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Climate reflections

Dear Editor:

Please permit an old guy some reflections. The valley is filled with wildfire smoke. Again. It’s another of those days when you have to decide whether it’s safe to breathe. I elected to stay indoors and complain.

It’s been forty-five years since James Hansen and his group at NASA’s Goddard Earth Observatory published the first climate models (Hansen, 1981). They forecast rising sea levels, melting ice-caps, life-threating heat and drought and…