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Bill Hileman for Whitefish judge

I have known Bill Hileman for many years, served with him in Rotary and other community organizations. I support his candidacy for city judge of Whitefish, Montana!

We are about to replace Brad Johnson, our city judge for many years, a man that served this town admirably and fairly. He will be missed, and we should not take this decision lightly.

We need a judge with experience in all matters of law. We need a judge that will treat our citizens and our city fairly and equally and will come to the bench each and every time with an open mind.

We need a kudge that knows our town, knows our citizens and understands the diversity of Whitefish. We need a judge that has lived here and has been one of us and is committed to our town. That man in my view is Bill Hileman. Our family strongly supports him to be our next city judge. —Don “K” Kaltschmidt, Whitefish

Another bite at the coffee cup

I thank James How (Oct. 6 letter) for his reply to my earlier letter.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agrees present human carbon dioxide emissions are less than 5 percent of nature’s. Yet, the IPCC claims human emissions have cause 100 percent of the increase in carbon dioxide. Simple physics proves this claim is wrong.

The point of my tea cup analogy is, so long as you pour 5 percent cream and 95 percent coffee into the cup, you will never get more than 5 percent cream in the cup.

Here is a better analogy.

A river flows into a lake and the lake exits over a fixed dam. The lake level is constant because outflow equals inflow. Add a new river that increases inflow by 5 percent. The new inflow increases the lake level just enough to increase outflow to by 5 percent, so outflow again equals inflow.

Similarly, human carbon dioxide emissions increase the level of carbon dioxide just enough to increase carbon dioxide outflow by 5 percent. Then outflow equals inflow. Continued inflow does not change the level.

Easy arithmetic shows present human emissions increase the level by 18 ppm, while nature’s present emissions increase the level by 392 ppm, for a total of 410 ppm.

Continuation of present human emissions will not increase the level of carbon dioxide. Therefore, continuing human emissions are not a cause for alarm.

A statistical study by Munshi proves the correlation of human emissions with the rise in carbon dioxide is ZERO. This means nature, not human emissions, has caused the rise in carbon dioxide.

Human emissions cause, at most, 5 percent of the climate change claimed by the IPCC and the Montana Climate Assessment, while nature causes 95 percent.

More detail is in my preprint, now in peer review by a major climate journal, on edberry.com. —Ed Berry, Bigfork

Somers school levy taking wrong approach

Because I was unable to attend the open house at the Somers-Lakeside Middle School, I called the school and asked if I could come in early and listen to their concerns and make an inspection.

I was cordially invited in and was given a tour of areas of concern. I have a keen interest in older buildings and have worked and inspected on many renovation projects as I have been involved in construction my whole life. The first renovation project I worked on in 1963 in Williston, N.D., was successfully raising a three-story masonry building which was the hospital that had settled on one end.

I have the utmost concern in providing a safe environment for our students. I have read all the concerns of the school board and I agree these issues need to be addressed. The problem I have is tearing down building or parts to take care of renovations. I found the buildings to be structurally sound and do believe it is not a tear-down project. The costs associated with tearing down and adding are very complicated (tying all the components together) and it’s usually too expensive to undertake. With the estimate put forth, it appears this is the case in the Somers school.

Concerning the size of the school, the enrollment that they have, the costs go way beyond national averages of middle school construction costs. It also seems with the estimate put forth they would be able to build a brand new school with much more room.

I do believe that renovation costs would be much lower than the planned project that they have put forth. I do believe they should update this building but I do not believe it is a tear-down project. All buildings need renovations at times. —Larry Doeden, Lakeside

Do you want to know ‘what happened,’ Hillary?

As a woman of the 1960s who grew up under the influence of feminism, I want to make it perectly clear — I would have voted for an empty orange juice can before I would have voted for Hillary “Rotten” Clinton.

She is out there pushing her book “What Happened?” Truth is, a lot of us who have been informed and involved are not brain dead, and we are not blind or deceived by the left-wing media.

We have seen the mounting evidence of her crime, corruption and incompetence. That’s “what happened,” Hillary!

There are folks who have pointed out 42 different excuses shr makes in her book. None of them does she attribute to herself. She blames everybody else.

The swanp, the Deep State, the establishment are the folks that won’t hold her accountable to “equal justice under the law.”

The double standard, the hypocrisy on the left, and the fact that they continue to double down got Trump elected — just one of the reasons. —Marilyn Hatch, Lolo