologists, a new concept was introduced. Petroleum is not a fossil fuel. It is an element of the earth; like gold, silver, iron ore, or silica. Petroleum, as an earth element, is probably being recreated, deep within the earth; otherwise, how can you account for Saudi Arabia removing billions of barrels of oil with no decrease in pump-pressure?
Petroleum deposits are not found in sites of primitive seas, but oil is where you find it (wild-cat drillers). So the old gives way to the new.
As Maulthaus’ warning (1800) that the earth’s population would out-grow its food supply and great famine would occur, so today’s hysteria over global warming will be replaced with common-sense knowledge that “Yes, the earth is warming, always has been for the past 8,000 years, and auto exhaust (carbon dioxide) had, and has, little or nothing to do with nature’s routine over the centuries.”
If we can develop more efficient cars, it will benefit our pocketbook more than alter today’s climate.
J. G. McCormack, Gilroy
Worried About Police at GHS
Dear Editor,
It has been a few years since I have had children in high school, but in a few years my grandaughter will be at that age.
My concern is the presence of police on the Gilroy High School campus. It seems that every time I drive by the campus in the afternoon, I see one or more patrol cars parked there. It scares me to think that GHS has a criminal element so strong that police are required.
I wonder if this is a commentary about the school or the community. Does state law force criminals to attend school? Why not boot them out and thus eliminate police presence? I would guess that the majority of high schools in the country do not have to have police parked on site.
Bob Sutton, Gilroy
At Long Last, a Sensible Opinion
Dear Editor,
Thank you so much for publishing “If America Has a Moral Imperative, Why Fight One-Handed?” Finally, a view that isn’t filled with left-wing, multi-cultural, elitist treachery!
Jolene Brancatelli, Hollister
