To: Mike Connelly, Editor-in-Chief
To The Buffalo News: 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.
Why is this important?
Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change. Just as no legitimate news publications would ever again print "opinion" pieces that deny the harmful health consequences of smoking and second hand smoke, nor should they ever again print opinion pieces that deny the impact of human generated climate change. It's time for the national conversation about climate change to focus on moving forward in our race to lower greenhouse gas emissions, not ping pong back and forth, as if there were no sense of urgency to our expanding set of consequences and dilemmas.