CLIMATE: A tale of two papers

I subscribe to both the Coeur d’Alene Press and the Spokesman Review. I read both papers. The Spokesman for the news and the Press mostly for comic relief.

The comedy comes in two forms. First the almost daily right wing rants about how our president is out to destroy America, and then there is the kooky so-called weatherman Cliff Harris that writes more crazy stuff than Michelle Bachmann.

Monday it was Cliff diving off another cliff to tell us about the crazy weather all over the world but telling us not to worry, that it is all a 150-year cycle. Funny though that in his own rant he cites records broken for rain in Japan that date back to the 1500s. Yo Cliff, that’s a little more than 150 years. Ya think?

Then I open the Spokesman to find an article titled “Climate change skeptic reverses course.” Of course this news is nowhere to be found in The Press. Richard A. Muller is a professor of physics at the University of California. In fact much of his research is funded by the Charles Koch Foundation.

Three years ago Professor Muller had doubts about man-made climate change but “Last year, following intensive research involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I am now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause.”

Now let’s hear more about the airplanes spreading that foil.

JOHN RITTERBACH

Hayden