Patricia Marquard

Minot

What I have always known to be true is finally getting some recognition by scientists. The Climate Crisis idea has been grasped by many. I don’t know why because I have lived long enough to know that this year’s catastrophes and weather has happened before. I have lived through the gray atmosphere of Gary, Indiana, steel mills, and the exhaust of factorie during the 1970’s to know that the climate is much what it was then.

There is a petition signed by 16,000 scientists, including a Nobel winner in Physics, stating that the climate changes every three months, and that it is not a crisis.

Two climatologists from the University of Alabama, Huntsville, measure the temperature of the earth’s atmosphere from satellites to get a true globally averaged accurate air temperature. In 1991 they received NASA’s medal for exceptional achievement for their work. Every ten years the temperature has been rising by .23 degrees Fahrenheit according to their research, and this year’s temperatures are not unprecedented.