Ninety-seven percent of environmental scientists agree that climate change/global warming is happening and is significantly caused by human activity (release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane).
This, they argue, is an existential threat to the planet. This level of scientific agreement is equivalent to the consensus among scientist s that smoking causes cancer (do the climate change deniers also dispute this fact?).
Some facts:
- Record warm temperatures around the globe keep rising at alarming levels. Sixteen out of the seventeen warmest years on record have occurred since 2001.
- Artie sea ice is diminishing, causing a rise in global ocean levels, eroding coasts and devastating
- Ocean waters are becoming warmer damaging coral reefs and marine Not to mention the effect of warming oceans on the severity of storms that have statistically increased in recent years causing catastrophic loss of life and property. The proliferation of California fires is often cited as an example. Thi s is only going to get worse, scientists opine.
- Glaciers are severely melting, causing a loss of water that people around the globe depend on. Avalanches and landslides are dramatically Glacier National Park in Montana has only twenty-five remaining glaciers. In the 1980s there were approximately 150.
- Hundreds (389) of North American birds face extinction due to climate change, reports a current study by the National Audubon Society. Other animals that are increasingly threatened are whales, elephants, giraffes, sharks, great apes, and the Monarch butterfly.
These are just a scant few of the shocking ramifications of human activity that promotes and causes climate change and global warming.
The devastation is green-lighted at full speed by the current administration in the White House whose leader has called climate change a “Chinese Hoax.”
He has embarrassingly withdrawn our country from the Paris Climate Accords. The United States of America is the only nation on the planet to do so. In addition, he has already done away with a multitude of environmental regulations, designed to protect the environment.
But wait! John Messina from East Williston (in this publication. Oct. 11 has uncovered irrefutable proof that Trump and his head in the sand base must be right that climate change does not exist.
His exhaustive research has revealed that President Obama has purchased a home near a body of water.
I guess that settles it. Who can argue with that logic?
Perhaps smoking is not bad for you either.
Herbert Steinberg
Great Neck
Rising sea levels? Well, it has not happened yet, but hey some scientists say it might or it will in the future. I personally doubt it and I believe all this doom and gloom about global warming or, when the climate does not fit the narrative, it is called climate change, is a big money making hoax.
Will one of you experts tell us why there are over 40,000 polar bears running around, which is more than ever over the last 50 years, or why the ice caps are steadily growing. This bright idea of spraying barium and aluminum salts, polymer fibers, thorium and silicon carbide all over the blue skies in all 50 states to control the Earth’s temperature is a dangerous idea and a health risk. All it does is trap the heat and keeps it from leaving Earth, which makes it hotter here on Earth. It is a health risk for humans and animals, but the politicians and paid off scientists turn a blind eye to it, because of money? $5 billion per year is the price tag for this senseless and dangerous program.
Right here on our own beaches, take a walk and tell us where the sea level has risen. Nowhere! Over the last 100 years global temperatures have risen 1 degree, sea levels have risen 6 inches and eventually it will get cold and the seas will recede. The Earth is going to do what it does, natural climate change, temperature goes up and it goes down, sea levels rise and sea levels recede. How many know that the Earth will spin counter clock wise faster when it needs to cool itself and slow its spin to heat the Earth up.