Editor,

The coordinated backlash against Commis-sioner Rick Hannold regarding “climate change” by David Coleman, Steen Hallings and now Gary Piazzon is regrettable. Their remarks were laced with accusations of “not reading newspapers,” “lacking basic reason and logic, scant reasoning,” and “cherry picking” data from self-proclaimed scientists. All nasty retorts.

If reading newspapers was a credible asset, we would all be in peril. Group think is not science, not even theoretical science. I’ve witnessed this distortion of scientific studies for decades and in fact climate science is based on computer modeling as the earth has been cooling for at least the last decade. Read Robert Willscoft’s “The Chicken Little Agenda.”

The sky is not falling and NASA agrees.

Cooling and heating is largely dependent on the intensity of the sun’s rays, clearly witnessed by the reversal of seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres.

The sun’s rays have cooled over the past decade, but the rhetoric of “global warming” has morphed into “climate change,” now modified to “climate extremes.” Open your dictionary for the definition for climate and you will see that it is defined by change. If it did not change we would not have seasons. Flowers would not bloom in the spring. Winter or summer might last forever.

Without climatic change, winds would cease, sailboats could not transit oceans. We would beg for a cool breeze to breathe rather than stagnate air. We would beg for highs and lows.

The air in Los Angeles and China is bad due to pollution of dense populations so there are problems, but to blame Commissioner Hannold for an opinion that must be espoused is not a conversation and that is what the left does best.

The party of outrage is best at shutting down conversations, their PC effect is of gang shouting. More false news!

I am very grateful we have climate change and thank God he knew what he was creating.

Edward A. Drum

Oak Harbor