Political newcomer is making nation great again
Yes, America is going to be great again, if you vote for the man who started this movement when he entered politics as a new participant a few months ago. His slogan and comments have aroused a sleeping giant in America, the middle class and the working class of people. He has started an amazing new movement in America.
Major companies are starting to use advertising and logos with "Made in America" again. The U.S. Flag is being displayed instead of destroyed. What a great country. If you don't like it here, just move back where you came from or move on somewhere else! We will still love you and wish you good luck.
Let's all join in to make America great again. Thanks for listening and vote. It's the most important election for president we are having in my lifetime (92 years).
Bill Maas
Rogers
Are armadillos evidence of global warming?
I am a resident of Har-Ber Meadows in Springdale, where my daughter recently saw an armadillo while walking her dogs in my neighborhood. I've seen armadillos around Springdale, but never one in Har-Ber Meadows.
As a retired agricultural scientist, I lean toward the belief of most scientists that man-made climate change is occurring, but I am also looking for evidence. To me, the move northward of the armadillo is a piece of that evidence. Get ready for fire ants!
I don't think climate change will be the disaster predicted if we take advantage of the many technical tools now available in increasing yields of key world crops. Carbon dioxide is a critical component of photosynthesis and geneticists and plant breeders are taking advantage of increasing carbon dioxide levels now occurring.
It is my belief that mankind is in much more danger of being obliterated by nuclear warfare than by climate changes. Of course, in five billion years the sun will cease to shine.
George Bradley
Springdale
Consider full picture on global warming claims
Given his several editorials in the Democrat-Gazette predicting "extreme perils" of human-caused warming, Professor Art Hobson presents an over-zealous and biased advocacy for this viewpoint. The Earth is slightly warming, as it has been ever since the Dalton temperature minimum some 200 years ago, although atmospheric carbon dioxide has significantly increased only over the past half-century.
In actuality, there exists little direct physical evidence of serious global warming. Most of the dire future predictions are based on climate computer models. Over 100 such climate models run since the 1970s have predicted global temperature increases up to now that are twice to four times the actual observed temperature increase, with an enormous spread among model predictions. And the more extreme model predictions are those politically advanced.
In America, wildfire damage decreased by an order of magnitude between 1930 and 1976, and have increased by only a factor of two since then. The Palmer Drought Index shows that U.S. droughts were worse in the 1930s and 1950s compared to today.
By any measure, a carbon tax is a tax on energy and thus has a negative effect on total economic activity. Advocacy for rapidly replacing fossil fuel burning with renewable energy sources fails to understand the difficulty and cost of such a conversion process.
Readers should study both sides of the warming issue. One good source is the Feb. 2 congressional testimony of Professor John Christy, who is the Alabama state climatologist and reports global temperature variations measured by satellite.
Don Bogard
Bentonville
Commentary on 05/28/2016