On global warming

The world is getting warmer. We don’t need Al Gore to tell us that. My geography professor told me that 65 years ago (1952). I believe Mr. Gore sends us down the wrong trail—cars, trucks, machinery from fossil-fuel CO2 exhausts—while he makes millions preaching the No. 2 warming premise.

As Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” We humans breathe 24/7. In goes oxygen. Out goes carbon dioxide. Thankfully, trees and plants do the opposite. The cycle keeps the universe functioning. Since I was born in the ’30s, the number of humans in our world has tripled to 7 billion. Yet we continue to reduce tree population, aided by forest fires.

I believe scientists ignore warming repercussions of us 98.6-degree humans. I experienced that in high school. Close the gymnasium in sub-freezing temperatures with no heat and 3,000 fans inside. We were sweating before the night was over. My recommendation to scientists: Chart the rise in world population over the last 50 years. Chart the rise in world temperatures. I feel they will closely parallel one another.

As long as we propagate, we’ll feel temperatures rise, see icebergs calve off, seas rise, and temperate zones shift away from the equator toward the poles. The Paris Climate Accord, minus the U.S., would only suck billions of dollars from America while winds and seas know no political boundaries.

Pogo knew the enemy. He is us. ROBERT B. BUCHANAN

North Little Rock