I write in response to commentary titled “Yes, Earth is Warming,” by Jason Samenow of the Washington Post, printed Jan. 30 in the Sun Journal. I grew up in Maine during the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, when people were panicked about “global cooling.” For the balance of the century, the public was then being warned […]
Michael Brakey
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Urging veto of LD 1504
I hope that Gov. Paul LePage will veto solar power bill LD 1504, and that the Legislature sustains the veto. That bill subsidizes customers who install solar panels for another 15 years. During that time period, thanks to Sun Cell and other emerging technologies, current roofing panels are likely to become obsolete. Mainers will be […]
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The world is a big place
Michael Brakey appears to think he has a good reason for being a denier of climate change (Sun Journal, Aug. 26). He wants to believe that the Earth’s heat records in July, as reported by NOAA, must be inaccurate because the Farmers’ Almanac is predicting another cold and nasty winter for New England. The only […]
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Whom should we believe?
On Aug. 21, the Sun Journal printed a story about NOAA, “Earth’s heat broke records in July,” in which it was claimed that the world has gotten hotter each and every year during the past century. Perhaps it is the fault of every human on this planet who inhales oxygen and exhales the evil pollutant, […]
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M. Brakey: Natural climate changes
In 1975, I became an engineering physicist because both the media and politicians of the day warned the public that carbon dioxide was the cause of global cooling. If we didn’t let governments control every bit of our lives, glaciers would rise, ocean levels would fall and civilization, as we knew it, would end. On […]