To: Alison Gerber, Chattanooga Times-Free Press and Mark Kennedy, Opinion Editor

Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Don't Publish Climate Denial

The Los Angeles Times has adopted a policy of refusing to publish letters that deny climate change, and you should follow suit. End climate change denial in your newspaper. Instead, publish such letters as address, in good faith, the policy issues we face in dealing with climate change.

Why is this important?

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny the facts of climate change. There is room for a healthy debate on the appropriate actions to take in response to the reality of human-activity-caused global warming and consequent climate change, but there is no longer a legitimate debate about the facts that the globe is warming and that human activity is causing it.