Letter to the Editor

One of the Jan 30 letters responding to Bill Morgan’s editorial, had a concern over man-made climate change.  Really, there is nothing man can do in regard to controlling global warming by reducing our CO2 emissions ;  because our contribution to the global reservoir of atmospheric CO2 is much too small to have any effect.

Consider that water vapor, a greenhouse gas, traps about 1375 times more heat than man’s CO2. That’s based on a 1% global atmospheric water vapor content; however it can at times go up to 4% in places.

The thing about water vapor is its variability from day to day and place to place over the Earth; and that’s a big problem for climatologists when trying to get climate models to work.

Consider that even a somewhat small up or down change in the massive quantity of water vapor may release or absorb far more heat, and therefore have more effect on temperature, than would a doubling of our current tiny CO2 level.

Oceans have a huge effect on water vapor level depending on amount of cloud cover blocking the sun’s energy, and, what the 40,000-mile ‘tank heater’ (under-sea volcanic mountain chain) happens to be belching out at any given time.

So bring on the CO2. Green plants love it and grow bigger as the concentration goes up, thereby creating a “greener planet.”

The author had a large list of issues with Trump; but what is the alternative?  

Well, it’s death for little ones.  The DFL party candidates want to keep baby killing legal. Do we really want that kind of callous  candidate for president?

Phil Drietz

Delhi,  MN