Worsening problems are not solved by ignoring them

In his letter of Nov. 24, 2019, Jeremy Conlin repeats climate change talking points from both “Natural News” and “CFACT.” Media Bias/Fact Check describes the former as “one of the most discredited sources on the Internet.” CFACT owns and publishes Climate Depot. Media Bias/Fact Check rates Climate Depot as “a strong pseudoscience source based on promotion of human influenced climate denialism propaganda and the use of poor sources who have failed numerous fact checks.” Mr. Conlin says honest teachers should present the “latest facts” to their students. They do. Fortunately, they do not peddle the latest misinformation from the dubious sources that he espouses.

In his letter of Nov. 26, 2019, Monte Heil reminds us that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. The evidence confirming disruptive global climate change is overwhelming. (See for example: “Climate Change: How Do We Know?”, “Ten Signs of Global Warming”, and “The Most Powerful Evidence Climate Scientists Have of Global Warming”) Considering the consistency and abundance of this evidence, it would be out of the ordinary to deny that a climate crisis is not developing. Where is Mr. Heil’s extraordinary evidence to support his extraordinary claim that everything is hunky dory.

Instead of acknowledging the problem, Mr. Heil argues that we should ignore it and adopt the attitude made famous by Alfred E. Neuman, “What me worry”? Unfortunately, worsening problems are not solved by ignoring them.

JACK DeBAUN

Dover