Climate change based on politics, not evidence
Larry Russell Johnson
Jefferson City
Dear Editor:
“And for the Earth’s life history, it had been much warmer than it is today and CO2 was more than 10 times higher than today, yet life flourished at this time. Then an ice age occurred 450 million years ago when CO2 was 10 times higher than today. There is some correlation, but little evidence, to support a direct causal relationship between CO2 and global temperature through the millennia.” — Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore.
In an interview on Fox News, Moore said warming in the second half of the 20th Century was nearly identical to temperature changes recorded from the first half of the century. The United Nations claims humans are responsible for warming since 1950, but has not said what caused warming from 1900-50. Moore said higher temperatures are due to the end of the little ice age, which finished 250 years ago.
It’s been documented that the period of European history during the Roman Empire from 500 B.C. to about 800 A.D. the climate was warm, then during the Middle Ages from about 900 A.D. to about 1,400 A.D. the climate was cold. Then 1887 in the U.S., was the coldest winter in the U.S. history. Farmers had to tie ropes from their houses to their barns to find their way.
The Dust Bowl was the same at one time applied to a part of the Great Plains region of the Southwestern United States. It formed in the 1930s and appeared again in the 1950s and 1960s. The soil in this area was subjected to water and wind damage because the farming practices and the grazing of too many animals. The area covered some 50 million acres and included parts of Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma.
There’s no proof that it is human activity that has caused this little bit of warming. What I am trying to say is this little bit of warming is actually good for most species on planet earth. Ice and frost are actually the enemies.