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Global warming problem doesn’t exist
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Oct. 25, 2009 12:20 am
Al Gore, where are you? We need a little help understanding why we need a cap and trade system to curtail the global warming problem. President Barack Obama's Department of the Treasury says it will cost each family an extra $1,750 every year.
Just two short years ago, Gore, you and your alarmist friends told us that all the Arctic ice cap could be gone in just five years. Well, if you check with the National Snow and Ice Data Center (www.nsidc.org) you will see that over the past two years, it has increased in size by 409,000 square miles and now stands at 2.07 million square miles.
In Antarctica, according to www.world
climatereport.com, the amount of ice melted was “the lowest ever recorded in the satellite history.”
During this past summer, the upper Midwest set 3,000 new record-low temperatures.(www.
accuweather.com)
This global warming thing just doesn't seem to be working for you anymore, does it Gore? I guess that is why you changed it to climate change. Seems to me you have a solution for a problem that does not exist.
Steve Ciha
Central City
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