Dear Editor:
A recent letter in response to a letter on climate change needs a response. The reader was hurt by this question; would conservatives deny the science behind a diagnosis of cancer from a doctor just as they deny the science that proves climate change?
The letter writer claims he was insulted at this suggestion then goes on to repeat the same thing often repeated by conservative letter writers to this paper, .... those godless, America-hating, leftist liberals just make up stuff because they can't win an argument on facts. First of all, does flinging this vitriol make this conservative any better than the people he says he was insulted by?
Second, in his claim that liberals cannot win an argument on facts, I would assert that when a person has reliable facts in hand they don't need to resort to name-calling. Many letters to this paper reference Breitbart.com which is supposed to give some credence to their "facts." Fox News is a biased, conservative news outlet, but the Breitbart site is Fox News on steroids. It is rife with misinformation and bias. The only readers of Breitbart.com are those people who thrive on morsels of anti-liberal, anti-Obama tidbits. Breitbart.com cannot be taken seriously.
The conservative reader claims that, of course, he would believe a doctor's diagnosis backed up by x-rays, biopsies and lab tests as opposed to the hoax science of climate change. Would he believe a doctor with whom 97 percent of cancer doctors disagree? Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real. Yet this conservative still maintains it is a hoax because he says there is "ideologically created and manipulated computer models."
There was one allegation of this sort and it has been shown that this allegation was in fact a hoax created by a climate denier. He bases all his "proof" against climate change on this discredited evidence! The biggest reason to believe the climate scientists is because they have nothing to gain with their claims, whereas oil, gas and coal interests have spent mega dollars to create a smoke screen. They have everything to gain if they can create confusion.
The conservative letter writer soaks up misinformation on Breitbart and Fox News, then gets himself worked up over fabricated things! He seems to be in a perpetually angry state. So he demonizes everyone who disagrees with his biased world view and makes himself miserable to boot. Seems to me that life is just too short for this self-induced grief.
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