Robert Goodrich wrote a letter to the editor, “
Modeling complex systems is extremely difficult and 100% accuracy is near impossible, but the science of modeling the impacts of climate change and the science of climate change are two different things. The science of climate change based on greenhouse gas emissions is old, established and nonpartisan. The original research on the heat retention properties of greenhouse gases was done independently by John Tyndall in England and Eunice Newton Foote in the U.S. in the mid-1800s. The first estimates of atmospheric warming based on carbon emissions were done in 1896 by a Swedish scientist, Svante August Arrhenius. The first presidential report on climate change was given to President Johnson in 1965. Since 1990, the U.S. military has recognized climate change as a direct threat to the security of the nation.
So the models may not tell us if the impact will be bad, very bad, horrendous or catastrophic; that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t act now. There is a free-market, non-bureaucratic solution. Google “Carbon Fee and Dividend” to learn more. This solution has been endorsed by a broad range of economic policy experts including 27 Nobel Prize-winning economists. It is the most effective and efficient policy to address climate change.
John PurserDurango
