Hurricane Dorian
Hits the Outer Banks
September 14, 2019
Stan Olmstead
This past week Hurricane Dorian swept across the Bahamas with devastation and later hit the outer banks of North Carolina threatening additional damage. Although an individual storm is no proof of climate disruption induced by human impact which is caused by the release of heat trapping gases. A quick study of carbon energy use since the start of the industrial revolution confirms that the anthropogenic release of carbon dioxide and other heat trapping gases has directly warmed the global climate inducing disturbance of climate change and the alteration of our daily weather events. The result and confirmed by science that this human caused heat trap melts glaciers, alters sea level, alters salinity of the oceans, moves weather forming surface waters to new locations of the ocean causing weather shadows and droughts on some locations of the globe while increasing precipitation and floods due to this change in other locations. These changes of ocean waters result in greater water weight and pressure to the ocean subsurface and the loss of continental ice providing rebound of continents which causes plate tectonic movement and an increase in large earthquakes.
We expect that knowledgeable people would take heed of this scientific proof of “man’s” impact to the planet which not only impacts our own species but renders dire impacts to all species of the planet. We’d expect these leaders to venture forth with solutions to prevent this serious result. There are many that wish this were so, but our president in his ignorance states it is a “Chinese Hoax” and our Tennessee legislators to include our first district representative Phil Roe as well as both our state senators Lamar Alexander and Marsha Blackburn hold the party line and say little. It is time that if a representative or an executive refuse to implement solutions to this very serious issue then we should turn those individuals out and elect political leaders that will.
