Your recent "Perspective" on the EPA's decision to designate carbon dioxide as a pollutant is worryingly disingenuous. First, you write that the "ruling makes it even more difficult for businesses seeking to grow and create jobs to predict what future energy costs will be, therefore discouraging growth." On the contrary, the designation indicates that the future price of fossil fuels will be higher, creating a market incentive to develop clean-energy technologies.
Second, three sentences taken out of context from thousands of private emails do not "cast doubt" on the science behind global warming. The much ballyhooed phrase "hide the decline" refers to the divergence problem: Tree ring data suggest that temperatures have been declining since the 1960's, even though we know from actual temperature readings that the planet has gotten warmer since then. Indeed, the last ten years were the warmest decade on record.
The science is clear: The planet is getting hotter, and human greenhouse-gas emissions are to blame. If you disagree with the Obama Administration's actions, please tell me what positive action you think we should take instead of misinforming your constituents.
Sincerely,
Wolverine
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