Increased truck and train traffic to move oil and gas from the drilling fields to refineries along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts has led to increased accidents. Railroad accidents in the United States last year accounted for about 1.15 million gallons of spilled crude oil, more than all spills in the 40 years since the federal government began collecting data, according to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. Many of the spills were in wetlands or into groundwater and streams.
A primary reason for increased rainfall (as well as increases in hurricanes, tornadoes, ocean water rises, and other long-term weather phenomenon) is because of man-made climate change, the result of increased carbon dioxide from fossil fuel extraction and burning. It's not a myth. It's not a far-fetched liberal hoax invented by Al Gore. About 97 percent of the world's climate scientists agree we are experiencing climate change, and that the world is at a critical change; if the steady and predictable increase in climate change, which affects the protection of the ozone layer, is not reduced within two decades, it will not be reversible. Increased rainfall and pollution will be only a part of the global meltdown.
[Dr. Brasch is an award-winning journalist and
emeritus professor. He is a syndicated columnist, radio commentator, and the
author of 20 books, the latest of which is the critically-acclaimed Fracking
Pennsylvania, an overall look at the effects of horizontal
fracturing. He is a former newspaper and magazine reporter and editor and
multimedia writer-producer.]
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