In the 1930s, the climate legitimately was a national emergency. Strings of days, even weeks, over 100 degree temperatures turned the Midwest into an ecological disaster complete with years of dust storms.

Because air conditioning wasn’t invented yet, reports from that era tell of people sleeping outside at night to get relief from the extreme temperatures. The climate anomaly was notoriously called the “Dust Bowl.”

The climate science of that time blamed abnormally high ocean temperatures. To this day, the initial cause of the high ocean temps is unknown.

I am skeptical that we are in a climate emergency. Even though certain parts of the nation show spikes in temperature, NOAA graphs show that the national average temperature is dropping, not rising.

The charts that the media equate are from selected areas of the country and go back to only 1920. The scope and accuracy of temperature data today are far greater than they were 50 years ago. How do we justify comparing today’s climate data to what science has dug up from core samples hundreds of years ago, let alone thousands of years ago?

The science of climatology just doesn’t possess substantiated proof that the Earth is experiencing unprecedented climate crisis from rising carbon dioxide levels. Carbon dioxide levels of Earth’s past were much higher than today, and Earth still thrived ecologically. There was exponential plant growth, and the animal life benefited from it.

Considering their political bias and lack of credibility, the last people we should accept as accurate about climate are the media and the White House. The truth is out there, and, when we do find it, be objective in our analysis.

George Pikoulas, Butler