TO THE EDITOR:

Just when we all thought things couldn't get more ridiculous… Last Friday night on CNN we have the Scientist who shares the Nobel peace prize with Mr. Gore. He was speaking with CNN's Miles O'Brien on how he is frustrated with Gore's sudden fame. Former Nasa big wig and scientist at the University of Alabama, Dr. John Christy spoke out saying that he was appalled at the fact that someone as inexperienced as Mr. Gore was speaking out with such certainty on global warming.

Dr. Christy goes on to say that "fundamentally the fact that someone is speaking about a science that I've been very heavily involved in and have labored so hard in, and been humiliated by, in the sense that the climate is so difficult to understand, Mother Nature is so complex, and so the uncertainties are great, and then to hear someone speak with such certainty and such confidence about what the climate is going to do is, well, I suppose I could be kind and say, it's annoying to me."

Later in his interview he states "All of life depends on the fact carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere. So we're fortunate it's not a toxic gas. But, on the other hand, what is the climate doing? And when we build, and I'm one of the few people in the world that actually builds these climate data sets, we don't see the catastrophic changes that are being promoted all over the place."

So what does this mean you ask? It means that the scientist's that are trying to figure out if there actually is a problem with our climate, and trying to find some actual concrete evidence that carbon dioxide is actually even harmful, are telling us that Mr. Gore is bogus!

We all should look at Mr. Gore just as we saw Orson Wells for the chaos that he created with his "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast that sent a depression ridden population into widespread panic. And as far as I'm concerned, believing that Carbon dioxide is destroying the earth with such ferocity that were all going to burn to death by 2015, takes a far further leap of faith than believing in extra terrestrial occurrences for which there is far more evidence of.

I think that we can all agree that less dependence on foreign oil is a good thing but come on Gore. Must we lead people to believe that the sky is falling?

Nathan Mitchell
North Branch