Education or Indoctrination?
Your recent article on Montessori students and man-made climate change brings up some issues.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) recently published an article in Chemical and Engineering News called “Teaching Climate Change.” It criticized the attempt to provide schoolteachers with climate science data and viewpoints that run counter to the oft-repeated anthropogenic (man-made CO2) climate change slogan.
ACS’s editor said of non-supportive climate change information, don’t read it, don’t use it, get rid of it. Don’t even consider it. Education or indoctrination?
This is suspicious because some climate change radicals advocated to “take-over” scientific publications and boycott those which published research counter to anthropogenic climate change.
The “take-over” was discovered in hacked emails from two founders of anthropogenic climate change theory, both publishing university professors.
Montessori students also used the authoritative-sounding “97% of climate scientists” support man made climate change.
I remind everyone of the Heidelberg Appeal, signed by 4,000 scientists, including 72 Nobel Prize winners, and the Oregon petition signed by 30,000 US scientists. 100% of these scientists are man-made climate change skeptics. Science by consensus, regardless of which side you take, is not science at all. That is called politics.
Within the mythical 97 percent of scientists Montessori students cite are 100 percent of the ACS membership, who were involuntarily committed to the man-made climate change position by ACS when ACS officials jumped on the anthropogenic climate change bandwagon. By saying ACS supports anthropogenic climate change, a totally incorrect inference is made that all ACS members agree. This skews the view of contradictory data, which, if omitted, may influence the underinformed to draw an incorrect (political) conclusion.
No matter how the data is crunched, the planet is actually cooling. Amazingly, the temperature of the Earth seems to be in a rather direct relationship with sunspot and solar flare activity. The sun operates on a 22-year cycle at the end of which its poles actually reverse. In between, sun spot activity is cyclically and markedly reduced and as observations support, so is Earth’s temperature.
It would be very interesting for the Montessori students to do a project on the relationship of solar activity and Earth’s climate. Solar radiation/heating far overshadows the minor effect, if any, of trace gases in the atmosphere reradiating heat.
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics quashes the greenhouse gas global-warming syndrome. You just can’t create energy/heat out of thin air.
It is critical to understand the relationship of politics to climate change remedies, which always involve transfer of wealth from developed nations to underdeveloped nations. As said by Dr. Ottmar Endenhofer, chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC working group 3), “We (UN IPCC) de facto redistribute the world’s wealth by climate policy. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.”
James R. MacNeal
Troy Township
Plant Extra Produce
In the spring of 2014 the Chardon Square Association conceived the concept of the Giving Garden. In partnership with the City of Chardon the concept became a reality. Since that time, bushels of produce have been grown and donated to the local food pantry.
Planted and maintained by CSA and other volunteers, the Giving Garden continues to flourish. While CSA deserves a pat on the back for their insight and efforts, the reason for this letter is quite simple: If you are a home gardener, and there are many of you out there, consider planting a few extra tomatoes or pepper plants, an extra row of lettuce or beans or maybe an extra hill of potatoes.
The seven food pantries in Geauga County will tell you fresh produce is always in need and in demand.
Go to geaugahungertaskforce.org to find and speak with the food pantry nearest you or go to chardonsquareassociationl.org for a list of good pantries and their locations.
Make a real difference to the dinner table of your neighbors because in the end we either are or are not our brothers’ keeper.
Tom Bryant
Chardon
