Letter: Ride a bike, save climate, avoid kiosks - Chico Enterprise-Record
Letter: Ride a bike, save climate, avoid kiosks - Chico Enterprise-Record
When you see data recording less ”unusually hot days” in recent summers locally than in some periods of recent history, the concept of climate change seems difficult to grasp (Letters to the Editor, July 21). Read the Associated Press article published in the ER (July 23, p. 4), for a complete explanation of why that kind of piecemeal information does not suffice to evaluate climate:
“The larger the geographic area and the longer the stretch of time during which [high temperature] records are set, the more likely the conditions represent climate change, rather than daily weather. The hottest global June [last month] is “extremely unlikely’ to happen without climate change, as opposed to one city’s daily record.”
Meanwhile, ride a bicycle downtown and avoid inactivity, gas prices, climate change, and those kiosks!
— Jerry Snodgrass, Chico
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