The sky is falling
Okay, I can see for myself that locally at least the climate is getting warmer. There is a giant glacier near me that has been steadily shrinking for at least 125 years. What I don't see is why this is a problem. It gets damn cold here in the winter. Warm is good if you live in the frozen north. Over the long term climates are not stable. There has been significant cooling and warming in recorded history We are being told that the earth is warming because of our profligate ways. In 1912 Otto Pettersson, a Swedish scientist who studied the ocean tides published a prediction that the earth was entering a 400 year long warming cycle. Some 40 years later climate scientists were already noticing that the arctic was starting to warm up. Rachel Carson, the Silent Spring author, described Petterson's version of coming global warming in her book, The Sea Around Us . The global warming chapter of the book was condensed into an article for the November 1951 issue of