Request for Mr. Al Gore to debate Dr. Willie Soon
Dear Kaylee,
It is our understanding that you are Mr. Al Gore's contact person in respect to his Global Warming program. If that's not correct, please forward this request to the correct individual.
Dear Mr. Al Gore,
Please consider this our formal request for you to come debate Dr. Willie Soon, at the Good Neighbor Forum (Read following USA Today article.).
Many verifiable sources have informed us that you decline such invitations. If in fact this is true, please indulge us by explaining why. If this is not true, please indulge us by clarifying.
Good Neighbor is bias only towards sound science, fact and truth. We are not a militant, political, litigious or activist group. We are instead revolutionary in our drive to soundly educate, educate, educate.
Our goal is to present entire pictures, and let the audience decide.
We would be honored to clear the day, if you, Mr. Gore, would come debate Dr. Soon.
If this date does not accommodate your schedule, please confirm a date and place that would. We'll make it work!
Please let us know immediately.
Thank you,
Roni Bell Sylvester
Dear Sir or Maam,Generally, we have to decline due to time. We receive 5000 or more requests for Mr. Gore's time per month. That means that many requests have to be declined. Please accept my apologies. Cheers, Kalee
Kalee D. Kreider
Communications Director/Environmental Advisor
Office of the Hon. Al Gore and Mrs. Tipper Gore
2100 West End Avenue, Suite 620
Nashville, TN 37203
(615) 327-2227
*Please send scheduling requests to info@carthagegroup.com
Dear Kalee,
Thank you for responding so quickly. I appreciate that.
Here's what would work out beautifully.
Please check Mr. Gore's schedule. Surely you can find a half an hour within the next six months, in which he'd be eager to debate Dr. Soon. Regardless the location, we'll make sure Dr. Soon gets there.
Being an honorable gentleman, we have full confidence Mr. Gore will have great interest in grabbing this opportunity to clarify, and stop the global warming speculation.
That would help his cause and our continuing education.
Many thanks for helping Kalee.
Roni (Old lady.)
Hi there, honestly, I've no idea, weighed against the tens of thousands or so requests he'll receive during time, I don't know if it will be possible. Cheers, Kalee
Wow Kalee! You are fast. Thank you.
I do understand. But - this is important respective of our information that he refuses to debate anyone in the scientific community.
Let's work together and quash that speculation.
Thank you,
Roni (A slow old lady- - compared to you young kiddos.)
Good Neighbor Law Announcement March 10, 2008
Contact: Roni 970-284-6874
Dr. Willie Soon - keynote speaker at the upcoming Good Neighbor Forum - is quoted in "Polar bears caught in a heated eco-debate" by Oren Dorell - U.S.A. Today, March 10, 2008.
You can meet Dr. Soon and hear him address: "Global Warming 101- Al Gore CO2 Theory" - on March 15th in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Dr. Soon and his colleagues at the Smithsonian-Havard Institute (Boston) have invited Mr. Al Gore to debate on many occasions. Mr. Gore has declined.
Polar bears caught in a heated eco-debate
By Oren Dorell, USA TODAY
Eskimos in Alaska and Canada have joined to stop polar bears from being designated as an endangered species, saying the move threatens their culture and livelihoods by relying on sketchy science for animals that are thriving.
Eskimos in Alaska and Canada have joined to stop polar bears from being designated as an endangered species, saying the move threatens their culture and livelihoods by relying on sketchy science for animals that are thriving.
Although they say sea ice has melted, some Natives question the accuracy of the most dire predictions of a warming climate in the Northern Hemisphere, and members of the Inuit Circumpolar Council seek evidence that a change would seriously harm the bears.
PHOTO GALLERY: Polar bears
Their stance has put them at loggerheads with a usual ally: environmentalists who say the bears need protection now to survive a warmer climate in the future.
"It would have a really big effect on us Inuit, because we go by dog team to traditionally hunt polar bears," said Jamie Kablutsiak, who guides U.S. trophy hunters for big money onto the ice on Canada's Hudson Bay. As for the
bears, "I don't think they're decreasing because there's usually lots, even in summer time," he said.
A decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will come soon, spokesman Bruce Woods said.
The petition marks the first time a healthy species would be considered at risk under the Endangered Species Act and the first time global warming would be officially labeled a species' main threat.
Polar bears have increased from a population of 5,000 in 1972 to between 20,000 and 25,000 today.
The Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition in 2005 for endangered species protection based on projected habitat loss due to global warming.
