{"id":73537,"date":"2009-12-09T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010466915_climatesummitincopenhagen.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2009-12-09T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:11:00","slug":"climate-summit-in-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/73537","title":{"rendered":"Climate summit in Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will my generation be safe?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Editor, The Times:<\/p>\n

My name is Molly, and I go to Chief Sealth High School. A class I\u2019m taking called Global Leadership is teaching me a lot about climate change, and the more I learn, the more scared I get [\u201cClimate policy we can afford,\u201d Opinion, Paul Krugman syndicated column, Dec. 8]. I\u2019ve been looking to the convention in Copenhagen as a sign of hope, as something to combat this growing claustrophobia and panic. And yet I continue to see President Obama, America\u2019s own visionary, play down the threat.<\/p>\n

I know adults think it\u2019s easy for kids to want radical things because we may not have jobs or cars or mouths to feed. But this is really our battle. My generation is the one that\u2019s going to experience the major consequences of our predecessors\u2019 carelessness.<\/p>\n

I can watch the ocean begin to swallow the island and people of Kiribati, and I can watch the search for drinkable water become desperate for people in Bangladesh as their own sea level rises. When I learn these things I feel guilt, I feel helpless, and I feel like we\u2019re next.<\/p>\n

I know a common perception of teenagers is that of desensitized human shells. But we stay up at night, wondering if we\u2019re on the edge of an apocalypse.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t be in Copenhagen. I don\u2019t have the power to change the world just by eating vegetarian and taking the bus. I need to know that the powers of the world care about me and my future. I need our world leaders to step up to their responsibilities, and lead our world to a sustainable future.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Molly Freed, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018The Wizard of Oz\u2019 and the Earth\u2019s rising temperature<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the classic movie \u201cThe Wizard of Oz,\u201d Dorothy and her friends see a little man behind a curtain madly manipulating instruments. When the wizard realizes the little man has been spotted, he thunders, \u201cignore the man behind the curtain.\u201d Too late. Dorothy and her friends realize the wizard is a hoax [\u201cCopenhagen talks begin today in stormy climate,\u201d page one, Dec. 7].<\/p>\n

Advocates of global warming recently had e-mails published that admit they have been manipulating data, ignoring and suppressing data that doesn\u2019t support their preconceived conclusions, and generally cooking the books. They systematically try to silence those who question them through lies, ridicule and outright intimidation.<\/p>\n

It turns out global warming is a huge hoax, that has nothing to do with climate change. It is designed to promote a social agenda and extort trillions of dollars from the citizens of the world through fear.<\/p>\n

The response of the biased mainstream media is to try to ignore and cover up the content of these e-mails. They tell the public, \u201cignore the man behind the curtain,\u201d but it is too late.<\/p>\n

The ugly truth is that global warming \u2014 or climate change, or whatever one wants to call it \u2014 is a left-wing socialist hoax.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Gerald D. Cline Jr., Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n

Climategate: the global climate controversy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conspiracy theorists are like suicide bombers \u2014 loud and dramatic \u2014 but there are only a few of them, and they are soon forgotten by all but those they injure [\u201cHacked e-mails heat up Capitol Hill,\u201d News, Dec. 3].<\/p>\n

In the case of Climategate, the conspiracy theorists are wearing WMD and may injure us all. They\u2019re generalizing a few pieces of doctored data in an attempt to impede the entire sustainability movement.<\/p>\n

While it may be true that a few scientists in the U.K. have manipulated data, and while it may or may not be true that the climate is warming, what is crucial to realize is that both climate-change science and Climategate are red herrings, distracting us from specific, vital issues that threaten humanity.<\/p>\n

Whether in climate change humankind has created a monster or a myth couldn\u2019t matter less. Beyond the issue of global warming, readily verifiable facts show we\u2019re running out of fish, forests and fresh, clean water.<\/p>\n

If we continue to abuse the Earth, we in the developed world will certainly encounter a drastic decrease in the quality of our lives, while witnessing the excruciating deaths by starvation and poisoning of hundreds of millions in developing regions.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Galen Sanford, Covington<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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