Wrong about climate change | Your Opinions

I’m the kind of guy that will admit when I’m wrong. I can’t help but grudgingly wonder if the proselytizers of Climate Change might be right after all. For several generations now, they’ve been sermonizing with the fervor of Amy Semple McPherson. I’ve only made fun of them, calling them eco freaks and tree huggers.

Sure, they’ve stumbled a bit, first saying a New Ice Age will be here next year. Then it was Global Warming. They finally settled on calling it the safer, non-committal Climate Change, and continued sermonizing that we’d better stop using fossil fuels, light bulbs and hair spray if we want to save the planet. To prove their devotion, they faithfully pay outrageous prices for cars that can only travel a couple of hundred miles a day, and switched from beef steaks to tofu burgers. I ignorantly continued to ridicule them.

This summer, their forecasts are looking prophetically accurate, at least here in California. July consisted mostly of Spring-like temperatures, and it looks like we’re going to have more of the same in August.

What if they’re right? What if these climate anomalies are caused by us after all, and not just the continuation of the natural climate changes that have been around since the earth was formed?

I love this balmy summer weather. If I can help keep it up, I’m buying a coal burning stove for my home and cutting down all my trees. Maybe I’ll get one of those big diesel trucks.

— Jack Mcwherter, Cherokee