To the Editor:

I am writing regarding the climate-change letter by Victor Porlier.

Thank you for your letter to the editor and for raising consciousness about The Club of Rome, which I will look up.

We are all experiencing effects from climate change all over the globe. However, what most people do not realize is that before the last mini ice age, the Earth warmed up. Humanity is responsible for some of the pollution but the solar minimum that we are in is contributing extensively to this warm-up.

We may be in a possible ice age within the next decade. This can happen very quickly. Please read Dr. John L. Casey’s books, “Dark Winter” and “Cold Sun.” He explains it all scientifically.

Our government has been refusing to publish this information from scientists for a very long time. Other books that are excellent include: “Surviving the Super Grand Solar Minimum” by Dennis DeLaurier, “Climate Change Reality Check” by Calvin Fray, and “A Little Ice Age Has Started” by Lawrence Pierce.

The current blizzards in Montana are an example of these changes.

We all need to be prepared for food shortages.

Arlene Shako

Schoharie

Editor’s note: Scientific theories on climate change have been evolving since the 19th Century, when the natural greenhouse effect was first identified. The two books by John L. Casey cited here deny that global temperatures are rising and argue that earth is threatened, rather, with solar hibernation. Milutin Milankovic, a serbian astronomer and geophysicist, theorized in the 1920s that variations in the Earth’s orbit caused cyclical variation in solar radiation reaching the Earth, which influenced climate.

By the 1960s, many scientists became convinced of the warming effects of carbon dioxide gas and, by the turn of the last century, with improved computer models, Milankovitch’s theory of the ice ages was confirmed, and a consensus position formed that human-caused emissions were causing measurable global warming.

 “It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century,” concluded the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its Fifth Assessment Report in 2013. These findings are not disputed by any scientific body of national or international standing.