U.S. News published in this week’s issue the following letter from Ralph Weber of Fairview, N.C.:

There were several references to the global warming panic in “50 Ways to Improve Your Life in 2007.” Your advice to read An Inconvenient Truth [“Book a Passage to Change …”], to “See a Glacier (Before It Melts),” and “To Buy Farther Inland” is misguided. Remember the panic 30 to 40 years ago about the coming ice age? The hype about global warming is just another example of the environmental panic of the decade.