Editor,
Regarding Gary Piazzon’s Sept. 15 letter to the editor, “Urge you to look at the facts objectively,” I would like to respond.
Mr. Piazzon’s letter reads like an alarmist’s about human-caused global warming and lack of action. He blames torrential flooding, firestorms and extreme heat waves on human activity and lack of it in correcting these problems, and suggests supporting the I-732 carbon fee and dividend initiative.
He also states the tax will create jobs and propel innovation. Climate change theory is based on politicized science and computer models. The Left has been hawking the climate change hysteria for decades right after they stopped with the threat of global cooling or the coming Ice Age.
Since then the Left alarmists have been trying, and been somewhat successful, in scaring us into giving up abundant energy (coal and oil) and the higher standard of living that comes with industrialization. Despite being demonstrably wrong for decades, the Left also denies accurate science in the area of global warming, or is it climate change or climate pollution?
Carbon dioxide is misrepresented as a harmful pollutant. This is what we exhale and is required for photosynthesis in plants that produce the oxygen we breathe. Climate change is not “settled science,” as Mr. Obama claims.
Of course our climate is constantly changing and is a result of actions by our sun, called solar cycles, sometimes hotter, sometimes cooler. The Left has grabbed onto this as a man-made activity and wants to tax it as they consider taxes the magical cure for all of our ills.
Exactly how will that accomplish anything? For what and how will the money be used? What will supposedly be accomplished when so-called polluters are allowed to pay for polluting?
They will either pay to continue polluting, making products cost more, or go out of business and jobs will be lost. We are allowing our misguided president and politicians to force-feed us in accepting this liberal horsecrap that will generate billions in revenue, and for what?
For more social programs having nothing to do with climate change, to support more failed green initiatives, cost Americans billions with absolutely no results, enrich Third World countries at our expense, countries that could care less that their cooking fires are causing pollution.
China and India will not forego cheap, abundant fuels that power their economies regardless of promises. President Obama has pledged a dramatic decrease in U.S. emissions by 26 percent to 28 percent below the 2005 level by 2025, and has led in the transfer of $100 billion in annual climate finance from developed countries, with promises of more to come, our tax money.
Just one major forest fire or volcanic eruption negates all of man’s puny effort to control something uncontrollable. How much to contribute is enough? When that doesn’t work do the Leftists demand more money be thrown at it? When will it end?
Voting to approve I-732, as the climate change adherents want, will cost us not only in billions of dollars, lost jobs due to more heavy handed regulation and a continued stifling of our economy.
Vote against I-732 and similar bills until there is proof positive man is contributing to climate change and there is a realistic, not an economy-strangling, plan to combat it.
Ed Hickey
Oak Harbor
