Letters to the Editor
Neighbor’s dogs have him barking back
From William Schneider
Cave Junction
Some folks around; decent, I thought. Seem to not really care that I beg for the peace of the home that I bought, destroyed by the dogs over there.
Some folks try, and some folks don’t, to keep peace in the summer night. A barking dog going on and on, and the whole world knows it ain’t right.
People’s dogs are theirs and theirs alone, both its poop and voice. I don’t want to share their dog with them, but some leave me no choice.
If they force me to share their dog, then I’ll share some of mine, the noise, the crap, and all of that, and I’ll share it every time.
I’ve got their number, and I’ll call any day or night. The whole world knows that a barking dog going on and on ain’t right.
Wasn’t Oregon Lottery listed as a solution?
From Carol Ramos
Cave Junction
I could be wrong, but it seems to me that when the Oregon Lottery began years back, it was touted as a panacea for our financial ills.
But now we find counties throughout Oregon gasping for money like fish out of water because of the lack of O&C safety net money. And that’s thanks, of course, to our dear friends, the unreasoning, radical tree protectors.
Anyway, I thought that the lottery was going to help us with funding to make things better. What happened?
He says global warming is real; needs attention
From Bob Kreizel
New York City
In response to “Global warming needs debunking,” (Jan. 14, “Illinois Valley News”): There is no real debate about the facts of global warming in the scientific community.
It is widely agreed upon among the world’s leading institutions, including the recent report last week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations, that humans are indeed playing an active role in significantly adding to global warming by introducing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
The most important single one of which is burning fossil fuel (coal and oil and natural gas), which releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The Oregon Petition by OISM was deceptive and included what appeared to be a reprint of a scientific paper and a cover letter from a former president of NAS. A blunt statement issued by NAS made it clear that it had nothing to do with the petition and further stated that “even given the considerable uncertainties in our knowledge of the relevant phenomena, greenhouse warming poses a potential threat sufficient to merit prompt responses.”
Investigations into the qualifications of the 17,000 signers showed that less than 1 percent had identified themselves as physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, or meteorologists. The petition also had funding by Exxon Mobil.
I suggest that if people want to learn more about the consequences of global warming and how they can take an active role in reducing greenhouse gases, they should visit nasonline.org or noaa.gov or watch the movie, “An Inconvenient Truth.” We are the problem, and we need to be the solution.
