Letter: Great disservice giving attention to those denying reality of climate change

It is hard to know where to start about the climate change skepticism op-ed published on Jan. 27 ("Be skeptical of climate change news").

The introduction to the United Nations report cited by the writer as proof of overreaction states: "The AR6 SYR confirms that unsustainable and unequal energy and land use as well as more than a century of burning fossil fuels have unequivocally caused global warming …"

However, the writer stated, "Among the findings where no signal has been detected or expected in the century include several wind measures (windstorms, … tropical cyclones), river floods, droughts, … heavy snow, coastal flooding…."

Tell the people in Florida, Houston, Louisiana and India that things aren't worse than normal for coastal and local flooding, etc. Count the years hurricanes and cyclones have, at times, run out of names.

Tell the insurance industry and FEMA that their payouts have not been higher since 1998, causing them to bail out of Florida.

Tell the U.S. Corps of Engineers that they do not have to worry about building higher levees and higher capacity dams (e.g. Keystone). After all, things will not get worse than what has already happened.

No idea where the writer gets his information, maybe former U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, Sean Hannity or Fox News. Are Jim Inhofe, Hannity, and Fox News "scientists"? I guess he's smarter than thousands of the world's scientists.

The Tulsa World does a great disservice by letting crackpots add to the Oklahoma hubris spouting, "There is no such thing as climate change."

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