To the editor: “The emperor has no garments.”
Not too long ago, the Environmental Safety Company eliminated any reference to fossil fuels as a supply of world warming from its web site (“EPA eliminates point out of fossil fuels in web site on warming’s causes. Scientists name it fully flawed,” Dec. 9). These of us within the “local weather cult” can be glad to know that, in keeping with the EPA underneath President Trump-appointed administrator Lee Zeldin, “pure causes,” not fossil fuels, may very well be inflicting a “very tiny” quantity of world warming.
In Hans Christian Andersen’s folktale “The Emperor’s New Garments,” folks initially ignored or denied the apparent fact as a result of they have been afraid to talk out towards an emperor who paraded bare. The EPA’s denial embarrasses the U.S. earlier than all the world.
Craig Smith, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: As former EPA local weather advisor Jeremy Symons says, “Ignoring fossil gas air pollution because the driving pressure behind the local weather adjustments now we have seen in our lifetime is like pretending cigarettes don’t trigger lung most cancers.”
The administration is making a harmful transfer in eradicating fossil fuels as a driver of our altering local weather. Placing your head within the sand doesn’t change something and solely breeds confusion. Science tells us the true story: that our burning of fossil fuels pumps greenhouse gases into the environment, which causes it to warmth up.
Definitely this isn’t the one trigger of world warming, however it’s a main one. Fortuitously, there are individuals who know the reality and are ready to behave on it. They perceive that renewable vitality is out there and getting extra economically viable on a regular basis. The transition to photo voltaic, wind, geothermal and hydro energy is already occurring in each purple and blue states.
Let’s depart a greater atmosphere for our kids, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Maggie Wineburgh-Freed, Los Angeles
