Reading Hugh Pepper’s recent letter (Protecting our environment is very important) reminds me of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories – fanciful stories, such as How the Leopard Got its Spots. Pepper provides a litany of unsubstantiated “evidence” of the so-called terrifying impact of supposed man-made global warming, despite the inconvenient truth that global temperatures have halted over the past 20 years.
Although all of his unsubstantiated alarmist claims are suspect, let’s consider one such piece of “evidence,” namely, “melting ice caps.” Note "caps," plural. Not only has Antarctic sea ice not shrunk in 100 years, but land-based ice is expanding according to a NASA study! I would agree with Pepper that protecting our environment is very important, but let’s deal with real environmental issues, rather than issues based upon just so stories.
Ron Voss
