A lot of service station gas pumps are starting to blast you with ads as soon as you start pumping gas with no way to turn them off. If you don’t want to be forced to listen to ads you don’t care about and give them money at the same time, go to a station that doesn’t do that. It shouldn’t take long for the ones that do it to turn the damn things off. Don’t put up with this nonsense.
-Rody Stains
I agree with Jeff Middlebrook’s quote in his letter to the editor last week, stating
“It is amazing that in 2024 so many people can be so incredibly ignorant of real science”. In his letter Jeff stated that “90%-plus of electricity made is from coal and natural gas.” This inaccurate figure misinforms and hypes his position that it
is impossible to live our modern lifestyles without the use of fossil fuels. The U.S. The Energy Information Administration has the following statistics; U.S electrical generation is from coal 19.5%, natural gas 39.8%, renewables 21.5%, nuclear 18%, and petroleum .9%. Mr. Middlebrook elaborates on his personal experience with solar, wind and generators at a science facility he worked at in 2011 and comes up with the conclusion that because this electrical generation system did not work perfectly in this application all who believe in clean energy are “science ignorant Pollyanna butterfly chasers” If Jeff is a science guy why all the name calling?
Let the facts speak for themselves. There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any point in the last 800,000 years. With the start of industry in the 1700’s, humans began emitting more fossil fuels from coal, oil, and gas to run our cars, trucks, and factories. Global warming is the increase of Earth’s average surface temperature due to greenhouse gases that collect in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket, trapping the sun’s heat and causing the planet to warm up.
According to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the temperature in the U.S. has increased by 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 50 years and precipitation has increased by 5%. American Association for the Advancement of Science
“Based on well-established evidence, about 97% of climate scientists have concluded that human-caused climate change is happening.” (2014)
American Chemical Society
“The Earth’s climate is changing in response to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHs) and particulate matter in the atmosphere, largely as the result of human activities.” (2016-2019)
American Medical Association
“Our AMA… supports the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fourth assessment report and concurs with the scientific consensus that the Earth is undergoing adverse global climate change and that anthropogenic contributions are significant.” (2019)
American Physical Society
“Earth’s changing climate is a critical issue and poses the risk of significant environmental, social and economic disruptions around the globe. While natural sources of climate variability are significant, multiple lines of evidence indicate that human influences have had an increasingly dominant effect on global climate warming observed since the mid-twentieth century.” (2015)
U.S. National Academy of Sciences
“Scientists have known for some time, from multiple lines of evidence, that humans are changing Earth’s climate, primarily through greenhouse gas emissions.”
Bottom line, we are in a global warming phenomena that will have catastrophic consequences for the future, as well as the present. We are in an age of global warming acceleration. Ice caps and glaciers that took millions of years to build are melting away like spring runoff. We cannot afford to continue to use fossil fuels for the harm it is causing. Remember that there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any point in the last 800,000 years.
Please stop and consider.
Terry Olson
Alturas
DEAR EDITOR
I AM TAKING THIS OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS MY SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR THE RECOGNITION OF MY 67 YEARS SERVICE IN THE ALTURAS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. MY YEARS OF SERVICE WERE A RESULT OF THE CALIBER OF THE FINE MEN I SERVED WITH OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT IS MADE UP OF HIGHLY TRAINED, DEDICATED TO SERVICE VOLUNTEERS. WHEN I WAS CHIEF, I SINCERELY SAID AND MEANT IT”I COULD TAKE ANY 10 FIREMEN FROM THE DEPARTMENT TO A LARGE FIRE AND HAVE COMPLETE CONFIDENCE THEY WOULD GET THE JOB DONE.” THESE MEN DON’T JUST SHOW UP AT A FIRE BUT ATTEND WEEKLY TRAINING TO KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST EQUIPMENT AND METHODS. THE CITY AND CITIZENS OF ALTURAS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN GENEROUS AND SUPPORTIVE. BEING A VOLUNTEER FIREMAN GAVE EXTRA MEANING AND PURPOSE TO MY LIFE.
I AM GRATEFUL.
JIM PORTER
We would like to include this photo of Jim Porter in this week’s paper because of the publication and print that had come out in recent weeks. Thank you so much Jim for your time and service.
