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What are the political issues that you are considering in voting for a Presidential candidate? No matter what those isues may be, they are trivial by comparison to the deadly issue of climate …
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What are the political issues that you are considering in voting for a Presidential candidate? No matter what those isues may be, they are trivial by comparison to the deadly issue of climate heat waves. No issue will impact yo personally or the nation as much as the prospects of climate change.
If unchecked, climate change will impact us with the ever-increasing rise of the Earth’s temperature. This phenomenon will generate drought, floods, forest fires, and damage infrastructure, homes, factories, office buildings, hospitals, schools, churches, plus generate tornados and hurricanes.
An example of one instance of the impact from changing climate was described by the New York Times, “In a matter of minutes, winds of up to 100 miles per hour blew out office building windows, uprooted trees and toppled electric poles and transmission towers. Nearly a million households lost power. Not only was there no light; there was no air-conditioning. The damage from the storm was so extensive that, five days later, more than 100,000 homes and businesses were still marooned in the heat and darkness.”
The yearly heat waves are global (126 degrees in New Delhi) resulting in many reported and unreported heat-related deaths. In Europe, 61,672 reported deaths from record temperatures, 900 in the Pacific Northwest, and 56,000 Russians.
This year billions of people around the globe felt climate change that generated more than a 1,000 high temperature records around the globe. “We now have got the highest greenhouse gas concentrations in the last three million years. Carbon dioxide traps heat, so the temperature of the planet is rising. It’s real simple physics,” according to a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The burning of fossil fuels by humans is the primary cause of global warming. Climate change is a real catastrophic threat to Earth’s environment, not a hoax. Trump will not address this issue. Appallingly, he is encouraging oil drilling expansion and the continuing use of carbon generating coal creating still higher temperatures.
His presidency will cause more harm than good.
Gerry Snyder
Ely