Your Opinion: Logic on climate change

Dear Editor:

I value logic, reason and facts over emotion and hype.

The responses to my last letter had the same vague emotional arguments. The facts are the oceans have risen four to six inches in the last 100 years and that is because the earth is coming out of the little ice age. All the increases in the ocean levels are actually measured in millimeters a year (around 6/100 to 1/10 of an inch per year) which would be less than a foot 85 years from now.

If one actually reads the IPCC 2001 report you would see that the earth would need a warming above 20 degrees C to melt the Antarctic ice sheet and it would take a period of at least 10,000 years. One letter made the comment about less snow than years past. I got my first sled on my 13th birthday and it didn't snow for 10 years after that and that was 37 years ago, during the ice age scare. We had snow storms in 2011, 2013 and an ice storm in 2007 and there are others that I don't remember the years.

The warmest year in recorded history was mentioned as 2014, well not according to the satellite data. It indicated it was around the sixth actually tied with three other years. This last winter was during an El Niño, so most climate scientist will consider it an exception as they have done with past El Niño years.

Fact: Carbon taxes, dividend wealth-sharing schemes will do nothing to change the climate. They will take money from the lower and middle classes that need it to survive and give it to government cronies' pet projects like these failed projects: Solyndra, Sapphire Energy, Abound Solar and more. It is because of government regulations that power companies went to natural gas, which led to fracking.

I have no problem with saving energy; it is logical. I do have a problem with scare tactics to create more poorly thought out government regulations and spending at the cost of working class Americans. Besides, we all can't be Leonard DeCaprio flying around in his private jet, some of us save energy by walking a mile to work every day or ride the bus when winter weather is bad, I did have to ride the bus this winter; we had snow.