Sandy was an unusual storm but we should resist the temptation to blame every large storm on manmade global warming.
Climate scientists with no political agenda tell us that there is a 50-year cycle where the waters of the Pacific cool and the Atlantic warm, thus causing large storms along the East Coast.
These follow a 50-year cycle, and we did have large Atlantic storms back in 1954 and 1955. Of course back then we didn’t have many homes built at waters’ edge as we have today. We can expect more storms like Sandy in the next two years.
Climate change is the norm for our planet. Thousands of years ago this area was under a large glacier, the Sahara desert was a swamp, even Saudi Arabia bloomed, which is why we have oil there.
Go back further and Canada resembled Florida. So the Earth’s climate is always changing, and will change in the future.
Releasing carbon into our atmosphere may also add to climate change, but no one can be sure exactly how. Best guess, and it is a guess, is that it will increase world temperature a degree or two in the next 100 years.
I think it’s important to look at how to reduce carbon emissions worldwide, but we need to do it without all the exaggerations such as Al Gore and others have made.
And we shouldn’t automatically blame every bad storm or hurricane on man-caused climate change.
Robert Cendo, M.D.
Cumberland
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This summer:
You can do your kids a favor this summer by getting them involved in reading.
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Western Md. Veterans continues its mission
My name is Dan Brashear, I am the founder and director of Western Maryland Veterans.
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Maybe the cyclists and casino workers should be armed
Again, unfortunately I have to remind Don Carns Jr. of Beans Cove, Pa., on his latest repeatedly inaccurate letter published June 10 in the Cumberland Times-News (“Township is nothing like either Pittsburgh or Philadelphia”).
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Let’s all kick in $1 to help save Frostburg’s Palace Theatre
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Close call
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Develop the waterway
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Living center marks national nursing assistants week
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West Virginia, Johnny Cash, coal miners honored on stamps
While this most likely won’t fall under the category of the most earth-shattering letter to the editor you will read today, it is still big doings for those of us here at the U.S. Postal Service.
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