Temperature rises over global warming claims

The Register's editorial, "CO2 limits are unneeded, unjust" [April 26], erroneously claims that temperatures over the past decade are inconsistent with global warming. In fact, the opposite is true. The Earth's natural temperature cycles rise and fall. At the same time human-induced global warming has been pushing temperatures higher. Because of the natural cycle 1998 was a warm year. Global warming made it even hotter. Conversely, 2008 was a cooler year, but global warming made it less cool.
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Scientists and economists also agree that the negative consequences of a warmer planet – more droughts, rising sea levels, animal extinctions, etc. – would far outweigh the benefits your editorial cites.

Brenda Ekwurzel
Washington, D.C.
Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists
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...Meanwhile, abundant data show Earth's warming follows the Little Ice Age pattern that ended in 1850 and relates to a warmer sun, but to date the impact of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide appears insignificant to temperatures, and an atmospheric "tipping point" of wildly increasing temperatures is nowhere in the data; it resides only in the hearts of liberal politicians, but possibly not in the hearts of rust-belt Democrats.

George Brogan
North Tustin

ASCO Policy to Eliminate Cancer-Care Disparities

Dr. Raghavan, who also spoke at the press conference, likened the increasing cancer incidence to global warming in terms of its being a huge problem that won't go away.

Mike Judge’s ‘Goode Family’ Will Offend, Mock, And Make Us Laugh

We’ve been waiting for Mike Judge (creator of King of the Hill and Beavis and Butt-head) to unleash his latest cartoon creation, The Goode Family, ever since it was announced last summer. Basically, it shines the spotlight on the extreme green lifestyle — and makes fun of almost everything we love writing about in a tongue-in-cheek way.