Reader is misinformed

Unfortunately, Tysoe's key claim ('Global warming propaganda,' Sept. 6) that "Several years ago the American Academy of Sciences (there is no American Academy of Sciences it is the U.S. National Academy of Sciences) issued a statement endorsed by more than 100 eminent climatologists debunking the whole concept." My business is to research legitimate information on environmental issues for students, academics, and businesses so that they remain well informed. The statement that Tysoe refers to was actually a position paper first circulated in 1998 by a group claiming to be the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in an attempt to discredit the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The group, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (linked to activist corporate lobbyists for big coal/oil and big pharm) that had authored the false report tried to recirculate it again in 2001, when President Bush went to the NAS for support for his anti-Kyoto policies. They actually circulated it along with a petition to every bachelor of sciences grad in the States in a deliberate attempt to convince the scientific community that it had originated with the NAS.

The NAS again quickly distanced itself from the false report, and, to the Bush administration's chagrin, issued an official statement in support of the IPCC's position.

Doubtless, there will be debates on climate change issues for decades to come, but at least our readers are entitled to an intelligent dialogue.

H.E. Skid Crease President, ecoNexus Ltd.

Bolton