Posted on 11/25/2007 6:06:35 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze
Editor:
Regarding Haven Shoemaker's 'Other Voices' article of Nov. 16, Shoemaker uses phrases like "sins like the devil," "the religion of urban atheists," "evil" and "apocalypse" and he calls Al Gore "The Rev. Gore."
Who is Shoemaker trying to reach?
He acts as if a Nobel Prize is won with a coin flip. It is an international award with a large cash award attached, which Gore gave to research for a solution to global warming. That puts him $250,000 ahead of most of us who believe in a cause.
Of course all of these national and international experts must be wrong because Shoemaker knows a fellow Carroll County mayor who disagrees with Gore.
So the score must be Carroll County mayors 1; international experts 0.
Also he uses the word liberal is an adjective to describe Robert Samuelson. Yet Michael Crichton is just described as "author."
I've lived in Carroll County over 50 years. I am a Christian. I believe in environmentalism. I am not an "urban atheist."
I believe it is our duty to our grandchildren, our country and to our God not to let this beautiful earth He gave us go down the tubes so that we can continue to make a buck or not pay taxes. Saying that "Any action we take that stifles economic progress decreases our chances of finding solutions" sounds like the earth can't be saved unless we make money.
Gore is not the hypocrite. He's the guy who had the election stolen from him in 2000. And now it seems certain people want to steal his Nobel Prize too.
Global warming is not an opinion. It is a fact. Closing your eyes won't make it go away. Making fun of Gore won't make it go away. I'm not a preacher, but I know you can't worship God and money too.
Mike Rudnick
Eldersburg
Excellent synopsis of what we don’t know, yet are adamantly certain about so many things affected by those unknowns.
I don’t doubt climate change. After all the planet has been a molten ball of lava and a totally frozen ball of ice and snow. Both conditions were the result of natural processes long before the first man showed his face.
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