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Global warming no day at the beach

Re: “Humans cannot reverse global warming,” letter, April 9.

Re: “Humans cannot reverse global warming,” letter, April 9.

The letter-writer advises those concerned about global warming to accept the (false) notion that there’s nothing we can do about it and, further, that we should simply “prepare for a warmer planet.”

In offering this advice, the writer seems completely oblivious as to the true nature of the challenges our world faces as a result of climate change. “Hooray! Beach day every day! Three cheers for global warming!”

The fact of the matter is that it’s not the warming, per se, that is our biggest concern, but rather the associated side-effects that follow in its wake: changing weather patterns, accelerated rise in sea levels, increase in catastrophic weather events, altered coastline, prolonged heat waves and drought, loss of arable land and therefore food supply, unbalancing of ecosystems, species and habitat extinctions, and more.

These are not the overzealous ravings of (environmental) religious fanatics as the letter-writer suggests, but are realities that are, indeed, upon us already and will only get worse as we continue to stick our collective head in the (warming) sand.

Tim Barss

Sooke