The left doesn't want to win arguments with its opponents, it wants to silence them. More evidence comes from our mailbag. A letter and a response.Letter to the editor:Dear Editor:Perhaps Sheppard's unscientific rantings against those (84% of climate scientists, 58% of Democrats, 50% of Independents, and 27% of Republicans, according to "A Deeper Partisan Divide Over Global Warming," Pew Research Center, May 2008) who have learned that global warming is almost certainly caused by humans are due to his being a technology consultant and software engineer, not someone trained in science.  Anyone familiar with science knows there is a great deal of difference between the training of an engineer and that of a scientist.  However, many engineers and others have the ability to look at a broad body of data and draw logical conclusions.  Unfortunately, Sheppard is not one of them, unless he really hasn't looked at the broad body of global warming data.  I...(Read Full Post)