I know that some of you are thinking that the world is ending since we are having a warm day in February. It has just been reported by the CBC that the Arctic ice has come back. It is so cold up there that the ice cap is thicker than expected.

The University of Illinois has reported that the ice cap is back to it original size. The U.S National Climate Data Center has reported that January set a cold record in the U.S.

Have you also seen the stories that the Antarctic is setting record ice level, that South America had its coldest winter in 90 years, that Iraqis saw their first snow in 100 years, that China has its coldest winter in 100 years (many parts of the country were brought to a stop economically by the snow), there is a record cold in India, and there was record snow in Wisconsin.

Where is that global warming? I know it will come back this summer and the press will ignore all the cold this winter. How can we have global warming and global cooling at the same time?

Now we have the legislature in California to force the teaching of global warming as science in California. Our children have to watch the Al Gore movie as if it is real even though a judge found about 20 factual errors in the movie. The biggest is that the Artic ice cap is melting and will flood the East Coast. Now we have news that the ice cap is back to where it was and even thicker than before. This is called science by some and yet their science does not even hold up year to year.

We also know now that NASA was forced to change their temperature numbers - that the last seven years have not been increasing in temperature, but have remained about the same over the past seven years. Again, we have science numbers that some believe have been falsified to fit their world view so they get bigger grants from the government and force us to have higher energy costs.

We are on a path to make everything more expensive and thus slow down our economy to create another crisis that will lead to greater government control of our lives.

Bruce Caldwell
Signal Mountain

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Ignorance and pride are the primary props of this weird modern cult.

The disciples of man-made global warming are so ignorant of science that they will accept anything as evidence supporting their faith.

And one of their high priests stated firmly a couple of years ago that anything he says is evidence of global warming is evidence of global warming.

How scientific is that?

Of course, the unilateral attention the news media give to these cultists doesn't help anyone to find the truth, either. For instance, one of the major automobile magazines revealed that the best of the 2006 cars - nonhybrids! - actually "emitted" cleaner air than they inhaled in most big cities.

That's right; American automobiles that "spewed out" cleaner air than they sucked in. But did the newspapers and TV tell you that?

Larry Cloud