Climate crisis is political, not environmental

Jack DeBaun’s letter (Daily Bee, Aug. 11) was primarily a straw man argument. I never said that a majority of climate scientists believed in global cooling or a coming ice age in the 1970s. I was talking about the climate fanatics of the time. But it is no myth to say that there was indeed a climate scare back then. I lived near Denver in the 1970s and every single day people were talking about the “brown cloud” (air pollution) that hung over the city.

S. Fred Singer, in his book Hot Talk, Cold Science says: “In the early 1970s, an increasing number of climate scientists … were becoming concerned about” dropping temperatures in the northern hemisphere. Not only that, but Jack admits that at least 10% of the scientific papers that were reviewed showed that some scientists were leaning toward the idea of global cooling.

Jack provided a list of what he calls reliable sources that can answer our questions about climate change. But Jack has stated on several occasions that science doesn’t prove anything. Well, if that is true, then how can those sources be reliable? How can they answer questions with any degree of honesty? And if science doesn’t prove anything, then it certainly doesn’t prove that we are experiencing a climate crisis.

Some people, especially political liberals, consider just about anything a crisis if it doesn’t fit in with their preconceived notions or worldviews.

But if we are in a crisis at all, it is a political one.

MONTE HEIL

Sagle