EDMOND — Reader: Global warming more than a theory
To the Editor:
Please allow me to comment on the story in the Dec. 10 issue of The Edmond Sun about the group, Americans For Prosperity. The headline reads, “Tour seeks to melt global warming theory.”
Let’s be clear. Climate change from global warming and it’s adverse effect on earth is a theory. Climate change as a natural occurrence or, caused by humans; both theories. But global warming a theory?
The story continues on page 3 with the headline “Hot Air: EPA says earth temperature increased.” This headline leads me to believe that global warming has happened. So global warming is not a theory but a fact!
Four paragraphs conclude the story devoted to some basic information about climate change related to the Greenhouse effect. You state that the warming of the globe by just a couple of degrees may cause adverse effects such as a rise in sea level and on weather patterns, along with the phenomenon of lower of temperatures on Earth’s surface.
Apparently Sen. Randy Brogdon and Kevin Calvey, quoted in this article, along with Rep. Mary Fallin and Sen. Jim Inhofe also have chosen to call this scientific fact of global warming a theory. Thereby they fail to represent me by choosing not to be part of a worldwide movement. A movement that accepts facts, debates the effects of the tons of poisons our industrialized society discharges into the atmosphere and oceans, then chooses to act on a real theory, supported by science, that humans have an effect on climate change. The inspiration for this movement may be moral or just self-preservation; either way it is to ensure the prosperity of the human race and other living creatures. It seems Stuart Jolly and Americans for Prosperity only want to ensure the massive profits of oil companies and large polluters, and the power of oppressive countries such as China.
The Edmond Sun appears to accept that global warming is a theory then two pages later you state a scientific fact of a temperature increase! It is unfortunate that you chose, as the front page headline, a statement used by Jolly’s group and others to mis-lead and “spin” the facts for their short-term profit at the expense of everyone’s long-term prosperity.
Danny Smith
Edmond
A path to improve our nation
To the Editor:
I received five envelopes recently requesting money donations to each. First, my wife (73) and I (74) are on Social Security with a combined income of about $1,600 a month and no other retirement. Pardon me, but I received an oil check of $75 for the year. My wife, Margie, had 31 surgeries and I had 17. With church donations, drugs at $500 per month, insurance, food, utilities, gasoline, grandchild’s birthdays and holidays, where does all that wealth go?
With the above information, please tell us what part of our shrinking money supply do you suggest we mail to you? You all ask, in different forms, what are our suggestions to strengthen our America, this nation, to the prominent status of being a lender nation and not a borrower nation. How to be the military leader, to defend liberty and freedom, instead of the laughing stock of the radicals of Islam. The answers are simple but not necessarily easy. It means a difficult but not an impossible road to take.
Declare that God is not dead yesterday, today or all the tomorrows to come. Stop attacking God on all fronts and put prayer back in our schools and our gatherings. At our Marine Corps birthday, a prayer wasn’t even given. Shame, shame, shame even us Marines have given up our rights to give thanks in a public place to our Lord and God. I haven’t given up.
Our energy policies — well, we don’t have one. Drill, drill, drill there is enough energy in the ground that God gave to us and put a stop to our begging other nations and that alone would create jobs for our own security and welfare. Closing our borders would create millions of jobs and put many Americans back to work, the American way. Give the schools back to local hands, and the local PTA instead of the national teacher’s union. Teach American children the road to success is hard work instead of political correctness. Marilyn Monroe was not the mother of American virtue and JFK was not a king with royal blood.
Medical reform is easy by allowing interstate transactions and cleaning up the judicial system and have lawyers removed from the lordship protected status. Make the people in charge of making decisions prove each and all points to pass the constitutional smell test. War is under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and domestic is under the Constitution and they should not interchange.
Joe Peeler
Edmond
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To the Editor:
I am a teacher in the Edmond Public School District. For the past 10 years, I have witnessed first-hand the extraordinary work of Kathleen Duncan, president of the Edmond Board of Education. -
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To the Editor:
On Feb. 14, Edmond school patrons of District 2 will vote to select a school board member for Edmond Public Schools. This District 2 seat will be a five-year term. The responsibilities of a school board member are mainly two-fold: 1) Select and hire a superintendent or terminate his contract when appropriate; and 2) Develop and implement board policies that are in the best interests of Edmond students and school staff.
It should be noted that a board member has no authority to act in any capacity representative of the school unless he/she is seated at an official, designated school board meeting. -
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Report shows good news in the numbers
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School nurse supports Duncan’s re-election bid
To the Editor:
On Feb. 14, residents of Edmond Public Schools District 2 have an opportunity to continue the positive momentum of the state of Oklahoma by re-electing Kathleen Duncan to the Edmond Board of Education. A healthy public school system makes our state more attractive to both families and businesses. - More Opinion Headlines
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