Global warming an excuse to control resources, lives

Corvallis Gazette-Times, LETTERS, January 13, 2009
Global warming and the discredited hockey stick graphs are gaining more qualified critics by the day. Global warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in history. When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists,” says United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Japanese scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning environmental physical chemist. Itoh is one of more than 650 prominent scientists from around the world (including many well-known UN IPCC scientists) who have formally challenged claims of global warming made by the IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.

“Measurements give no ground for concern about a catastrophic future warming,” says scientist Dr. Jarl R. Ahlbeck, Finnish university chemical engineer, author of 200 scientific publications and former Greenpeace member.

UN IPCC co-coordinating lead author, nuclear physicist and chemical engineer, Dr. Philip Lloyd is assessing UN IPCC summary reports for policy makers to identify how IPCC summaries have distorted science.

Award-winning NASA Astronaut Geologist Jack Schmitt says, “The ‘global warming scare’ is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.”

I will be watching closely as Oregon’s new chief climate scientist assumes his duties. Philip W. Mote, outspoken supporter of global warming, will direct the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute and will support Gov. Kulongoski’s Oregon Global Warming Commission.

Gov. Kulongoski’s programs appear to be designed to give government increased power over natural resources, our wallets and our lives.

Jean Nelson, Corvallis