Letters to the Editor
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Pelosi and Truth
You have an interesting take on truth. While 5 male Republican congressmen can go to Syria and meet with Assad and question the administration's Middle East policy, when Nanacy Pelosi does it it sends mixed messages. Is it because she is a Democrat or because she is a woman? Or is it just because the right wing press jumped all over her and ignored the Republican delegation?
As for global warming, it is unquestionably the concensus of the scientific communitee that global warming is a reality and is being affected by human action. As a working scientist I have searched the literature for a peer reviewed article that denies global warming. There are none. There is no real consensus on the predicted results of the warming, but that is not the same thing as agreeing on the reality of increased carbon in the atmosphere and it's affect on the average global temperature. As average temperatures increase we could see many results; including increasingly cold winters but even hotter summers, warming in coastal areas and cooling in the interior, or even the eventual return of an ice age. Those results, like a snowstorm in April, don't mean that the earth is not going through severe climatic change due to increased atmospheric carbon.