The other side of âclimate buffoonsâ
Lynn Muzzy would have us believe that the worldâs climatologists (Muzzy calls them âclimate buffoonsâ) once believed that greenhouse gases were causing global cooling. The kernel of truth behind that myth is that in 1975, a National Academy of Sciences report said that while we were technically overdue for a new ice age, the consensus was that not enough was yet known about the greenhouse effect to make reliable climate predictions.
Now, after another four decades of research, the consensus is that âclimate forcing,â driven by trillions of tons of carbon added to the atmosphere by human activities, is warming the planet even faster than previously anticipated.
Muzzy taps into several other climate change myths. For one, Muzzy claims that Warren Buffett was opposed to the Keystone pipeline because it would compete with his companyâs BNSF railroad. In reality Buffett supports the pipeline, and BNSF doesnât transport oil from Albertaâs Athabasca tar sands, though they do serve North Dakotaâs Bakken fields.
As to the hacked emails at the University of East Anglia, eight separate investigations found no evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct. And as to Solyndra, it was one of only two loan defaults since President Bush started the Department of Energyâs innovative technology program in 2005. Those defaults occurred after the solar market was flooded with low-cost panels from government-subsidized Chinese vendors.
As Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, âEveryone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.â
Rich Dunn
Carson City
Veterans should be using Reno VA
I am an Army veteran who uses the Reno VA facility and would encourage all veterans in our area to do the same. They treat me with kindness, caring and a understanding of the issues that I have â not only due to combat, but whatever life brings.
While no one enjoys going to a doctor, they provide a primary care pac team that includes the same doctor and nurse each time for my general needs, and they are able to schedule or set up all special services such as pharmacy, eye, dermatology, X-ray, etc., anything that is required, often on the same day.
Occasionally I will have a appointment canceled and re-dated, but not often, and only because a fellow vet has needs that are more serious than mine. I am OK with that knowing I am also helping someone. They always give me a new date.
When I go there they take the time to listen go through all my history and make recommendations based on my medical needs and of course are able to draw on a library of millions of fellow vets that are engaged in the system.
The cost is a minimal co-pay based on income for most vets.
Again, they are kind, they treat you with respect, and most importantly, they listen. I can go to any VA medical facility this country has in any state. They will have my records. They have my back, and they will have yours, too.
Gary Powell
Carson City
Donât kill coyotes, bears
This letter is regarding the killing of coyotes and bears. I find this truly disgusting. Iâm glad there were activists standing up for these poor defenseless animals. It should not stop just for Nevada, it should stop worldwide.
What really makes me mad is they did it just for the heck of it. Just for the heck of it? Itâs true they do prey on smaller animals, but thatâs just in their nature. It still doesnât give them the right to kill them.
Hereâs a thought, capture the coyotes and bears and move them where thereâs food and they donât endanger other animals. They were at one time doing that with bears. What happened with that?
And as for their abundance of bears and coyotes, theyâre not the only ones. Are we going to kill everything that is overabundant? Thatâs a bad excuse. God gave you a brain, where is it?
My question to the article in the paper about bears is, when they werenât harming anything, why did we let something so unnecessary happen? Were there permits? It sure wasnât hunting season, and what good is it to shoot bears?
This should be illegal. I hope a group of people will come down and make a law to stop this! This should not be allowed. Thereâs no excuses for this ignorance. I will be the first to sign a protest against this or get a law against this.
Ruth Berg
Carson City
She keeps running the race
McCrearyâs article errors in two places I know of â Jesus Christ is God the Fatherâs âonly begotten son,â not his âone and only son.â
Your Bible is in error. Read Psalm 2:7, John 1:14, 3:16. The love you spoke of for your wife is not the love in the Bible that Jesus died to give us. Godâs love saves us from wrath.
John 3:16; you, sir, have a poor understanding of the real love of God. Godâs love is eternal to save us from hell and damnation because of our sins. God never promised us our best life now.
If we follow him, Joel Osteen, if you, we, truly take up our crosses and follow daily, the scriptures say you will be hated, misunderstood, lied about, persecuted, forsaken by family, friends, put out of the church house, suffer loss of home, jobs, loneliness, hunger, avoided by those who once called you friend, laughed at and a host of other things.
I know firsthand what it means to suffer for the gospelâs sake, for Iâm suffering all these things right now. But like Paul said, none of these things move me (away from the gospel); they make me more determined than ever to run this race and finish it, no matter what the cost.
Remember, sir, many who call him Lord will be rejected on the judgement day, with the words, âDepart from me, I never knew you.â So join me in living the true gospel, I could use the company!
Rosalee Barnwell Hinton
Carson City