Jeremy Symons' Feb. 18 op-ed ["Despite 50-plus inches, no ice age is here"] was refreshing. I share Mr. Symons' concerns over Pat Robertson-style global warming research, and I offer a helpful alternative in understanding this international health care issue.
Those truly concerned and frustrated about "global warming" should find solace after reading "Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming," by Mark Bowen.
The book's explanations of our government's extreme efforts to distort solid science presents real science by a renowned spokesperson, and provides his solution as well as discussion of dysfunctional "cap and trade."
Even die-hard skeptics will become winners by backing this nation's current efforts to create a U.S. "green" industry. Conveyor belts of "green" money to Chinese coal-fired industrial complexes neither alleviate U.S. economic problems nor take pollution from the air that returns only soot, acid rain, and lung pollution after crossing the Pacific.
Be stewards for your family and the Earth by reading solid science rather than becoming captivated, then frustrated, by conflicting part-time scientists lacking the credentials of Dr. Hansen.
Bruce Dieter
Spotsylvania