Cal Thomas’ column printed Aug. 21, challenging global warming, is riddled with contradictions. His push to label the majority of current data as extremist (Democratic party) seems as if he is paid by President Bush’s oil company-supported researchers and uses fundamentalist labeling to avoid most independent studies for the last 25 years.

Sure, there have been dramatic temperature variances over the years, but Thomas’ demonizing most research seems like a political smearing – one of Bush’s smoke screens to cover gross environmental destruction and pollution of the Earth.

His denial of much new information is irresponsible.

Stephen Drane, Auburn