Re “Global warming is wreaking havoc as researchers seek to cool things down” (April 7): Thank you for Michael Smolens’ very important piece on the reality and expense of climate change. I sincerely hope that San Diego voters will take climate change into consideration in their voting choices this year. We need leaders who accept the science of climate change and are willing to take bold action. There is too much at stake to elect politicians who are still hemming and hawing over facts we can now see with our own eyes.
— Brian Sherwin, North Park
The arguments of this opinion piece should be convincing to reasonable and objective people. However, the previous istration gave us four years of just ignoring climate change. In this year’s election, don’t give the same people another four years to ruin the future for our children and grandchildren.
These people still deny or downplay the ever-worsening climate change crisis — devastating weather extremes, heat waves, wildfires, drought. The health and environmental costs are enormous. For example, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council, U.S. health costs related to fossil fuels and climate change sur $800 billion per year. Too much attention has been paid to the costs of controlling the use of fossil fuels, but too little to the current and future costs of their continued use.
— Jack Holtzman and Irwin Rubenstein, San Diego
