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March 12, 2010

Rodney Hebert The Port Arthur News The Port Arthur News Fri Mar 12, 2010, 11:03 AM CST

PORT NECHES — A recent poll on Channel Six News, indicated that approximately 60 percent of the poll respondents do not believe in global warming. Below average winter temperatures as well as reports of apparent falsification of data in a paper circulated between a couple of "scientists" in a university in England may have had an effect on the credibility of the true data substantiating global warming.

Whatever the reason for this skepticism, it is dangerous to the future of our children and grandchildren and civilization to disregard the facts supporting the validity of global warming and its resulting effects on climate change. The release of increasingly large quantities of carbon dioxide, from the burning of fossil fuels, along with methane, from cattle production and naturally occurring sources, and other gasses into the atmosphere is increasing average global air temperatures and we are beginning to see the effects in the form of larger and more destructive storms and rising sea levels.

Thomas L. Freeman's book Hot, Flat, and Crowded is a must read for anyone who plan to be alive during the next half century, because it is then that the effects of our disregard for the health of our environment will come home to haunt us.

Rodney Hebert

Port Neches

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