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John Dodson's avatar

You are far too logical John. The simple weighing of the facts and data available that is foundational to rational decisions are not the approach of your critics - nor so much of the systemic movement to undermine traditional America and common sense. Our work for 20 years has been in all forms of energy from the renewables to nuclear as we work toward secure microgrids for the military and our Country at large, and offshore wind benefits vs costs does not in general make good sense today - except politically. We have lost almost two generations of our young people who were misdirected to be ignorant of the essential critical thinking and personal judgment needed in free people, and even many of their seniors fall into the lazy following of what the compromised media and social version are dredged with today. Please continue your good efforts toward a return to sanity and freedom of thought in our now beleaguered Country. And vote in November. - John D, PE

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The truth is, there has been global warming recently – but it started around the time of the Revolutionary war, and today we are still BELOW the average of the past 3,000 years. And this is not just for Europe, Greenland and North America, yet another red herring that has recently been thrown out by the desperate global warmers. The universality of the Viking and Mediaeval climatic optimums is written about by Kegwin, who wrote in Science, 1996:274:1504-1508, https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.274.5292.1504 the mean surface temp of the Sargasso Sea (which lies roughly between the West Indies and the Azores), which was obtained by readings of isotope ratios in marine organism remains in sediment, shows we are, today, below the three thousand year average, and far below the Medieval Climatic Optimum, albeit far above the LIA. Civil Defense Perspectives, Mar. 2007, Vol. 23, #3, p. 1, notes that evidence for this climatic optimum has been found in all but 2 out of 103 locations where it was examined for, including Asia, Africa, South America and the western U.S. The following graph of temperature in the Sargasso Sea tells you all you need to know (note: that big horizontal line running across the page is the 3,000 year average!), Interestingly, the warmer times coincided not only with the best harvests, but also the least amount of major storm activity.

Or let’s put it another way, from the Dansgaard & Johnson study, here on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-near-surface-temperatures-of-the-northern-hemisphere-during-the-past-11000-years_fig5_313127868 shows the same

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