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Science behind climate change is overwhelming

In a Feb. 5 letter, a climate change denier categorized climate change as belief, not science, citing the fact that warming has occurred in the past without CO2 change. So what? Car accidents have occurred without alcohol. Does that mean that drunken driving is not an important cause of car crashes?

In truth, there is a huge body of scientific evidence that climate change is occurring as a result of the burning of fossil fuels. The evidence comes in many forms, from many independent sources worldwide, and has been verified over and over. The 97 percent consensus among actual climate scientists is overwhelming to an extent rarely seen.

The “gold standard” for scientific knowledge is when many different ways of looking at a problem strongly point at the same answer. The science behind climate change is much deeper than just computer models. It has been studied from an impressive number of different ways of measuring, with results pointing to the same conclusion.

Characterizing that evidence as political lies promulgated by The Associated Press is simply not credible.

Mitch Bradley

Makawao

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