R Herbert

Big Hoopla Over Climate Change Proposal

After being trained in envronmental sciences and observing evidence over 30 years, I have to agree with 90% of trained climatologists that global warming is not a hoax. Better knownas climate change our planet is going through excelerated change. It is funny how people mistake weather trends for climate change. Uninformed critics like Rush and big oil funded spokesmen have created a good "hoax" smoke screen.

Face it, continued increasing use of fossil fuels with little regulation towards cleaner technoligies is poisoning our planet. Mercury in most of our water, acid rain, and heavy particulate matter in our air affects us all. The Americain Lung Assoc estimates that ~23,000 people die each year from crappy air. We don't pay the true cost of dirty power at the pump or the meter, We pay for it with degraded health and lower quality of life.

So if global warming is a hoax yet we clean up our act, then we still all benefit. If not a hoax and we dismiss the evidence and continue to increase, not just carbon emissions, but also associted toxins, we'll all suffer the ramifications.

Cap and trade may or may not be part of the solution. Cleaner technoligies and greater efficiencies need to be adopted.

People seem to accept change slower than the climate changes.