To the editor: Of all of the short-sighted adjustments being made by the Trump administration, none are extra consequential than his assaults on local weather change (“‘It’s an enormous loss’: Trump administration dismisses scientists getting ready local weather report,” April 29). By trying to disclaim scientists’ means to even research local weather change and share its results with others, he’s opening the door to additional environmental, financial and health-related catastrophes.
Because the article factors out, we’re already spending billions of {dollars} to deal with climate-related disasters, and the associated fee has skyrocketed in recent times. Between 1980 and current day, a mean of 8.8 local weather occasions exceeding $1 billion occurred annually, in accordance with the Nationwide Facilities for Environmental Data. The annual common for the previous 5 years is 23 occasions. Given Trump’s obsession with reducing prices, defunding local weather change research is not sensible. By denying that local weather change exists and stopping scientists from finding out and sharing the data wanted to deal with its impacts, Trump isn’t simply fiddling whereas the planet burns — he’s lighting it with a torch.
Lorraine Woodman, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: How dangerous that the Trump administration is focusing on the Nationwide Local weather Evaluation report, “informing them by e mail that the scope of the report was being reevaluated.” President Trump appears to not consider that local weather change is an actual hazard to the US and the remainder of the world. We are able to see damaging results even now, sooner than scientists anticipated, and it’ll solely worsen because the nation and the world continues to spew greenhouse gases.
The fires right here in Southern California are an instance — and there are a lot of extra — of the rising numbers of billion-dollar local weather disasters. I’m pondering of my kids, grandchildren and hopefully great-grandchildren, and what they are going to face within the coming a long time. Trump and the politicians who’re backing him ought to cease and consider their descendants too.
Maggie Wineburgh-Freed, Los Angeles
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To the editor: The stupidity of the Trump administration’s firing of local weather scientists is astounding. It’s clearly a blatant try to cover the proof of the various existential threats dealing with the world, which teeters on the precipice of tipping factors that can condemn present and future generations to unimaginable risks. Trump is giving freely our chance of a greater future in commerce for larger earnings to a fossil gas business that has repeatedly lied to us for the previous 50 years.
It’s essential to know the approaching risks to the fullest extent doable, utilizing one of the best science accessible. By the point the results of those actions occur, it will likely be too late to carry the perpetrators accountable for his or her acts of cruelty.
Phil Beauchamp, Chino Hills
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To the editor: I’m unhappy to say it, however right here’s one other dumb choice by the Trump administration. Why is that this administration so afraid to check the local weather and the effectiveness of our methods to mitigate the various adverse results we really feel and can proceed to really feel? There’s a whole lot of magical pondering occurring, as if we don’t research one thing, it will possibly’t be actual.
Gerda Newbold, Santa Monica
