On a recent visit to our former home in Cook County, I read with interest the letter from Mr. Chuck Flickinger. Oh dear, oh dear. Mr. Flickinger is using those nasty, awkward things called facts to conflict with the preferred narrative of the day. Shame on the sun for varying its output without our permission. Same to the earth for changing its orbit and axial orientation without our approval.
He did not even mention that the magnetic poles are due to flip anytime now, Yellowstone is due to burp again, or that a CME (coronal mass ejection) just missed earth by a week a few years ago. Guess what that would have done to nearly everything electrical on earth? (Think Carrington event in 1859 when telegraph stations caught fire.) As a longtime casual follower of many things of scientific nature particularly astronomy, I can completely agree with his presentation of the facts.
No computer models needed here, just study geological history and the facts speak for themselves. Each of the proposed “solutions” has its own set of problems (just ask the birds and fish about windmills). Solar power, ethanol, electric vehicles, each have their own set of obstacles to overcome. I find it extremely presumptuous of us to think that we can actually alter the climate. One volcano can in a very short time cause more bad stuff to enter the atmosphere than we can if every human and cow on earth passed gas at the same time.
Over the eons, millions of species have come and gone due in part to changes in their environment. We as a species are no different. The earth will continue to change as it has for billions of years. We will either adapt like cockroaches or pass from the scene like dinosaurs.
George Gradek
formerly from Maple Hill,
now at Sandy Bottom Road, Tennessee
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