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My LTE on climate change was published in the Washington Post this morning:
Complacency on climate change
The March 25 front-page article “Add climate ‘doomers’ to scientists’ worries” left out some very important facts: We have known about the problem for more than 30 years, and yet carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere at an accelerating rate; given current and planned policies, annual greenhouse gas emissions will probably not change significantly for many years; because of significant CO2 emission equivalents from natural feedbacks, the global temperature increase could easily reach 4 degrees Celsius by 2100; and even though “every tenth and hundredth of a degree of warming avoided matters,” it could easily cost $10 trillion to reduce the Earth’s temperature by 0.1 degrees Celsius by removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
The message of “we have the tools to address climate change” has resulted in a level of complacency that prevents really serious actions from being taken. Perhaps what is needed to spur the required actions is a message such as “we’re doomed unless we reduce our consumption levels by at least 5 percent a year for the next five years because future generations will probably not be willing to pay to remove very significant quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere.”
But then, no one wants to hear that.
Bruce Parker, Alexandria
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/07/birds-dc-region-monarchs-trappers-vietnam/