Letter denying climate change is worthy of laughs

Keep us laughing, Ralph. In his recent puff piece (“Climate change is an anti-capitalist plot” March 29), Ralph Bush echoes the director of the Space and Science Research Corporation, who says there’s been no planetary warming. Gosh, that’s impressive. But wait. Director John Casey’s authority rests solely on an undergraduate degree in physics/math and a masters in management. Where’s that gateway doctorate in climatology?

Humorist Bush then rattles on to mention the Flinders study in the South Pacific, which he contends found no changes in ocean levels. Well, that didn’t pass the sniff test either. Eleven of the former Flinders stations have demonstrated sea level increases from 3 to 7 millimeters per year since 2007.

Bush states that NASA hasn’t found deep ocean warming since 2005, ignoring volumes of NASA’s space-borne studies using satellite radar altimetry. The TOPEX/Jason orbital missions have measured sea level every 10 days since 1992, revealing a 3- to 9-inch global rise in sea level from then.

Politics aside, extrapolate these trends forward, and it’s clear we’re in for a rough time as a species. But not according to Ralph Bush. Global warming is just a myth, a distraction, a plot. If the Flat Earth Society still exists, he’s eligible for chairman of the board.

This story was originally published March 30, 2016 at 8:23 PM with the headline "Letter denying climate change is worthy of laughs."