by Carl Ratcliff
(Valley, Nebraska, USA)
I think global warming is a hoax that is being made up by people who have a political agenda. They have been proven to twist data to make it fit their purposes, even when the real data has shown otherwise. Any true scientist who ignores even one piece of data, or who suppresses it because it does not fit their hypothesis is not worthy of being validated by others as an "expert". What would have happened if humans (who were being told by the "scientific community" that the next ice age was upon us in the 1970's) had actually spread ash on the polar ice caps to speed them in their melting process? These were the same "global climatologists" who are now telling us they were wrong about their readings and that the world is now heating up, not cooling down as they first supposed.
What are these scientists asking us to do now? Does it involve money? Does it involve transferring money from one group of people to another as "reparations"? If so, their real concern is not about changing the climate, but about redistributing wealth. Anyone with this agenda really doesn't care about the environment, only about their political agenda. True environmentalists are being used and abused by these politicians. Don't allow yourself to be one of them!!
I do believe that deforestation is wrong, poaching of any animal is wrong, whether endangered or not, but that animal populations can and should be managed by humans by hunting and by relocation and preservation of habitat. This is one area where human intervention can be effective.
Helping people of marginal survival lifestyles can be furthered by promoting such things as rocket stoves that use much less firewood than traditional cooking fires. There are many ways we can help prevent the destruction of our planet and true conservationalists will seek out these ways.