Global warming doesn’t matter

Letter from Ide Trotter

Global Warming – September 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine

Dear Ed,

Let me congratulate you on your very rational letter “Why Global Warming Doesn’t Matter” in the August Edition. You are so right. There are many valid reasons for steps we can take that move in the right direction.

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Honest science will be none the worse off

Letter from Ide Trotter

Science – December 2004 – Colorado Central Magazine –

To the Editor:

It is hard to know where to start in my comments about George Sibley’s “Time for a Truce?” in the November Colorado Central. So I’ll start in the middle and work toward the edges.

He quotes from Thomas Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” the most cited work of the 20th Century, in an effort to support his questionable thesis that the scientific revolution has not been consummated. The idea that science has not triumphed must have come as a considerable surprise to most of your readers

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Some churches are getting the job done

Letter from Ide Trotter

January 1997 edition – February 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine

Dear Martha,

Loved your Letter from the Editor in the January Central. You had me eating out of your hand right down to the last sentence of the next to last paragraph. Had I tumbled to a failure in logic on your part? Highly unlikely, I’ve come to believe. Was there some misunderstanding on my part?

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