OPINION:
As we experience the coldest holiday season in recent memory, it’s worth noting that some hot/cold records on the western slope of Colorado from the 1800s still stand (“Massive winter storm brings frigid temps, snow and ice to U.S.,” Web, Dec. 23). This shows that we’re seeing a change in pattern, rather than a change in extremes. And we have more contiguous data.
People often forget that we are in a receding ice age, so of course the world is getting warmer, despite carbon emissions. There is one problem we are not tackling: big carbon, which comes from heating and cooling infrastructure. Why the silence? Easy: it isn’t a moneymaker for the woke in their push for all-electronic vehicles by 2035.
It just goes to show how the corporate world plans to drive us literally into extinction. Once everyone is extracting minerals and generating intermittent solar and wind power to charge cars and a solar flare fries the grid, only the elite survive in a godless world.
Geothermal, once paid for, is free, and will reduce the “human” footprint. This, as well as driving hybrids that recharge their batteries and minimize fuel consumption, is just common sense. Short of that, we are in some trouble — unless one believes in Martians.
FRED STEWART
Grand Junction, Colorado
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