Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change. Every word that is put into the public eye that discounts scientific data that shows how man has hurt the environment teaches more people that what they are doing does not degrade the planet. The science is clear: people have created harm and people are the only ones who can do anything to reverse it.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change, starting with Newsday.

The Los Angeles Times recently announced that it will no longer publish letters to the editor that deny the basic reality of climate change. It's time for the Oakland Tribune, and papers across the country, to follow suit. For too long the media has perpetuated false balance around climate change. Letters pages should be a place for reasoned debate, not conspiracy theories. As LA Times Letters Editor Paul Thornton explained: "Simply put, I do my best to keep errors of fact off the letters page ... Saying 'there's no sign humans have caused climate change' is not stating an opinion, it's asserting a factual inaccuracy."

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change. Florida insurers, among the most conservative of business people in America, KNOW that climate change is real and are charging high rates because our state is in serious danger of coastal flooding due to the complex factors of climate change.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change. The scientific community has accepted the reality of man made climate change and the dire consequences for all.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

Rep. Mindy Fee is pushing a bill that will gut protections for endangered species in Pennsylvania – taking the decision about which species are endangered away from scientists and handing it directly to politicians. Her bill has the support of the oil, gas, and coal industry lobbyists. If those guys are on your side, it’s pretty clear that this bill is bad news for endangered species. Fee’s bill, HB 1576, is opposed by the scientists on the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. Many fisherman and hunters have also expressed strong opposition. In spite of this strong, evidence based opposition, HB 1576 already sailed though its first committee and is headed for the floor. We must stop HB 1576 from gutting the endangered species act before it gets any further.