Dear Editor,
Much ado is made of climate change. The plethora of graphs and charts are mind-boggling and are difficult for the average person to grasp, so let’s get to climate, itself.
Gravity is reality. You can’t get away from it. Weather is likewise real. It, like gravity, occurs every second of every day, week, month, year and century. Climate, on the other hand is a perception; a gradient or averaging of weather events within particular areas and is not a fixed or genuine event. It’s not real.
The easiest way to understand this, I believe, is to consider the oven in your kitchen. The automatic setting is 350 F. Why? Most recipes require baking/broiling at that temperature. Sometimes you will have to exceed or decrease that temperature because of circumstance but most of the time you will simply allow the oven to automatically heat to 350 F. If each time you used the oven and recorded the temperature, over a long period of time, the average would be 350 F. Those other settings are insignificant blips.
It’s the same with climate. Temperature and weather conditions within a given area, in given seasons, are fairly consistent and the average is rather predictable. But just as with your baking requirements there are modifications that do not fit the norm. These mere blips do not change the overall climate. You’ve felt it get cold when it should be warm; hot when it should be freezing; rain when it never has before rained; wind for days on end when it is generally calm;…but, overall, everything pretty much remains the same. After all, climates are based on centuries of observation and data. This notion of climate change has but a few decades using selected data and virtually no observation.
The question you need to ask is: How can I believe in the reliability of a recent theory which undermines centuries of observation and data.
D.L Tuner
Newton
