Just when I was about to congratulate you on your publishing a piece by Chip Fletcher, the dean of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology on humans driving climate change (“No debate: humans cause climate woes,” Nov. 2, Island Voices), I see a letter from a skeptic from the Practical Policy Institute of Hawaii trying to denigrate climate science for revealing an inconvenient truth that people invested in fossil fuels just hate (“Climate case doesn’t account for nature,” Nov. 9).
This a perennial attempt to discredit overwhelming science with an appeal to ignorance, as though political opinion is the equivalent of science and should be taken on equal footing with data and scientific analysis.
Fletcher, in a small article, could not repeat all the important data found in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports — and the letter writer uses this opening to push the well-refuted assertion that global warming is caused by natural climate variations. Such anti-science propaganda is hurting us now and hurts future generations.
Daniel Chung
Palolo
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