Mac’s inaccuracies
Where to start. There are so many misstatements, misconceptions and inaccuracies that I am having a hard time getting started. An unnamed ‘renowned’ scientist has found mistakes in the UN’s computer models (M. McKay RB 10-17). Does he mean programming errors in the computer modeling? Is this ‘renowned’ scientist a computer modeling expert or a climate scientist or something else? A better explanation of this scientist’s expertise would be helpful in understanding how much to credit his claims.
“All global warming predictions are done with computer models, not based on science…” which is completely wrong. Computer models are based on what scientists understand to be occurring in the environment. How quickly computers can process the equations is the only limiting factor. Faster computers produce more accurate predictions. But only time will tell how accurate the predictions are.
And Mac. Please listen. Temperature readings are NOT made with computer models. We have been measuring temperatures for over a hundred years. Well before any computer was developed. So STOP saying global warming is a myth. Global warming IS occurring and we have the facts to prove it. Anyone denying this is the problem. The question is what is causing the warming. Is it anthropogenic (caused by humans) or naturally occurring. Please go to the NOAA web site to find the facts on global temperature rise. Unless, of course, Lou Dobbs says that the NOAA is a bunch of liberal lairs. The same Lou Dobbs who questioned Obama’s birth certificate. Who said that leprosy was a big health problem when it was not. Who said, incorrectly, that Obama supported unconditional amnesty? Who said, “The Obama administration ‘manipulated deportation data to make it appear that the Border Patrol was deporting more illegal immigrants than the Bush administration.’” Another lie. Who said, “Obama’s failure to ‘push job creation,’ caused black unemployment in Ferguson, Mo., to be three times higher than the white rate.” I am not saying he only tells lies, but there are enough of them that I check what he says.
And when you cite me please do so correctly. Is it a lie when you fail to do so?
So, these six customers you talk about. Did you talk to them about economy of travel? About conserving our natural resources? Or just about how the liberal press is dominating us idiots?
Kevin Bracken, Kelseyville
Living in this era
Not sure how others feel about living our daily lives in this modern era, but I know I am one tired person of having most of my day forced to view ad after ad after ad, every few minutes of every waking hour. No matter what electronic devise or media I use, I can count on the modern day, legal drug dealers, the pharmacy manufactures along with the fast food, insurance and financial industries, with their geckos, snappy sexual sayings and views of the enhanced body areas designed to catch my attention to their useless, over priced products with delivery and handling fees costing as much as the product they hope some fool will buy.
I find myself watching those programs that do not have ads as of yet, feeling the exhaustion to my one finger that controls the fast forward button on my controller or reaching for a library book of one of the many classic books that have long been dust collectors on my book shelves.
In my list of programs I pay to get, which is nearly 900 now, in my personalized list I am down to around 75 or so. In my youth it was only three to five to have to deal with. My frustrations is to only find relief when I step outside, see and hear the sounds of nature, the beauty of the lake that I am fortunate to live on, and a possible wave from a neighbor zooming by. My small garden is a blessing, watching things grow each day that passes.
Inside I see the five or six fishing poles and four tackle boxes full of gadgets that I never use. Just one favorite fishing pole, a simple reel, line, bobber, hook and sinker is all I truly use need to find the enjoyment of fishing. That enjoyment doubles if I am lucky enough to have a friend to fish with and shoot the breeze and talk story with. I hate the fact we are no longer people but reduced to being consumers of goods with the bait being products we don’t really need.
Even the long standing oasis of the evening news is now filled with promoting some corporation’s new, improved product, or not fact based information that has replaced information that would help us understand those issues that were important to know about. The daily coverage of what ever war were in is just another advertisement for we the taxpayers to use taxpayer funds to build and buy more equipment to kill our fellow man and give or sell it for more profits from those companies who make it. I have found that paying attention to more of just the local issues from reading the local newspaper, local news half hour are bringing some relief to this modern day created problem. At least my mind seems to have a better understanding and comfort in enjoying my everyday living and enjoying my life now.
Jim Hall, Clearlake Oaks
Mac
According to the tabulations of The Record-Bee Mac McKay has had more than thirty letters published in the paper since the beginning of 2015. Although I have not read all of them, to me his letters confirm a well established tenet that our educational systems often fail to instill the ability of critical reasoning in all of the students who are processed in those systems.
Charles S. Nicoll, Lucerne
