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We need more gun safety training
I just read your report on Koedi V. White being charged as an adult for 1st degree manslaughter and 2nd -degree unlawful possession of a firearm; allegedly causing the death of his friend Shadrach Hall-Turner of Reardan. What was a horrible accident is being made by authorities into an adult criminal case demonizing a 16 year old child while ignoring Koedi White’s grandmother’s negligence by allowing the gun to be accessible and used in the first place. All gun owners have the responsibility to lock their guns up preventing child access, thus preventing the potential of doing harm to themselves and others. I grew up in Alaska where most people own guns. Children were taught gun safety, that they weren’t toys, and never to touch one without a qualified adult present. At 79years of age, I cannot remember there ever being a similar shooting incident like this. I don’t believe Koedi White started his day intending to shoot his best friend. We should allow this horrible incident to be the accident it was, provide counseling to all involved, and place the legal liability where it belongs - with the owner of the gun. Thank you for the opportunity to express my opinion.
Berneyle Pitman
Davenport, WA
Greenhouse gases raise Earth temp
We all need to understand climate science.
Climate fundamentals are simple: Sunshine warms the Earth, and the Earth radiates heat back into space as infrared. Earth’s temperature results from how much radiant heat gets trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. GHGs are trace gases but have a disproportionate influence on temperatures.
Nitrogen, oxygen and argon represent 78%, 21%, and 0.9% of our atmosphere and are not greenhouse gases.
Greenhouse gases only make up a fraction of the remaining 0.1%; gases such as carbon-dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are Earth’s “thermostat gases.”
Of these gases, carbon-dioxide is responsible for more than three-quarters of the greenhouse effect.
Atmospheric water vapor complicates this simplified description.
Water vapor traps infrared, is almost all from natural sources, is short-lived and is highly variable. Water vapor supercharges temperature swings and stores the energy released in hurricanes and tornadoes.
When we increase greenhouse gas concentrations, we raise the temperature, which increases atmospheric water vapor and the destructive power of weather events.
Since the industrial revolution, when we started burning fossil fuels, carbon-dioxide levels have risen from 0.028% to 0.042%, a 50% increase.
And once you realize that we’ve raised Earth’s thermostat by 50%, you don’t need to be a scientist to understand why we need to turn it down again. And quickly.
Simon Smith
Pullman
LOL at outlandish hair-colored people
Who would have ever imagined that a fashion would prevail whereby women would purposely choose to look “not pretty?”
I am past 80, no longer pretty and right in style.
I just wish the green-, purple- and orange-haired people would add a big red nose, which would be a sign that it’s OK for their audience to “Laugh Out Loud (LOL).”
Amazed in 2023
Nancy Parry
Moscow, Idaho
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