Turn up the burner on climate change adaptation

Karen Wiles (“Climate change too important to let partisan politics get in the way,” Feb. 29) is unwittingly supporting one of the greatest moral travesties of our time: The valuing of people yet to be born more than those suffering today.

Rather than focus on adaptation — helping vulnerable people adapt to real climate change in the present — activist groups such as Citizens’ Climate Lobby promote the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in an attempt to avert climate problems that may, or may not, someday happen.

As a consequence of such pressure group tactics, of the $1 billion a day spent across the world on climate finance, only 6 percent of it goes to adaptation, the rest going to vain attempts control our planet’s climate.

Wiles should reconsider whether she really wants to endorse CCL. By promoting the scientifically unfounded belief that we can regulate Earth’s climate merely by reducing CO2 emissions, CCL encourages the continuation of this scandal.

This story was originally published March 12, 2016 at 8:56 PM with the headline "Turn up the burner on climate change adaptation."