To the Editor
An Inconvenient Truth. Or should I say a convenient lie? Last week’s last page had a very worried editor speaking on global warming in hopes of saving the polar bears. Apparently the bears will become extinct if we don’t help, but does anyone remember 30 years ago? I sure as hell don’t, but 30 years ago the big concern was global cooling; all of the scientists of the day said we were plunging into the depths of a new Ice Age. If you don’t believe me, ask your parents.
Speaking of these scientists, today, said professionals warn us that carbon dioxide (CO2) is the cause of global warming, and that humans are the reason; they refer to CO2 as “the most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas.” Well, I’m sure most of you would be surprised to find out that the scientists who promote global warming are working on products and methods to help them get rich. An average human exhales 2.2 pounds of CO2 a day, every day. In fact if you added all of up all of the CO2 that humans exhale, along with the CO2 produced by cars, factories, combustion engines of any sort, it adds up to only 1/30 of the total amount of CO2. Most of the CO2 is naturally occurring from “mother earth,” due to decomposition. Mother Nature’s compost pile is the reason for our CO2 “problem.” How are these scientists going to fix that? One new thought is to pump hundreds of thousands of tons of Aluminum Oxide and Silver Iodide into the atmosphere in an effort to cool global temperatures. Sounds like a wonderful proposition, right?
Some people right now are saying “what about the fact that “Atmospheric carbon CO2 concentrations have increased since the mid – 1700s through fossil fuel burning and changes in land use, with more than 80 percent of this increase occurring since 1900.” Well, I completely agree with this, but it is not due to industrialization, at least not directly. The industrial revolution gave rise to new technologies which raised quality of life, which in turn led to a population boom. Eighty percent of the CO2 produced has been since 1900. Well, since 1900 the population has grown almost eighty percent. There are almost more people living in China now than there were in the whole world in 1900. Also, automobiles using combustion engines have only been around since 1900; there is your boom in CO2 production.
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is suing the six largest automakers based on the fact that their products emit CO2. This lawsuit based on our country’s tort (wrongful act) laws, is just another way to cash in on the global warming hysteria. Scientists working on a way to “save us” from catastrophe, lawyers chasing ambulance manufactures, and not ambulances. I’m relieved to see that so many people are trying to save the polar bears. Coca-Cola must not be willing to do anything. Dicks.
Read Adamczak’s letter uncut at our website, generation.buffalo.edu.
Chris Adamczak
Dear Generation
I visited your campus this weekend for the MAC swim meet. I picked up the February edition of your magazine and was apalled at what I read. When you leave school and enter the real world, you will find that decent, smart, successful people do not engage in the langauge, the activities and the lack of morals your articles describe.
If your University is providing any financial or resource support of this publication, every parent who pays tuition should be questioning the administration for this. Further, as a guest on your campus, I walked away with a very negative impression of this institution and would never want my children to attend here.
I understand freedom of speech; I am aware that these students have the right to publish their thoughts, and you should understand that I have the same privilege to express my feelings towards you and your magazine.
Tom and Sarah Misener
Tom and Associate
Tuition bills are sent to the student, not to the student’s parents. Maybe if students are mature enough to attend school, they’re old enough to decide what to read for themselves.
Let’s not get our speedos in a bunch.
We’re not funded by the university, we’re funded by student fees. And I would never want your children to attend here, either.
Always engaging in language
Peter Scheck
Editor in Chief
