Your Sept. 19 editorial "Warm and windy" cited studies [in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences] explaining increased hurricane activity as a result of rising sea levels associated with global warming. Does this explain the very low hurricane activity level this year as well?

Contrary to what the mainstream media would have us believe, there is not a consensus among scientists about global warming. The media fail to report adequately on those scientists and their studies/research that disagree with the environmentalists' extreme global warming theory. The consensus among scientists that global warming actually exists is among government-funded scientists and studies, not those privately funded. Scientists and studies not funded by the government seem to produce quite different results.

I am not saying that global warming does not exist. I do believe that industrialization and the destruction of the rain forests impact our climate. I do not, however, believe it is the dire crisis situation being presented by the media and most government-funded studies.

On the Web site for The Business & Media Institute (www.businessandmedia.org) there are articles in the archives citing studies that dispel the theory of global warming.

Mary Paige Forrester

Greenville