FOSSIL FUELS: So what if climate changes?
Several recent misguided letters have tried to condemn President Trump for expanding the use of fossil fuels because of the threat of climate change. We might even (horrors) raise global temperatures three or four degrees.
So what if we do? Most people do not know that the natural range of planetary temperatures ranges from around 30 degrees higher than today to enough lower to plunge us into repeated ice ages. The Ice Ages ended only about 20000 years ago. In fact, 30 million years ago — which is less than 1% of the earth’s age- mangoes and bananas grew wild in Oregon. In fact, the planet has been cooling for the past 80 million years. It may be time for some warming.
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