Stars & Stripes letter: The campaign of disinformation must stop.

[lebkuchen]

Proof of global warming clear

The debate over global warming is over. This month, the National Academy of Sciences — chartered by the Republican-controlled Congress to study the trends in the global climate — reported that 2005 was the warmest year in two millennia. This is no coincidence. There is indeed absolute consensus within the community of scientists who have studied the effects of global warming that the record-high temperatures are dependent on the continuing increase in carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. There is further consensus that the melting of the tundra in the Arctic North — attributable to global warming — would leave parts of our Atlantic and Pacific coastlines underwater if not checked, quickly.

Strangely, this newspaper does not agree. On back-to-back days, June 20 and 21, “State of the Union” cartoons appeared in the Opinion section mocking both the validity of global warming and former Vice President Al Gore’s new film, “An Inconvenient Truth.” The first cartoon went as far as to suggest that only long-haired people resembling rock star Chris Robinson would take the threat of global warming seriously.

While I’m certain these cartoons do not reflect the official position of Stars and Stripes on global warming, their appearance in the Opinion section suggests that Stripes editors believe this kind of bile adds something to the national dialogue on this frightening geological trend.

The campaign of disinformation must stop. Contesting what has long since been postulated — that the effects of global warming are throwing the geological balance into flux — represents irresponsible journalism at its worst. While the dialogue over global warming may have once divided Republicans from Democrats, conservatives from progressives, it can no longer if America is going to take the lead in saving our earth.

We need leaders and responsible media outlets to focus the national dialogue on what’s important, not to dismiss what is apparent.

Sgt. Thomas Day
Camp Arifjan, Kuwait

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=38274

[wake.up.america]

1. Nice Post!! Thomas will be given guard duty in ...

the middle of winter - 12 hours on, 12 hours off for 2 weeks.

[yellerpup]

2. I like Sgt. Day front and center

K&R :kick: