To the editor: The decision in Challenge 2025 to dismantle the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is actually insane.
In a world the place the consequences of world warming are seen each day, Challenge 2025’s backers wish to stick their fingers of their ears and sing “la-la-la.” For sure, political orthodoxy can’t change the temperature in Loss of life Valley.
The Soviet Union pioneered the thought of creating scientists conform to political ideology. Should you insisted on info, you had been sanctioned and even jailed. The consequence was an enormous loss in scientific development and destruction of any hope that the Soviet Union can be revered by the world.
Challenge 2025 needs to do the identical for america.
Sure, if former President Trump wins the election, he can break up NOAA. However you’ll nonetheless burn your ft on the sand.
Geoff Kuenning, Claremont
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To the editor: The unimaginable stupidity of Challenge 2025 is astounding. Saying that the NOAA is “dangerous to future U.S. prosperity” exhibits this group values nothing that science gives.
Humanity is careening towards a blowout, and Challenge 2025, if applied, will solely speed up our decline. If there is no such thing as a world to exist in, there is no such thing as a U.S. prosperity.
I sincerely hope the media and others decrease consideration on this group and let this fringe considering sink again into the gutter the place it belongs.
Peter Shair, Sierra Madre
