Published: 01/13/2022 11:39:15 Modified: 01/13/2022 11:38:22 AM Well done Gazette! The entire Jan. 4 opinion page must be framed ...
Published: 01/13/2022 11:39:15
Modified: 01/13/2022 11:38:22 AM
Well done Gazette! The entire Jan. 4 opinion page must be framed and displayed in classrooms statewide.
Like your contributors, I was offended by the complacency and inaccuracies in Robert Couch’s guest column (“Another View on Climate,” Dec. 28). A newspaper is certainly not obligated to publish false or misleading information in order to “present opposing points of view”. Rejecting science is not an opinion; it is a political strategy designed to deceive the unwary and the gullible.
Tragically, Couch’s willful skepticism was quickly disproved by reality: within days of his column appearing, nearly a thousand homes and several businesses in suburban Denver, Louisville and Superior, Colorado, summer “burnt” (as one observer described it) by an extraordinary winter. wildfire caused by hurricane force winds. Try telling the victims of this apocalyptic catastrophe that man-made climate change is a hoax! (The New York Times Sunday Review on Jan. 2 provided a “Disaster Atlas” of the world’s climate-related crises.)
Thank you for posting the columns and letters in response to the Couch column, including those from area students. Perhaps there was some method in the madness of printing the column that sparked this eloquent chorus of response.
Rutherford H. Platt
Florence
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