Columnist Cal Thomas (PDN, Nov. 29, “Apocalypse when?”) should take the time to read Timothy Egan’s opinion piece in the PDN’s Nov. 30 paper “The beginning of the end?”
Egan is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.
The facts and scenarios Egan includes in his article with regard to climate change are based on evidence and science, not opinion and fake news.
Thomas’ article referred to Dr. Patrick Michaels, who called the National Climate Assessment “systematically flawed” but has admitted receiving funding from various fossil fuel industry sources.
He also quotes and refers to Climate Depot founder Marc Morano, who has said the report is “masquerading as science.”
Climate Depot is financed by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, which has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the ExxonMobil foundation.
This was a Trump administration assessment.
The key finding is as follows: “It is extremely likely that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.
“For the warming over the last century, there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the extent of the observational evidence.”
It is irresponsible to publish an opinion that represents flawed thinking, time and again.
Thomas mentions that the report was authored by “people appointed during the Obama administration.”
It was authored by many others also, more than 1,000 people, including 300 leading scientists, roughly half from outside the government.
Sherry Schaaf,
Forks