Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Here are highlights from Stage 14 of the Tour of Spain.

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To the editor:

Calls for President Trump to adopt enlightened climate change policies will fall on deaf ears.

He’s too concerned with maintaining high approval ratings among his benighted backers; they champion economic expansion at any environmental cost. Why worry about one's descendants suffering extensive environmental degradation when the immediate cost for burning fossil fuels is a bit lower than using renewable resources?

So Trump will keep tuning out the 97% of climate scientists who concur that reducing fossil fuel consumption would decrease the likelihood of extreme weather events. It won’t matter if that percentage increases to 99.9%—there’s no countering the Trump administration’s willful ignorance.

That is, unless the president suddenly becomes concerned with how history will rate him.

David Schaffer, Santa Monica

TEXAS: We are with you today, we are with you tomorrow, and we will be with you EVERY SINGLE DAY AFTER, to restore, recover, and REBUILD! pic.twitter.com/p1Fh8jmmFA

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 2, 2017

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Here are highlights from Stage 13 of the Tour of Spain.

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