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The.Baytuwn-Sun s (jiitor.idl board meets
■ ' weekly at 2 p.m. Wednesday, individuals are
encouraged to vis.it the editorial boa'rd to
discuss issues.affecting the'community. To
• . make an appointment, contact Managing
Editor David Bloom. 281422-8302.
- Members of the‘ editorial board- include;
Wanda Garner.Cash. editor and publisher:
Oavd Bloom, managing editor: Joseph .
Lohan, city editor:.Dee Anne Navarre busi
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The First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an
esrablishmeri! .or reiigiongor prohibiting fhe free
exercise thereof: or abridging the freedom of
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Tin not coming bar k Io lose."
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more like it. The man who r an la\
as legitimate a claim as anyone to
the title of world’s greatest athlete
is very self aware, of. his age. (31)..
At a glance:
Who: The United States Air
Force Band of the West and
the Lone Star Ramblers
Dixieland Band
What: Live concert
When: 7 p.m. Friday
Where: Ross S. Sterling
High School, 300 W. Baker
Rd.
Tickets: Free and available
at Superior Lincoln Mercury,
'4411 Interstate 10 East, or
The Baytown Sun. 1301
Memorial Drive.
For more information: Call
281 425-4500
addition In its frequent concerts at
military bases, the group has been
invited Io perform with the San
Antonio Symphony Orchestra and
the Dallas Symphony Orchestra..
Music is at .its best when it is per-
formed live, and there are few
< (impositions. 'Sousa Marches, groups with (lie ability to play so
” U. many styles and play them well.
? . Tickets to the event are free, so
there's no excuse not to < ome out
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Exposing global warming alarmists
Icon dioxide may produce benefi-
cial effects upon the natural plant
and animal environments of the
Earth."
Of course, scientists who chal-
lenge the global warming ortho:
doxy are subject to the most scur-
rilous attacks from politically moti-
vated colleagues. That 's what
Willie Soon and Sailie Bahtinas,
scientists at the Haryard-
..... ,v, Smithsonian Center for
at least consensus, in the scientific Astrophvsk s. recently discovered.
reviewed papers published by thou- ‘
. sands of researchers over the past
four decades, they distilled their
ed “the 2()th century is probably
not the warmest nor a uniquely
extreme c limatic period of the last
warming is controversial." millennium."
■---------------------- That was heresy to global warm-
who pays even cursory attention to ing alarmists in the scientific com-
‘L:munity. Insinuations were-made ;
r that Soon and Baliunas had been
human activities are responsible for bought off by “eneigy interests"
like the American Petroleum
.Institute..;—- ■
But the Harvard scientists made
no secret of the sources of their
funding. The API contributed less
than 10 percent Most of the money
same
from federal grants through NASA,
the Air Force Office of Scientific.
Research and the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration.
It is “extremely important,".said
Inhofe, that the American public be
fairly informed about the science of s
global warming. .
“ Without proper knowledge and
understanding,".he said, "alarmists
will scare'tfie country into enacting
its ultimate goal: making energy
suppression, in the form oFharmful
mandatory restrictions on carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse emis-
sions, the official poljcv of the . . .
United States
Inhofe has exposed the global.
wanning hoax and the political
motivation behind it. That’s why I
now count him among my heroes.
, Joseph fbrkins is a columnist fdr
The San Diego Union Tribune and
can be reached at
Joseph. Fbrhns@UnionTrib.com.
more athlete who competed lohgei
; than his or her body would have
preferred ., ’
: Remember him as he. is now. ui
the mountains and 0.1.1 the roads of
-France, the < yclisl no one < ould
.call Irfor very Irntg. even on what
for hini was a humbling Tour.
Tinies Ihiion, Albany. \ I.
people lay dead ■ 1. M
her killed outright in the Sept. 11
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i . f enter. As if there were some
of the Earth 's atmosphere and dis-
rupt ion of Earth's climate.
“Moreover,” it continued, “there
iraiiiing in climate science, is their . . is substantial scientific evidence
intellectual dishonesty. Their pro ' that increases in atmospheric car-
There is no unanimity. There isn't findings into a paper that conclud-
even a consensus. Yet, as Inhofe
noted, “even saying there is no sci-
"W" ' els start with some per that wasri't his best, .one-where
I, speclive. Nothing about the strategy mattered more than phvsi
-i-J Tour de I rance is remotely ( a| stamina Something tells us we
easy. I lie 23 (lay, 2,1(10 mile buy won t hear that next year, when lie
de marathon is as daunting and
unforgiving as it gets in sports,
kance Armstrong couldn't even
finish,it three, of the f iist four
limes he (ompeled. And here, he is
^now. the reigning 1 hampion, f ive-
times, in all.
111- \ ii tin v this year, even more
. so th.in those in 1909 through-
2002. was. in.a fitting tribute to
the ra( e itself, linspeakab.ly diffi
(till Mi \inr,n011g. the leader of
llie I IS,. Toslal S('i\.i( e learn,
vailed over Jan Ullrich of
,. f.eimany by jiisl 01 seconds. Not
... uieil S.mud.iv rhi yseeoml-10 last -
d.'\, did he fe.illy’i liru h it. Aloirg
tlit; wav Mi \j nistKing endured
lwo.( i.,islies and fought off a sick-:
InS', ih,ft sti ui k him e\ eii before
the loin began.
’ Almost 'apologelk .illy, Mr.
