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Warming doubts grow
Froma Harrop’s column “Media should get real on warming” (Nov. 26) leaves no question where she stands with the global warming crowd. There is growing skepticism, however, even among scientists about the warming trend. Apparently the Earth’s temperature has remained normal for the last 10 years; this is encouraging to us skeptics.
Just last month, New Zealand issued warnings about icebergs in the southern shipping lanes. Warming glaciers don’t produce icebergs, they recede. Only when glaciers grow larger, sections break off forming icebergs; it’s called “calfing.”
By coincidence, there is an article in today’s Spokesman-Review (Dec. 3) supporting my questioning global warming. The article, “Lawmakers read climate e-mails on House floor,” has a paragraph that questions the possibility of New Zealand’s warning of ice being in the southern shipping lanes.
Let’s just follow the money, starting with Al Gore.
Robert C. Sprint
Spokane