Cold summer belies Gore's warnings

I don't know about you but this is the coldest summer I can remember. It is becoming more and more evident that Al Gore has been completely wrong about his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth."

Many scientists have been gradually "coming out of the closet" with their global warming skepticism. Due to variations in sunspots, our planet has been going through many cycles of warming and cooling for thousands, if not millions of years. If carbon emissions had any significant effect on global temperatures, then there would be no such cycles.

Since carbon emissions have increased gradually since the invention of the automobile, we should have been experiencing gradually higher average temperatures throughout the past century. So why was July 10 my first day in the pool this summer, Al? We know that we have 5.68 quadrillion tons of atmosphere on the earth. We have cumulatively dumped 197 million tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere since the start of the industrial revolution. That would be 0.00000347% of the total atmosphere on earth.

So on the absurd notion that driving our cars will destroy the earth, Congress is legislating that we send what little manufacturing we still have left overseas to nations who have no emission caps and have promised they never will. For a moment, I will assume Gore is correct. How does it help the planet if those jobs are transferred from a nation with some emission caps, to a nation with no emissions restraints whatsoever?

Marty Clarke

Buffalo Grove