Today’s letters: Readers comment on fear, global warming and archeological finds – Ocala

Be fearless Prior to the American Revolution there was a pamphlet entitled “Common Sense” that explained the way the colonists were being treated was wrong. We are not subject to a foreign power anymore, but maybe to our own authorities….

Stopping These Fuelish Policies

“God was on the side of the nation that had the oil.” —Prof. Wakimura, Tokyo Imperial University Russia is one of the world’s largest producers of petroleum, natural gas, and coal. In Europe, despite decades of taxes on hydrocarbons, subsidies…

Carol Kuczora: Mine would contribute to global warming – The Union

The science is clear: We cannot afford to dump fossil fuel exhaust in the air if civilization is to survive. Really. Air pollution is rising relentlessly, and it is driving global warming progressively. That is because the carbon compounds in…

Countries Are Imploding Under The Net-Zero Climate Fantasy

As Canada staggered through another day of the truckers’ convoy crisis, on Saturday, February 12, the province of Ontario’s electricity generating corporation released a dazzling video of the highlight of the day, the deliberate implosion of four coal-fired power generating…

How global warming is threatening the future of the Winter Olympics – Los Angeles Times

It wasn’t just the massive chunks of ice breaking loose, crashing down. New waterfalls appeared, tumbling from surrounding cliffs, as if the frozen terrain were melting away. With the 2022 Winter Olympics drawing near, top U.S. skiers and snowboarders traveled…

Geology needs to reinvent itself as we fight against climate change

It is time for geology to embrace our sustainable future and, in turn, be accorded the respect it deserves as a discipline crucial to understanding the world and our relationship to it

Climate change: Olympians worry as ‘Winter’ disappears from Winter Games – syracuse.com

BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Ski racers settling into the start gate for Alpine World Cup events in the Rocky Mountains in early December squinted through sunshine that carried the temperature toward 50 degrees and glanced down at a course…

Should Australia’s major sports stars really be defined by fossil fuel companies trying to look good?

Gina Rinehart, a global warming denier and the wealthiest person in Australia, cannot protect the sports she sponsors from the impact of the climate crisis. But should they be protecting Rinehart’s reputation from the condemnation that is increasingly directed at…

Sweden went 1st in banning aerosol sprays on January 23, 1978

Sweden 1st to ban aerosol sprays on this date in 1978. They were propelled by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which harmed Earth’s ozone layer.

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You don’t notice climate change, until you do – Roll Call

Though you’d hardly call me a skier, a skiing fan or a more than casual follower of the sport, even I have heard of American champion and Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn. So, I paused to listen when she plugged her new…