Monday Mail: Climate's a hoax; Obama is impotent

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present during Monday Mail.

Renegade

Today's opening is from Abraham Lincoln, who'd poll at 2 percent in our Republican presidential race.

Climate strange

This is about last week's climate change parody:

Dear Mr. Chitwood,

I found your opinion article very interesting. First of all, you presented climate change as a fact. Climate change (or previously global warming) is disputed by many of the world's leading scientists.

However you did present it with some humor. I appreciate that. When I look at some of the previous statements from scientists and journalists, I can't help but laugh and consider the similarities of their "wisdom" to yours.

In 1985, the New York Times reported that "federal climate experts have suggested that within a century the greenhouse effect could turn New York City into something with the climate of Daytona Beach, Fla."

But just last winter, in fact, New York City experienced its coldest recorded temperature ever for Feb. 2 when thermometers in Central Park dipped below 7 degrees Fahrenheit -- shattering a previous 65-year record for the coldest Feb. 2 set in 1950.

So 30 years later New York City already has major snow, Phenix City is still the (non beachfront) suburb of Columbus, Auburn is still the little sister of the University of Alabama, and Georgia Tech is still, well, Georgia Tech to The University of Georgia.

In closing we do agree on your one statement. "So, with an impotent government that's obviously going to take no action on this." Our government is impotent. Our president is an impotent coward clown who is regularly embarrassed by other world leaders. Our president is a joke who travels to Paris on a day where over 100 people died at the hands of Islamic fundamentalists, where he preaches that "climate change" is the biggest threat to our future.

Thank God for our impotent government! Keep writing the "climate change" propaganda Mr. Chitwood. The L-E-O has been sold a hundred times over the past 30 years and it will continue to be the paper that people buy for the sales ads on Black Friday. I quit buying it when Kaffie Sledge was considered a journalist and your opinion piece only made me feel better about that....

Regards,

Darin V. Edwards.

Dear Darin:

You're still on Kaffie Sledge? You need to get on with your life, if you have one beyond Obama.

While fixating on impotence, you overlooked the later qualifier that "I don't care whether people believe in climate change or do anything about it."

Anyone needing data on climate change can Google it. They don't need you or me or anyone else whose opinion doesn't matter.

Tim Chitwood, tchitwood@ledger-enquirer.com, 706-571-8508.

This story was originally published December 13, 2015 at 11:04 PM with the headline "Monday Mail: Climate's a hoax; Obama is impotent ."