Global warming’s urgency hoax by scientific community

In response to Ron McCutcheon’s Dec. 5 letter to the editor (“Global warming as real as Mars InSight landing”), I would have to say he has a misconception of what people like me believe about global warming, also known as climate change. There definitely is, and always has been, climate change — both warming and cooling.

Earth started as a molten mass, which became a ball created by its spinning motion (the “Readers Digest” version, over about 5 billion years). It cooled to a point where it could sustain life and kept cooling into the first ice age.

Then it started warming to a point, and then started cooling into the second ice age, which began the warming again. If it weren’t for this warming we are now experiencing, we would not have the Connecticut River Valley, for example.

It was the glaciers sliding down that made all that we have here. At which point would you have scientists stop this process? Climate change is what it is, and to mess with that could be disastrous. Don’t get me wrong. As the owl says: “Give a hoot. Don’t pollute.”

However, this unscrupulous charade to do something about the earth warming is a hoax by some in the scientific community to rake in a pile of cash.

Do you remember films in school in the 1940s and 50s showing the glacier in Alaska hanging over a cliff and breaking off into the sea? Well, they still have cruise ships that take people to see that same glacier. It’s a little smaller now, but it’s still an attraction. Lake Ontario used to be a whole lot bigger, but started drying up a couple of hundred years ago, and now that area on the south side of the lake has become thousands of acres of vineyards.

The same goes for the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It’s leaning because it was built on soggy ground because Pisa used to be the port city, but it dried and receded to more than 10 miles away. That land between Pisa and the coast is now vineyards and olive groves. Maybe, some day, the water will start coming back to these areas.

Should scientists have stopped it then or should they stop it now? In my opinion, they can’t do anything about it, and they shouldn’t try.

Charles Souza, Middletown