A few weeks ago, Gov. Baldacci mounted his stallion and declared that Maine would lead the charge to stop global warming in its tracks.

The following paragraph was taken from a Web site called the Science and Environmental Policy Project, which debunks the notion of global warming: “Computer models forecast rapidly rising global temperatures, but data from weather satellites and balloon instruments show no warming whatsoever. Nevertheless, these same unreliable computer models underpin the Global Climate Treaty, negotiated at the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit,’ and are the driving force behind United Nations efforts to force restrictions on the use of oil, gas, and coal. The Third Conference of Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (aka Global Climate Treaty), meeting in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997 agreed to set mandatory limits and timetables. Politicians were told that the science is settled’ and “compelling,” when in reality, scientific experts still strongly disagree on the evidence. Considering the economic damage from energy rationing and taxation, the plans are drawing strong negatives in the U.S. Congress. Without firm evidence that an appreciable warming will occur as a result of human activities, or that its consequences would be harmful, there can be no justification for bureaucratic remedies or any action beyond a no-regrets’ policy of energy efficiency and market-based conservation.”

Larry Heindl, Lewiston