By TERRY GOLDMAN
Los Alamos

I don’t recall very often agreeing with Rick Nebel, but in saying: “Have you ever noticed that whenever climate change is discussed, it’s always a bad thing?”, he is right on the money. Local changes in climate are harder to predict than global warming and should vary (positively or negatively) all over the place.

Unfortunately, that does not alter the long-term effects of global warming.

It is disturbing that we live on such a primitive planet that global weather control has not yet been implemented. On the other hand, aside from the scientific and technological advances required to do that, the political implications are for fierce conflict, as we already see from small island countries being swallowed by the rise of the oceans – almost certainly (That’s the scientific way of saying you’re pretty darn sure!) due to global warming. Meanwhile, my Canadian relatives and I cheer on most of the effects of global warming, not the least of which is the opening of the North-West Passage after more than 400 years of trying.

Still, let’s see more balanced reporting on the local effects being both good and bad in this intermediate time.