Not buying the ‘sky is falling’ climate alarmist mentality

Regarding “Energy,” (March 10): I like that Jon Greene uses the example of progress from the horse-and-buggy era to our current mode of transportation with gasoline-powered vehicles because it seems he’d prefer those good old days of better climate. But history shows us a few facts about climate. Raging storms and drought have always been a part of life, and the thought that man has the power to change climate is somewhat laughable.

Does Jon think we’d have a garden of Eden without storms or floods or drought on our planet if we all relied on solar or wind and drove electric vehicles? And before we’re so quick to eliminate the petroleum industry, Jon might want to consider the petroleum components necessary to manufacture the solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles, along with thousands of other everyday items that have taken us beyond the horse-and-buggy era.

I’m just not buying the “sky is falling” mentality of the climate alarmists who, in the ’70s, predicted another ice age that never happened.

Everyone should do their part to keep America beautiful without infringing upon the rights of its citizens’ life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Barbara Goodson, Kingwood

Regarding “Tomlinson: Big Oil wants slower transition to clean energy so it can lead,” (March 8): What a joke! Houston lost 26 percent of its oil and gas jobs between 2014 and 2020, reported the Greater Houston Partnership. We could replace them all with clean energy jobs, they said, if we aggressively lead the energy transition.

I laughed at Tomlinson’s article on CERAweek, where he states: “Executives from the world’s top oil and gas firms and officials from the biggest petrostates insist they can lead the clean energy transition if only the rest of the world would allow them to catch up and set the pace.”

Shift happens. Nan Hildreth, Houston