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• Redline returns

• From Zion Christian Fellowship to Gravity

• City of Lodi considers options for burned playground at Century Park

• Assemblyman Bill Berryhill aims to preserve Delta, avoid peripheral canal

• Woodbridge names Jim Severi as postmaster

• Police investigate credit card thefts at schools

• Liberty Ranch High School teacher Donna Hartje honored as 2010 Teacher of the Year

February 8th, 2010

• Public Meetings

• Locals pick best, most memorable Super Bowl commercials

• Regional Roundup

February 6th, 2010

• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch

• Meet Larry, Curly and Moe

• Baboon business

• Regional Roundup

• Several Lodi venues let you watch the Super Bowl in style

• Lodi Library celebrates 100 years of serving the community

• Culinary craft

February 5th, 2010

• Kids, teachers help Haiti by collecting pennies for Learning Link

• Lodi, Galt students reach out to help Haiti earthquake survivors

• Tasered suspect claims he is Yosemite Sam

• Hours of sweat and work go into putting on crab feeds

• Things looking up for state's real estate

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• Stray bullet strikes Lodi home; police suspect gang activity may be factor

February 4th, 2010

• Managers at Geweke Toyota answer questions about recall

• Lodi City Council votes to replace play structure at Century Park

• Lodi extends ban on pot shops for another year

• Mokelumne River triathlon set for June

• Family, friends to run half-marathon in memory of Galt family

February 3rd, 2010

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• Delta College trustees again collide over stipend committee

• Lodi-area senators Dave Cox, Lois Wolk admit to gifts; Tom Berryhill case pending

• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts

• Galt City Council avoids budget cuts — for now

• New Lodi Memorial Hospital emergency room opens to the public without a hitch

• Bad bugs, weeds are hot topics at Grape Day

February 2nd, 2010

• Big rig plows 7 cars

• Local business leaders say tourism, Costco, Home Depot may play roles in city's future

• Former Lodian Erica Davis is first paraplegic woman to summit Kilimanjaro

• Jumpers across California

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• No snow leopards, otters for Micke Grove

• McNerney leads in campaign cash

• Police: Train victim was a Lodi teen

February 1st, 2010

• Find cuddly alpacas not too far from Lodi

• Public Meetings

• Patients can expect faster, better service when Lodi Memorial Hospital's new emergency room opens

• Man killed by Amtrak train in Lodi

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Dr. Morner, IPCC and rising sea levels

This is in response to Robert Mattheis' letter of Aug. 25, in the Lodi News-Sentinel.

Let me remind Mr. Mattheis that Dr. Nils-Axel Morner was called in by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to be an "expert reviewer" on their last two reports, which were mainly evidence from computer science or graphs. Morner was astonished that not one of the IPCC authors was a sea level specialist.

Why did they ask Morner to be an expert reviewer? He is known by scientists worldwide as the one scientist who knows more about sea level rise than anyone else around the globe!

Morner is a physicist and geologist. He is past president of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) commission on Sea Level Change and Coastal Evolution, and recently retired as director of Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics Department at Stockholm University in Sweden. Rather than determine what changes have occurred in sea levels by using computers and satellite images, Morner has traveled the world using every known scientific method of study to check sea level rise.

What has he discovered? The only place melting to any degree is Greenland west — the Disco Bay is melting, but it has been melting for at least 200 years. The IPCC is using computer graphics, unlike Morner, who sends teams into the field year round.

Did you know, Mr. Mattheis, that the IPCC used a single tide gauge level from Hong Kong Harbor to show a trend in sea level rise? Morner asked the panel, why take a single tide level gauge to drive the warmest hysteria? They actually admitted that "they had to show a trend." Morner discovered that the IPCC satellites had shown no trend in sea level rise — agreeing with Morner's own findings out in the field.

As late as April 18, the Australian Antarctic Division Glaciology report showed a significant cooling in recent decades, and they said, "sea ice conditions have remained stable in the region."

One final note: Sea level rise globally has been around 2.3 millimeters, Antarctica's Halley VI research shows an accumulation of snow at the rate of five feet per year. Why the Halley VI base? The previous four bases are buried under tons of ice and snow!

Tom Baker
Lodi