'Let’s focus on the things we can change'

I have studied climate change for years and I am convinced that we are misled regarding Anthropogenic Global Warming; the theory that Carbon Dioxide (CO2) plays a critical role in regulating the earth’s temperature. CO2 has increased from only 0.030 percent to 0.039 percent, and amounts to only 2.8 percent of the Green House Effect, while water vapor accounts for 82 percent.

Remember, plants need CO2, and we need the plants. The world has not become warmer in the last 16 years despite an 8 percent increase in atmospheric CO2.

During 1950-1970 the world was actually getting colder and “experts” warned us about a coming ice age. Then, from 1980-1998 the world was getting warmer and they completely switched to man-made global warming.

How quickly we forget.
Fact, the total temperature increase for the last 100 years is only 1.4 F. Short-term trends for a few decades are meaningless.

The predicted sea level rise is only one foot for the next hundred years, and don’t be fooled by Arctic Ice melting. Those are just poor extrapolations based on statistics for a few years.

Also, based on a century of reliable data, there is no increase in hurricanes, heat waves, floods, etc.

Today, half the world’s population lives on less than $2 per day. We must strive to reduce poverty, malnutrition, improve water quality, reduce air pollution (not CO2), control infectious diseases, and protect prone areas from weather extremes.

Here we’ll get a tremendous return on our investments.

Don’t be fooled anymore. We can talk about the weather, but we can’t change it; let’s focus on the things we can change.

Svante Roding
Highland Mills