"Global warming frightful gamble"
Last week the "Bristol Phoenix", because of the heat wave we had, published an editorial entitled :
"Global warming a frightful gamble"
Among several paragraphs I just select these ones:
" Imagine if the heat didn't leave. Suppose sweltering days rolled on, one after another, week upon roasting week.
Won't happen , says George W. Bush. Apparently of the opinion that this talk of global warming is so much claptrap, the president has our engines set full speed ahead, scientists be damned.
Earlier, President Bush torpedoed a global treaty meant to combat global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. It's based on bad science, the president said, would hurt the economy and would be ignored by some countries anyway."
I decided to send a letter to the Editor.
Here is my letter:
To the Editor
Bristol Phoenix
P O Box 90, One Bradford Street
Bristol, RI 02809-0090
Dear Editor:
I read with much interest your editorial "Global Warming a Frightful Gamble" in which you express President George W. Bush's disregard towards our environment.
Of our 43 presidents, Theodore Roosevelt was by far the farsighted environmentalist, "believing that the American land as well as trees, animals, birds and fishes were resources not to be squandered but maintained properly in the interest of the nation".
President George Bush, the father, in 1988 promised he would become the environmental president. In 1992 he attended the United Nations Earth Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. where he singed the "Earth Pledge", which required nations to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases, and work towards eco-friendly development. But Mr. Bush, the father, did not spend one penny to meet the environmental goals.
"The
Journal of Science" reports this week the results of a study in which
the
greenhouse gases are deadlier than car crashes". In São Paulo, Brazil,
Mexico City, Santiago, Chile, already have more premature deaths by asthma and
heart attacks caused by carbon dioxide and other fossil-fuel emissions.
Eleven thousands years ago, the Bristol territory was covered by an icecap, half a mile thick! But the earth started getting warmer, and the ice covering the North America down to New York City, began to melt, forming gigantic, monstrous debris, resulting in the formation of Cape Cod!
If we get another episode of earth warming the ice on the north and south poles will melt away and the sea level, all over the world, will rise 200 meters or 600 feet!
All the biggest cities around the world will be submerged! Our State of Rhode Island will indeed become a total Ocean State!
Obviously President W's attitude towards the environment lacks common sense and the basic knowledge of our earth metamorphosis.
Respectfully,
Manuel Luciano da Silva, M. D.
This cartoon appeared on the "Providence Journal" on the same day that the "Bristol Phoenix" published my letter.