Sentinel’s reporting on global climate change suggests a liberal bias

Email letters, February 25, 2015


Sentinel’s reporting on global climate change suggests a liberal bias

Wow, Sunday’s edition of the Daily Sentinel of the editorial page was a plethora of liberalism on display. Almost every article was about the evils of drilling for gas and oil, fracking, and global warming. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought I was living in Boulder or some other bastion of liberalism.
One writer says that any impact study for oil and gas drilling in the North Fork should not only include the specific drill pad site, but the whole specific unit, across county lines, and include the whole region. Why stop there? Why not the whole U.S. or, even better, the whole world? Maybe the whole world should quit drilling for gas and oil? That is a liberal’s dream. Of course the Saudi’s, the Russians, and a whole host of other countries might not want to go along.
One writer is concerned about oil and gas exploration threatening a world heritage site of unknown size for which he would like a protective boundary of an unknown size to save this area. Maybe the whole world should quit drilling. He writes about the Pueblo people leaving the Chaco Canyon area 1,000 years ago because of environmental factors; presumably because of all the fracking activity.
The next writer comes right out and says he wants fracking banned as he says it is bad for the environment. He says that there is a man called Dr. Evil who represents the oil and gas industry against Mothers Against Drunk Driving, unions, and everything pure and good in the universe. I guess he is willing to have us dependent on other countries for our gas and oil. He probably believes that solar and wind are the answers to our energy needs.
Finally, there was an environmental scientist that is so sure that the hoax called global warming is really occurring and that any person who holds a different point of view should be banned from speaking at the Grand Junction Energy Forum and Expo.
While I admit that I am unfamiliar with Casey’s predictions in global climate change I can say that any predictions of the man-made global climate change group have not proved to be true either. Otherwise the media would be falling all over themselves reporting it.
I am wondering what the people in the northeast part of this country think about global warming? Once again we see the progressive, liberal, left trying to shut out anyone who dares have a different idea.
If you believe that global warming is happening and it turns out that you are right, why would you care if someone espouses an alternate view? It is only if you want to believe that it is true and it turns out that it is not true that you have a problem.
I am just asking if it wouldn’t be too much of a problem for the Daily Sentinel to have a more balanced reporting on this subject.
MICHAEL HIGGINS
Grand Junction