Your Opinion: Science or politics?

Dear Editor:

There is an old circus saying there is no money in playing a town you played last night.

First it was global warming, then it became climate change because those professing political views of the left marked by desire to change the rules, because the earth's northern hemisphere became colder during the winter season.

"Global warming: an increase in the earth's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures due to an increase in the greenhouse effect." Webster Dictionary.

What is amazing about global warming is that now it exists without any evidence. The old story is, there are two sides to every story, then there is the truth.

Everything they know about global warming or climate change is based on rumor and conjecture. If it exists where is the evidence? Is this about science or is this about politics. There is theory and there is observation.

We can't play this like Harry Potter, in which evil cannot be named.

Industrial technology began about 250 years ago and helped bring about our modern society. Technology has helped man gain control over nature and so build a civilized way of life but it has also created serious problems.

Air pollution ranks as one of the most harmful side effects of industrial technology. For example, many people welcomed the development of the automobile in the late 1890's. They believed that automobiles would be quieter and less smelly than horses. Noise of traffic and automobile exhaust fumes proved worse that the smell of horse manure.

"Many technological innovations that enhance the wealth and power of a society at a given time may paralyze it at a later date, for the usefulness of all technological developments has limitations that are inherent in the unchangeable aspects of man's biologic nature," Rene Dubos.

The federal government needs to pass legislation which advocates scrubbers on coal burning smoke stacks; slash and burn method to prevent forest fires in national parks for land management; remove flammable methane gas from landfills and marshes. The White House could put politics aside and build the Keystone Pipeline to create jobs and prevent crude oil accidents from railroads and trucks.

Land management should only be controlled by the states, the government is too much a bureaucracy. Reduce oil imports from overseas contracts for research and development of new technologies, including the development of a nuclear fusion reactor.