Oy!   As late as the 1960's air and water pollution in many parts of the nation made the air unsafe to breathe and, in some areas, the water unsafe to drink. The latter is still true in areas like Flint, Michigan. However, greenhouse gases have nothing  to do with air and water pollution. There is no reason you should fear water and air over greenhouse gasses. 

Leaving people to starve or die from germ-laden water today to fight the weather over something that might  be a problem 50 years from now hardly seems moral, a point I have made many times on this blog. Others seem to be arriving at the same conclusion. When it comes to climate change, our leaders would do well to follow Buddhist advice: when struck by an arrow, first remove it before seeking out your assailant. Otherwise, you will die. But most governments and charitable foundations today do exactly the opposite. They try so hard to appease climate activists — who seem more concerned about the possible plight of people yet to be born than those suffering today — that millions of people have been abandoned to misery and early death in the poorest parts of the world. The entire essay is here .

This image is a screen capture from yesterday evening's "NBC Nightly News" photographed from our television screen: Notice any thing odd about the ice?  I'll give you a hint: There is no dirt or soot in the Arctic (just ice and, under the ice, water). Obviously, a foreign substance is on the ice. And, pollution causes ice to melt much  faster, even if the temperature is below freezing, if the sun is out. For details, check here . Where might the dirt/soot have come from? Here's another hint: This satellite image shows the brownish pollution from China flowing northeast toward the Arctic. There are multiple peer-reviewed papers attributing the recent summer ice melt in the Arctic to soot rather than 'global warming' as Arctic temperatures have been colder than normal the last three summers. Please be clear: I'm concerned about the melting ice. It may be the the melting ice could lead to other climate problems. But, attributing the melt to "...