Well, I’m not a scientist — the argument always begins that way — but I don’t need to be a scientist to stick my nose close to the exhaust pipe on my car and know I don’t like the air coming out of it.  It would be hard for me to ever believe such nasty air is not bad.  Plus, I don’t have to be a scientist to believe the vast majority of people who are actual scientists.

The Pentagon has accepted the fact that sea-levels are rising due to global warming and pose a serious national security risk.  I think they probably know more about that than I do.

I hope and pray the President doesn’t abdicate our global leadership on global warming by withdrawing from the Paris accord, which limits the growth in carbon-based pollutants.  This gives global leadership to China and Russia, leaving the U.S. in the company of Syria and Nicaragua, the only other nations who didn’t sign the Paris accord.

I stand with Al Gore, who characterized global warning as an “Inconvenient Truth.”  It is extremely inconvenient . . . and costly in the short run!

I stand proudly with Mitt Romney and John McCain, the 2012 and 2008 Republican nominees for President, who begged the President to stay in the Paris accord.

Please, Mr. President . . .