OPINION: Letters to the Editor July 30

‘GW’ Proponents Use False Readings

To the Editor:

For many years, thousands of scientists and other technical people have stated that humans do not cause global warming. Nature does.
The official record of temperatures in the United States comes from a network of 1,221 climate-monitoring stations overseen by the National Weather Service. Anthony Watts, a 25-year broadcast meteorology veteran, recruited a team of more than 650 volunteers to visually inspect and photograph more than 860 of these stations. They were shocked to find that 89 percent of the stations failed to meet the requirement that stations must be 100 feet or more
away from artificial heating, radiating and reflecting heat sources.
Even worse, they found major gaps in the data record that were filled in with data from nearby sites. Their conclusion was that the U.S. temperature record is unreliable and should not be used to promote unsubstantiated global-warming theories.
Much more information is available at www.surfacestations.org.

Richard and Gloria Hampton
Sylmar, Calif.


Evidence Of
‘GW’ Is Obvious

To the Editor:

Those of us who read the Mountain Mail regularly already know Rick Coddington is a conspiracy theorist. His latest column pooh-poohing global warming (GW) certainly is in character.
However, I’d urge him to visit three parts of the world pretty soon. My hope is that, after doing so, he might want to revise his conclusions about whether GW is really happening and why.
First stop would be northern Alaska to visit with one or more of the Inupiat or related bands of Native Americans.
They’ll probably tell you about how long the ice lasted in the Good Old Days and how much longer summer lasts now, and how much higher the sea level is in front of their village. Talk to the elders; try to convince them that GW is a myth. Lots of luck!
The second stop would be where we used to live, between Miami and Homestead in South Florida.
Just a decade or so ago, there were still agricultural fields along Florida’s Turnpike through there. (Rick, living as you do in the fifth largest state, which has only 2 million people in it, you may underestimate how many people there really are Back East and elsewhere in the world. It’s not like Catron County.)
The last stop would be Hawaii’s Big Island. On the top of Mauna Loa (or is it Mauna Kea) is where the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been measured daily for decades (up-and-down within each year but consistently up ever since they made their first measurements).
Just don’t forget to tell them that they should stop lying about their data.

Bob Merkel
Socorro


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OPINION: Letters to the Editor July 30