LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Ironically, Jonah Goldberg full of hot air

NEWSPAPERS USED to be factual. Opinion (columns) like Jonah Goldberg, July 18, ought to have at least opinion based on facts. How about voicing the fact that validates 99 percent of scientists who agree climate change is happening and at a rate of astounding proportions? What Goldberg disdains as “hysterical rhetoric” is essentially what he projects. Thou dost protest too much. It’s not histrionics to admit the reality of what 400 parts CO2/million will do. This is not fantasy. Maybe the hardest part for Goldberg is to accept reality and join the 21st century. Delusion is an unshakable belief even in the face of reality. Beliefs aren’t facts. Don’t believe everything you think!

He states we shouldn’t be alarmed at 400 parts CO2/million because it’s been higher in the past and that Venus has a CO2 atmosphere of 965,000 parts CO2/million. We have set record-breaking heat records year after year, major storms and 1,000-year floods every two-three years, and I haven’t seen the jungle of plant life on Venus from the high CO2 but apparently Goldberg has.

It’s not that all life on Earth will be extinguished— just human life. Maybe one less Goldberg. He states that parties who question climate change are vilified or (are) having their civil rights curtailed — talk about hysteria. In fact Goldberg and pseudoscientists are given equal notice in papers such as the Journal. It’s just hot air of stupidity that gets noticed and incites a reaction and attracts readership.

Goldberg also negates that population growth depletes our everdwindling resources. We have a consumptive society, and children foster that consumerism. If you think we can solve our way out of this problem by having more kids — think again. They’re breathing our O2 and exhaling CO2.

Hey, Goldberg, if there wasn’t any hype there wouldn’t be alternative energy breakthroughs, there wouldn’t be much of a forest or ocean, there wouldn’t be a movement of “aware” people, there wouldn’t be much of a world. CAROL NELSON Jemez Springs