The facts of climate change are real

Several readers have expressed their "opinion" on these pages concerning climate change. While it would take well beyond the word limit to refute the climate change deniers, I would point out some facts or strong possibilities.

The deniers always put a political spin on the those who recognize that the climate is changing radically and suddenly due to the intervention of humans over the last century. We're all socialists or communists who want nothing but globalization to take control of our country and put it into international hands. Why? What's in it for us? Natural climate change does not take such a short time to occur. Their illustration of a single small local fire incident has no validity. It's speculation on my part, but could those who deny climate change have stock in the fossil fuel industry, thus providing an economic reason for their stance?

These are facts: insurance companies are no longer writing policies for Florida, Louisiana, Arizona or California because of the huge climate-related disaster losses. Will Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and other states be next? The fires in Canada's forests have no equal, and the planet is the warmest it's ever been in recorded human history.

Finally, I thought a 50-year-old movie of fiction was just that: fiction. "It's after midnight, and it's still 90 out there." (Charlton Heston: "Soylent Green.") Fact: Parts of the Southwest have not fallen below 90 degrees for two weeks, day or night.

LAWRENCE FURY

Sandpoint