I read the letter from Donna Williams unfairly painting Cliff Harris as though his Christianity shapes his weather outlook, and had to respond. Her premise seems to be that science and religion cannot exist in the same person, and therefore that person's conclusions are suspect. If Ms. Williams did her research, she might be dismayed to find that many of the world's most prominent scientists were and are Christians. Believing in the Bible does not mean science is out. That is merely a favorite and tired cliche many in the media love to trumpet because it seems to put Christians on one side of a line and logical people on the other side. Not so much.

Donna, here's a short list of scientists that were Christians you may have heard of: Isaac Newton, Galileo, Robert Boyle, Copernicus, and Albert Einstein. You seem intelligent enough to have known this, so I'll give you credit that this is not news to you. What then would be your motive to attempt to discredit Harris - a serious scientist with both a long education and decades of work in his field? Since you let it slip in the last couple sentences, I'll bring it up - you believe in Global Warming and Cliff Harris routinely exposes the entire concept as a fraud. I urge you to do your own research into GW and decide for yourself. Here's the Reader's Digest version if you don't have time for that nonsense.

A weak link to GW was discovered a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. People in government with anti-business and pro radical environmental roots realized they could divert U.S. tax dollars to GW research with the stroke of a pen and drive their agenda. It worked. Other politicians with no scientific background but also with the ability to divert tax dollars began to believe and more money was funneled this way. Entire institutes formed with this tax money, entire careers were formed and quickly hundreds of thousands of people were literally making a living gathering samples and making field observations all over the planet in pursuit of proof that man is the primary causal factor in global warming. Global Warming literally became a part of our social fabric and became a trend strong enough that Wall Street took note of it and developed financial strategies to help investors make money in green technology. All based on a fraud.

For a while, it was just a small diversion. But then governments began to shape policies on Global Warming. Congress began spending time passing regulations that forced us citizens to comply with the erroneous view that we could cool the Earth's atmosphere, rather than spending time running the country. About this time, the cumulative effect of green labeling, green products, etc. transformed the fraud into an accepted science. These regulations increased costs and pushed jobs out of the US as our politicians stood in front of cameras and swore that would begin the Earth's cooling as soon as 2,500 more jobs left (OK, I'm paraphrasing here).

Today, literally hundreds of billions of dollars are dedicated to Global Warming and our children have been indoctrinated to believe man is the only source. Damage to our economy is still going on, and I appreciate that Cliff Harris continues to point out the complete and total lack of scientific evidence. He needs to continue because rather than admit the whole thing was a sham, the Global Warming folks merely repackaged the concept as Climate Change and continue today with disruptive and misguided unscientific policy. So Cliff, keep it up. Maybe someday we'll have leaders that look into the SCIENCE of how our environment is heated and cooled and will divert all those hundreds of billions into fixing something mankind can actually accomplish. Like the thousands of children that die every day of starvation, a cure for cancer, or perhaps clean power generation that is cost effective.

Doug Miller is a Hayden resident.