April 2, 2001 by Alan E. Barr: GLOBAL WARMING, Fact or fiction?
CAG Comment
Isn’t it ironic that the major newspaper in this area, the Missoulian, would be a party to not informing the public each time misinformation rears its ugly head. Case in point:
Here is a letter submitted by Allen E. Barr to the Missouliam on global warming but they would not print it.
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"Missoulian Letters
P.O. Box 8029
Missoula, MT 59807
Dear Editor:
The April 2, 2001 Missoulian reported a Time-CNN poll that says a majority of Americans
are concerned about global warming. Now why would that surprise anyone? For the last eight
years the media has conducted an all out campaign to push the concept of global warming.
In fact, the former Vice President conducted a seminar for Television Weather Broadcasters
on how to sell global warming. It must be emphasized that during all this time the media
never once presented a conflicting opinion. However,
there are, in fact, 17,000 scientists who signed the Oregon Institute Petition which
states that there is no scientific evidence to support human caused global warming.
The media has also failed to cover the fact that in a briefing on global warming before
congressional staff, members of the press and scientists, Professor Richard S. Lindzen of
the Massachusetts Institute for Technology assailed the politically driven work of the
United Nations’’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), specifically
its pattern of misrepresenting the work of its contributing scientists to fit a
preconceived agenda.
Richard S. Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He is a lead co-author of Chapter 7 of the IPCC’’s
forthcoming Third Assessment Report. He is also a consultant to the Global Modeling and
Simulation Group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and a Distinguished Visiting
Scientist at California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. One of the
world’’s foremost atmospheric scientists, Dr. Lindzen received his AB, SM, and
PhD degrees from Harvard University.
Yet with all this media distortion of the truth, it is amazing that only 66 percent
of the people polled think global warming is a problem.
Maybe there is hope for America.
Sincerely,
Allen E. Barr"
CAG Comment
We have contended with misinformation, on the part of the media, in reference to the introduction/reintroduction of grizzly bears into the Selway Bitterroot Ecosystem [SBE] from the inception of the idea by the Interagency Grizzly Bear Reintroduction Committee [IGBRC].
In fact, Idaho has fought reintroduction from the start and has even sued the federal government in an effort to stop the insanity; all that time the then Governor of Montana, Marc Racicot, endorsed the federal government's plan, with reservations, thus in effect making it appear the state of Montana endorsed reintroduction/introduction even while 70% of the legislature went on record as opposing reintroduction and a statistically significant poll established that for every person for reintroduction there were three against the concept.
Subsequently, Concerned About Grizzlies [CAG] has collected information that establishes that grizzly bears have never lived in the SBE except along the rivers where salmon and steelhead came to spawn before the advent of the dams on the Columbia basin river system and further there is a dwindling food source for all species of bears. A quality habitat for grizzly bears does not exist in the SBE.
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