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A big thank you to TuCARE and Sen. Dave Cogdill for hosting the 2009 Natural Resources Summit, which featured keynote speaker Myron Ebell who provided a powerful lecture on climate change. Ebell is director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute which the Wall Street Journal called "the best environmental think tank in the country."

The speaker exposed many falsehoods used to promote AB 32 and cap and trade. The items that impressed me most were:

The gradual global warming trend ended about 13 years ago and we may be starting a long-term cooling period.

Increased atmospheric CO2 does not cause global warming -- it historically follows it. CO2 is a nutrient -- not a pollutant.

The alarmists' record for forecasting global temperatures by computer models shows constant extreme exaggeration.

Present trends would be charted as normal if the much higher global temperatures of the 15th century had been included.

In my opinion, the global warming scare is a hoax and deliberately created for ideological reasons. It is classical use of fear and crisis to achieve sociological change. Specifically, to replace prosperous human liberty with government control and poverty.

ALBERT J. SEGALLA

Copperopolis