No one has yet shown me the proof - Albany Democrat Herald

I see it has taken 5 AWGers (Anthropogenic Global Warming) (Letters, June 3) to respond to Bill Brandt’s May 27 letter “More about CO2 and science.”

Lawrence Padman states, “And there is no doubt, even among the handful of scientifically qualified skeptics of human-caused climate change, that CO2 levels are rising because of human activity.” There is not much argument that human activity is raising CO2 levels. The question is: Are higher CO2 levels causing the earth to warm?

As for the “handful” of skeptics, Mr. Padman is probably referring to the NAS article referenced by many, but read by few. If you read the article you will see from their data from the 50 most published climate scientists that 50 percent of them are unconvinced of AGW. Hardly a “handful.”

Mr. Padman wonders why local skeptics are “never prepared to defend their climate science beliefs in person.” Beliefs are the realm of religion or philosophy, not science. I am skeptical of AGW because I have not seen any proof there is causation. I did go see Phil Mote speak when he replaced George Taylor, who. Gov. Kulongoski fired because Mr. Taylor was stating science and not the Democratic party line. Mr. Mote would only answer one question per table and it had to be agreed upon by all at the table. Hardly “an open question time.”

Evelyn and Barry Sherr say “global warming deniers are harassing, even threatening, climate scientists.”What nonsense! If anything, it is the other way around as anyone who has read the East Anglica “Climategate” memos can see.

Bob Heald says, “...the science being conclusive that humans are responsible for current global warming.” It is not conclusive and I defy anyone to give me the references that prove it is. No one has yet.

Jay Burreson

Corvallis (June 8)