Letters to the Editor
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Skeptic About Global Warming?
After watching "Planet Earth", it's clear to me that the earth is a constantly evolving life form just as we are who live on it. But Camille Paglia's skepticism with the idea that the planet is warming faster than it should is shocking in light of scientific consensus around the issue. It's hard to believe that the best minds on the planet were all drinking the same spiked Kool-Aid. People have been studying this for decades. Al Gore is at best, a lay messenger to the cause. What I find interesting is that while she questions global warming, she seems to champion government intervention to regulate pollution and other substances affecting our environment. Unless I read her comments entirely incorrectly, it seems to me that you can't have it both ways. She says we are "too small" to affect the planet's natural evolution in any significant way, yet she mourns the possible toxic effects of mercury on a community of children. Which the hell is it? Either we are interacting with the planet or we're not. Either our actions have a measurable effect or they don't. All the data seems to suggest that we are and they do, which makes sense to me. Camille needs to make up her damned mind. Something is out of whack when the grass is still green two days before Christmas and it's as mild as a day in April.