One of your readers recently opined that the Record-Courier chose to reprint an editorial from the Washington Times ("'Clean' energy market built on unsound theory," R-C, Nov. 27) that did not agree with her fanatical ideology of anthropogenic climate change.

She began her argument with some scary examples of negative climate changes and concludes that they are caused by our Western living standards. Shame on us!

Global warming does exist and the greenhouse effect is real. However, the effect is minute and insignificant; it is neither man-made nor a concern. The Little Ice Age ended in 1850 and since then, we have been living in what scientists call The Modern Warming period and there's nothing we can do about it. Nor should we want to, when one considers its benefits such as nice weather, more sunlight and rainfall and longer growing seasons.

These climatic changes will increase the productivity of farmland in Canada, Germany, Poland and Russia as the decades roll by. Milder winters in the United States, Canada, and northern Europe will consume less heating oil and gas.

The theory of anthropogenic global warming is supported by approximately 20 unverified, super-computer models, the UN's IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), and a purported consensus among the scientists in the fields related to climatology and global warming. However, the latest release of 5,000 e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit reconfirms what the 2009's "Climategate" files established: Global warming is more fiction than science.

Collectively, the emails provide evidence of various crimes against the scientific method, such as concealed or destroyed source data, selective measurement, predetermined conclusions, hidden funding sources and bowing to government influence.

There is another theory of global warming that postulates a "moderate, irregular 1,500-year sun-driven cycle that governs most of the earth's almost-constant climate fluctuations." The advocates of this solar-driven, climate cycle theory claim there is no scientific consensus for the anthropogenic theory and besides, science is based on provable fact, not consensus. This solar-driven theory is based on the climatic history of the earth, not computer models. The proxy evidence is derived from ice cores, tree rings, seabed sediments, peat bogs, stalagmites, coral reefs, pollen, and glaciers. This evidence is supplanted by satellites to obtain accurate sea level readings and temperatures in the atmosphere as opposed to those on the ground. According to ice cores, global warming is natural, unstoppable, and really not as dangerous as some would have us believe.

The scare from man-made global warming has become an industry whose costs will eventually trickle down to the consumer. The profits will not trickle down; they will remain at the top.

Mitigation schemes and emission trading programs will provide job opportunities for the hordes of people operating the scams in and outside of government.

Instead of fearing global warming, we should embrace it. Life in general will survive as it always has. We will survive, too.

The Record-Courier does its readers a great service by reprinting articles that expose the pernicious ideology of anthropogenic climate change.

John Heinl, Mantua

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