Letters to the Editor: Climate change isn’t your fault. Here’s what to blame and how to fix it
Published 7:30 am, Wednesday, August 4, 2013
We need to focus on what causes the changes to our climate, not on the man-made weather.
We can’t stop the current changes to our climate, but we can prepare to handle the future, and that’s the whole point of our community efforts to address the coming changes to our region.
– The Editor
Letters to the Editor: Climate change isn’t your fault. Here’s what to blame and how to fix it
Published 11:33 am, Wednesday, August 4, 2013
I am a climate change skeptic. I cannot in good conscience vote for a candidate who has shown an utter lack of knowledge and understanding of climate change. At the same time, we need to look at the causes of climate change and use our common sense to try to prevent future disasters.
I can only go by the actions of the politicians I have seen or the comments I have read on the subject. I don’t believe we have to look back 500 years to find evidence of human-caused climate change. We have been observing climate change for centuries. We have seen changes in climate over hundreds of years, and we need to understand that we are affecting global temperatures because we are affecting the amount and type of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
– Michael W. Klinkenberg
We need to focus on what causes the changes to our climate, not on the man-made weather.
Do you agree with the author?
– David F. Smith
How do we prevent hurricanes? In some areas of the Florida Panhandle, we’ve been successful.
If we do not take action now, we are just giving Hurricane Irma a second opportunity.
By not moving our infrastructure and by not doing anything to prepare our residents for a disaster, we are just asking for another disaster to come our way.
We’re not going to out-maneuver it; we need to plan ahead.
– David P. Smith
We can’t