Measurements by reputable scientists of global warming confirm that the Earth’s atmosphere is currently experiencing a slight warming trend.

It’s accepted that the practices of burning fossil fuels and deforesting vast regions results in measured increases in air and water pollution.

But it’s a scientific fallacy to claim global warming indicators are being entirely caused by mangenerated carbon dioxide gas.

The issue is muddied by misinformed environmentalists incorrectly labeling the carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels as being “greenhouse gases.”

Carbon dioxide gas is only slightly more dense than the air into which it’s being mixed, and the carbon dioxide doesn’t form an impervious strata of gas beneath which heat energy is trapped, as do the solid clear glass panes in a florist’s greenhouse.

Heat energy on/near the Earth’s surface has three origins—from solar energy radiated from the sun through the atmosphere, from transfer of stored chemical energy into heat energy by man and from geothermal heat energy being transferred through the soil and rock mantle surrounding the thousands of degrees hot molten magma at the Earth’s core.

If “greenhouse gases” are trapping the heat energy beneath them, then why are those same “greenhouse gases” not retarding the heat energy transfer from external sources and producing a net global cooling phenomenon instead of global warming?

The answer to that is logical— the increased content of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere isn’t creating a “greenhouse” effect. Carbon particulates in the air from the burning of fossil fuels is, however, causing severe environmental pollution.

The priority for developing alternate sources for human energy needs on Earth and reducing environmental pollution is far more urgent than the effort and resources being wasted on searching for water on Earth’s moon and other planets.

With nations on Earth surrounded by oceans of water now experiencing widespread disastrous drought conditions, the need for more efficient desalination of ocean water than by reverse osmosis is needed.

Also obvious is the need for distribution of the resulting potable and unpolluted water over long distances to inland human and agricultural users.
Herbert Hutchinson
Westlake Village