Climate change has repercussions

Jan 21, 2025
Jan 21, 2025
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Editor,

Double whammy: increasing drought and windstorms. Result: wildfires with ramifications beyond our control. Causes: zoning, construction, insurance, taxes, elections — however, the leading cause: greenhouse gases causing climate change.

(6) comments

Not So Common Jan 21, 2025 7:23pm

Co2 is good, plants love Co2 and produce more oxygen... please stop with your stupidity and scaring the ignorant democrat idiots into believing that man can do anything. Our atmosphere changes as it pleases and no one or no amount of caring or tree planting can change what God has planned for our planet earth and solar system.

Esalinger Jan 21, 2025 11:20am

Thank you for writing this. Research shows that climate change is leading to more rapid swings from very wet to very dry conditions. LA is seeing the effects of this “whiplash,” with flooding rainfall followed by its recent period of drought and extreme heat creating conditions much more conducive for devastating wildfires. And the wind closed the deal.

What caused the heat? Its our record breaking heat trapping pollution. Make polluters pay! Make polluters pay. Make polluters pay.

Terence Y Jan 22, 2025 9:09am

Interesting assertion, Esalinger. I guess your “record breaking heat trapping pollution” isn’t trapping enough heat because many in the US in the grips of a cold snap would like to see some of it right now. BTW, what are you doing to decrease your carbon emissions?

Terence Y Jan 21, 2025 8:47am

Thanks for your letter, Mr. Goldstein. Even if we are to believe your warnings and consequences of man-made climate change and reducing fossil fuel usage will help the planet, apparently nobody cares. If you or others with the same beliefs fervently believe in reducing fossil fuel usage, go for it. I won’t stop you. If you can get folks taking 400+ private jets and who knows how many public jets to attend climate conferences to of all things, lecture us on carbon emissions, to stop doing so, I may take you seriously. But if you’re going to give them a pass and give “undeveloped” countries like China and India a pass then I’d like one too.

MichKosk Jan 21, 2025 8:22am

There has not been "increasing drought" in California. Google is your friend. California has had cycles of wet years and drought years forever, and there has been no increase in drought years since the use of fossil fuels started.

Regardless, if one believes that man made "climate change" has increased natural disasters, the solution should be better preparing for these natural disasters. If California (or even the US) eliminated the use of fossil fuels tomorrow, there would not be any measurable affect on global temperature, and there would be terrible downstream repercussions on all of us.

easygerd Jan 21, 2025 5:48pm

Most people really don't care where their energy is coming from only a "certain" segment of the population still is.

Every CEO of every major oil company has already confessed before congress or the courts and while under oath that "climate change" is real and that fossil fuels are the main culprit and that their own researchers know that since the 1960s and 1970s. Case closed - the Earth is not flat.

Only 'foreign agents' and people actively lobbying and working for the fossil fuel industry are still questioning global warming. There is of course another industry now pushing that agenda. People that make money from "Carbon Storage" and "Mitigation" and people that are paid by that industry. It's another excuse to increase GHG emissions even more so.

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