Do not be duped into thinking that so-called "green/alternative energy" is benign and good for the environment.................In my opinion, this is a sham!..............No question that climate change is taking place and Spring has been showing up two weeks early for the past decade+ in most parts of the world..................However, we just do not have a viable benign alternative to coal, oil and gas to power ourselves up..................For my work, I have driven from Chicago to Indianapolis over the past decade a dozen or more times.................As the 2nd article below depicts, 300-500 foot windmills now occupy a good swath of the farmland between these two midwest cities............Ugly, a desecration of our open rural space and the irony is that these"wind farms" only generate about 25% of the electricity that the Wind Companies promised they would.............General Electric and the competing firms who make these monster wind mills are laughing at us folks and getting away with calling themselves "green".......................Same thing with solar panels plastered all over our deserts and flatlands.............We go from one bad technology to another bad technology......................Our mountain tops, farmland and deserts which support all kinds of life are being industrialized...................Wake up everyone............Politicians who espouse the currently available "alternative energy sources" are either naive or evil.............These soothsayers are no better than the the oil, gas and coal firms who cut off mountains to mine coal, scrape up the earth to get shale oil or plunge chemicals deep into the earth to frack natural gas.....................We better ask our best and brightest scientific minds to work harder to find an array of power sources that does not pollute our air, warm our air and grind up our earth and destroy our open space esthetics

CLICK ON TITLE OF THIS ARTICLE TO READ IT IN FULL Opinion The Seasons Aren't  What They Used to Be By DAVID GEORGE HASKELL Or, copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://nyti.ms/2m92S1o mARCH 17, 2021 Spring has been particularly hasty  and irregular this year,  but this is no anomaly. In the latter  half of the 20th century, the spring emergence of leaves, frogs,  birds and flowers advanced  in the Northern Hemisphere by 2.8 days per decade. I’m nearly 50,  so springtime has moved, on average,  a full two weeks since I was born.  And you? We now experience climate  change not only through the abstractions of science, but also  through lived experience.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiDgsC23uPSAhUW24MKHbTCDqgQFgghMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.summitenergy.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F10%2Fdriving-past-windmills-on-the-way-to-the-windy-city%2F&usg=AFQjCNEHlel439YHc8EJKiNMjrFZ_ N-2gQ OCTOBER 19, 2011 • Current Events, Energy's Lighter Side, Sustainability Driving past windmills on the way to the Windy City by Roger Durham