To the editor:
Dianne Chatfield’s letter of June 18 mocks me as some supposed scientific Neanderthal and suggests I do some “intelligent reading” on climate change. Perhaps she was at Woodstock about the time I was deep in my studies of heat transfer and thermodynamics, which are the relevant disciplines defining whether the Earth is warming or cooling.
What all three letters that responded to my June 13 letter chiding the Ledger for three climate-related puff pieces had in common was an attempt to discredit my opinions with ridicule, not fact. It’s right out of Rules for Radicals. Discourage others from similar expressions, no matter how cogent, for fear of public shaming.
Climate alarmism is not science, it’s paganism. Believe or die because 97 percent of those on the dole agree the government should continue to pay them to shout the sky is falling. It’s the Cardinals of the Inquisition threatening Galileo to abandon his Copernican heresy or it’s “off with your head.” Science be damned when it challenges religion and tithing.
Climate is also both a mania and a cult. Fools with no real scientific knowledge climb all over themselves in Seussian manner to be heard confidently proclaiming that the latest storm is definitely caused by mankind, who should be punished, i.e., taxed. Cult leaders like Al Gore, who has made millions with his conniving false predictions of imminent doom, have led the foolish over the cliff.
The “silent majority” that elected President Trump better wake up to the fact that it’s going to take more than voting every four years to preserve the freedoms they inherited from our blessed veterans that gave their lives so we could remain free. They should get elected to school committees and rout out the communists that are indoctrinating our future citizens with “divide and conquer” anti-American hatred.
Ross Wilkinson
Wilton