RE: Greetings and a response to Steve Curwood

[Jim Cooper <james.cooper@socma.com>]

Dear Rebekah,

I agree with you that information should be communicated in a way
that's relevant to peoples' lives.  I disagree, however, with your
dismissal of science.  If it was not for careful, deliberate, observations,
we would not have been able to predict or respond to early warnings
of environmental damage caused earlier last century.  That's the
whole point of science:  the ability to predict.  Science helped
identify the root causes of many different causes of pollution.
Science will also help find the answers to pollution problems.
Good science beats all other predictors of natural phenomena, so
I'll go with the science.

Sincerely,
Jim Cooper