Global warming is nothing new

The global warming true believers are at it again. They are having demonstrations about reducing the effects of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that contribute to global warming.

On the same page (Nov. 21), an Associated Press article told about the last global warming period 250,000 years ago. That should tell people all they need to know. Global warming is nothing new.

We are coming out of the last ice age that is somewhere over 25,000 years old. Yes, the oceans were shallower 14,000 years ago, but then here in present-day Iowa, we were a mile or so deep in ice. I'd rather be where we are now than then.

Then in the Nov. 22 edition, there was an AP article about how the weak world economy cut carbon pollution last year. Oh, but the economies improved more than expected and developing countries increased the amount of carbon dioxide. So now they won't meet the goal targeted by some international negotiations in Copenhagen last year. Those nasty countries, improving their economies.

As Michael Crichton once said, when you hear about a consensus, it's about the money. Or in this case, the global warming zealots don't believe we should live so well.

Ron Augustine

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