Cop Hails Community Dear Gazette and Devoted Readers:

In my opinion, Astoria was trouble-free during our recent power outage due to a combination of police deployment and a beautiful community! I have always been a proud member of the New York City Police Department. However, I am even prouder to be the Commanding Officer of the 114th Precinct because of the great job done not only by the men and women of this command, but also by the warm, beautiful and supportive community here.

What compelled me to write this letter was the great turnout at the National Night Out Against Crime in Astoria Park on August 1, 2006. Many members of the community expressed gratitude regarding the performance of the officers of the 114th Precinct. I would like to take this time to compliment the neighborhood for treating not only the officers, but each other, so thoughtfully during a very difficult time. Respectfully, Brian McCarthy Inspector, New York City Police Department Supports Flag, Letter To The Editor:

Re: "Flag Burning", John Favicchio, Gazette, Letters To The Editor, Aug, 2, 2006

In all the years I have been reading the Gazett,. this article has finally been written. I loved your article Mr. Favicchio. I thank you from my heart for such a heartfelt letter to the editor of the Gazette.

If nothing else that is read from your article except your last paragraph, and I quote:

"If for no other reason have some respect for those who have given so much to their country so that you are free to act as a jack-ass, plain Jane or Joe, or a genius."

Being a wounded Vietnam vet, I thank you so much for your great article. Excellent article. Jerry Basile Astoria,

Contain Iran To The Editor:

The battle between Israel and Hezbollah has caused death and destruction on both sides, but dramatically to the Lebanese. Lebanon reconstruction will take years, requiring billions of dollars. The cost to the civilian population on both sides of the border has been awful.

The slow response by the international community to demand a cessation of the hostilities may indicate that the conditions that created the current conflict must end. It is unrealistic to hope that the bloodletting will result in a general Middle East peace. It is reasonable, though, to demand that organizations that are independent of national governments be removed as rogue powers free of oversight. For nations hosting terrorist groups, the acts of Hezbollah are a fearful reality. Organizations can no longer be permitted the ability of dragging nations into armed conflict. These groups erode and destroy the fundamental foundations and power structures of nations.

What Hezbollah began, to torment the Israelis, may become their undoing. The

response by the Israelis was unexpectedly violent, extensive and preplanned. "Never again!", the belief of all Jews resulting from the Holocaust dictated Israel's extreme response to acts that could no longer be downplayed.

Iran is a major supplier and supporter of Hezbollah. Iran's stance on acquiring nuclear weapons and demanding the elimination of Israel reveals the conflict as more than the past repeating itself. The strident militarism of Iran perhaps can be traced to President Bush's Axis of Evil Speech. Confronting a developing and acknowledged threat to its existence, the action of Israel in taking the fight to the terrorists with the tacit support by the U.S. should be viewed as an attempt to counter Iranian expansionism. As we once confronted our Cold War adversary in proxy battles, the present conflict should be viewed as the first conflict between an adversarial Iran and the interests of the U.S. Edward Horn Baldwin, New York

Refutes Global Warming To The Editor:

Friends, the heat is on, and it isn't letting up. Well, that's what we're being told, you know global warming. Somehow we tend to forget past doomsday peddlers; the population explosion, the nuclear winter and on and on. Back in the '70s, we were warned of a soon-coming ice age-oddly the exact opposite of today's peril. And let's not forget 2004's movie. "The Day After Tomorrow". Nature, a scientific journal, observed that the movie's premise is more fantasy than science fiction! However, the apocalypse never occurs, but the scare-mongers, who claim the coming cataclysms are based on mountains of scientific studies, are never called to account.

Now satellite measurements, which only began in 1979, are in sharp contrast to the catastrophic predictions currently in vogue. And carbon dioxide, another alleged man-made menace, is found in higher concentrations over the earth's forests and jungles than over industrial and urban regions. No less, it is documented that high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere stimulate growth in trees, plants, and crops, hardly something to worry about.

Environmentalists are quick to cite as proof positive that land-based thermometers record a steady rise in earth's surface temperature. However, for some strange reason, they neglect the fact that most of these devices are located in or near established and/or growing cities. The scientific truth is that when you factor in blacktop, concrete, bricks and steel, combined with traffic, lots of real heat is generated. This is why the satellite measurements mentioned before are giving us a more accurate overall picture than those based in or near cities.

Now, if we would only follow what various nations (e.g. France, Brazil, India and China) are doing, we could reduce this problem and spread our cities further apart. France, for example, now produces most of its electricity via nuclear power. Nuclear technology has been vastly improved and that old bogey of nuclear waste no longer exists. The use of nuclear power would greatly reduce the amount of heat belched into the air by old, outdated methods of generating electricity. Furthermore, we'd reap the added benefit of reducing our oil consumption and dependence on foreign, non-friendly oil producers.

The late Dr. Peter Beckmann wrote an excellent book, The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear. Written for the layperson, it contains a logical, but ignored comparison of the old technologies versus nuclear-powered electrical generation. It is an astounding eye-opener!

Now let's look at just one of the many incontestable bona fide scientific studies that absolutely refutes the pseudo-science that's heating up our media and air waves. Borehole Temperature Data is compiled by boring deep into ice in the polar caps. The results are then studied to determine the climate changes that occurred over thousands of years, including the ones when neither man nor any of his machines were around to affect the environment. Well, in 1995, Dr. David Deming, a geoscientist, published a paper in the journal, Science. His findings reveal a measurable temperature increase during the Medieval Warm Period, which began around 1000 A.D. and continued for approximately 300-400 years until the

Little Ice Age began. During this time period, man did not have the machines that we now blame for global warming. Thus, there were cycles of warming and cooling thousands of years ago and similar cycles of minor fluctuations are to be expected in present-day climate.

Friends, there is a wealth of true scientific evidence that debunks the latest global warming scenario. Tom Bethel's Politically Incorrect Guide to Science, is chock full of sound scientific facts, including the above information. This earth is our home, a very unique and

privileged planet, and it is our obligation to take care of it. We should do all that we can to develop and maintain the cleanest and finest technology that will allow us to protect and utilize its abundant resources. Read the books mentioned and become an informed citizen; such information will aid us in correctly addressing the problem. You can also contact www.thenewamerican.com for additional information. A Concerned American, Frank S. Ferrari Bayside