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To the editor:
On March 21 the Independent published the story "World on thin ice" as UN climate report gives stark warning, by Seth Borenstein and Frank Jordans which gave us a gloom and doom report from the United Nations. These reports have negative effects on humans. A Stanford study by economist Marshall Burke and published in Nature Climate Change (3/29/2019), said that up to 21,000 suicides by 2050 in the U.S. and Mexico would occur if the temperature continues to rise at the current rates. In fact, a man who was eco-anxious recently committed suicide in Belgium as reported in the LaLibre newspaper.
I have lived through the 1970s when we were told that we were experiencing "global cooling" because we had extremely cool temperatures. The "experts" were wrong. Then droughts and hurricanes in the 1990s and it was called "global warming." We were told the ice caps were melting and we were all going to drown. The "experts" were wrong again. Now if there is any change in the weather, it's called "climate change." I guess the "experts" got tired of being wrong.
If you do want to have personal peace in the "global warming" issue, I have found the perfect words that have given me peace. The Bible says in Genesis 8:22 "While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease." I prefer to take the infinite God at his word who knows everything rather than men who are finite, and get it wrong so often.
Layle French
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