A recent issue of The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons has an article pointing out that climate-change believers now are so openly disregarding facts that their climate-change beliefs have taken on the aspects of a religion, much like Lysenkoism and the eugenics movement.

Let’s face it, predictions were made, and they obviously were wrong, so the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis failed. Global temperatures have been stable for 16 years now, and a number of actual scientists (“climate science” is not a real science) are predicting global cooling for the foreseeable decades.

So the question is, why do the Associated Press and The Durango Herald continue to print only news stories that say Earth is warming alarmingly? The facts actually show that Earth is not warming. In an Oct. 17 Herald story, speculation was reported as fact. The midcentury temperatures are not set to soar; a particular group of AGW believers is predicting temperatures to soar. In fact, 2005 is not the hottest year on record; it is the hottest year on a specialized satellite record that began only in 1981. The hottest years “on record” (using thermometers) probably are in the 1930s during the Dust Bowl days. In those days, they reportedly had significantly large areas of the Arctic ice-free; our current Arctic ice appears to be doing about average, despite failed predictions that the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013.

So the question is, why are some liberal news outlets and even some “science” publications printing AGW news that is the exact opposite of observed data? It’s either insanity or religion. Watch how many liberal publications refuse to publish news articles that mention the fact that global temperatures haven’t changed in 16 years and decide for yourself why they’re doing it.

Mike Sigman

Durango