The truth about electricity costs

To the Editor,

If you noticed the increase in your electric bill, then you need the truth. I learned the truth from one of my favorite sources of information the Schwarz Report.

This is taken from an article that was published in the Wall Street Journal on March 5, by Richard S. Lindzen. He is a professor emeritus of atmospheric sciences at MIT and a distinguished senior fellow of the Cato Institute.

"The earth's atmosphere is composed of 78 percent nitrogen gas, 21 percent oxygen and 1 percent of other trace gases; carbon dioxide is one of the trace gases, comprising much less than 1 percent. Only four of every 10,000 air molecules are carbon dioxide. In all of human history, man-made emissions are responsible for adding only a fraction of one of thesefour.

"Currently, elevated levels of carbon dioxide have contributed to increases in agricultural productivity.

"World leaders are embarking on costly policies that have no capacity to replace fossil fuels but enrich crony capitalists at public expense, increasing costs for all, and restricting access to energy to the world's poorest populations that still lack access to electricity's immense benefits."

It's simple. The United Nations, Al Gore, President Barack Obama, Rep. Matt Cartwright and the "cult of global warming" are forcing millions of people to live in poverty because of one of the greatest LIES of all time manmade global warming.

Michael S. Rother

Tamaqua