Climate Changes
* In its Nov. 6 editorial, “Facing Up to Climate Shift,” The Times bravely volunteered to lead the surrender on global warming before the battle is even joined. Climate shift, to The Times, is an inevitability--forget the Kyoto accords, energy conservation, reforestation, the economic opportunities in conversion from a carbon/fossil fuel-based economy. Cavalierly dismissing the “speculative science” and “politically unrealistic solutions” of “many environmental activists,” your editorial urges us to adopt the “realistic path” of accepting climate change as inevitable.
Perhaps The Times might recall that it is “politically unrealistic” solutions to major crises (slavery, the disfranchisement of women, the Depression, fascist aggression) that marks a great newspaper and a visionary society, not cringing retreat.
PHILIP M. LOHMAN
Long Beach
* I was astonished to read in your editorial that the global warming issue has been definitively settled. This issue is still in doubt: There are temperature records, uncontaminated by heat from nearby growing cities, that show no evidence of a warming trend since 1950. When writing about science topics that are still controversial, please be careful of your use of such words as “certainty.”
CHARLES A. GREENHALL
South Pasadena
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