Your Opinion: Fight the carbon tax insanity

Nelson Otto

Jefferson City

Dear Editor:

I just read an interesting article on “Natural On” that NASA has stated the earth is cooling. The article stated that NASA monitored the infrared emissions from the earth’s upper atmosphere during and after a solar storm. They discovered that most of the energy released from the sun during this storm was reflected back into space, not dumped into the earth’s atmosphere. They found CO2 and nitric oxide which are green house gases that reflect energy, are causing the heat to return to space, not absorbed in the earth’s atmosphere. According to the article James Russell from Hampton University who lead the SABER study said “Carbon Dioxide and nitric oxide are natural thermostats. When the upper atmosphere or thermosphere heats up, these molecules try as hard as they can to shed that heat back into space.” What is interesting is that Dr. James Hansen retired after this information was released. Remember him, see my LTE from March 14.

When we look at the global temperatures and sun spots or high solar activity, we see a rise in temperature. While reading an article on a sun spot high that occurred in 2015 it reminded me of the NASA chart that showed a temperature high in 2016. After the sun cooled down, so did the global temps. New reports are warning of solar cooling and a grand minimum event. The last one known as the “Maunder Minimum” occurred between 1645-1715 and is called the little ice age. Scientists and groups have been warning that this is coming and some even claim it has started already. They point to the recent record breaking cold and snow storms that effected all of the northern hemisphere the last two years. With these new facts coming to light do we really want to tie our hands with a carbon tax/dividend. Hundreds of millions of people will be adversely effected and may die if we use a tax to restrict the flow of life saving energy. We need to fight this insanity with every fiber to protect our children and their futures.