Sooner or Later?

Thanks for your article on global warming. We are not hearing much about it in this country from the corporate press. My opinion is that Minnesota will be a “warm Nebraska” much sooner than 50 years from now. One of the factors that is not taken into account in some of the computerized models is the diminishing snow cover that will reflect less infrared radiation back into space. Another factor is that obsolete technologies, such as the internal combustion engine, are growing faster than the world’s population. In Beijing, the streets were once clogged with bicycles. Now they are clogged with automobiles. When the nations of the world should be scrambling to build renewable energy technology that doesn’t create greenhouse gases, and when we should be taking emergency action to deploy a national and worldwide conservation program, our oil-friendly leaders are carrying on with a war that will spew megatons of unnecessary toxins and gases into the world’s atmosphere. Even if most of the scientists around the world are wrong about global warming, is it still OK to fill our air with cancerous filth? I don’t think so.
Don Johnson, Minneapolis