Worthy of note is the Aug. 26 letter (“Fatalism is not how to respond to climate change”) countering just one of many of Mr. Paul Craig’s climate change denying letters that this publication has seen fit to print.
Exactly why this has been the Gazette’s policy to repeatedly dispense with faulty scientific information regarding catastrophic, calamitous and cataclysmic changes to the world’s climate systems is inexplicable — as well as irresponsible.
“Catastrophic, calamitous, and cataclysmic … climate change” were my words you refused to include when I sent you a letter on the topic many years ago. Today, Alaska, Siberia, and the Amazon are burning.
But let’s not forget that 300 jobs may be coming to Holyoke, so some sort of reference to “Amazon” finally makes it onto your front page. And what kind of jobs will those be?
What good will those jobs in Holyoke be on a planet where the Amazon, the Arctic, Siberia and Alaska are left to burn? And if these places are burning now, what hope will there be for the rest of a planet where cataclysmic, calamitous and catastrophic climate changes were allowed to progress — no thanks now to publications such as the Gazette that have persisted with the irresponsible dispensing of wrong and harmful scientific information via your “Opinion” page.
I might thank you for justifiable rebuttal on Aug. 26 of just one of Mr. Craig’s many letters, but that would only be for finally sounding an alarm way too late.
And, are any thanks due for finally putting the word “Amazon” onto your front pages? I’m told there are headlines online to the effect: “The wrong Amazon is burning” and “The wrong ICE is melting.” And the wrong “Amazon” has made it onto the Gazette’s front page.
Pam Hyjek
Northampton