To the editor: “The emperor has no garments.”
Just lately, 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 unsuitable,” Dec. 9). These of us within the “local weather cult” can be glad to know that, based on the EPA below President Trump-appointed administrator Lee Zeldin, “pure causes,” not fossil fuels, could possibly 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 in opposition to 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 gasoline air pollution because the driving power behind the local weather modifications we’ve 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 ambiance, which causes it to warmth up.
Actually this isn’t the one trigger of world warming, however it’s a main one. Thankfully, there are individuals who know the reality and are ready to behave on it. They perceive that renewable vitality is accessible and getting extra economically viable on a regular basis. The transition to photo voltaic, wind, geothermal and hydro energy is already occurring in each crimson and blue states.
Let’s go away a greater setting for our youngsters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Maggie Wineburgh-Freed, Los Angeles
