Bob Cohen’s letter from Jan. 20 attempts to question the impacts of climate change by providing some questionable information. Let’s check on its relevance and accuracy. He states correctly that more deaths are caused from cold than from heat, but is this really relevant going forward? As global temperatures continue to rise, not only will heat-related deaths increase dramatically, but so will associated deaths from drought, famine, disease, forced migration and climate-driven territorial conflicts. Parts of the world, mainly south Asia and the Middle East, will become uninhabitable, with longer periods of summer temperatures exceeding 110 F. Higher frequencies of intense heat waves are already observed in those areas (https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/18/asia/climate-india-pakistan-heatwave-intl/index.html).
Regarding wildfires being much more extensive in the U.S. in the 1930s, much doubt has been raised recently about the accuracy of wildfire statistics from the 1920s and 1930s, with likely double counting and inclusion of intentionally lit fires
Yawn. Here we go again, another lecture about so-called global warming effects… Mr. Steele, instead of lecturing us, perhaps you can tell us what you’re doing to reduce your carbon footprint. Are you trying to convince China, India, or other developing nations to reduce their carbon emissions? How about those 400 jets taken to a climate conference? I guess those folks don’t believe in so-called global warming, either. Maybe if you show you’re doing something other than talking the talk, others may follow.
Bob Cohen’s letter ("Research history when it comes to climate change") is absolutely right about un-documented claims of climate warming.
Deaths from all natural disasters have declined from 3.4 million in the 1930s to about 300,000 in 2015 according to “Our World in Data”. The National Hurricane Center says the number of category 3,4,5 hurricanes peaked in the early 1940s. The cost of weather disasters is declining as a percent of world GDP according to Google's top page summary result. Earth is far greener according to NASA pictures from space. Fully 57% of people prefer a warmer climate to 29% that prefer a cooler climate according to Pew Research. And after decades of blaming climate change for CA’s dry spell, we just had huge rainfalls from atmospheric rivers that could have supplied years of water had the water storage voters voted for in 2014 been built.
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Yawn. Here we go again, another lecture about so-called global warming effects… Mr. Steele, instead of lecturing us, perhaps you can tell us what you’re doing to reduce your carbon footprint. Are you trying to convince China, India, or other developing nations to reduce their carbon emissions? How about those 400 jets taken to a climate conference? I guess those folks don’t believe in so-called global warming, either. Maybe if you show you’re doing something other than talking the talk, others may follow.
Bob Cohen’s letter ("Research history when it comes to climate change") is absolutely right about un-documented claims of climate warming.
Deaths from all natural disasters have declined from 3.4 million in the 1930s to about 300,000 in 2015 according to “Our World in Data”. The National Hurricane Center says the number of category 3,4,5 hurricanes peaked in the early 1940s. The cost of weather disasters is declining as a percent of world GDP according to Google's top page summary result. Earth is far greener according to NASA pictures from space. Fully 57% of people prefer a warmer climate to 29% that prefer a cooler climate according to Pew Research. And after decades of blaming climate change for CA’s dry spell, we just had huge rainfalls from atmospheric rivers that could have supplied years of water had the water storage voters voted for in 2014 been built.
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