Letter: Climate-data ignorance, canceling will cost lives
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Donald Trump’s moves to hamstring alternative energy development is bad enough. Canceling programs to monitor emissions of climate-changing gases, such as the Mauna Loa Observatory, is worse.
Investment in renewable energy sources will slow, but it won’t stop. Closing government-sponsored atmospheric monitoring programs that can give us early warnings of damaging weather events and the potential acceleration of global warming may be impossible to replace.
I guess Trump neither knows nor cares that ignorance of critical climate data will cost lives, despite his recent visit to the site of tragic climate-amplified flooding at Camp Mystic in Texas.
Nick Huddleston
Wilhelmina Rise
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