Thursday, March 10, 2005

 

Actual....Letters to the Editor...!

From time to time we like to listen to the voice of the people to see what burning issues are troubling Americans. So we always look through the letters dept. of various newspapers and our local ones in particular. What better way to ridicule the higher intellegence displayed among us these days.

Believe it or not....the following specimen appeared in the 3/8/5 edition of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. Honest.

The full story

EDITOR: We have heard that carbon dioxide and methane are the main greenhouse gases affecting global warming. We haven't heard much about the other major greenhouse gas: water vapor. Yes, the humidity in the air is a greenhouse gas. And there is 20 times more water vapor in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Every time you take a shower, you are emitting greenhouse gases.

I have been in e-mail correspondence with several key NASA scientists, who admit they haven't done much in explaining water vapor's role as a greenhouse gas. I suspect that if the public knew that water vapor was a greenhouse gas, they would realize how futile it is to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions. It would also put a new spin on the Kyoto treaty.

Water vapor is a complex greenhouse gas. When it is a vapor, it acts like a greenhouse gas; but when it rains, and it is in its liquid state, it doesn't. The science of greenhouse gases is very complex, but the American public has been led to believe that since mankind is creating carbon dioxide by burning fossil fuels, mankind has caused this global warming. The truth is that mankind is certainly contributing to it, but its contribution is still unknown.

Did you know there is 50 times more carbon dioxide in the oceans than in the atmosphere? When the oceans warm up, they emit carbon dioxide. Next time you read about greenhouse gases and global warming, be suspicious that the media and the politicians are telling you the full story.

FRED ZMARZLY Santa Rosa

~*~ Fortunately a quick response appeared at the head of the same forum on 3/10:

Too Ridiculous

Editor: I don't have a lot of time to listen to the hysterical bleatings from the likes of Rush Limbaugh and other lunatic fringe prophets, but the Tuesday letter from Fred Zmarly was too ridiculous to ignore Apparently, Zmarly believes global warming is now being caused by water vapor. Yes, water vapor. Not the sulpher dioxides and other noxious poisons we pump into the atmosphere by burning fosol fuels, but wator vapor. Well, there you go.

I remember 20 years ago, when another brilliant scientific genius, Ronald Reagan, noted that "80 percent of all air pollution is caused by by plants and trees." Now, it seems water is the real culprit. Trees and water. Unbelievable.

Thank you, Press Democrat, for printing letters like Zmarly's, which so clearly illustrate for us all the tragic consequences of under-funding public education for years.

Steve Maitich Santa Rosa

posted by ~Brahma 7:01 PM