Dear Editor:
When the news broke about Hermine my first thought was on the people then my next thought was "Oh, God, the newspaper will be filled with alarmists saying 'look we are right, climate change.'" So before the opinion page is flooded with propaganda let me take the opportunity to remind people of the facts.
This is the first hurricane to make landfall in the USA in over 11 years. It is only a category one hurricane which is the lowest it can be before it is downgraded to a tropical storm. This weather is normal for that part of the country for this time of the year.
It is a weather phenomenon, not "man-made climate change." I also mentioned, in several previous letters to the editor, that weather and climate cycles and we should expect a natural swing from the calm back to hurricanes again. We had an 11-year lull in hurricanes so this maybe the start of a new trend or a single event; only time will tell.
I spent several hours last weekend watching congressional hearings on climate change. Many scientists that testified show a completely different view than what the media and climate alarmists have been painting for us.
Scientists clearly stated that there is no evidence, markers, etc., to indicate that CO2 levels are having any affect on large weather phenomenon. Forest fires were also ruled out by climate scientists as having too many other variables, such as mismanagement of national forests and lands etc., to conclude that CO2 is having any affect.
They also refuted the 97 percent claim and explained where it came from and how it came about. In truth more than 31,000 American scientists from diverse climate-related disciplines have signed a public petition announcing their belief that " there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate."
The number of scientists in climate-related fields who are signing this petition is increasing every year. Hopefully someone will finally push the needle along because that skip in the broken record of climate change is getting annoying.
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