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...Bolek Z. Kabala (Opinion, May 8) correctly points out that evidence surrounding the greenhouse effect is not wholly conclusive, yet his article is more ad hominem attack on Al Gore than substantive argument. He ignores the harmful effects of depleting the ozone layer, acid rain, and the estimated 64,000 deaths each year from air pollution, according to a study done by the Natural Resources Defense Council, not to mention the environmental destruction due to strip mining, deforestation and oil extraction...
...Kabala cites a 1997 article from Science claiming global warming theory as inconclusive. Surely, Kabala read the end of the article that cites a skeptic as saying he views warming theory with 97 percent confidence. Kabala cites satellite data that says there has been no global warming since 1979; surely, he is aware of the findings in Nature that show that those readings did not take orbital decay into account. After the correction, warming trends corresponding to temperature become evident. These scientists, backed up by NASA scientists in a more recent Science article, "conclude that the question...
Perhaps it is Boleslaw Z. Kabala who remains rooted in "skin-deep culture" (Ed Notebook, Mar. 3). His suggestion that a good-sized paycheck takes away from a star's "minority experience" is demeaning. Kabala's brazenness to "grant" that Will Smith, Antonio Banderas and Jennifer Lopez might once have had to face hardship and discrimination, but no longer have to deal with it after receiving their "stratospheric paychecks," is the largest falsity in his article. The whole point of racism is that people are judged by their race and/or ethnicity and not by their intelligence, ability, talent or paycheck...
...Kabala then points out that Matt Damon might have experienced hardship too; no one doubts that. Everyone experiences hardship at some point in his life. Anyone can be down and out; anyone can be poor; but can anyone be shot 41 times by the NYPD and not see justice served? If you don't think too hard about it, the idea that white males are now the group to be protected can almost sound right. But not quite right. Look around--at Harvard, in the courts, in government and in many other places, white males sit in positions of power...
Boleslaw Z. Kabala is a first-year living in Matthews Hall...