Wayne Kirkbride: Evidence is all around us that climate is changing

Re “Data doesn’t make global warming real” (Letters, Jan. 23): A letter to the editor leaves me incredulous that there are still some global-warming deniers who have chosen to bury their heads among endless sand beaches of scientific evidence that should have long ago closed the book on reasonable doubt about man’s contribution to a changing climate.

The writer trots out for her “proof” Art Robinson, who anyone can research for his background into his scientific findings and his now largely discredited crew of scientists (0.5 percent of whom have any background in climatology). Then she cites meteorologist John Coleman, the one-time TV weatherman who claims there has been no warming in 18 years, that ice caps are stable at the poles and polar bears are increasing. He even says oceans are not rising.

Someone should take the letter writer and Coleman on a world tour to see the Arctic’s vast open seas, islands in the pacific and coastal towns in Alaska that are watching the water rising almost around their doorsteps. After that a trip to Australia and our Southwest to experience their temperature increases and drought. I could go on citing countless more examples. Do the unbiased research needed to find the truth.

This story was originally published January 26, 2015 at 4:11 PM with the headline "Wayne Kirkbride: Evidence is all around us that climate is changing."