Letter: Global warming widely accepted

Friday, Feb. 11, 2005 | 9:22 a.m.

I am puzzled by Marilyn Hilborn's diatribe (Letters, Feb. 4) about various worthy organizations fighting against ignorance on global warming. She charges Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and The Discovery Channel (?!) with linking the tsunami disaster to global warming, yet provides no means of verifying her claim.

When I checked the Web sites of these organizations, the only thing that came up was the linkage between global warming and increased violent weather events, including floods. Global warming is accepted now and is not even controversial, except among those with little or no knowledge of science, or among those who have an ideological ax to grind.

If Ms. Hilborn's view prevails, the saddest part will be the amount of clean, new technologies that we will end up buying from more enlightened areas of the globe in the near future. She and others like her will thwart the emergence of those industries here.

MARK SCHAFFER

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