Knox Tea Party of 1

Arvid Pasto, Farragut

A recent letter puts forth the proposition "Warming Real, Documented." The writer states that Earth's temperature is increasing and cites some statistics from NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The writer goes on to cite the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report about warm recent years. Other parts of the global warming proposition are then stated, including glacier loss, a possible upcoming ice-free Arctic region, damage to coral reefs and extreme weather events. The writer appears to agree with the conclusion of the UN-IPCC that mankind is responsible for all of this.

As a retired scientist with more than 40 years of experience, including 24 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, all I can say about all of this is "rubbish."

I have studied the global warming issue and have amassed a huge inventory of peer-reviewed scientific papers showing that, basically, there is not a shred of scientific evidence that mankind is causing Earth's temperature to rise because of carbon dioxide emissions. I can show, through these papers by some of the world's most knowledgeable scientists, major flaws in the global warming alarmism.

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