To the Editor:
Re “For Third Year, the Earth in 2016 Set Heat Record” (front page, Jan. 19):
What a starkly ominous coincidence that just when scientists announce that 2016 set the highest temperature in recorded history, Scott Pruitt and Rick Perry, Donald Trump’s nominees for heads of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department, are undergoing their confirmation hearings.
While they mouth vacuous amendments to their records as extreme climate change denialists, no one should take any comfort in such transparent attempts to smooth their confirmation processes.
Just when the need for stronger actions to mitigate the dangers of global warming are becoming more urgent, we face the prospect of an administration that at best will do nothing to worsen the looming disaster.
RUSS WEISS
Princeton Junction, N.J.
Note from KBJ: Poor Russ Weiss! He has fallen for the greatest hoax of the 21st Century.
