Dear Editor:
I read the many letters regarding climate change and often do some head scratching.
They routinely blame the general population for being the main cause of global warming. No mention is ever made of government activity regarding years of nuclear bomb testing, that was quite prolific around the world between 1945 and 1975.
The amount of heat released by just one bomb, at an average temperature of 100,000,000 degrees Celsius, would easily exceed anything the average population could produce driving a car or heating their home over several years.
Climate change was first noticed during the Second World War, when many tons of TNT explosives were routinely being detonated world wide, but nobody really cared about it.
It was also realized, many years ago, that coal was a major problem. Most western governments are controlled by “big business” to some extent and have to “tow the line” to stay in power. I think they know what the problem is, but they have short memories and it’s easier to blame the general population for it. “They” will bleed “working men and women” for it, just like they did with emission controls on motor vehicles, which was a very good thing by the way, but the car manufacturers should have been held more responsible for it as they knew about the emissions being created before they sold them.
Just like cigarette manufacturers, to name another good example, who were warned in 1946, regarding extensive research performed by the Germans that confirmed the link to lung cancer.
It is going to take many years to unravel the global warming crisis that has evolved and no amount of expensive and usually impractical “green people ideas” that merely shift emissions and problems to a different level are really going to help.
Let us start by enforcing existing anti-pollution laws, but does anybody know who to call? Try it sometime.
Mac McCulloch,
Fergus