Your Opinion: More on climate change

Dear Editor:

In a previous climate change Letter to the Editor there were comments that almost seemed like negative accusation but to me really aren’t. Tony Smith’s letter of April 13 ended with “what do we want fiction or fact?” which I found ironic since Smith stated that I was a “retired business man” I do not consider it “bad” “wrong” nor does it make a person “incorrect” because they might be a retiree, a business person, or even a minority.

I’m far from being retired, never owned a business and in many situations in life I have been considered a minority. Being a minority does not make someone wrong. Over the ages scientists and their supporters were rejected by the majority consensus of the times and were later proven correct.

Scientists such as Wegener, Semmelweis, Aristarchus, Mendel, Copernicus, Kepler and Avogadro were all rejected by their peers, yet their discoveries are the foundation of several scientific disciplines today. Still, the consensus often adheres to its beliefs even after proven wrong for hundreds of years; take spontaneous generation as an example. The difference in temperature between years is measured in tenths or hundreds of a degree, plus that is an average of an average of another average. Besides what is the earth’s, as scientists call it, “optimal” temperature anyway? Climate alarmist can’t answer that.

In one Letter to the Editor it was asked what planet I lived on. Apparently not the same one they do because hurricanes are down, 2015 had the fewest number of hurricanes in 45 years. Storms are down, even tornadoes are down. There was record snow in Antarctic for the 35th straight year and increased ice. There was snow, ice and record cold temperatures set in April this year in the Midwest and Eastern USA and in other countries.

Yet the News Tribune only printed an article on a glacier melting in Iceland. None of this information comes from conservative news sites; it all came from NOAA, NASA, the Met Office and the Weather Channel. CO2 only makes up .04 percent of the earth’s atmosphere.

Of the CO2 emissions worldwide man only emits 4 percent and of that the USA only produces 16 percent. So the USA is only producing a fraction of fraction of the total CO2 emissions. Yet they want to close down entire industries, put people out of work (like in Chamois MO) over a trace gas that doesn’t seem to be doing much.