Interesting that as everyone is sorting out the healthcare legislation, I come across two editorials stating that the science behind global warming is overwhelming.
First up is Greensboro’s Carol Hamlin in this N&R letter to the editor:
Unfortunately, that joke is far too true when it comes to the subject of climate change. The science is overwhelming and clear: Our planet is warming and we are responsible. And yet newspapers across the country have been repeating the same, tired attacks against it.
Well, scientists are starting to pay the price, dealing with harassment and threats, just for doing their jobs. This is wrong, and it needs to stop.
Then there’s today’s Winston-Salem Journal lead editorial:
A cacophony of politically charged pseudo-science has been raised over the climate-change question. The opposition has raised what are, at their truest level, a number of false concerns. Climate change is a scientific issue for which there is no longer any reasonable doubt. The world’s community of climate scientists is overwhelmingly convinced that the planet is warming and that man’s behavior is contributing to this.
Incredibly, the Journal adds the “human eye can see” icebergs melting and sea levels rising “without use of complex scientific equipment or any spin from the naysayers.”
Yeah, and it was a cold-ass winter, too. What does that say?