\inisiiiHig speaks of a showhig
of the ((nicer he lias survived, and
Pre of the eventual 1 isk of being one, / ' attacks on the World Trade '
■ 1 . moral equivalence
That s the kind of' thinking that
‘ 1 eve.ils m Inhofe s words, "the
sheet lunacy (>f environmental
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: ’ , about global warming alarmists
like Houghton and. to a slightly
lesser extent Bli.x, who has no
: intellectual dishonesty. Their pro- '
B aylown area residents have a
grand opportunity to enjoy
some live palriotii musk’
Friday'when the U.S. An l one
Baird of the West performs at Ross
.S, SterlingHigh S( bool. *
I lie < oik eil will iit( hide two per
forniaik esboiie by tlrt I IS. Ait
Fori e Band of the West 's Concert'
Band and the other by a smaller
ensemble, die I .one Star Ramblers
Dixieland Band,
Based al I ai kland Air'Fon e Base
in San Antonio, the U.S. Air Force
Band of (lie West boasts about 45
highly skilled musi( ianswho have
studied musk a! colleges across the
United Slates.
f he ( oik erl lland, whicfi is con-
ducted by Major Dean Zarnibinski
and 1st l.t. Mallhew Seileit, will
perform musk from ( omposers
sut Ii as Ja< ([lies Offenliat h, Serge
Prokofiev, l.eonani Bernstein and
.- li ving Berlin. The band’s repertoire
langes from traditional symphonic
band (
lop 4(1 hits and Broadway musicals.
Willi sut Ii a diverse song list, the
TonccTt promises to be a unique
experk'iKiyand funfoi the entity and enjoy what Ksiik to be a
family/. , derful musk al event.
The Concert Band is well traveled
. and highly acclaimed. The group
plays more than 50 concerts animal
ly and frequently .perforins before
military ofTi(.i<ds and dignitaries. In
We; want the mayor to act like a
mayor and step up to the plate . -;
.11 id do something about this ,
ordeal! .. ■ .
The city manager needs to
wake up also,' and quit making
excuses to pacify himself — for
the police officer s actions!
report misconduct of police offi-. Also.citymanager.quite inter-
cerk—because it is everyone’s
everyone tp say we,should have right to know what is going oh in
: ,-done something—remember . 1Baytown! : >■' _
they, Were not found guilty for the Why do we have to hear of this be people accountable for their
( beating o! Luis Torres — now in the TV. news! actions! »■
mu. oayiown. ia , this officer heats an elderly 59\ "
Or. fax them to: 281-42’7 1880; Or. . rear old lady!
e-mail us at: synnews@baytownstin.com. i,We wdnt k|i< ah Aldied dis--
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weapons iitspet lor absurdly
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global warming than I am of any .
majoi military conflict."
Inhofe could have added to the
list Sii John Houghton, former co-
- (han of (lunate science for the
United Nations Intergovernmental _
Panel pn ( limale Change, a visit- the 2001 report by-the U.N. climate
' llovv -tl the University <>f change panel that direly predicted ukul pt.lcvlll lvlU5l u|(.,
(, ihHina n me. Ip a commentary that the Earths average temperature that undewrote their study c;
published this week m The could rise as much as 10.4 degrees
I Guardian, a British daily, Houghton over the century (60 percent higher
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danger to the planet, “1 have no
hesitation in describing it as a
. weapon o( mass destruction."
1 lesuggested that man-made
war
Officials must be held accountable for actions
Another beating incident!
What is ii going to lake for , We want Chief-Byron Jones
Baytown'.to wake up>and,s,ee that dismissed and'Jield accountable
(he BaytownJ’bike.officpr : for AIdred’s conduct!
(k iicah Aldred) has no respect for We want the Baytown Sun to
human rights! Does Baytown
want another killing again for , cerS — because it is everyone's
done something A remember
nouncements on global warming
suggest that there is unanimity, or
community that the planet is dan- After studying hundreds of peei
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flooding, Xvar. terrorism, economic
could rise as much as 10.4 degrees
slated that global warming is such a than the panel predicted six years
earlier).
News accounts almost always
ahude to the 2,000 scientists who
.. <Jt, , purportedly endorse the panel’s
l ining somehow was responsible questionable conclusions. Yet,
h it pre monsoon temperatures in there have been hardly any news
India this year that were some five accounts of the more than 17,000
degrees above normal. • scientists who signed a petition
challenging the U.N. climate
began to abate," he wrote, "1,500 . change panel 's alarmist
half the num ■ conclusions.
Drafted by Frederick Seitz, past
president of the National Academy
of Sciences, it states: “There is no
consincirig-sdentifiG-evidence-that
human release of carbon dioxide,
methane or greenhouse gasses is
...... causing or will, in the foreseeable
■extremists.'' What.most offends future, cause catastrophic heating
like Houghton arid, to a slightly
Jini Inhofe is mv new hero. I he
Oklahoma lawmaker dared this
week Io (lelivei a spent Iron the
Senaiv flortt in which he declared
that all the s( ary reports abotit-cata
siiophii global warming are noth
ing less than a hoax.
. Mi k h (if I he debate over global
wanning is inedii ail'd on tear,
ralliei than science," said Inhofe,
who chairs; [lie Senale s ;
Enyiionnient andPublk W'orks
"Global: warming alarmists see a
gerously overheating and that
human activity is the blame.
. But that simply is a fiction.
even a consensds. Yet, as inhofe
noted, “even saying there is no sci-
Inhofe, ii Republican, listed Hans entific agreement over global
BHx ijriiong the alarmists. Back in warming is controversial.”
Man h. the (hief United Nations Nevertheless, he added "anyone
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reniat ked. I in more worried about (he j^sue understands that scientists
vigorously disagree over whether
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global warming, or whether those
activities will precipitate natural
disasters.”
Indeed, much has been made of
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 252, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 5, 2003, newspaper, August 5, 2003; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1185341/m1/4/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.