Many residents of Franklin County care more about elusive climate issues than real everyday problems citizens of this country and people of our world endure.
Like paying their bills, keeping food on the table, trying to survive another day in their neighborhood, will they find a job or lose the job they have? These are just a small sampling of everyday problems.
Someone wrote a book titled, “The Audacity of Hope.”
I would like to proclaim; the Audacity Scientists, a consensus, they say, along with others, who believe humans are the cause of CO2 levels in the earth’s atmosphere.
Further, that we humans control the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere.
Seriously! We humans control CO2 levels?
Nature alone takes care of our atmosphere.
In addition, CO2 is not a pollutant. Plants and trees thrive on it.
We are bombarded from all directions that at some future unspecified date, species extinction (of us) will occur if we do not change our ways. The indoctrination begins in elementary schools.
Why, why, why, is no one contemplating natural climate cycles or planetary influences (rise and fall of sunspots) that may be a contributing factor to global warming and climate change? Or, if these anomalies exist at all. Well, looky here!
Recently, using NASA’s Landsat satellite images (30 years worth), a study by the Deltares Research Institute in the Netherlands was published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Researchers found coastal areas, to the scientists’ surprise, had gained more land (13,000 sqare miles) than had been lost to water (7,800 sqare miles). Said Dr. Baart, “We expected that the coast would start to retreat due to sea level rise, but the most surprising thing is that the coasts are growing all over the world.”
I trust the scientist and others who think humans have no control over the earth’s weather, climate or atmosphere.
Jim Bates
Greenfield