I can’t believe that Bates College, with supposedly high educational standards, would have a speaker whose only credentials are that he went to a training seminar. Ray Sirois is an information technology manager. With that, and a little training, this qualifies him to speak to the students of Bates College about global warning?

I am glad participation was low.

The college should have brought in someone who is at least a weather person, or climatologist. That two state senators supported this hogwash is remarkable, because the science has not been proven. Global warming is a theory! Media use words such as “concensus of scientists,” but that does not add up to proven facts. Other branches of science have to show and be able to be prove work as fact before it’s called proven science.

With today’s technology, weather forecasters are not able to predict correctly what’s going to happen three days from now, but I am supposed to believe that other scientists know what will be happening to the whole planet 20 to 40 years down the road? Also, apparently there has been lots of global warming in the millions of years this planet has existed, but people have only been on the planet a few thousand years. And it has been only 200 years or so since the industrial revolution, with all the pollution, started.

Let the science be proven first before we all get into a panic. I’m surprised the Sun Journal would give it publicity.

George P. Caron, Lisbon