OPINION:
For the past three decades we have repeatedly been warned of snowless winters — the result of human-caused global warming. The predictions have been demonstrably wrong.
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005 we were told that hurricane activity would be stronger and more frequent than ever. Instead the past 10 years have seen some of the mildest hurricane activity on record. In 1988 James Hansen, a NASA scientist who is considered an expert on global warming/climate change, essentially predicted that New York City would be underwater by now because of melting icecaps. He has been proved wrong, but politicians still use him as an expert to push their agenda.
In the early 1970s, after three decades of cooling, scientists and the media warned us of a dangerous coming ice age. In the 1920s there were predictions that the ice caps were melting and coastal cities would disappear. Yet satellite and rural-temperature data have shown either no or minimal warming for the past 30 years.
Since actual climate data has not supported the global-warming alarmists’ predictions, it has been shown that scientists manipulated the data to more closely match their predictions. El NIno, La Nina, blizzards, droughts, floods and hurricanes have always occurred naturally. It is truly a shame that politicians and scientists willingly destroy industries and jobs based on manipulated data. Why should we spend trillions of dollars to pretend that we can affect temperatures by less than 1 degree in approximately 100 to 200 years? The resulting policies take away our economic freedom and greatly harm the poor and middle classe.
I blame most of the indoctrination on the media who, instead of doing actual research, report talking points that support the inaccurate computer models and theory. Climate is and has always been cyclical and natural.
JACK HELLNER
Springfield, Ill.
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