There is constant evidence that global warming is either not happening or is just nature acting on its own without man effecting this change.

The great melt in the Arctic is constantly used by the pro warmers as evidence that global warming is occurring. This always leads to mankind as the cause of global warming and thus we need to have more regulations and laws to limit us.

Now a new study by NASA has come out on the Arctic melting and it says the reason for the melting is that unusual winds are causing this change. Now this is a study by scientists and it is done by a respected organization (normally). The melting in other words is occurring by natural forces just like the drought around here is natural. If this is true (please note this result did not come by consensus but by the collection of facts), then this means that there is nothing we can do to stop the melting. Just as we can not stop hurricanes or snow, we cannot stop the wind in the Arctic.

This is another reason that we should alter our lives with new restrictions of freedom to stop something we can not have any effect on. This also point out the futility of the global warming believer and their belief system.

We need to fix the problems of the world we can fix and understand that the areas of God's nature are his.

Bruce Caldwell
Signal Mountain

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The report to which Bruce Caldwell refers clearly attributes the meltdown of Arctic ice to warming due to greenhouse gases. The report does say that in addition to climate warming hard blowing winds may be among other factors contributing to the melting. That latter statement is within the context of the central theme of the report: the significantly greater-than-expected rate of reduction of the Arctic winter ice cover indicates the warming effect of increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

I have just returned from a consultation in Washington on global warming and other topics. Almost all projections of the rate of the various affects of global warming have been wrong. They have been on the LOW side. All over the globe the rapidity of change is astounding, causing many of us to be concerned about the tipping point of global warming when we humans will be unable to reverse the trend, regardless of what we do.

The time is past for casual conversation about climate change or dismissal of it through distortion or half truths as Mr. Caldwell has done. Our nation must put even more energy into solutions for global warming than we did in the 1960’s to put a person on the moon. Each governmental entity and business must do as the City of Chattanooga is doing: conduct a thorough audit of all its energy uses and take the steps necessary to correct inefficiencies and outmoded practices & equipment. Each of us as individuals must do the same in our lives.

Olin M. Ivey
Chattanooga