Climate change rebuttle

Published 11:30 am Thursday, September 6, 2018

Editor:

Paul Hoffman wrote his views to the newspaper as a “climate-change skeptic.” He has now been gang tackled in two lengthy replies by Longwood University science department climate change professors. I believe that climate change has been going on for thousands of years and can’t quite sort out the sudden end of the world scenario postulated by some people. Can we really control nature? In the last 50 years the “Population Bomb” would doom us, or the coming ice age, or the “Inconvenient Truths” 10-year melt down. Guess what? We are still here. I feel that “Apostle Gore” has led his disciples up the mountain to await the end of the world, only for them to discover that the “tricked” data was misread.

Since Hoffman offered a “What me worry” musings and the professors didn’t offer any solutions for the climate change disciples to survive, I will offer a few. There is a big switch on your circuit breaker box. Flip it to off to wean yourself from fossil fuel, a major culprit in climate change. Don’t use any products made, or transported by fossil fuel. These two suggestions will be a little difficult in the beginning, but it was done in the seventeen hundreds. Lead by example and certainly others will follow. Await the day when there is a real breakthrough to limit our reliance on fossil fuel. Don’t do “feel good” exercises to think you are saving the world from climate change: e.g., fly to another part of the world to install a solar panel made by fossil fuel (the carbon footprint is very heavy.) Best wishes! You can do it.

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John Thomasson

Richmond/Farmville