Aug 20, 2015 2 min read

I wish to take issue with your editorial from Aug. 5 on President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. Not only do I wish to take issue with your stance, but also with the whole “Chicken Little” environmental movement as a whole.

I am growing weary of hearing the same arguments trotted out time and again about how the earth is being destroyed, when the evidence screams otherwise. The Wall Street Journal stated in an op-ed column in May, “the assertion that 97 percent of scientists believe that climate change is a man-made, urgent problem is a fiction.” When further review was done, it was discovered that a mere 1 percent of scientists believe human activity is causing most of the climate change.

In the 1970s, an ice age was predicted by the 1990s, if we didn’t radically alter our collective lifestyle as a nation. We’re still here a couple decades later and no ice age has occurred. Obama’s EPA chief Gina McCarthy has admitted that all the actions the president proposes to fight global warming would in fact “only prevent .01 degrees Celsius of warming.” There hasn’t been any evidence of global warming since the late 1990s. The reality is this: The world is 1.08 degrees cooler than it was in 1998. Since 2002, the ocean temperatures have fluctuated less than 1 degree Fahrenheit. There is no warming.

The worst environmental disasters in the history of the world were arguably the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima during World War II. Both locations have rebounded strongly, proving beyond a shadow of doubt that the earth is indeed resilient. Look up recent pictures on the Internet.

Nobody wants to see their country become a cesspool of filth. However, America has over-regulated itself into the ground, costing us good-paying jobs and ruining the economy, while Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, China, and even the Dominican Republic throw out the welcome mat for opportunities that were once here. I’m fed up with seeing us tie our hands behind our backs with burdensome regulation, while we get constantly browbeaten over how bad our environment is.

John A. Quayle

North Franklin