Our summer
season in Atlanta this year could be measured from April to November. The last
one I can remember was in 1975. It started in March and ended in November. I
had just arrived in Salina Kansas to work for Schwann Foods. My new colleagues
took me boating in March and it was like summer. I remember one summer in the
1980s in Kansas when the temperature was 110 F for two weeks. One winter it was -20 F below zero.
Since we
moved to Atlanta in 1983, I can remember many warm fall and winter months.
I believe
that “global warming” and man-made climate change is a hoax. Carbon dioxide is a plant food and doesn’t
need to be reduced. We’ve had climate
fluctuations for centuries based on a cycle that has more to do with the sun
spots than our coal-fired electric plants.
For some
perspective, here’s a little history about our climate.
The
Medieval warming period occurred from 950 AD to 1250 AD. This resulted in increased crop growth that,
in turn allowed higher population growth.
The
Little Ice age occurred between 1300 AD and 1500 AD. But remained cold until
1800 AD. As temperatures gradually fell,
crop growth declined.
Global
population estimates report slow but steady growth from 10 million in 10,000 BC
to 188 million in 1,000 BC to 390 million in 1400 to 1 billion in 1800 to 2.3
billion in 1940.to 3
billion in 1960, to 4 billion in 1975, to 5 billion in 1987, to 6 billion in
1999, to 7 billion in 2012.
Those who
would be our “masters” think it is their responsibility to rule, but I doubt
that they will succeed. They had predicted in the 1960s that we would run out
of food, but we didn’t. I believe that
citizens all over the world will demand the right to grow their own food on
their own land. But first they will have to reclaim their right to have their
elected officials work for them. Nobody
wants to be Venezuela.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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