Global warming as real as Mars InSight landing

“I have seen the report regarding global warning and its ultimate impact on the world, I have read some of it and am reluctant to believe it.” These frightening words of wisdom, which come from our president, may politically support his base, but it is a dangerous and mostly unsupported perception. Years of extensive scientific research have proven that global warming is real, and it is having an immediate impact on the quality of life on a global basis. As a result, natural disasters are occurring at an epidemic level.

These extreme weather patterns due to global warming are coming more frequently in many forms: uncontrollable forest fires, disastrous, powerful hurricanes; tsunamis, coastal flooding, earthquakes, rising oceans resulting from the melting of the polar ice cap — all contributing to the unprecedented human suffering throughout the world.

This is not a future problem, it is a now problem. Our present administration’s position of failing to accept scientific evidence about global warming is irresponsible.

It is a fact: We successfully landed a module on Mars the other day in the pursuit of science, a major technological achievement. At the same time, we should believe the 300plus distinguished scientists who concluded that global warming is real.

Ronald W. Mc Cutcheon,

Middle Haddam