I see that my July 10 Redmond Reporter letter, “The Marxist-Progressive Church of Climate Change,” compelled an Aug. 10 response from Mr. Doug Chapin, who is defending this faith-based energy policy. Let me respond in kind to Mr. Doug Chapin’s points.

First, the 2009 Climate Gate will never be “thoroughly debunked” as Mr. Chapin said. The United Nations/Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) folks were caught red-handed.

If any person were to look all the way back in time to the Precambrian era to now, one can easily see that there is no correlation between concentration of CO2 and temperature fluctuations. A few weeks ago, the measured United States temperature data from the United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) shows that the United States is on a long-term cooling trend. But the reported temperatures from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) show a strong warming trend. They accomplish this through a spectacular hockey stick of data tampering, which corrupts the United States temperature trend by almost two degrees. The biggest component of this fraud is making up data. Almost half of all reported United States temperature data is now fake. They fill in missing rural data with urban data to create the appearance of non-existent United States warming.

So forget any carbon tax, or feel good Initiatives like I-732 which is a mess. Read through the Shift WA (http://shiftwa.org) July 27 article, “The Times exposes 3 hypocrisies of the Left.” It reveals a dysfunctional spat, and a continual goal of the Democratic Marxist Progressives in this state such as Gov. Inslee who wants in this case to redistribute hard earned public tax dollars toward education.

At the federal level, recently, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy admitted recently when testifying before the House, Science, Space and Technology committee that the data behind steps being taken to prevent .018 degrees celsius of warming by the year 2100, cannot be shared with the public because, “there is much information we don’t have the authority to release.”  Really? What is the EPA hiding? Most likely the truth (IPCC déjà vu).

Mr. Chapin assumed that I either have a connection to the oil lobby, or I, as a longtime scientist, cannot think for myself. Both are completely wrong. Mr. Chapin also said “… more than 93 percent of climate scientists believe that the burning of fossil fuels is driving climate change.” The so-called consensus comes from a handful of surveys and abstract-counting exercises that have been contradicted by more reliable research.

As Richard Lindzen, Ph.D., MIT professor of meteorology, said, “the alarmists are clearly attempting to establish truth, not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition.”

Mr. Chapin, you’ve grossly under-estimated the knowledge and wisdom of most Redmond Reporter readers, of all ages, from grade school to retirement and living on a fixed income. We are tired of putting up with the failed science of climate change, and the failed results of Socialist, Marxist polices that are trying to take a foot hold in these once great United States.

Gerald Miller

Redmond