To the editor: Of all myopic changes made by the Trump administration, none is more consistent than their attacks against climate change (“'It is a great loss': Trump's administration dismisses scientists who prepare the climate report.” April 29). When trying to deny the ability of scientists to study climate change and share its effects with others, it is opening the door to more environmental, economic and health -related catastrophes.
As the article points out, we are already spending billions of dollars to address climate -related disasters, and the cost has shot in recent years. Between 1980 and today, an average of 8.8 climatic events exceeding $ 1 billion occurred each year, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The annual average of the last five years is 23 events. Given Trump's obsession with cutting costs, the defundimency of climate change studies makes no sense. By denying that climate change exists and preventing scientists from studying and sharing the necessary information to address their impacts, Trump not only toys while the planet burns: it ignites it with a torch.
Lorraine Woodman, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: What harm that the Trump administration is addressed to the National Climate Evaluation Report, “inform them by email that the scope of the report was being reevaluated.” President Trump seems not to believe that climate change is a real danger to the United States and the rest of the world. We can see harmful effects even now, before what scientists expected, and will only worsen as the country and the world continue to throw greenhouse gases.
The fires here in southern California are an example, and there are many more, of the growing number of climatic disasters of one billion dollars. I am thinking of my children, grandchildren and lucky lucky, and what they will face in the coming decades. Trump and politicians who support him should stop and think about their descendants as well.
Maggie Wineburgh-FREED, Los Angeles
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To the editor: The stupidity of the dismissal of the climate scientists of the Trump administration is amazing. It is clearly a shameless attempt to hide the evidence of the many existential threats that face the world, which wobbles in the precipice of the inflection points that will condemn current and future generations to unimaginable hazards. Trump is giving our possibility of a better future in the highest profits for a fossil fuel industry that has lied to us continuously during the last 50 years.
It is essential to understand the hazards that are coming as much as possible, using the best science available. By the time the consequences of these actions occur, it will be too late to hold the perpetrators responsible for their acts of cruelty.
Phil Beauchamp, Chino Hills
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To the editor: It saddens me to say it, but here is another silly decision of the Trump administration. Why is this administration so afraid of studying the weather and the effectiveness of our strategies to mitigate the many negative effects we feel and continue feeling? There is a lot of magical thinking, as if we did not study something, it cannot be real.
Gerda Newbold, Santa Monica
