Climate change kills.
The climate has always been changing. Whole civilizations have been wiped out due to climate changes.
In a period when the climate was much warmer than it is now, the Norse settled in Greenland. Then the climate cooled and the Norse settlers died out.
Climate change also affects animals. In the 1950s there were an estimated 50,000 polar bears. Due to climate change there are now an estimated 200,000 to 250,000 polar bears. This has led to polar bears eating millions more hapless seals in order to survive.
We need a reliable computer model to forecast climate change in order to prepare for it. The computer models that are used today predicted 10 years ago that at the present time, most ski resorts would be out of business due to lack of snow, the atmosphere would be warming, there would be a warm spot in the upper atmosphere and hurricanes would be more numerous and more powerful. None of these predictions has materialized.
It is time these computer models, which assume that carbon dioxide has a significant effect on climate change, be scrapped. More reliable computer models should be developed that don't consider carbon dioxide a significant factor in climate change.
Due to these faulty computer models, cap-and-trade legislation has been introduced. Politicians who voted for it are either ignorant and have been swayed by the faulty computer models or they have ulterior motives. In either case, they should not be re-elected.
-- David J. Ameling, Newbury Park