MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • October 6, 2024
There are no longer any credible climate change deniers in the scientific community, but the Republican Party stubbornly refuses to acknowledge reality. Trump ridicules global warming as a “hoax.” Regardless of our politics, we need Republicans to accept that climate change is real and to engage in a sustained bipartisan effort to meet the difficult challenge of halting additional global warming. The only way I can see this happening is if Republicans are soundly defeated in November, from the local level to the national. We need to force a reckoning upon them that is harsh enough to provoke an abandonment of this reckless disregard of science and reality. ~ Nigel Calder, Newcastle