To the editor:
Wrapping one’s arms around some of the pioneers of heat transfer science doesn’t validate one’s own theories of a man-made climate “crisis.” The letters by one of our neighbors (reputedly a volunteer with Citizen’s Climate Lobby, an organization that has a wealth-redistributionist political agenda) published Dec. 24 and Jan. 9, make claims intended to persuade your readers that, in essence, “the sky is falling.”
Unlike most alarmists (I don’t mean our neighbor), I have no business or political interests biasing my opinions. He speculates that if I had been a victim of wildfires I’d sing a different tune. Wrong again. I own properties that burned in 2017 and 2018 wildfires yet I say associating wildfires with global warming is pure propaganda, zero science.
The real truth about man-made climate change is many proponents have political or financial benefits to gain making false/exaggerated scientific claims laymen cannot evaluate for themselves. If we allow such ignorance to become policy, the fruits of your readers’ labors will be stolen through taxes and given to politicians’ friends. And that’s just the beginning.
Our neighbor, in his Jan. 9 letter, upon my Jan. 7 critique, had to repudiate his Dec. 24 error that our atmosphere absorbs energy “entirely” in its trace gases, now conceding 20 percent (17 percent “evaporation” + 3 percent “conduction”) is absorbed by all constituents. Must I critique further?
Your readers might look in the mirror and ask themselves if they feel hate towards anyone opposing the belief mankind is causing a climate crisis. Readers that do should consider whether they’ve been led to that hate through engineered “group-think” by those who could care less about the environment or individual liberty, nor more than for their own self-interest.
Climate changed dramatically before mankind and it will again thereafter regardless of same.
Ross Wilkinson
Wilton