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To: RealMuLan who wrote (57758)	12/29/2004 1:37:29 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 74559

[Pseudo science or else?<g>]--"Global Warming Claims Much Exaggerated" Published on 12/22/2004 Letters To The Editor: The global-warming Chicken Littles are at it again. Most people assume, unfortunately, that if a group of people call themselves environmentalists, their claims are based on solid scientific fact. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Their claim that warming will be strongest at the earth's poles, turning glaciers into floods and raising sea levels, and that Greenland's ice cap is melting and will push the sea level up 20 feet, is not based on scientific fact. Greenland's ice is not melting away. It is established scientifically that average temperatures in Greenland and Iceland have been falling at the steep rate of 2.2 Celsius per decade since 1987. As for temperatures in most of Antarctica, they have been falling for nearly 50 years and ice there has been accumulating rather than melting. As for sea levels, Prof. Nils-Axel Morner has been studying the low-lying atolls of the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean. He has found “a total absence of any recent sea level rise” and instead found evidence of a fall in sea level in the past 20 years. It isn't just global warming that these so-called environmentalists have been wrong about. The phony power-line scare, perpetrated in The New Yorker magazine by Paul Brodeur in the late 1980s, cost the country billions of dollars by requiring power companies to bury lines needlessly and by pushing down property values for no good reason. The banning of DDT was “arguably the greatest tragedy of the 20th century.” Why? Because DDT was the best defense against malaria-carrying mosquitoes. The ban has caused 50 million deaths. I hope the majority of the Americans and world governments realize that the claims by environmental groups are nonsense. We should demand that environmental groups show real scientific factual data to support their claims. Earle K. Downes Gales Ferry theday.com