LETTER TO THE EDITOR: 'I fear for this country'

Recently, someone posted on the Internet e-mails and communications between climate change scientists and researchers that cast serious doubt on their research and findings that have been used to base potentially devastating burdens on the average American’s budget in addition to the ones we are facing with health care restructuring.

Instead of using common sense and stopping any further commitment to what has become questionable science and results, the administration is proceeding full speed ahead with the Copenhagen conference where it is reported that America and other developed countries will invest as much as $400 to $500 billion each year in China and India so they can meet the new standards of reducing emissions by 80 percent by 2050. What is going on here?

We are already so deep in debt to China and soon India, the burden to repay the mounting debt will be on our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, even it can be done by that time. All you need do is go to any store, Wal-Mart comes to mind, almost every item in the store is Made in China or India. So, why should we, along with other developed nations spend our money to give these two countries in particular any additional advantages in the marketplace?

We have exported our textile and clothing industry jobs abroad, we buy an inordinate amount of our food from abroad, and now we are expected to pay for them to comply with emission standards that may be based on false science with no investigation or questioning of the results that clearly, have been manipulated? Conclusions in part drawn from reading rising temperatures in cities yet discounting the lower or stable temperatures outside the influence of concrete, asphalt, steel, and other city clutter which results in retaining and increasing temperatures as populations and expansion of cities continues. GIGO examples coming from the leaked files abound, indicating a cavalier attitude toward the disciplines of true science in order to fit the information to match the desired outcome of an issue with a clear political agenda. We do not need any more lies, distortions, and untruths from our politicians and now, our scientists.

Just how much more can we take or stand from an overly aggressive administration, bent on enacting every piece of legislation sitting on liberal shelves for the past 30 years? We are witnessing what happens when one particular political ideology gains a majority that can enact anything they wish without consulting anyone else. It happened under Carter and we have a repeat under Obama. Our nation’s bank account and our ability to repay is not bottomless nor is it limitless as our representatives in Washington seem to think it is.

Our previous president, George W. Bush didn’t meet a bill he would consider vetoing until he was handed an ignominious defeat in both houses in 2006. Only then did he find the pen, just too late to be effective.

This is not about conservatives, liberals, Democrats, or Republicans, it is about responsibility and the ability to think objectively and without using the prism of partisanship. Honesty has been replaced with convenient lies and prevarications by those entrusted with the honor of those who come before them, Edison, Pasteur, Currie, and an endless list of reputable visionaries.

I fear for this country and the influence unscrupulous practitioners of junk science have on our leaders.

W.B. Rogers
Timmonsville