To The Editor: Where’s the evidence?
In your issue of Nov. 18-24, you printed the article by Doctors Robert and Sonia Vogl titled
Climate change: focusing on the evidence.
Dear Vogls: I am so looking forward to hearing the evidence of AGW, or Climate Change, or whatever term you use. To demonstrate evidence of this phenomenon, please tell us the levels of CO2 and average temperature of the early 20th century compared with today. Will you be intellectually honest and publish that?
Thank you.
William Lee
Rockton
From the Dec. 9-15, 2009 issue
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In response to the article, IS SHALE GAS BEING OVERSOLD. The simple answer is yes.
Any process which extracts fossil carbon from the environment ultimately adds to the CO2 levels in the environment. Is it not ironic also that one of the proposals for reducing CO2 in the atmosphere is to store it deep underground. Would it not be better to leave it there?
It is safe to presume that those industries which today benefit from extraction of fossil fuel anticipate a windfall of profit in the future storing of CO2.
The New York Times of December 8, 2009 reported that gas companies use at least 260 types of chemicals, many of them toxic, in the extraction of gas from shale. At present there are no sound procedures for processing the toxic wastewater generated by the process.
It has been reported ground water is now being contaminated by these procedures and at present no known corrective measures. We can live without shale gas, but cannot live without clean water.