Is man-made climate change real?

by Barbara McNey, Hamilton

I do believe we need to stop cutting down rainforests, curtail the use of plastics, stop polluting oceans, and quit destroying habitats and overpopulating the Earth. I also believe there is a “heat island” effect in major cities. But the fear mongering re man-made climate change that I see in the news does not show the real picture.

For instance, yes it is hot in Phoenix, Arizona but it was hotter when I lived there in 1990 when the temperature reached 122 degrees. The August temperature also averaged 115 degrees in the 1950s. It’s a desert! The news media only takes a small window of time and extrapolates it to fit their agenda; one needs to look back in history by 50 or 100 years to see the real data.

Glaciers have been growing and melting since the beginning of Earth, before man inhabited it. Palm fronds have been found in the Arctic, which used to be tropical. Lake Missoula burst due to a glacier dam melting and covering the Bitterroot Valley with hundreds of feet of water about 15K years ago.. way before fossil fuels were developed. There have been floods and fires since the beginning of time. There were more fires in some areas of the world in the past.

Climate Change has to do with the angle of the Earth’s rotation toward the sun and is a natural cycle. Nothing we can do will stop the sun from evaporating water out of our oceans, converting it in the upper atmosphere to snow and dropping it to begin another ice age… Our civilization has been enabled by us living in an interglacial period of relative warmth. There are natural climate cycles on Earth and other planets.

We should be more worried about the Malthusian Theory of Starvation. Malthus said that overpopulation and displacement of farm land with housing would cause us to starve ourselves out of existence. I can see this happening everywhere I’ve lived.

And as stated in the book by Robert Felix, if humanity ends, it will end “Not by fire, but by ice!”