Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres are claiming that wave after wave of rain storms that recently flooded large areas of California are due to human-induced climate change. DeGeneres stated that the “Earth is mad at us.”

For the life of me, why are we so naive to believe Hollywood celebrities? Why can’t we do our own fact-finding? Is objective journalism dead? The aloof gurus of anthropogenic climate change recently coined the phrases “bomb cyclones and atmospheric rivers.”

Are destructive weather patterns getting worse? If you believe the media and biased political pundits, the answer is yes. If you go back and research climate change from thousands of years, the answer is no.

According to the American Meteorological Society “atmospheric rivers and bomb cyclones” have been around for thousands of years. “Atmospheric rivers are the largest ‘rivers’ of fresh water on Earth, transporting on average more than double the flow of the Amazon River,” according to Prof. Christopher Skinner and colleague Juan Lora from Yale. Both are studying the effects of atmospheric rivers and cyclone bombs on the massive ice sheets that covered Northern America 20,000 years ago during the last ice age.

It takes a simple, uninformed, self-absorbed mind to blame recent catastrophic weather events on the use of fossil fuels. It takes an informed, objective mind to know that going head-on and too fast into all electric living will cause more permanent damage to the world’s environment.

George Pikoulas

Butler