Letters

Last week, Paula Angelone presented a psychology lesson on primitive response mechanisms for coping with stressful situations with avoidance and denial [“Global Boiling,” Letters, August 17]. In her example, climate deniers are like children covering their eyes and ears to avoid learning the truth. I wonder if this might apply to herself when she considers that the 1930s still holds heat records, with 1936 being the all-time champ during our Dust Bowl era.

“Every summer, we see exceptionally hot temperatures somewhere. If it bleeds, it leads. A thorough look, however, at the frequency of hottest extremes indicates little relation to the gradual warming of the Earth.” This recent quote is from John Christy, a climatologist and professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama and the director of the Earth System Science Center. Christy, along with another climatologist and former NASA scientist, Roy Spencer, were awarded NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for their work in 1991.

They have a different perspective on the “boiling earth” scenario being promoted by United Nations Secretary General António Guterres that was outlined by Ms. Angelone. Christy’s and Spencer’s work is far too detailed for these pages, but suffice to say they are of the mind that climate alarmists want to scare us into adopting ever more pointless and expensive policies.

The director and senior fellow at the Center for Energy and Environment, Myron Ebell, takes issue with the Biden administration and climate alarmists that aren’t “getting what they want,” so they “exaggerate the effects of global warming and then downplay the cost.” Mr. Ebell claims, “Renewable energy isn’t commercially viable. So people are being forced to use it, buy it, and there are various ways to force people to do that.”

One needs to look no further than New York State green policy to be 100 percent carbon free by 2050, while ignoring the ever-increasing energy costs for the consumer by rejecting cheaper fossil fuels altogether to achieve their goal.

I can only conclude that Ms. Angelone employs the same primitive response in shutting out all other data offensive to her liberal, elite sensibilities. In past letters, she has taken offense with COVID deniers and vaccine deniers, to name just two instances. Despite available data for post-vaccine induced myocarditis, among other listed side effects, she ignores their existence.

Perhaps the tens of thousands of co-signers to The Great Barrington Declaration are not evidence enough of these failed policies for Ms. Angelone. By last count, over 63,000 medical, public health scientists and medical practitioners from around the world have signed on, plus another 873,747 concerned citizens.

John Porta

Westhampton