Without giving away the ideas in the Guest Opinion sent to the Bucks County Courier today, it was critical of the editorial boards wrong ideas about Climate, climate change and President Trump. The board has six Courier employees and three community members, all apparently chosen for their connections to something other than their ability to think. 


The Courier refused to print or rejected a previous Guest Opinion by me that was the opposite of a guest opinion they published that was full of errors, IMO, about climate change, most likely because my opinions and factsshowed the problems with their wrong ideas about the climate. The critical guest opinion was sent to the editor on April 20 2017. He never published it so here it is.
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Climate Change Alarmists include physicists, nuclear engineers and an assortment of social justice warriors as well as fruitcakes and fools. Science shows natural gas emits carbon in the form of CO2 same as coal. Coal was wrongly vilified by the EPA during Obama’s administration to appease his Green Liberal base. Obama used the EPA to regulate coal mining which literally closed American coal mines. (1)
Donald Trump campaigned in coal country with the promise to re-open the coal mines. It was the moral thing to do. Coal prolongs and saves lives as data from numerous sources conclusively proves. (2)
How does burning coal prolong lives? By making life more comfortable with heat and coolness when needed. Who would want doctors operating in non-air conditioned rooms? Who would want to shop in a freezing cold supermarket?
Anthracite, i.e., “Coal” looks like black rock. (3) It comes from plants. Burning coal changes some of the oxygen in the air to other gases including carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, CO and CO2. Breathing carbon monoxide can be fatal but only if enough CO is inhaled for a sufficient time. CO2, carbon dioxide, is extremely beneficial to plant growth. It increases plant yields which increases the amount of human food like tomatoes and potatoes. More CO2 means more grapes and bananas as well as more grass for cattle from which we get milk.
The United States Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance has been gathering data about disasters since 1900. The data reveals actual climate danger so it can be used to compare actual to alleged climate danger from CO2. The trends clearly show as the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere increases the number of climate related deaths sharply decreases.(4)
The year 2013 had 29,404 deaths from climate caused disasters. The year 1932 had 5,073,283 while CO2 increased from about 900 billion metric tons of CO2 in 1932 to over 10,000 billion metric tons of CO2 in 2013 which went into the atmosphere. Eleven times more CO2 went into the atmosphere but climate related deaths decreased from five million to less than 30,000, a decrease of over 1,900 times from what was expected or predicted.
Why is more CO2 beneficial? More and better food. More and better products. It turns out that the more coal and other fossil fuels we use the safer, .. almost breathtakingly safer we become. No one writing a letter to the editor can escape burning coal because they use coal and other fossil fuels to get the electricity to power their word processor, charge their cell phone or for gasoline to power their vehicle. Power has increased life expectancy. Burning fossil fuels brings us food from far and exotic places, food in almost mythical amounts

Can fossil fuels be replaced by solar or wind power? Consider this: a solar panel requires massive amounts of energy to mine the exotic chemicals needed to construct one. Same for a windmill. The so called renewable and sustainable energy producers are energy hogs when it comes to making them.
Can Philadelphia Electric use solar and windmills to power to provide electricity? No. If it could it would but it is currently impossible to economically store power for times when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. Purchasing enough batteries to provide just three days of storage for an average American household costs about $15,000, and those batteries only last for about five years and are very difficult to recycle. One in four wind suppliers have gone out of business in the past two years.
Then there’s the corruption. The Volkswagen scandal illustrates that government intervention creates incentives that cause sophisticated cheating. Look at the income tax and the attempts of overtaxed taxpayers to fudge their numbers. Government doesn’t solve problems. The agenda of government bureaucrats is to make rules while avoiding bad publicity, not to actually solve the problem.
The push to encourage “green” systems caused serious corruption, such as the Solyndra scandal. Corruption “crowds out” investment dollars that could be better spent on more workable solutions.
Fossil fuels comprise 86% of the energy we use. In 30 years, we’ve reduced fossil fuel consumption by 3%. At the rate it will take 860 years, to completely eliminate the use of fossil fuels. In the meantime, light your fire
References: the Office of Surface Mining’s Stream Protection Rule, a regulation to protect waterways from coal mining waste that officials finalized in December. http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/319938-trump-signs-bill-undoing-obama-coal-mining-rule
1. The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels”, 1914, author: Alex Epstein; —
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fossil-fuels-will-save-the-world-really-1426282420
2. Wikipedia: Coal
3. The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels”, 1914, author: Alex Epstein P. 120
4. “The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels”, 1914, author: Alex Epstein

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