Climate change issue
The Jan. 9 editorial “Attacking Climate Change” was arrogant and uninformed.
No, everyone does not agree that there is a “climate change” problem, that man is a cause or that a cap-and-trade program is wise.
Many renowned scientists, such as Fred Singer and Richard Lindzen, have shown the flaws in the warmers’ theories. That is why politicians and journalists skip the science, refuse debate and arrogantly claim, as did the editorial, that climate change is self-evident.
If the editorial board members were better informed on the subject, they would know that CO2 is not the strongest greenhouse gas — water vapor is. And that the warmers’ computer models do not account for water vapor. They don’t know how.
They would know that CO2 is a trace compound in our atmosphere, only 400 parts per million, that most of this concentration occurs naturally, and that CO2 is essential to plant, animal and human life.
They would know that the climate has swayed between warm and cold periods for eons, long before industrial activity began. So how can human emissions be responsible?
They would know that the alarmist warming models began over 30 years ago, and have been disproven by real weather. Their models are unreliable. Recently, the big problem for the alarmists has been to explain why global temperatures have remained flat since the 1990s, contrary to their predictions.
The editorial talks about rising oceans. Have people stopped buying beachfront property? It talks about heat waves. Have Americans stopped moving to Florida, Texas and the Carolinas?
The editorial board needs to read more broadly before supporting half-baked government schemes that will damage our economy and increase energy costs for regular folks. The editorial reminds me of the story about New Yorker writer Pauline Kael, who supposedly could not understand how Richard Nixon won in 1972 because no one she knew voted for him. If someone thinks everyone agrees there is a problem with the climate, and that a government program can fix it, he is living in a liberal bubble. BRAD TUPI Upper St. Clair