Letter to the Editor

More research needed on ice in Antarctica

To the editor:

Global warming alarmists have tried relentlessly to convince us that the Antarctic ice sheet is melting at an alarming rate. As a result, we would see floods of catastrophic proportions. This is a tactic that they use to promote their liberal environmentalist agenda. Their melting theory has started to evaporate. In the latest issue of the journal Science, two California researchers discovered that the movement of West Antarctica ice streams have slowed or halted, allowing the ice to thicken. According to the scientists, this reversal may be undergoing the same transition from shrinking to growing that appears to have occurred on a neighboring ice stream 150 years ago. They further state that the results suggest a reduced possibility of the feared massive collapse of the ice field, which global-warming alarmists have been telling us would occur.

This evidence, along with the fact that air temperatures (recorded continuously over a 14-year period ending in 1999) have declined by 1 degree Fahrenheit in the polar deserts and across the White Continent, further proves the necessity of more diligent research and analysis of this highly politically charged theory. I believe we need further research, not blinded by political agenda, to assist us in determining the possible effects, if any, of global warming. Their "sky is falling" scare tactics are not enough for me to automatically subscribe to their agenda and, I hope, will be recognized by the citizens of the world for what they are: pure left-wing environmentalist propaganda.

JIM KREWSON

Shawneetown, Mo.