Letter to the Editor: Mother Nature’s final warning shot

Reading the first paragraph of the piece titled ‘The leading edge of extreme climate change – do the math’, I used to be pondering, lastly somebody right here moreover me who understands international warming/local weather disruption. Then I learn the remainder of the piece.

Scientists have studied and predicted international warming for 40+ years. Models/knowledge had been introduced a long time in the past. The wrongdoer is CO2 and is attributable to people burning coal, oil, and different carbon-based fuels. Climate disruption will not be trigger by overpopulation (though an actual subject) and never attributable to over-consumption except the author meant over-consumption of fossil fuels.

Hundreds of thousands and thousands of years in the past, plant and different life had been buried and compressed as the organic processes to decompose life varieties had but developed. Natural processes sequestered this CO2 in the type of coal, oil, and others (e.g. pure fuel) and resulted in fossil fuels immediately. The removing of ample CO2 and oxygen producing life varieties finally led to human life.

When people burn this fossil gasoline, the carbon in the type of CO2 is launched again into the environment. Increased CO2 in the environment traps extra warmth (the greenhouse fuel impact), and suggestions loops (e.g. the liberation of methane) add extra greenhouse gases. This is what causes adversarial local weather change for all times on earth.

Mother Nature has fired her final warning shot. Atmospheric CO2 accumulation is the reason behind extra and intense wildfires. Killer warmth waves, rain and 100 diploma temperature in the Artic, extra and intense tornados, extended drought, flooding, and elevated common Earth temperatures are all attributable to CO2.

The answer of renewable power will not be fantastical as the author suggests. Solar electrical energy already contributes 97 gigawatts to the grid and is the equal to powering 18 million common American properties. With wind and hydro power, we are able to plug the gap that’s inflicting CO2 to accumulate in the environment and start making our local weather regular.

We want to instantly transition from fossil fuels to renewable power sources. The Democrat’s Build Back Better invoice begins the course of. Finally, I had to snigger: ‘citizens of Plumas County are more adaptive than most people’. Really? They can’t even adapt to a killer pandemic.

Mark Mihevc

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