Letter to the editor: Mother Earth changes climate, not humans

This time when Mother Earth called me she was really upset. She said, “My climate is determined by the sun’s temperature cycles, by changes in my orbit due to the gravitational pull of other planets and by greenhouse gases from volcanoes.

“As I have said before, humans are naive thinking their activities have any significant influence on my climate compared to the sun, planets and volcanoes. Human experiences are just a blink of an eye of my billions of years of fine-tuning. My sea level has varied more than 600 feet*. Parts of Utah and Colorado were tropical rain forests where dinosaurs roamed. It was not human activity that melted my mile-thick glaciers covering North America. My climate will change. Humans are presumptuous to assume that my climate and sea levels as they are today are how they ‘should be’ in the future.”

She continued, “The August 15-16, 2026 issue of Summit Daily, has an article proclaiming ‘July the Second Hottest in Colorado History.’ While that may be true, it is certainly not the hottest in MY history.”

She said “The first paragraph of this article shows the bias and disregard to facts by the author. The article should have stated ‘SOME scientists say (the warming trend) MAY be linked to human activity’ or at least the article should have acknowledged it is only MANY scientists who believe this MAY be true. The author should have acknowledged there are many scientists who believe that it is the sun, planets and volcanoes that will determine the future of my climate, not your human activity. I’m glad to provide a place for you humans to live but my climate is out of my control and yours.

With that she hung up in disgust and I thought, “Wow. It’s complicated.”