False alarm-global warming
Dear Editor,
Re: Two More Global Warming False Alarms
You sound like one of those guys who is very brilliant in his own field but doesn’t know how to change the oil in his car. I guess the term global warming does deserve a little ridicule. Climate change is much more appropriate. The scientific community has been warning us about it for over 30 years. It’s nothing new. It is easy to nit pic the scientific data that seems to come out faster and faster these days. All of it is not good. Trouble is, the climate is changing, the glaciers are melting , many species are going extinct, and it is happening faster than at any other time in the millions of years that we are obtaining data for. Sometimes you have to go outside to see the effects. Where I live , in southern Ontario, Canada, the geese are usually seen to fly south in the fall. Last year and this’ I have seen none flying south, but I have seen them flying north and west. Not very many of them. Not like there used to be. Our climate is now conducive to growing crops that we could not before due to the longer growing season. The storms we have are more violent, the heat waves hotter, and the weather is so turbulent that the weather channel has trouble predicting it a day ahead. These are minor things and each by itself says nothing. The problem becomes apparent when all of these things that are happening here and around the world are taken as a whole. Even if man’s contribution to this change is minor, it is a problem of monumental magnitude because our survival as a species, at the top of the food chain, relies on everything below us. Without the mosquito, the dragonfly, the worms, the robins, the flowers, the bees, the plants, the trees, there can be no humans. Gardeners know that when you cut down all the crops in the vegetable garden you must make huge fertilizer dressings to get another crop in the ensuing years. When we clear cut a forest we do not fertilize the soil so the next growth is shorter until there is no growth. Actually the problem is quite simple, population, and either mother nature or Charles Darwin or both will win out in the end unless we clean up our act. There will be lots more bad science and there will be much more good science. I suggest you leave the scientific conclusions to the scientists. Perhaps I can change your oil for you. I’m good at that.
Respectfully,
Stuart Blaber, Athens,
Ontario Canada
