What should we do?
Recently, the Record-Bee published a missive from Michael Mann that attempted to defend the global warming scam. Professor Mann”s so-called research has been so thoroughly refuted by the scientific community that further comment by me would be redundant.
However, the letter from Norman Fleishman in the June 17 Record-Bee requires an answer.
Mr. Fleishman”s assertion that global warming is due to an expanding population”s requirement for heat is brand new, at least to me. Until now it has all been blamed on our collective use of fossil fuels for industry and transportation.
To use his own vernacular, what would he have us do? Start to kill off people? Quit reproducing? Or just close down all medical facilities and allow natural attrition to reduce the population?
His vast majority of scientists would, presumably, include the aforementioned Mr. Mann and the similarly discredited group of data manipulators at East Anglia, but not the 31,000 plus imminent climate scientists who disagree with them.
Incidentally, when and how did puny humans decide they had the power to change a system as complex and, dare I say it, divinely controlled as the climate of planet earth?
I am no scientist. However, I was taught, back in the dark ages, that all air-breathing animals, including humans, inhale oxygen and exhale, among other things, carbon dioxide (co2). Further, all growing plants, from the grass on your lawn to the mighty redwoods, absorb co2 and secrete oxygen. So which one do we give up ? animal life or plant life? And, by the way, when did an element necessary to all life on the planet suddenly become a pollutant?
Bob Knutson
Kelseyville
