Letter to the editor: Climate deniers hurting fellow citizens
Jack Bologna’s letter “Facts on ‘global warming’ ” (Feb. 14, TribLIVE) quotes “facts” that are out of date. I also call attention to Bologna’s sick ad-hominum device, attacking right-wing boogeyman Al Gore as foil. Such tricks are signs of weakness. Gore is merely summing up what every science academy in the world (NASA has a list of about 200) has concluded. It’s not Gore’s opinion, but hard truths based on science and measurements.
What about the Ordovician period having huge carbon dioxide levels and also glaciation? To quote Skepticalscience.org: “Past studies on the Ordovician period calculated CO2 levels at 10 million year intervals. The problem with such coarse data sampling is the Ordovician ice age lasted only half a million years. To fill in the gaps, a 2009 study examined strontium isotopes in the sediment record (Young 2009).” Geologist Seth Young also found that when CO2 goes down, glaciers increase, confirming the basic conclusions of 97% of climate scientists.
Climate delayers like Bologna and climatedepot.com’s Marc Morano, whom Bologna quotes, are doing the greatest disservice to their countrymen I can imagine.
Jan Freed
Los Angeles
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