A recent letter to the editor was published by the Hartford Courant promoting carbon fees and dividends to solve the ‘problem of climate change’.  The writer claimed that a 1% increase in the possible atmospheric moisture last year caused a extreme snowstorm that left 31.9 inches of snow in eastern Pennsylvania and caused tornadoes in Florida.  I wrote the following letter in response and it was published in the on line letters to the editor by the Hartford Courant.

I was glad in reading Janet Heller letter on 2/19/2016 that the carbon fee and dividend will cool the atmosphere and end the danger of flooding and storms.   Had the 1% increase in atmospheric moisture not occurred, we would have gotten only 9.9 inches of snow instead of 10 inches on Monday. And it would be ¼deg cooler this weekend (  when it was 15 deg below zero) without the recent warming induced by the El Nino.

I’m sure that history is wrong about bad weather before carbon dioxide started to increase after World War II, like the 1938 hurricane or the 1888 blizzard in New England. And the transfer of money from the affluent to the poor will allow the poor to have candles for their night light. And meteorologists may need new jobs as the fees will control the weather.