Two years ago, on May 24th, I posted the blog
"Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Floods and Drought." This blog was posted
just after F5 tornadoes cut the cities of Joplin Missouri and Tuscaloosa Alabama in half and destroyed thousands of homes in wide
swaths across the Midwest and Southeast causing
incredible hardship for many families and billions of dollars of damage. For
your referral and convenience, go to http://stittenergy.blogspot.com/2011/05/tornadoes-hurricanes-floods-and-drought.html to read this 2011 blog post.
Since then, the threat of climatic mayhems has not gotten
better. The city of Moore Oklahoma just experienced the third severe
tornado in 14 years (1999, 2003 and 2013)! And, Hurricane Sandy hit the east
coast including New York City and New Jersey shores like
never before. Further, last summer was the driest and hottest summer
in history with extreme temperatures throughout the country causing unsurpassed
drought across the Midwest and South. Because
of the extended record-high temperatures and lack of rain, forest fires took
thousands of homes, trees and animals and threatened entire cities like Colorado Springs . The
added energy on Earth doesn't spread itself out evenly and predictably--instead it tends to clump up and is then released as extreme
weather events and conditions.
I again ask the question, "How many tornadoes,
hurricanes, extraordinary rain storms, atypical snows or blizzards, drought,
fires and floods, must we experience before we all admit that climate change is
real and caused by the burning of fossil fuels. And when are we going to break
through the fossil fuel denial and greed-driven fossil-fuel lobbies and propaganda to join
together in bipartisan cooperation and take aggressive action to increase the
ENERGY EFFICIENCY of our lifestyles--cars, trucks, homes, businesses,
commercial buildings, appliances, factories, planes, trains--and as
individuals, families and as a nation, join forces to GENERATE more CLEAN,
ECONOMICAL, RENEWABLE POWER from wind, solar, and geothermal energy?
What do you think? I would like to receive your comments.
Orlo Stitt
Order my book at http://www.stittenergy.com/order-holistically-green-homes