Re: Ann McFeatters' Nov. 2 commentary, "Another chance at consensus":
The problem McFeatters and others have is trying to paint us all with the same brush, thereby discounting the very real science of global climate change in favor of those who want to redistribute the world resources for their own gain. Some folks, the ones who are driving this, really have an agenda -- and it is not for your good.
Those of us who have researched this scientifically have concluded that we truly have been getting warmer for a long time; that human activity has little, if anything, to do with it; and that carbon dioxide has nothing to do with it at all. We really are being sold a bill of goods by those who would claim we are at fault, and the McFeatterses of the world fall for it because some of what they say is true.
There is dogma on both sides, but the facts prove that we will not stop global warming through our efforts. The fact is that we are getting a bit cooler again, and if my understanding is correct (it is), we will have at least two years of cooling. It has been getting cooler for the last six months.
There are many scientists who do not agree with the Al Gore version of global "climate change." The Smithsonian has a pretty good bit of information on the current cooling cycle. It just could be true that we will be cooling off for the foreseeable future.
All of the (great?) dictators of the world have known that the way to gain control over a population is to first scare that population and then act like saviors from the thing they scared them about. People give up their freedom for security and peace. Check it out. Look at the real science that exists. You will see that we are being manipulated.
-- Frank Bland, Simi Valley