Letter: Anthropogenic global warming - Concord Monitor

Letter: Anthropogenic global warming

Published: 6/18/2023 7:00:06 AM

We elect representatives and senators to write new laws based upon a clear understanding of the science supporting those laws. Unfortunately, we sometimes get politicians like Michael Moffett who, as is typical of many Republicans, don’t bother to research what they are stating. Take his Letter to the Editor (Monitor, 6/15). In response to a letter about fires in Canada, he states, “The extent of human impact on climate change, if any, can never be measured.”

Obviously, he never bothered to Google ‘global warming.’ If he had, he might have learned “The primary cause of global warming is human activity that releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere...” (UCSUSA). Think coal burning power plants, gasoline, and diesel fuel. The Keeling Curve documents how CO2 levels have increased since 1958. This is a so-called ‘greenhouse gas’ which has increased atmospheric and oceanic temperatures. With poorly educated Republicans controlling our legislature, global warming will increase and the UNIPCC’s next report will show how much worse AGW has gotten and how ominous our collective future will be.

Walter Carlson

Concord