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Lennes: Our Representatives Must Address Climate Change

Four Corners Power Plant. Photo courtesy of EcoFlight and San Juan Citizens Alliance

 
  Commentary: Regarding climate change we have our infamous Congressman Steve Pearce, who just gets worse and worse and is out of touch with reality. Our anti-science Congressman Steve Pearce does not believe man-made climate change  exists. It is a myth to him. He foolishly believes that human activity has negligible influence on global temperature; the influence is not dangerous; there is no need to mandate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; and environmental and energy policies and regulations should be reduced. By treating climate change as merely a theory, Pearce betrays a lack of scientific understanding, which  is a recipe for disaster for the Earth, our country and New Mexico. He naively believes God will not allow the Earth to be a victim of global warming!

 

Both President Trump and Congressman Pearce are bamboozling us. As the late great scientist and astrophysicist Carl Sagan wrote in his book, "Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" : “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”