You can’t bug Mother Earth

In response to Charles Neill’s letter, “No laughing matter” (Jan. 5), how can he ignore that at one time, millions of years ago, long before the Industrial Revolution, Alaska was a tropical region?

How can he ignore that redwood fossils have been found as far north as the Yukon?

How can he ignore the fact that the melt of permafrost creates a million times more CO2 than all the pollution created since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution? Yes, that’s right, scientists have found that permafrost melt in the north is the leading cause of greenhouse gas. One year of elevated volcanic activity has lowered the world temperature, causing the conditions we have today.

We are one major volcanic event away from an ice age.

Mother Earth will always take care of herself. I heard one scientist say that we are like a gnat on the rear end of an elephant, a mild irritation at best.

If you think that raising taxes is somehow going to change the temperature of the world, you are sadly mistaken.

Michael J. Wilson

Spokane