The Rosenblatt prize should be a $40,000 scholarship given to a deserving student in the name of the winning professor. It doesn't take moral courage to believe that global warming is a man-caused problem that actually exists. What takes courage is to analyze the facts rather than the rhetoric and to publicly acknowledge that many scientists cite data that disputes what is now politically correct. If a scientist analyzes global temperature readings over the past 50 years, discounting sensors in locations that have been compromised, such as the building of an asphalt parking lot at the site, and if the results indicate that global warming ended 10 years ago, it takes courage to acknowledge the results of that study. Sadly, such a scientist actually undertook a study and arrived at those results, and most scholars and politicians took the easy road, totally ignoring the facts he illuminated and repeated the politially correct theories espoused by Al Gore and others. How many times do we have to hear that high carbon levels in the atmosphere cause warming trends when the data actually indicates that typically high carbon levels follow and most likely are caused by global warming. What is moral courage?

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a proven greenhouse gas. Hydrocarbons, in the form of coal, oil, and natural gas, are stored in the earth. When hydrocarbons are burned they release hydrogen and carbon. The hydrogen combines with oxygen to form water. Each carbon atom combines with two oxygen atoms to create CO2. Elementary chemistry. The world currently burns around 80 million barrels of oil per day, that took hundreds of millions of years for nature to produce. Plant growth is stimulated by the increased CO2 as plants absorb the CO2 and release oxygen. The ocean also absorbs CO2 creating carbonic acid (H2CO3). However we are producing more CO2 than earth can effectively absorb. Hence the buildup of greenhouse gas.

My passion is to help improve math education. This has been the case for over 3 years now, ever since my oldest son took Geometry and I discovered it has been gutted since the time I took it. Geometry taught in the schools today has very simple problems and proofs of why the geometrical facts are true has been considerable de-emphasized. This is true for geometry and it is also true for all other types of math in Utah secondary education.

If I could afford to I would become a math teacher. I already have the math knowledge to do this, all I would need is my teaching certificate. Perhaps I will do this when I retire, but Teachers just don't make enough for me to make the switch.

In the mean time I am politically involved trying to help improve Utah math education. I have seen first hand why Winston Churchill said that democracy is the worst of all forms of government, ... other than the rest. Trying to enact change is frustratingly slow. But I am convinced it is worthwhile. Math is more than memorizing facts, it is about thinking logically and learning to problem solve.

Ever since the earth has had an atmosphere it has constantly changed temperature. The planets in the solar system likewise. Over the past several years they have all heated up to to sun changes.

When I was young we were told we were headed for another ice age. If global warming negates this prophesy, then I say bring it on.

Capecchi was giving a good speech until he got to the global warming issue, which ruined the whole program. This was not the place for a political speech. Nor was it the place for a Chicken Little speech on how the sky is falling. Whether it is true or not, this was not the place.

Why didn't Cappecchi share some of his unique knowledge of genetics instead of parroting Al Gore? I'm still wondering about the "knockout mice". What a monumental waste of my time. Like some hollywood actors, he just couldn't resist spouting liberal politics when he got the soapbox. Do his words have some greater meaning because he is a nobel laureate? I didn't know his research was in climatology.

I think it's sad that an individual's concern for environmental issues is being pegged as "political," rather than something that impacts everyone and everything on earth. If Capecchi was on any sort of "soapbox," it was the soapbox of an educated scientist, not of liberal political activist.