This is in response to Cal Thomas’ column, “Climate change: Just another snow job” (Feb. 1). Because greenhouse gas emission reduction has become the top climate change priority, an ethical tragedy is unfolding. It is the assignment of greater importance to possible climatic impacts on future generations than to those suffering today. With increasing populations […]
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T. Lord: Loathsomely pessimistic
I grow tired of the daily barrage of “global warming” columns from the so-called news media. The Associated Press article, “Scientists move doomsday clock” (Jan. 23), demonstrates how global warming ideologues like to prey on the fears of the misinformed to sway public opinion. According to a handful of scientists that the public is supposed […]
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G. Mathews: The politics of global warming
Man-made global warming is not settled science. I believe it is a hoax, perpetuated by scientists who get millions of taxpayers’ dollars in grants to promote that hoax. I have heard evidence that the Earth has shown no warming during the past 18 years, and global temperature changes have not been tied to any man-made […]
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University of Maine System committee to consider whether to stop investing in coal companies
BANGOR (AP) — A University of Maine System committee will consider whether the institutions’ should stop investing in coal mining companies. The Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees will meet Dec. 3 to discuss the proposal. If it’s approved, it will go to the seven-school board. Under the proposal, the university system would end […]
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C. Bechard: Emission laws a waste of money
I keep hearing how it is mankind’s fault for global warming or, as it is now referred to, climate change. The part I never hear is how volcanoes affect the climate. I was wondering about that, so I looked it up. According to ask.com, this is what is released into the atmosphere in an eruption: […]
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Maine already working to cut carbon emissions
AUGUSTA — Maine is already a leader in working to reduce carbon emissions through a regional partnership, but new federal regulations will bring relief to its residents by improving air quality and reducing the impacts of global warming, lawmakers and environmental groups said Monday. Under the sweeping new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plan announced Monday […]
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L. Hoy: Where was the scientific debate?
What a bracing depiction of fierce scientific debate in the Washington Post article, “Big Bang backlash: Cosmologists question discovery of gravity waves” (Sun Journal, May 17). BICEP2 scientists announced evidence of gravity waves from the dawn of time. Can this be evidence for the widely debated “cosmic inflation” theory suggesting the rapid nature of the […]
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H. Lord: A victim of propaganda?
As of Jan. 4, a Russian research vessel was still locked in ice near Antarctica. TV news placed it 1,700 miles south of the city of Hobart in Tasmania. Civilian tourist passengers were airlifted to safety by helicopter. Here is the fascinating fact: it is summer in Antarctica. That would be like July at the […]
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LePage: Global warming upside
AUGUSTA — Speaking to a conference assembled to discuss the transportation trends of the future, said Thursday that global climate change could have an upside for Maine. “Everybody looks at the negative effects of global warming, but with the ice melting, the Northern Passage has opened up,” he said. “So maybe, instead of being at […]
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LePage sees an upside to global warming for Maine
AUGUSTA — Speaking to a conference assembled to discuss the transportation trends of the future, Gov. Paul LePage said Thursday that global climate change could have an upside for Maine. “Everybody looks at the negative effects of global warming, but with the ice melting, the Northern Passage has opened up,” he said. “So maybe, instead […]