AP shows its bias when it convicts climate whistleblower
Re: “Science not faked, but not pretty,” Dec. 12
I was very disappointed to see
The Examiner post this AP article, whose factual errors start in the very first sentence when it reported that the emails from East Anglia University computers were “stolen.” Not “allegedly stolen.” Even with dozens of eyewitnesses, the killer of 13 soldiers at Ft. Hood is called an “alleged” murderer. But the “thief” at EAU is convicted by AP as a crook, not a more likely whistleblower, which the AP calls people who illegally reveal confidential information. After reporting about the real crooks who converted science into a new global warming religion for years, AP has a vested interest in exculpating them. More importantly, you did not challenge the tired, untrue assertion that mankind is the cause of global warming. The EAU emails show that alleged scientists cooked, destroyed and misinterpreted the data, slandering those with more credible evidence that this era is no different than the one that melted the two-mile deep glaciers that once covered Canada and the northern tier of the U.S. when cavemen in Europe were drawing pictures on their cave walls. The scientific fraud committed in the name of “global warming” will eventually go down as one of the greatest scientific hoaxes of all time, as many leading climatologists have called it for many years even as they were attacked as heretics.
Jack Adams
Washington
New technology will give U.S. edge in Afghanistan
Re: “Obama: Afghanistan not lost, remains challenge,” Dec. 1
President Obama is right to commit more troops to Afghanistan. Now is not the time for half measures if we want to succeed in routing the Taliban and denying terrorists there a safe training ground. But sending more troops is not enough; we also need to provide them with the next-generation technology that will help them find the insurgents and beat them on their home turf. Today, most troops are still using legacy radios, vehicles and technology that are holdovers from the Cold War, which can’t give soldiers a birds-eye view of the battlefield and can’t share information. The Pentagon needs to fast track Army modernization efforts, especially new networking and communications technologies that taxpayers have already spent billions bringing to the brink of completion. In particular, the Pentagon needs to move forward on the network the Army was developing as part of the now-cancelled Future Combat Systems program. While this program had a number of challenges, the next generation network that was part of it is desperately needed. Here at home, we’re rightly concerned that every school be hooked up to broadband Internet. We need to make a similar effort for our troops. After all, in Afghanistan information is a matter of life and death, victory and defeat.
Capt. George Autobee (Ret. USMC-USAR)
Director of government affairs,
American GI Forum of the United States
Motorists entitled to vehicle repair information
The National Grange, the nation’s oldest general farm and rural public interest organization, calls on Congress to pass the Motor Vehicle Owners’ Right to Repair Act (HR 2057) to protect individual vehicle ownership rights, especially for residents of farming, tribal and rural communities. Grange members believe American motorists should have to the right to choose how, where and by whom their motor vehicles are maintained and repaired. Consumers are entitled to full access to all of the repair information for the vehicles they purchase. Vehicles are becoming more sophisticated than ever before; virtually every system is either monitored or controlled by computers. Millions of vehicle owners could potentially be forced to return to dealerships for service because their preferred, local repair facilities have been denied access to computer codes and service information from the vehicle manufacturers. Motorists in rural communities where there are few dealerships are particularly vulnerable. With record numbers of dealerships closing, many motorists are performing their own repairs or turning to local repair shops for service. In order for these shops to be able to serve their community, they must have full access to the codes and information necessary to diagnose and repair all types of vehicles.
Leroy Watson
Legislative director,
National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry
Washington
