Some U.S. citizens are not all in a line with the theory that earth is heating up. Scare stories of the polar region melting and New York drowning have not proved to be exact, like they forecasted – weather has always done some crazy things. The ice age came and killed off the dinosaurs when their eggs didn’t hatch. Interesting, but they do have some people who dug up that evidence.
We know by tree rings that in New Mexico between the years 1000-1400 there were 60 less frost free days. That was a fact – tree rings showed that it happened. But, the arrival of Columbus on the east side of this continent did not change that climactic change. Weather, we know changes in the dynamic forces of the earth, like heat, tides, current solar flares and wind shifts affect our weather changes.
Explain the drought of the 1930s, the dust bowl years, the high temps, no one has explained it. But scientists were here through those days and it wasn’t the first or the last. Several bad droughts in the 1800s ruined much of the fragile desert range. No one answered why those conditions occurred.
El Niño is explained by some as part of this earth heating. I heard people who call themselves scientists say that the Pacific was being heating by the CO2 theory and causing El Niño. These stupid people have not read history. El Niño which means the Christ Child, was discovered in the early 1500s by Spanish conquistadors in Chile. That Pacific heating was going on when there was no more CO2 than the virgin land and campfires produced. El Niño runs in cycles.
This ocean caused heat changes that killed the small fish and that breaks the food chain in the Pacific. No one has a clear theory for it either. I can recall one of those El Niños back in the 1960s that caused the poultry companies to try to out bid each other since fishmeal was such an important ingredient in their feed. I consider that a case where these people talk with their foot in their mouth. But, the news doesn’t say, OH! They’d rather have headlines that say, “The earth is heating.”
I worry more about the emerging countries – much of China’s bad air comes our direction in the upper winds. An air quality so bad, they shut down half the cars and half the industry in Peking so people could breathe for the Olympic competition. I talked to several who said if that was reduced by half, that they sure didn’t want to be there when it was at normal levels. India and China are doing lots more damage to air, land and sea than our coal fired plants.
I’m not against cleaning up our mess, but why at the expense of the middle class and lower income folks by piling higher bills on them. Several of these so called well funded societies say, make electricity higher priced, they will use less. Are they using less? No, they can afford higher bills. Under the guise of them saving the world, why don’t they go protest in the streets of China. They might get flattened by a tank for their opinions.
All these windmills and solar panels have cost taxpayers billions of dollars and will continue to cost us. Why wasn’t much more research spent on coal fired plants? The reason electric plants are using coal, the government forced them to stop using natural gas in the 1970s, it was too short in supply and needed for home heating and industry. We would have built nuclear plants, but pressure from media led by these so-called experts was against nuclear. That all proved unfounded.
There is no way to build a windmill for electricity without big time tax benefits. Even with free power, there is no way to make the power affordable. And, as I pointed out on the billions spent by the government, it only furnishes 2 percent of our needs and that is not a dependable source. The wind does quit.
These mills that cost $3 million per tower are very expensive to maintain. Even so called believers, like the late Senator Kennedy would not let them be built in his town where there is plenty of wind. I think we need some real people to investigate all this smoke. A theory is simply that until proven.
Why not ask your representatives to do just that?
Western novelist Dusty Richards and his wife Pat live on Beaver Lake in northwest Arkansas. For more information about his books you can email Dusty by visiting www.ozarksfn.com and clicking on ‘Contact Us’ or call 1-866-532-1960.
