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Trump’s views on climate change are threatening human civilization (Your letters)

To the Editor:

Over the past month we have seen unusually powerful and devastating hurricanes, extremely destructive forest fires and record-breaking heat waves. Closer to home, autumn has felt more like midsummer.

And not one of those can be proven to be caused by/linked to athropogenic climate change/global warming. Just like the very early snows in Montana are not proof that world hasn’t warmed, nor that the next Holocene cool period is on the way (it also doesn’t prove AGW, either). Does an almost 12 year dearth in landfalling major hurricanes disprove a warming Earth? How about a major reduction in landfalling minor hurricanes and tropical storms? No. But, the argument is not on warming, it’s on causation.

My daughter’s high school soccer team had two consecutive games canceled because temperatures topped 90 degrees in late September. We might be enjoying the bizarre summer weather here in Central New York, but climate change represents one of the greatest existential threats to human civilization.

Got that? The poor darlings were unable to deal with a little heat (like the do here in the South, and, places all over the world), so, utter doom.

However, President Donald Trump has chosen this time to follow up on his rejection of the Paris Climate Agreement by scrapping President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. He is also developing a plan for the energy grid that will subsidize coal, the dirtiest, most carbon-intensive fuel, thus undermining renewables like wind and solar. Trump and his right-wing allies are so invested in undoing every shred of Barack Obama’s legacy and in fighting a culture war to save a dying coal industry that they are willing to endanger the future of our nation, our children and our planet.