Unpublished Letters: Three from the Climate Change files ...

by A Siegel

WarrenS has taken on an admirable resolution: to send a letter to the editor (LTE) (or, well, a major politician) every single day, on the critical issues of climate change and energy.   This discusses his approach and here is an amusing 'template' to for rapid letter writing.

Now, I have always written letters and even had many published -- just not one every day.  WarrenS inspires me to do better.

Many newspapers state that they will reject letters that have been published elsewhere, thus I have not been blogging letters ... perhaps that should change. Thus, below is what might be the first in an "unpublished letters" series publishing some of those LTEs that don't get picked up by the editors.

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Madder Than Mad — The "Outrage-Lib" Climate-Change LTE!

by WarrenS

If you're even paying attention a little bit, it's pretty clear that Mother Earth is in a very bad state.  She's got a horrible fever, and she's developing oozing sores all over the place, and....oh, hell.  You know this as well as I do.  Better, if you're one of the dedicated ecodiarists on this site who actually go to the trouble of learning about our planet's crises in enough detail to write terrifying diaries that scare the crap out of me.
Not only is 2010 the hottest year on record, it's also reaching new heights in denialist stupidity.
For example, every day our news outlets print articles or run pieces on one or another of the terrible catastrophes that are taking place.  The disaster du jour is of course happening in Russia, where drought and wildfires are making people's lives awfully close to pure hell.  And the New York Times ran a front-page article about it...without mentioning the phrases "climate change" or "global warming" once.


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The New York Times! — For The Second Time This Year!

by WarrenS

Some day in the future I will no longer feel the need to write daily letters on climate change.  Perhaps the Arcturans or Betelguesians will arrive with magic CO2 sponges, or perhaps some mild-mannered nerd in a basement somewhere will invent a tiny nanodevice that pulls carbon out of the atmosphere and turns it into diamonds, which are collected by another device so they don't fall to earth and hurt people.  Perhaps. Meanwhile...the Business-As-Usual Complex keeps on destroying the planet, and their handmaidens in the media keep looking the other way.   So I keep writing my letters. On May 27 I sat down to write my letter for the following day.

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