I found the article about the climate change study by researchers Johannes Feddema and Nathan Brunsell and its effect on Kansas interesting (11/13, Local, “Climate change brings Kansans dire prediction”). But I questioned the time frame they used, 1950-2000.
Why didn’t they go back to the 1930s, when parts of Kansas, Nebraska and that whole area were referred to as the dust bowl? We might learn from those people — how they coped and what they did to improve the situation.
Seems to me we ought to use as much of history as possible.
David Napoli
Kansas City
I was struck by the two contrasting articles about Kansas in the Local section on 11/13: “Climate change brings Kansans dire prediction” and “Idea to lower Kansas highway speed limit appears to run out of gas”.
Are Kansans resigned to the fact that no one wants to be inconvenienced by reducing our carbon footprint and therefore want to retain the higher speed limit so folks can get through our future, devastated state as soon as possible?
Mike Burlingame
Overland Park
It's great to cherry pick data, that way you can get the results you want. How about the last 8 years. The temperature has actually decreased about 1/3 of a degree. The UN now says that the earth will continue this same "cooling trend" until 2025 or so. How can that be possible? How can we continue to pump CO2 into the atmosphere and not continue with temperature increases? Shouldn't temperatures continue to increase?
The problem is the modeling they are using. They obviously don't have an accurate one. Did you know that all of the modeling to this point assumes an infinite atmosphere. Predictions with these calculations show ever increasing temperatures. New models that actually limit the atmosphere to a realistic volume shows that temperature does in fact rise with increasing CO2 and then it levels out.
http://landshape.org/enm/free-co2-for-all/
Where is are the research papers on this?
When science has been replaced by politics, real science loses.
Posted by: kcstar_is_one_sided | November 18, 2008 at 02:33 PM
Folks you want to know why you may be paying $6.00 a gallon for gasoline or more in a few years? Read moonbat Burlinggame's letter about "carbon footprints" again. OHmmmmmmmm, just chant and all our cars will run on "wind".
God help us.
Posted by: Rogue | November 18, 2008 at 08:41 AM
David Napoli has a very good point. Why select a period that does not include the decade in the past century with the record temperature in this area? And why such a short time range for a climate change study? It is worth noting that the temperature rise in the North American Continent has been very small. In all the clamor about CO2 it should be kept in mind that plant life cannot exist without it in the atmosphere.
Posted by: Engineer | November 18, 2008 at 01:07 AM