Okay.  I give up.  I resisted responding to the Yuma Sun article “Global warming debate heats up with polar vortex.” But now the president pledges billions more of my tax dollars to fight the phenomenon, and John Kerry calls it a threat on par with terrorism.  I cannot hold my tongue.  Such hubris!

       We are microbes in an endlessly vast universe.  To pretend that the science is settled on any issue is absurd.  Yesterday coffee was deadly.  Today it prevents heart attacks if you drink at least 5 cups.  Yesterday milk fat caused obesity.  Today, consuming skim milk products leads to obesity.  Whole grains are good.  Carbohydrate are deadly.

          The Sun editorial would have you believe that only Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh are questioning the science.  Prepare for an epiphany!  In my last letter on this issue I cited the work Israeli astrophysicist Nir Shaviv and Canadian geologist Jan Veizer that demonstrated a 5,000 year correlation between fluctuation in earth temperatures and  the way the earth is affected by varying degrees of the inflow of cosmic rays as it passes through the spiral arms of our galaxy. 

         Check out the work of  Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Ph.D. geophysics at the Ankorage University who says  ". . . climate change during the last few hundred years may be interpreted mainly in terms of a combination of the recovery effect and the multi-decadal oscillation. These are natural changes.”

        Study Khabibullo Ismailovich Abdusamatova physicist at the Russian Academy of Sciences who claims that "global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy—almost throughout the last century—growth in its intensity."

         Read Claude Allègre of the Institute of Geophysics, Paris who argues that elected officials should avoid implementing climate change policy because it would "divert resources from real needs and are based on alarming but untenable claims of 'incontrovertible' evidence." 

         Or maybe Augie Auer Jr.,  an atmospheric scientist and meteorologist in New Zealand, who….  Oh but this is tiresome.  At one time I had a list of some 1,500 scientists, many of them Nobel Prize winners, who questioned the conclusions of the pretenders, the pseudo scientists, the political hacks looking for easy money who sign off on the various global warming protocols.  

           There is so much we do not understand about our universe, so much we don’t understand even about our solar system, the sun’s geomagnetic storms, its coronal mass ejections and solar flares.   No real scientist would ever claim that “the science is settled,” on any issue, and especially on issues as complex and the climate.  Questioning, probing, inquiry is the life blood of a real scientist.  And for politicians to make assertions to the contrary indicates that we are being grossly deceived.

        Thomas Sowell reminds us that some of our biggest problems are caused by the intellectuals among us “who have trouble remembering that they are not God.”