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MPAT thanks you
The MPAT “family” would like to thank the following people for helping in the production of “Addams Family Musical”: Sadie Camacho for her musical direction-she knew every note we should be singing:
Carol Richert for her long hours doing her own prep before we even started rehearsal as our pianist; Ed Richert for his countless hours preparing the stage lighting; Sadie for her wonderful makeup and Vanessa for the great choreography; Tony Claytor for fixing “this and that” all of the time; Jason Moeller, Tony Claytor, Danny Parker for being our “roadies” and new set decorators; our set construction crew of Ed, Danny, Tony, Jason, Sadie and Vanessa; Brian Klassen for catching “Luna the Moon” and his construction of rolling walls and helping with choreography; Brian, Breanna Rockney, Jayden Main and Vanessa for the wonderful rolling wall scenes and landscapes; Kim Parker for Pugsley’s quilt and pillow;
Kerry Jones for Grandma’s herbs, potions and cart; Jason Moeller for the roses; Andy Camacho for manning the microphones and sound; Maggi Duncan for the great programs and video; our very talented cast who also worked extra rehearsals for the choreography; Timi Blankenship for managing the ACT snack bar along with our ACT volunteers: Ted, Linda, Kyle, Stephanie, Chris, Ted Clayor as House Manager; Mark Main who was thrown into the Box Office and did a great job; a thank you to Chelsea at the Modoc Record for last week’s article and this Sunday’s video promo; to our wonderful audiences each night who giggled, laughed and enjoyed our efforts. AND lastly to Vanessa Morgan, our talented director, who spent many weeks before rehearsals in reading this story for the stage. She knew every page and knew exactly what she wanted and she brought out the best in us.
We want to recognize our MHS Senior young women who were in their last MPAT production. These young ladies have been in MPAT since they were little girls and are incredibly talented and just nice young women. They are Taylor Allert ( MHS Valedictorian), Maggie Blankenship ( MHS Salutatorian), Elora Camacho (MHS Honor student) and Cassie Moeller (MHS Honor student). They are going to do great things in their lives and we are going to miss them terribly. Congratulations ladies.
If you have never seen an MPAT production please come and give us a watch. Looking forward to our 13th Children’s Musical Theater Camp and Evening with MPAT this summer. The fall show takes us back to Sweetgum, Texas and the Verdeen Family in “The Last Roundup of the Guacamole Queens”.
Again thank you to all….
Karen Hays, VP MPAT
Looking Back
113 Years Ago* – 1911
THE ALTURAS ball team was supposed to play Cedarville Saturday, buy only one carload showed up. The other became stranded on Cedar Pass overnight with two breakdowns in the Tom Godfrey auto machine. . . Bids were published this week for the proposed construction of a two-story stone and brick building to house the Modoc High School. . . The Overland car is the best-selling car in Modoc.
88 Years Ago – 1936
HAL JOHNSON, XL ranch owner, is raising elk that grazes contentedly with the sheep on his ranch. . . The Alturas Tigers have a new baseball field this season, one that was used by the team 25 years ago and located across from Alturas Civic Club. The group responsible for the lease and improvements are Shorty Bowers, Arthadus Rachford and Doc Dorris. . . The defunct Modoc Bank building has been sold to W. B. Williams for $15,000 and will be leased to the Modoc Forest Service for its headquarters.
63 Years Ago – 1961
A PLAN TO rebuild Pine Creek Reservoir into a public fishing ground was revealed this week by the Board of Supervisors. At the same time the board announced plans to build a boat launching facility at Big Sage Reservoir with eventual campsites. . . The 17-year-old Devils Garden Airport, that was built northwest of Alturas during the war, has been taken over by the Modoc Forest Service that, in turn, has plans to resurface the field and use it as a base for seasonal borate bombers. . . The top price being paid for lambs these days in Modoc is 7.5 cents.
53 Years Ago – 1971
THE STTE Board of Education has opposed a proposed move to split the Modoc-Tulelake School District into two districts. The State Board said that although such a split would be legal, ‘It would not be in the best interest of education’ in Modoc. . . Dr. Milton Boyden, Surprise Valley School District Superintendent, announced this week that Surprise Valley High School has been given full accreditation for five years. . . Go ahead was given this week for the construction of a new Modoc High shop building.
