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6A Daily News – Tuesday, July 31, 2012 Opinion DAILYNEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Greg Stevens, Publisher gstevens@redbluffdailynews.com Chip Thompson, Editor editor@redbluffdailynews.com Editorial policy The Daily News opinion is expressed in the editorial. The opinions expressed in columns, letters and cartoons are those of the authors and artists. Letter policy The Daily News welcomes let- ters from its readers on timely topics of public interest. All let- ters must be signed and pro- vide the writer's home street address and home phone num- ber. Anonymous letters, open letters to others, pen names and petition-style letters will not be allowed. Letters should be typed and cannot exceed two double-spaced pages or 500 words. When several letters address the same issue, a cross section of those submit- ted will be considered for publi- cation. Letters will be edited. Letters are published at the discretion of the editor. 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While the statement that Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, was the first The AP's "Today in History" president to have been born a U.S. citizen is technically true, it is also a misleading statement. Our country did not become the United States until 1776. Martin Van Buren was born in 1782. The seven previous presi- dents, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, were all born in this country, but prior to 1776. With the issue of whether or not our current President Obama was born in this country, I wanted to set the record straight for the remarkable founding fathers of our great nation. Vickie Darnell, Corning In response to Orval Strong's letter July 21. Orval, you seem to be painting all capitalists with a broad brush. Capitalism, in my opinion, includes small businesses. The mom and pop businesses that barely make a go of it are the back- bone of our country. The many Capitalism Editor: small businesses here in Red Bluff, for example, return a lot back to the community, so much so that it is impossible to itemize everything they do. Local business people give generously to church- es and charities; they also join ser- vice clubs and give again in time, money and expertise. the first defibrillator and the Jaws of Life to help the fire department save lives. The Rotary Club also annually purchases Christmas gifts for needy children, are bell ringers and donate food to the Sal- vation Army. The Rotary Club purchased the Cone-Kimball Cor- As a member of the Rotary Club of Red Bluff, and a former small businessman, I am aware of some of what Rotary has done in Red Bluff as around the world. It was Rotary that laid the ground work for The Hope Chest. The Hope Chest was operated by vol- unteer, retired professional women and wives of businessmen, ranch- ers, doctors, judges as well as other individuals. They unpacked and laundered all the used clothing sold in the store. It was Rotary that purchased ner and with the help of the down- town business people (all capital- ists) and service organizations and small businesses, professional people and donations from indi- viduals we now have a corner transformed from an eyesore into a corner to behold. Your Turn Penne — also a member of Rotary — and the effort he put into his community, especially the Boy Scouts. On a larger scale Rotary Inter- national with Rotary Clubs throughout the world — many of the individual members most like- ly represent some the corporations you so hate — has with their Polio Plus program put an end to polio worldwide. I do not know the exact amount our local Rotary Club of Red Bluff contributed to Polio Plus but it was an impressive amount. Rotary, and the capitalists and humanitarians that make it up, are looking out for you Orval. Les Wolfe, Red Bluff This is just a par- tial list of the many things local capitalists have done and I would be remiss if I didn't mention Gene Your officials STATE ASSEMBLYMAN — Jim Nielsen (R) State Capitol Bldg., Room 6031 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 319-2002; Fax (916) 319-2102 STATE SENATOR — Doug LaMalfa (R) State Capitol Bldg., Room 3070 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 651-4004; Fax (916) 445-7750 GOVERNOR — Jerry Brown, State Capitol Bldg., Sacramento, CA 95814; (916) 445-2841; Fax (916) 558-3160; E-mail: gover- nor@governor.ca.gov. U.S. REPRESENTATIVE — Wally Herger (R), 2595 Cean- othus Ave., Ste. 182, Chico, CA 95973; 893-8363. U.S.SENATORS — Dianne Feinstein (D), One Post Street, Suite 2450, San Francisco, CA 94104; (415) 393-0707. Fax (415) 393-0710. Barbara Boxer (D), 1700 Montgomery St., Suite 240, San Francisco, CA 94111; (510) 286-8537. Fax (202) 224- 0454. On the fraud of human-caused warming Commentary arguments, positions and sup- porting facts refuting the idea that human activity causes glob- al warming (or the currently favored term: climate change), a note on tonight's Tea Party Patriots meeting agenda. Erin and Terry from the Redding Tea Party Patriots will present infor- mation and a DVD on the sub- ject of voter fraud and registra- tion. It's summer and travel beckons, but this meeting and subject are worth going out of your way for. There have been