{"id":800081,"date":"2019-10-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=372507"},"modified":"2019-10-04T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T17:00:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-in-response-to-climate-change-deniers-letter-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-in-response-to-climate-change-deniers-letter-to-the-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: In response to climate change denier\u2019s letter to the editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This letter is in response to \u201c<a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-many-inaccuracies-in-colorado-river-basin-talk\/\">Many inaccuracies during Colorado River Basin talk<\/a>,\u201d (published Sept. 23 in the Summit Daily News).<\/p>\n<p>The letter, written by Terry Thoem, is in poor taste and without justification. Thoem states, \u201cHis many inaccurate statements and omissions of pertinent facts about global climate change gave the attendees a false, biased picture of the extent of the climate change issue.\u201d Seriously? Brad Udall gave an excellent presentation of a very complex topic with a wealth of information in a 1 1\/2 hour time period.<\/p>\n<p>Thoem goes on to list what he deems to be inaccuracies.<\/p>\n<p>Udall: The planet is warming.<\/p>\n<p>Thoem: \u201cThere have been two warming periods and two cooling periods in the past 100 years. CO2 concentrations have steadily increased; hence, no correlation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thoem\u2019s statement is not credible because it is a conclusion drawn from an oversimplification with no basis.<\/p>\n<p>Udall: Hurricanes are getting more intense.<\/p>\n<p>Thoem: \u201cUdall claimed that hurricane Harvey dropped 60 inches of rain on Houston because the atmosphere is juiced because of climate change. Totally false. The amount of rain from a hurricane is primarily a function of the speed of movement. Harvey moved very slowly at 2 mph.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thoem\u2019s statement is not credible because the amount of moisture needed to result in 60 inches of rain has to be in the atmosphere \u2014 regardless of the speed of movement.<\/p>\n<p>Udall: China is conforming to the Paris agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Thoem goes on to conclude, \u201cThe audience was left with the biased, inaccurate view of the extent of the global climate change issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is unreasonable that Thoem speaks for the audience regarding their take on Udall\u2019s presentation. It appears that Thoem is the one who is biased and inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-in-response-to-climate-change-deniers-letter-to-the-editor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This letter is in response to \u201cMany inaccuracies during Colorado River Basin talk,\u201d (published Sept. 23 in the Summit Daily News). The letter, written by Terry Thoem, is in poor taste and without justification. Thoem states, \u201cHis many inaccurate statements and omissions of pertinent facts about global climate change gave the attendees a false, biased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-800081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 22:46:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}