Letter to the editor of the Denver Post

This is a short LTE (letter to the editor) I wrote to the Denver Post regarding a most common phenomenon, that of blaming any and all natural occurances on 'global warming' Here is the article in the Denver Post I replied to. http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_10374393

notice two things: 1) the first paragraph blatantly blaming the occurance on global warming. 2) the scientists never are quoted as saying it was global warming that caused it.

Here is my LTE, lets see if it gets posted or not.



LTE DENVER POST “ICE SHELF BIG AS MANHATTAN BREAKS LOOSE IN THE ARCTIC” 9/4/08
It’s important not to jump to conclusions when researching something as complex as global warming and the ‘breaking off’ of the arctic shelf. Though that’s exactly what seems to happen in most cases. When an ice shelf breaks off, which happens quite often, it is not necessarily the work of ‘global warming.’ In many cases, as NASA (among many others) have discovered, it is actually caused by variable oceanic and atmospheric currents such as the Arctic Oscillation. NASA has also admitted that not all of the large changes seen in arctic climate in recent years are a result of long-term trends towards global warming. So let us not get too worried and blame everything on global warming, let us look at the science first.