The petition resulted in a 2007 report by the U.S. Geological Survey, which predicted a loss of two-thirds of the world's polar bear population by 2050, based on a projected 42% summertime loss of "optimal polar bear habitat"
such as shallow-water sea ice.
Some scientists, however, question predictions that sea ice will disappear, and even that polar bears would disappear if it did.
Richard Glenn, an Alaskan Inuit hunter and ice researcher, told U.S. senators in January that "marginal ice," which freezes in winter and melts in summer, will grow as multiyear ice disappears.
"Even the Fish and Wildlife Service study acknowledges that . may be beneficial to ice seals and polar bears," he said.
The aim of the environmentalists is to use the Endangered Species Act to force the U.S. government to take action on global warming, said Kassie Siegel, a lawyer for the Center for Biological Diversity. It would require federal agencies "to look at the cumulative effect of greenhouse gases on polar bears" and limit emissions by cars and power plants, Siegel said.
Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin disagrees with that approach.
"If you want to address climate change, address it directly," said Doug Vincent-Lang, Palin's coordinator for endangered species.
To the Inuit, the polar bear has been a source of food, clothing and income for millennia, said Duane Smith, president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council in Canada, which represents Inuit across Canada.
The Inuit Circumpolar Council, which represents Native communities in Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Russia, wants Fish & Wildlife not to make a decision until Natives have a greater role, Chairwoman Patricia Cochran
said. Any decision should be based on "sound science," which includes traditional knowledge, Cochran said.
Big money is at stake. Sport hunters pay between $25,000 and $30,000 each to bag a polar bear.
The Alaska Nanuuq Commission, which represents Eskimos on polar bear issues, supports the listing as long as it allows subsistence hunting by Alaskan Inuit to continue. Executive Director Charlie Johnson said the group chose
to avoid clashing with U.S. environmentalists.
The conservation scheme works because "it's in the best interest of the (Inuit) people out there to maintain the (bear) populations," Smith said. But it may end if the bear is listed because U.S. hunters will be banned from importing any part of the bear, such as a pelt, Smith said.
"The numbers of polar bear are good," said Smith, a former conservation officer for the Canadian government.
Steven Amstrup, chief polar bear researcher for the U.S. Geological Survey, said climate models predict that it will be warmer by midcentury than "ever in the course of polar bear evolution." Other scientists question that view.
Willie Soon, an astrophysicist at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said far too few data were used to make predictions about both climate change and polar bear behavior and populations.
"We looked at historical studies. The first thing you notice is the whole climatic system undergoes huge fluctuation," Soon said.
Over the possibly 200,000 years the polar bear has existed as a species, it has survived "very harsh conditions" of extreme cold, such as ice ages, and warmth, such as the last interglacial period, 100,000 to 110,000 years ago, Soon said.
Find this article at:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2008-03-09-polar-bears
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GOOD NEIGHBOR FORUM
March 15, 2008 - Cheyenne, WY Little America
9:00 am - 4:00 pm GN Members $35 - Non-Members $40 -Walk in's $45 (Includes $15 lunch.)
Students and press with I.D. and children under the age of 13 admitted for $15.00 cost of lunch.
Contact 970-284-6874 or register online.
Topic: FOOD in the 21st Century
Learn how policies regarding endangered species, conservation easements, European Union, roadless, water and trade will impact your food supply and safety.Learn about your private property rights and become part of a network of "first responders" who address misinformation and provide facts regarding proposed and existing policy.
Joining Dr. Soon, will be moderator Kent Rutledge, Esq. and Featured speakers:
Mr. Lyle Laverty, DC - US Department of the Interior's Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks
Mr. Lawrence Kogan, Esq. -NJ Precautionary Principle, European Union, International Trade and more. Dr. Corey Ciochhetti, CO - Suggestions on the Ethics and Essence of being a Good Neighbor. Mr. Jim Beers, VA - Everything you want to know about the Endangered Species Act. Harriet Hageman, CO - Connecting the dots from Spotted Owl to pine beetle, fire, roadless, and water.
Speaker briefs:
Sharon Croghan, CO - NAFTA Superhighway, Colorado Super Slab.
Kimmi Clark Lewis, CO - Pinon Canyon vs US Army.
Cindy Schonholtz, CO - PRCA Animal Welfare - Horse Slaughter Ban and animal rights activists.
Ed Prosser, WY - How Conservation Easements work in Wyoming
Jim Keen, CO - Internationally known photographer and agriculture advocate.
Speakers will gather for panel discussion beginning at 4:00 pm.
Good Neighbor Committee
P.O. Box 155 - La Salle, CO 80645
info@goodneighborlaw.com
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