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Government fails to tell
truth about climate change

Dear A.M. Costa Rica:
 
I have been thinking about William Gray’s book and would like to read it. It is great to hear from a scientist that at least is trained, learned and can add some real knowledge to the subject.
 
Maybe it is true that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is keeping him left out but, is it because they do or do not want him to know what they do?? We already know this idiotic government leaves everything behind the white walls. Look at all the efforts CNN news has tried to get an answer from our elected reps about the extra spending they are doing in the name of their great states.

Does anyone think they will tell us it is true the sea level is rising and by how much and when you will be getting your feet wet walking downtown Miami? Of course not. What a stampede that would start. Our great reps need some time to decide if Cape Cod is going under also so they can buy up the next boom in property at the higher levels out of reach of ocean waves and in reach of bountiful profits for them!
 
Then we get a real message from the far left out of Las Vegas, Nevada, from Mr. Hanz Franz. I will agree it seems we are getting overpopulated. It does seem that China is becoming richer and they will be driving more cars. Does that mean we are going to polute more. I wonder about that as I sit here typing on my 90 gig laptop computer and think about all the paper I wasted in school 50 years ago as computers were like the dream of a prince charming running through the heads of my beautiful classmates.
 
I just came from Las Vegas two weeks ago on a summer trip and now in L.A. California. What I saw there was the biggest waste in electric power with thousands of lights burning to attract more people inside where THOUSANDS of slot machines where consuming power for the rich to make themselves richer.

One thing for sure I may read Mr. Gray’s book but, I will never go back to (sin city) Las Vegas and put a penny or dollar into that wasteful economy. Where did Mr. Franz come up with the figure “we have been studying global warming for 10 to 15 years now”. Now that is a statement about 33 percent correct or incorrect. My brother always says just one big discharge from the rear of a whale puts out more polution than a 100 cows.

There is no consensus
on climate change cause

Dear A.M. Costa Rica:

First, I wish to congratulate A.M.Costa Rica for being fair and balanced in printing the letters about global warming, an effort not shared by the giants in the global news media.
 
Statements made as “facts” are indicative of the hysteria surrounding this issue. How did the author come to these conclusions? The debate is over? The computer models all agree and are accurate? There is a worldwide scientific consensus?
 
A typical liberal debate is to demean the opposition while presenting no evidence to support their own conclusions. “Do not confuse the debate with facts.” Allow me to do just that.
 
“Thousands of scientists from many countries now fully understand that Kyoto and other efforts to control human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are ineffective and entirely unfounded scientifically.”  Quoted from S. Fred Singer, atmospheric physicist, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and former director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service
 
“In fact, the explicit and implicit rejection of the ‘consensus’ is not restricted to individual scientists. It also includes distinguished scientific organizations such as the Russian Academy of Science and the U.S. Association of State Climatologists, both of which are highly skeptical of the whole idea.” Dr. Benny Peiser of England’s John Moore’s University.
 
Doesn’t sound like the debate is over or that there is any consensus to me.

Gray's theory of change
not consistent with facts

Dear A.M. Costa Rica:

With reference to your article about Dr. William Gray’s dismissal of global warming caused by increases in greenhouse gas concentrations (Lone voice counters idea of global warming disaster, July 11, 2007), you should be aware that Dr. Gray’s theory that climate change is driven by fluctuations in the Thermohaline Circulation (THC), an overturning circulation associated with deep water formation in the North Atlantic, has been refuted by climate scientists at RealClimate.org, an organization that publishes commentary on scientific topics while consciously avoiding their political or economic implications.

For example, Dr. Gray had argued for many years that increases in Atlantic hurricanes were caused by ocean warming arising from a speed-up of the THC.  Scientific publications previously unavailable subsequently demonstrated that during those years the THC was behaving in exactly the opposite manner.

Dr. Gray’s revised contention that the THC primarily upwells in the tropics, thereby cooling the North Atlantic and warming the tropics, was then shown to be incorrect because tropical upwelling is wind-driven and unconnected to the THC.

Although Dr. Gray states unequivocally that computer models cannot simulate the THC property, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has generated models that afford a wide variety of different possible THC behaviors, not one of which generates a warming of the kind that Gray claims.

Gray also implicates evaporation modulated by changes in the THC as responsible for global warming.  Unfortunately, he ignores that fact that evaporation is an energy transfer mechanism that neither adds nor subtracts heat from the climate system.  On the other hand, he dismisses the importance of changes in CO2 concentrations that are known to affect directly the upper atmosphere and change the rate at which the entire climate system loses energy.

A more comprehensive rebuttal of Dr. Grays theories is available here.

Look to  Blaise Pascal
and his theory of values

Dear A.M. Costa Rica:

I follow with interest the “debate” about global warming. Those who write it off as a hoax and a liberal conspiracy make the occasional valid point. Those who warn us about the apparent dangers may sometimes overstate the case.

A number of years ago, Smart Money magazine published an editorial about the life of Blaise Pascal. Pascal was one of those 18th century European philosophers who devoted himself to proving the existence of God. He was a contemporary of Kant and Descartes who followed their own approaches. Pascal (after whom the programming language is named) took a mathematical approach and in the process gave the world the branch of mathematics known as probability theory.

By the time Pascal was 35, he had proven within a 99.97% degree of confidence that there is no God. He could take the calculations no farther and, having essentially completed his life’s work, he entered a monastery where he spent the remainder of his life in prayer and contemplation. Late in Pascal’s life, a biographer asked him why, having virtually proved the non-existence of God, and therefore having disproved the likelihood of any afterlife where he might be held accountable, he had not spent the rest of his time on earth pursuing all the earthly delights available to a French nobleman of that era.

Pascal’s response was simple. He said it had to do with the consequences of being wrong.

Likewise, the doubters on the global warming issue may be entirely in the right, but what if they’re not?


Heredia electrical rates
going up 5.17 percent


The Heredia electrical provider got a rate increase averaging 5.17 percent Thursday but the increase for residential customers will be 8.5 percent according to the Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos.

The provider, the Empresa de Servicios Públicos de Heredia, wanted 11.89 percent. The utility has 60,966 customers.

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