Beamer 4.11.12
THE NEXT MEETING IS AT 7:00 PM AT WELSHFIELD
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Guests: Mary Yeager. Betsy Tomasco.
Coin toss: Dave Terrill is the winner.
Bob Varga, president-elect of BMR, is asking for suggestions from the club for the next Rotary year. Please get with Bob if you have any ideas.
Dick Hill's barbershop quartet is going to be performing a show May 5th. Please see Dick for more details.
See Brian Brockway if you left your butcher knife at pancakes!
Our sympathy goes out to Jim Dvorak on the loss of his mother.
Bob Johnson asked the club to get in their EREY contributions before the end of the month. He also thanked everybody for their hard work during the Pancake Breakfasts.
The Kiwanis Club needs help at their Fish Fry at the Middlefield Fire Hall Friday April 24th at 4:10 PM (2 people needed).
PROGRAM: Dick Garner. Self proclaimed "Obsolete Chemist"
Dick, a member of the Aurora Rotary Club, spent his entire career in the chemical industry before retiring in 1999. His talk focused on environmental issues and his spin on them.
His first question to the club was "do we need the EPA?" His answer was absolutely. We need the EPA because people can't have a free for all as to what they do to the environment. His problem with the EPA is that they have gone too far in many instances with their "less is better" philosophy as it pertains to pollutants. We already have the levels of some of these pollutants so low that they pose no scientifically proven risk to humans or the environment but the EPA still comes out with even stricter regulations.
He talked about his stance on global warming. He noted that the Earth has been warming since about 1800, but he added that there have been 20 global warming patterns like the current one in the past 120,000 years. He asked how we would explain these other warming instances because human caused air pollution would not have been the cause. He noted a recent study that found the man made effect on global warming being 0.1% and that volcanic activity is a much higher contributor to global warming than humans.
Tune in this week as Dick continues with part 2 of his program focusing on the ozone layer, DDT, and other issues.