It bothers me a little when jokes are made about global warming on local newscasts.  So when it happened again during a recent weather report, after newscasters read the Union of Concerned Scientists global warming story about Iowa's future hot weather, I wrote a (very polite) email message to the weather people at the TV station.  I basically said that I appreciated the accuracy of their forecasts and would also appreciate their not joking about global warming, since it's a serious issue.   I thought the response I got might interest the list.  

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Global warming has amounted to 1 or 2 degrees per century, not 20, and may
rural observation sites have actually recorded a temperature decline. There
was no scientific basis in the report tonight.  In fact, for every global
warming report, there is one to the counter viewpoint.  The main point is
that we should effort to cut pollution, but one volcanic eruption puts more
pollutant in the atmosphere than all the cars and trucks in the world.


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Cindy Hildebrand
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Ames, IA  50010

"I watched the miles and miles of flat Nebraska prairie come into view. My fellow passengers expressed themselves as being bored...But as I sat watching, I gradually began to feel a great force arise from these flat lands, and I knew that here lay something far deeper, far more powerful, than anything I had experienced before in the great outdoors."  (Jens Jensen)
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