Letters to the Editor
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More blaphemy (again)
Regarding Camille's heretical skepticism about global warming. At the senate hearing on the U.N. report on global warming a Rep. senator had the temerity to ask the panel of climate scientist what roughly was man's contribution to the amount of co2 in the atmosphere and what was by natural sources. (He didn't ask what percent co2 contributed to global warming. The prior writer was correct. Co2 contributes less than 3% to global warming.) The head of the scientific panel repeatedly evaded the question with rates of change comments which did not even come close to an answer. After three times the senator tried to get an answer out of the head scientist he directed his question to the whole panel. Not one offered an answer to his question. The senator who asked the question stated that the references he had checked state the amount of co2 contributed by human activity to the atmosphere is about at most 10%. Not one of the scientists breathed a word at this point. The senator’s time ran out and the Democrat who was running the panel moved it on to another subject. That was the most outrageous thing I have ever seen. Even if humans do contribute a small but still possibly significant amount to global warming may be a fact. That a panel of the world top climate scientist clammed up when asked to expand on this question could make a skeptic out of anyone.