EDITORIAL: No laughing matter
Those who use spates of wintry temperatures to claim that climate change is not a problem are showing either ignorance or duplicity. Most of us learned as kids in science class that how cold or wet or windy it is today is weather; long-term trends in daily weather make climate. And a well-documented increase in average global temperatures in recent years suggests an unmistakable and alarming trend toward significant warming.
Scientists have been warning that one of the effects of the warming is that such extreme events as hurricanes, floods, droughts and, yes, tornadoes like the one that ravaged east
So when it's the
He should read a major report on climate change that, unfortunately, has gotten little attention since it was released in November.
The report, part of the National Climate Assessment mandated by
For anyone who has been paying attention, the report did not come as a surprise. What was surprising was that it was issued by 13 agencies that are part of the federal government, although it contradicts much of what
Trump, who has said repeatedly that global warming is a "hoax," has begun withdrawing the
News stories said the Trump administration didn't try to suppress the climate change report because it was focusing on tax reform. The
Maybe the administration will pay more attention to military leaders, who have been trying to deal with the effects of warming for several years. As Defense Secretary
In late 2017, Trump signed this year's National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a provision saying "climate change is a direct threat to the national security of
Our military leaders know. Federal agencies know. Scientists know. Global warming is no joke.
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