--- On Fri, 10/23/09, valentin bonite wrote:


From: valentin bonite
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To: feedback@inquirer.com.ph
Date: Friday, October 23, 2009, 9:49 AM


Watching, reading the news, and listening to so called experts, the ordinary person would possibly think that the end of the world is near. It is exasperating to note that media and the supposed to be responsible people have become alarmists which is quite irresponsible on their part. PAGASA for instance should stop telling people over TV that all natural occurences nowadays are caused by global warming without taking any effort to explain to the viewers his basis for saying so. There's also this person from Oxfam who declared on TV, when asked about the heavy amount of rainful brought about by typhoon Ondoy, that global warming is to blame because as temperature rises, so much water evaporates into the atmosphere thus the heavy rainful. Maybe I am mistaken but my basic science told me that the warmer the temperature, the fewer the clouds are in the atmosphere which explains why there are fewer rainfall in summer. Global warming obviously is fueled by the fact that it was taken by the liberal media as the gospel truth. Let us however take a few steps back in time. Just thirty years ago or thereabouts, the same liberal media in the US screamed in their headlines that the ice age is coming and that we must do something immediately. Now they are saying that we must do something right away because the earth is warming. The problem here is that they will not tell you that the earth's temperature has not actually risen a bit in a decade and that winter is even becoming colder. What is actually indisputable as far as our situation is concerned is the fact that floods are brought about by the denudation of our forests. It has become the single biggest reason for the losses we suffer everytime there's a typhoon and not the wind's gustiness. In fact as far as our province of Surigao del Norte is concerned the strongest typhoon recorded to have brought total destruction to our province happened in 1964 and was repeated in 1984. Since then, by God's grace, we are spared by any similar calamity yet we are not spared from flooding and I should say we really deserved it because of the unabated illegal logging in our province. Last night a news anchor on prime time news loudly proclaimed that places up north are battered by giant waves but looking at the footages accompanying his declaration clearly showed a different story. How irresponsible! I wonder what other natural clamity can the liberal media conjure up next. May I make a simple request to the media, the next time you talk about global warming, please make sure that you quote the really knowledgeable and not anybody from PAGASA who you would even sometimes blame for faulty forecasting. Above all please strive to present the side of scientists who debunked the stories of those who spread the story about global warming. Do not be like Al Gore, and most advocates to the idea, who even after having been awarded the Nobel peace prize and earned a hundred million dollars for his efforts, still refused to be challenged on climate change.