To the editor:

George Gurley’s column in the Journal-World last Sunday was more of an attack on Al Gore than a rebuttal of the film “An Inconvenient Truth.”

Stating that professor Tim Ball’s assertion that CO2 levels were 10 times higher 450 million years ago doesn’t say a thing about the time period that we inhabit versus a time when the planet was uninhabited and during its formative years – how ridiculous and, by the way, ignorant.

Where does smog come from? Why does smog get worse every day in Mexico City and Los Angeles? Why does the EPA not measure below 10 microns when monitoring jet engine exhaust when that is 20 percent of the output pollutant size?

Global warming is the name of a broadly observed phenomenon, not the name of a single resultant event. Oxygen depletion, increased UV exposure, increased ozone levels, oceanic oxygen depletion – these are all interrelated.

Where is the Bush/Cheney regime on environmental stewardship and leadership on environmental issues? In board meetings with the Carlyle Group and former Enron board members, or preparing presidential pardons for their “buds”?

Mr. Gurley should write a new column thanking Mr. Gore for bringing this topic to the attention of the public during a time when the White House is fighting a trillion dollar war for control of oil in the Middle East instead of developing renewable energy technologies.

Sven Alstrom,

Lawrence