Opposing views

Regarding Reg Henry's Dec. 16 column, "Scientists, Stupids at War Over Warming": He says, "... learned scientists flap their white coats, follow the scientific method, do experiments, produce papers and reach consensus. They are then ignored by the man in the street who bows instead to the likes of Glenn Beck ..." I would add that, in accordance with Mr. Henry's theory, others bow to the likes of Al Gore.

However, I know (and I think Mr. Henry does too) that some learned scientists come to one conclusion regarding global warming and others come to a different one. And not all those holding the opposing view are "stupid." Surely respected scientists from Harvard, NASA, MIT, the U.S. Department of Energy, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the University of Helsinki, Notre Dame and many others who subscribe to the opposing view are more closely related in their scientific expertise to Stephen Hawking than they are to Glenn Beck.

The fact is there is not universal scientific consensus on this issue, and therefore the timing of the drastic and potentially economically disastrous measures being called for by those who insist that there is, is premature to say the least.

STANLEY D. MURRAY
Pleasant Hills