fraudulent Before providing readers the registration convictions involv- ing ACORN activists; Minneso- ta U.S. Senator Al Franken and Washington Governor Christine Gregoire both benefited from vote fraud, owing their electoral success to phony ballots. Demo- crat Secretaries of State chose not to pursue the matters, coinci- dentally. As Hugh Hewitt point- ed out in his aptly titled book, "If it's not close, they can't cheat," Republicans must win by margins beyond the levels of fraud that accompany Democra- tically-aligned unions and lawyers. Cleaning up voter roles and insisting on voter ID – you know, the kind that allowed peo- ple to enter the NAACP hall where Attorney General Eric Holder was speaking – is one of the defining issues going for- ward to insure that legitimate votes are not cancelled out by phony or dead voters. Human-caused global warm- ing/climate change is going to eventually be recognized by clear thinking people as perhaps the greatest misconception ever foisted on humanity. When you consider alarmism within the last century over cooling, then I encourage those with open minds to take some time to review the information readily available from local-and-wide- ly-cited meteorologist Anthony Watts, at wattsupwiththat.com, which has 30+ articles on the first page alone, dating from just the last 4 days. Also, as space here will quickly run out, go to "Polecat News and Views" (don- polson.blogspot.com), scroll down the right side to "global warming" and you can access 240 individual articles that have been accumulating since my blog began in 2005. I openly cite sources in those posts; I don't take liberties with facts. It just struck me that there seems to be no end to climate change connections and ratio- nalizations. Climate change is apparently the all-purpose, uni- versal "go to" cause cited in, just to name a few examples off the top of my head: Governor Brown's $20+ billion twin water tunnels, wind turbines from one end of the state to the other including the 400-foot wind mill at the Walmart DC, the $70 bil- lion High Speed Rail boondog- gle, California's AB 32 cap-and- trade law together with other mandates for higher portfolios of so-called "green" or "renew- able" energy, electricity rates that subsequently have spiked over 35 percent in 4 years, and, finally, suggestions that air pol- lution fees – such as those pro- posed last year for all new devel- opment to offset ozone and par- ticulates – be applied in the warming, then cooling, then most recently warming yet again, each time with whatever level of scientific certainty that technology allowed, it's hard to keep a straight face. order, here are just a few examples of factu- al disconnect: It does- n't matter how bitterly cold it gets anywhere on earth in winter, that's always weather, not climate change; however, record heat, drought and fires are "what global warming looks like." The ten hottest years were sup- posed to be recent phe- nomenon until the records showed they occurred over the last 80 years, particularly in the 1930s, 1950s and 1990s; warming narra- tive failure. Tornado frequency supposedly demonstrated anoth- er portent of climate change until a graph plotted half a cen- tury of tornado numbers and intensity, showing a random pat- tern entirely disconnected to warming. Same thing with those killer hurricanes that were sup- posed to wreck increasing dev- astation due to warming – hasn't happened and records show again that frequency and intensi- ty have been randomly spread over decades. Increasing levels of carbon dioxide, or CO2, the primary greenhouse gas, is supposed to be mankind's fault, for which California passed AB 32 to force us to cut our output. Well, whatever reduction is achieved as a result is nothing more than a rounding error compared to the United States total output; America's CO2 is no more than a rounding error compared to same way to mitigate CO2 (a so- called "greenhouse gas) from those same projects. In no particular Don Polson The way I see it the whole world's output; the world's human-caused CO2 is a small fraction of the entire natural genera- tion of CO2 from all sources, primarily earth's oceans. It is foolish and ludicrous beyond belief to think human generation of CO2 changes earth's climate. Finally, it has now been documented that, due to the global recession and increas- ing reliance on natural gas for energy, Amer- ica's CO2 has declined to 1990 lev- els; for those paying attention, consider that every single recession or depres- sion has reduced human eco- nomic activity resulting, by def- inition, in less CO2 from declin- ing industrial output. Yet, according to the chart at wattsupwiththat.com (with link to NOAA data), there has been no detectible decline in the ris- ing parts per million (PPM) of CO2 over the last century, prov- ing that human contribution is practically irrelevant to world wide carbon dioxide. If there is a connection between CO2 and temperatures 1) it has little con- nection to economic or industri- al sources, and 2) ice core and tree ring analysis suggests that past increases in CO2 followed, rather than preceded, rising temperatures. To be continued. Don Polson has called Red Bluff home since 1988. He can be reached by e-mail at donplsn@yahoo.com.