For those fewer and fewer people, who don’t understand what is happening to our climate, read the following sentences. The Earth has had numerous ice ages over the last million or so years. They lasted about a hundred thousand years. They would lower the sea level two or three hundred feet which is why we find amber and human settlement remains in the Baltic and out to the North Sea. In between those periods of ice is about ten thousand years where trees and grasslands soaked up carbon dioxide which caused another ice age. During the last one our species expanded and populated the world.

            We know all of that from geological and archeological findings. Notice the inter-glacial period is ten thousand years and the last ice age was a little over that average, so why is the Earth warming up and melting the remaining glaciers and ice caps? It’s that contagion that came out of Africa about 50,000 years ago – us. We have cut down the forests that soaked up the carbon dioxide, dug up the remains of those primeval forests and burned them, and pulled the remains of early single cell life in a liquid and gas and burned it. All of that has reversed the natural cycle and filled the air with carbon dioxide and methane causing the re-radiation of the Earth’s heat to be trapped.

            We have known that these gases perform that function for over 250 years. We knew this on the first Earth Day. The alarms started sounding in the 1980s and the fossil fuel companies silenced the scientists in their companies so they could continue to make money at an expense to the future generations. They still fund groups whose only function is to deceive the millions of gullible people through the internet websites and social media. Can’t you see the climate is changing fast? Each summer is hotter with stronger storms and most winter days are jacket weather. Convince those gullible people with facts and save the future.