Climate concerns overblown

"Teens named 'climate champs,'" The Acorn, March 27 is one of the sadder stories that I have read. Politically innocent and scientifically uneducated children were tapped to become acolytes serving the augurs of the apocalypse. Not that there's anything at all wrong with advocating "energy efficient stops at home, recycling and encouraging car pooling and public transit," but reducing carbon emissions does not reduce global warming.

Folks, the air is not deadly. We are not going to die from heat prostration, coastal flooding, gargantuan hurricanes or disease-laden mosquitoes swarming from septic swamps. Rest easy. The actuality is that the sun is in one of its periodic warming cycles. That's all. We didn't cause it.

The data show that the Earth's average temperature went up from 1900 to 1940, then went down from 1940 to 1970, and then went up again until 1998, after which it was flat, all while the atmospheric carbon dioxide content rose steadily. How did the Earth know whether to raise, lower or keep its temperature unchanged while the carbon dioxide contest kept steadily rising? The meteorological record refuted anthropogenic, greenhouse gas, global warming before the scam was ever proposed.

The United Nations likes the idea of global warming because it expects that it will tax everyone's use of carbon. Big business in the advanced nations likes it because it serves as a perfect moral cover for their continued use of outsourcing and offshoring to increase the bottom line. Bye bye American jobs.

Alas, left-leaning Luddites love legislation, loathe logic, and are leery of the scientific method. Like lemmings at a lake, leaping line after line into the water, they lurch toward their own giant leaps of faith into a world of deliberate shortages, a leisureless world of work from dawn to dusk.

William O. Felsman

Woodland Hills