Stand up for free press
A free press is guaranteed in our Constitution under First Amendment rights. When someone or some group tries to limit these rights, it usually means they’re worried facts will expose their misdeeds.
Please don’t ever accept a free press which isn’t free or bound by tyrannical manipulation.
Stephen Winch
Waikoloa
Climate change serious business
We want our wondrous planet to be left in a beautiful and sustainable state for our keiki and their descendants to enjoy.
Let’s arm ourselves with accurate scientific information on climate change, and call out purveyors of false information.
Mr. Chrisman, in his letter to the editor of Feb. 22 declares “I’ve lived in California and Hawaii my whole life and folks, the oceans aren’t rising.”
I beg to differ both with Mr. Chrisman’s ocean level measurement technology and his conclusion.
Global Ocean levels have been rising for over 100 years, and accelerating in recent decades. This is because of two factors — thermal expansion due to increased ocean temperatures, and melting of ice sheets and glaciers. This ocean level increase is documented by radar, microwave sensors and GPS — clearly more accurate than the Chrisman methodology.
Readers who wish to further inform themselves through credentialed scientists on this matter may visit web sites such as oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sealevel.html
Our beautiful planet faces unprecedented threats today. Let’s stand up for protecting her waters, land, air and skies from pollution and climate change!
I hope you will join me, Mr. Chrisman, in the March for Science, April 22!
Sohrab F. Dorabji
Chemical Engineer, Berkeley and Stanford
Keauhou