The King of Bahrain son, Abdullah bin Hamad al Khalifa signs the Paris Agreement on climate change, April 22, at U.N. headquarters. (Mary Altaffer, The Associated Press)
Re: Is there no room for debate over climate change?, April 24 letter to the editor.
Letter-writer Stephen Jeffries likens today s climatologists to 15th century academics who, he claims, thought the Earth was flat. He is grossly uninformed. Academics knew and for about two millennia had evidence about the Earth s shape and approximate size.
Climatologists knowledge, vastly more than 15th century geographers , is solidly and abundantly evidence-based. Therefore, there s every reason to believe it is equally correct. However, if with a meteorological ignorance as great as Jeffries historical one, we ignore their global warming conclusion, we risk not just the well-being and lives of millions of persons, but perhaps the destruction of Earth s human habitability.
D.R. Miklich, Denver
This letter was published in the May 1 edition.
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