Dangerous and anti-American. That's what you are according to a radical, leftist IUPUI professor, Sheila Kennedy, if you share a different view from her and her fellow Global Warming advocates who believe the use of fossil fuels must be outlawed or the Earth's climate will be irreversibly altered to the point it will no longer support human life. Although you can find many credible scientists who argue differing points of view than those shared by her ilk, she believes her views are factually-based and only "know-nothings" like U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita and his base could conceivably have a differing point of view.
My father didn't have any fancy college degrees like Ms. Kennedy, but he was a highly successful farmer who understood weather better than most of the talking Ken and Barbie dolls delivering the weather forecasts on the local television newscasts. The most fundamental thing he understood about weather was that it was cyclical; it wouldn't be Earth if weather patterns were constant. There are short-term weather patterns affecting the Earth's weather only at the margins--the kind that affected his crops yields from year to year, and there are long-term weather patterns that lead to temperature extremes where most of the Earth is covered by ice or submerged in water--the kind he could see in the topography and richness of the land he cultivated caused by the glaciers that once covered our region during earlier ice ages thousands of years ago.
The one thing I've learned from my independent research that is largely supported by science is that cycles of solar activity on our Sun directly impact weather on Earth more than any Earth-originating causes, whether human or otherwise. Emissions from fossil fuels, while significant, have far less impact than the degree of energy output from the Sun impacting Earth. Fossil fuel emissions can't explain why the Earth's magnetic field, which protects us from deadly solar radiation, has been weakening for decades as the magnetic north and south poles have drifted hundreds of miles. Some scientists believe this portends a reversal of the Earth's magnetic poles, something that may occur more frequently than previously thought.
The folks who argue that fossil fuel emissions are causing global warming ignore data that shows the opposite to be true--Earth's average temperatures have actually been declining for some time, likely due to a current solar minimum we are experiencing. Yeah, but what about polar ice melting? What global warming folks won't admit is that most of the melting of ice in the Antarctic is caused by vast subglacial volcanoes that are heating and melting the ice underneath, particularly in the western region where the ice has seen the greatest melting. The so-called Arctic ice death spiral that Al Gore famously predicted would lead to a complete melt-off by now has reversed in recent years with the areas covered by ice and the actual thickness of the ice having recovered dramatically in recent years.
Opponents of fossil fuels are as good at turning a blind eye to the negative environmental impact caused by their favorite green energy sources, such as solar and wind energy, as advocates of fossil fuels. Many of the same toxic chemicals used to manufacture high-tech gadgets are also a byproduct of manufacturing solar array panels, along with the accompanying health risks posed to workers exposed to those toxins. Let's not talk about how much energy is consumed to manufacture solar energy components either because it muddies up the positives a bit as well. Vast solar arrays also impact surrounding wildlife negatively, particularly birds and animals that inhabit the area surrounding solar farms. The lives of birds are cut short when they mistake solar farms for bodies of water and are literally burned alive mid-air from concentrated solar beams. In addition to wreaking havoc on area birds, large wind farms also contribute to warming temperatures near the Earth's surface. As those large turbine blades continue to turn at night when the temperatures normally cool, they cause warmer air aloft to heat up the temperature at the Earth's surface.
It is remarkable that a woman who claims to be an advocate of civil discourse is often the first to castigate people who don't share her views in the most negative terms possible. Ms. Kennedy may not agree with the views of U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita (R-Indiana) and others who share his views, but to suggest he is dangerous and anti-American because he views are different than her's is, well, "dangerous and anti-American." Perhaps Ms. Kennedy has a direct line to God or some other higher power that the rest of us commoners lack which makes her opinions more authoritative than our opinions, but I suspect otherwise.
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